Browsing Category Pop Culture
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Pop Culture
444 Songs that mention the Ramones
Many moons ago, Laozi Ramone posted something that went viral. Even very long journeys, he noted, begin with a single step. The same goes for lists. This one, ...
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Pop Culture
Defunct Yugo bands you should listen to in order to beat the Covid blues
All right, reader, what better way to fleetingly forget about the dumpster fire of the world when in isolation, or for that matter even in a post-iso world, ...
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Pop Culture
What happens when you go and see “The Beatles of Yugoslavia” but there’s no Yugoslavia?
I can spot a Balkanite a mile away. Now, sure, this may not be a veritable life skill by any means, but I have a knack for seeing ...
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Pop Culture 4
Ten essential Aussie albums you should listen to before you die
The Atlantics Bombora 1963 (CBS) Listen when: You and Gidget are strapping your malibus to your woody. Fuck Dick Dale and Pulp Fiction. Bombora’s where it’s at. Drunk ...
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Pop Culture
Nuts! The story of the man who got rich transplanting goat testicles into men
Penny Lane’s documentary Nuts! works best if you have no idea who John Brinkley is; in that way, one is able to experience Brinkley as much of his ...
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Pop Culture
So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star: The guide to DIY music
How’s your drive-time commute? Enjoying pushing the pedal to the metal as “Life in the Fast Lane” oozes its pus fueled mediocrity through your Clarion speakers? Still jerking ...
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Pop Culture
Trout Mask Replica: Our 8 Step Guide to appreciating an “unlistenable” masterpiece
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky Deep in the semi-fashionable Woodland Hills of Los Angeles, an ...
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Pop Culture
Music for a dumbed down world: Why RATM’s Evil Empire still matters
I don’t know what I was so ashamed of. For some reason I couldn’t spit out the words, “I… I really love Rage Against the Machine.” The dreadlocked ...
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Pop Culture
The Case For and Against The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight, the eighth film by Quentin Tarantino has divided critics and movie goers alike. Here at Shoot Farken we have decided to put Tarantino on trial. ...
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Pop Culture
Would you like some prophecy with your coffee? An excerpt from the novel GRIND by Ed Vukovic
We are proud to present an excerpt from Grind, the recently published novel by Shoot Farken alumni Ed Vukovic. Grind is available as a Kindle edition and it ...
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Pop Culture
Remembering David Bowie: I am still not very sure he is at all dead
The way David Bowie left us last week was in keeping with his way of life; graceful, uncompromising and shrouded in mystery. Very few knew he was ill, ...
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Pop Culture
I went to see Taylor Swift and she was great – but us “Wogs” do it better
I was never a Taylor Swift fan. Me? A fan of Taylor? Pfft, please. I’m 30 years old! In the words of Cher Horowitz, as IF. Recently, though, I found myself at one of her sold-out Melbourne concerts. ...
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Pop Culture
RIP Lemmy: Last of the Wildmen
One of the last wildmen of the rock ‘n’ roll frontier is gone. He packed up his four-stringed axe, smoked a final fag, downed a quart of poison ...
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Pop Culture 1
Zwarte Piet: Coming Face to Blackface with a problematic Dutch tradition
Once a year, my parents would take my brother and I to Adelaide to visit our relatives. Often we would stay at my father’s parents. Early in the ...
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Football
The song your A-League club should walk out to this season
Last week, Perth Glory CEO Peter Filopoulos jumped on social media and asked fans to suggest a tune for the team to walk out to on home match ...
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Pop Culture
Guerrilla Tactics: How PWG lost their stars to WWE but still kept their mojo
In November 2013, I wrote for Shoot Farken about Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, a small professional wrestling promotion based Reseda, California. PWG has a reputation for providing some of ...
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Pop Culture
Beat the Champ: Unmasking the connection between Rock ‘n’ Roll and Wrestling
In his autobiography, Bob Dylan told a story about how professional wrestler Gorgeous George once came through his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, and happened to see the young Robert Zimmerman playing a show. It was a revelatory moment ...
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Pop Culture
Wild Tales as the Sarajevo Film Festival visits the Herzegovinian hinterland
There’s a scene near the end of Be Kind Rewind, when Jerry and Mike’s film is shown on the projector, and it’s interspersed with cuts to the small ...
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Pop Culture
Surviving the Hippie Hell that is Haight-Ashbury with Absinthe and D.J. Lebowitz
Within five seconds of boarding the train my mind started to wander. Warped graphic imagery, smouldering in the mental workshop of my mind for most of the day, ...
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Pop Culture
Hitting the “brown note” with Swans
Imagine waking from your beauty sleep to find that your face had been grated off with a coarse wood rasp. The laxative you took the night before is ...
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Pop Culture
Never Ghana Give You Up: The true story of how Malta saved the music industry
Language. Useful multi-tool to the acute-minded savant. Cruel cattle grid to the dim-witted nimrod nincompoop who still insists on pointing at the sky, slack-jawed in utter amazement each ...
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Pop Culture
Record Store Day: Learning to love Swedish electroacoustic music while staring into the vinyl abyss
Most ears only hear a succession of disconnected blips, bleeps and whooshes. Occasionally, a disembodied voice floats in reciting an apparently random piece of text in a foreign language. Swedish maybe? ...
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Pop Culture 1
Who killed the Gods of Rock?
My first exposure to the Gods of Rock was the Robert Plant poster in my stepbrother’s bedroom. It must have been about 1980, my brother was 16 or ...
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Football
10 Anti-Racist Songs for the A-League’s #EraseRacism Round
This weekend, Round 22 of the Hyundai A-League will be played. It has also been named the ‘Erase Racism Round’. According to the media release from All Together ...
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Pop Culture
LLAP: Mr Nimoy, you always shall be my friend
They say you should live your life so the Westboro Baptist Church will picket your funeral. I don’t know who exactly ‘they’ are or why they’re telling us ...
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Pop Culture
Super Bowl 49: As it happened in Uncertain, Texas, population 94
You know the classic cowboy movie bar scene; raucous, festive. The pianola player desperately keeps the urgent tempo of the room alive with “Yellow Rose of Texas” or some other favourite saloon ...
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Pop Culture
Ryan & Scarlett: Deconstructing the Loner Fantasy Worlds of Drive and Under the Skin
Few films raised as many eyebrows in 2014 as Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. Totally uncommercial and unwilling to hold the audience’s hand, the bizarre sci-fi flick was ...
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Pop Culture 5
John, Paul, George, Ringo and … Kanye
A survey conducted in 2009 by the Institution of Engineering and Technology found that up to a quarter of the people asked had no idea who first walked ...
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Pop Culture 2
Never mind the Bublé: 12 Songs for the 12 Days of Christmas
Christmas and popular music, oil and water. Almost every popular music artist, in every genre, under the sun (or in this case the Star of Bethlehem) has a ...
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Pop Culture
My Night with “Maldita” and the Bad Girls of Cholita Wrestling
PROLOGUE Geeky men of the world unite and follow me on a journey past, to a happier time of yore, where manly men were manly men, wrestling matches ...
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