Browsing Category Pop Culture
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Pop Culture
How a Teenage Sharpie Girl found Rock ‘n’ Roll Salvation in the Church of the Coloured Balls
There were plenty of pop stars around in the early 1970s to keep a teenage girl entertained: dreamy Partridge Family beau David Cassidy, the clean-cut Mormon charms of ...
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Pop Culture
Fonzie’s 69th Birthday Bash: 11 Super Sleazy Songs for Arnold’s Jukebox
Remember the Tuscadero sandwich? The great shark jump on water skis? When a cool, leather-clad greaser singlehandedly ended segregation? All great times. The good news is that now ...
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Pop Culture
Are We Not Entrepreneurs? We Are Devo: Welcome to DEVO-land
Times Square, NYC, became some sort of cerebrally discordant Mecca for ageing post-punk nerd types this past week as Devo performed live as part of the annual CBGB’s Music & ...
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Football 1
Football Songs: The Shoot Farken Top 20
Here at Shoot Farken, we travel to the beat of a different football drum. We are marking the start of the A-League season with a countdown of football ...
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Pop Culture
Getting NSYNC with Justin Timberlake (even after the teen hormones have gone)
Memphis, Tennessee. It doesn’t get more legit than that, right? It’s a music mecca, a cradle and nest, a breeding ground for stars past and present. There’s the ...
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Football
Meet David Squires: Football Cartoon Genius (Accidental Sydney FC Fan)
England’s best performance of the 2014 World Cup wasn’t produced on the pitches in Brazil, where The Three Lions were below average to put it politely. And it ...
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Pop Culture
The Return of the Good Doctor (Shhh! I’m trying to watch TV here)
A friend sent me a link to a book about Doctor Who called Adventures with the Wife in Space. Basically the premise (without having read it) is that ...
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Pop Culture
The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Schlager and Situationists
Do you ever get the feeling that today’s big pop stars could still be pop stars even if they didn’t bother making music anymore? Do pop stars still ...
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Pop Culture
Fantasy Dad League: Father’s Day Round
For some of us Father’s Day can be a bit awkward. Don’t get me wrong, I know some great dads; just not mine. Then there are people who ...
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Pop Culture 4
Vale Tumbleweed’s Jay Curley: The Big, Bad Fuzz from the ‘Gong
OK, so this is what you do. Seal all the doors and duct tape all the windows. Take the phone off the hook, lock up the kids and ...
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Pop Culture
Laughing Hyenas and the Teen Toilet Cleaning Blues
Like most menial jobs, routine was part of the package. At 7pm, our little crew would pull up to the first office block, unload the van, and take what we needed to get the job done: ...
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Pop Culture
The Overnighters and 2 Days, 1 Night: How I couldn’t escape the common people at MIFF
Arriving back in Melbourne from the significant distraction and vacation of a World Cup trip to Brazil is akin to standing under a shower with only one tap ...
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Pop Culture 1
William Friedkin’s Sorcerer: The perfect 70’s film
Perfect films usually only ever appear so in retrospect. A case in point is Sorcerer, William Friedkin’s 1977 reimagining of the Henri-Georges Clouzot 1953 classic, The Wages of ...
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Pop Culture 2
EuroFarken: 10 Artists Shoot Farken would like to see at Eurovision 2014
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m as big a fan of the annual Eurovision Song Contest as any kitsch-loving hipster doofus around. I get the attraction of the ...
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Pop Culture
How I discovered the wonder of Eurovision: A Story of Love and Loss
It seems that everywhere I go people are getting excited about the new season of The Voice. There is vigorous debate about many facets of the show. Will ...
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Football
The Short Sad History of Shit Socceroos World Cup Songs
After 32 years of hurt, Australian football fans have been blessed with three successive appearances in the World Cup. This most welcome blessing has also been accompanied by ...
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Australian Rules
Support Shoot Farken, Buy a Shoot Farken T-shirt
A new design has entered the T-shirt Hall of Fame, joining iconic T-shirts designs like the “Austin 3:16”, “Choose Life” and “Vote for Pedro”. The new Shoot Farken ...
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Pop Culture
The Cinema of Dystopia: “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)”
A few weeks ago I watched Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film On the Beach for the first time. It’s been on my mind constantly since. I read the book by ...
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Pop Culture
Record Store Day: An Ode to a Racist, Old Drunk, Record Store Owner
He liked Hank Snow, smelt of cigarettes and sherry, and had a souvenir Minutemen licence plate on the wall. His shop, Russell’s Golden Records, was in a pokey ...
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Football 6
Never Mind The Football: Punk’s World Cup Eleven
THE PREAMBLE I am a simple man. I like my steak bloody, my wife in various forms of undress and my beer alcoholic. With the big “40” bearing ...
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Pop Culture
Kesha and the Big, Bad Eyeball of Freedom
Ke$ha recently went into rehab for an eating disorder and came out as Kesha. Notice the difference? Yes, she’s dropped the dollar sign. She’s no longer part of ...
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Pop Culture
5 Reasons why Scott “Rock Action” Asheton and The Stooges made this pimply teen’s life better
When I was a kid, my parents – at their wits’ end – were suitably frustrated enough to attempt to alleviate my school holiday boredom by taking me ...
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Pop Culture
Indie Comics: Maybe the Nerds are onto something after all
Hollywood’s raging hard-on for comic book adaptations – largely of the ‘tights and fights’ variety – shows no signs of deflating. Increasingly, movies and TV series based on ...
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Pop Culture
Ukulele Dreams: Tiny Tim, Vance Joy and the Sound of Hawaii
He walked onto the set of a national TV show looking like a man who would be derelict were his mother to die. Watching Tiny Tim perform his ...
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Pop Culture
Hombre of the Damned: Meet Padre Iron Maiden, Brazil’s Thorn in the Flesh
I want you to close your eyes for a moment – but keep reading – and picture if you can the stereotypical, clichéd image of a slightly ageing ...
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Pop Culture 2
Seven Songs in the Life of a Pearl Jam Fan
Pearl Jam is about to embark on their sixth tour of Australia, and while many will be awaiting well-known tunes such as “Alive” and “Better Man”, others will ...
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Pop Culture
Dear Vampire Weekend, Will You Be My New Steely Dan?
A middle-aged man wistfully trying to recapture past glories, hoping to relive the electric charge of youthful adventure, manfully staring down the growing sense of his own obsolescence. ...
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Pop Culture 1
The Day I Had Pizza with Porn Star Kitten Natividad
I am no expert. I’m not a bra-fitter, plastic surgeon or professional photographer of glamour models. I don’t work in a strip club or make blue films. But ...
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Pop Culture
Meet the World’s Sleaziest Clarinet Player (and it’s not Woody Allen)
Sometimes the internet takes you to a place you should never go. A place filled with strippers, fast cars and clarinets. And African guerrilla soldiers taunting a chimpanzee ...
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Pop Culture
The Best Damn Wrestling Promotion on the Planet: Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
On the 24th of May 1999, approximately 11 million Americans tuned in to either WCW Monday Nitro or WWF RAW is WAR. This represented the peak of the ...
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