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Clark Gayford

Chris Gilbert — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:54 +0000

“I have a picture of Jim Hickey and Jason Gunn on my bedroom wall.“

He is a man whose sarcastic wit and dashing good looks have invaded the airwaves and our girlfriends’ imaginations for over half a decade now, and he freaked us out at the Freaky Re- Orientation Disco last Friday at Sandwiches (in a good way). (more…)

Games Industry

Shinigami — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:51 +0000

I was going to be able to review some new kick arse party pumping wii game for you folks this week. But I can’t. Hitech, the main distributer of Nintendo products in New Zealand went into receivership, and subsequently the Salient office lost of its drip feed of Nintendo goodies. Fucking bummer. (more…)

Album: Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing (1998)

Christopher Gilbert — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:48 +0000

I will admit that my experiences with homosexuality aren’t many. Apart from watching the more bizarre documentaries on Animal Planet and staring with an unusual fixation at Grayson Gilmour crooning at the piano, I consider myself pretty straight and narrow. (more…)

Album: In Flames - A Sense of Purpose

Tristan Egarr — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:45 +0000

A Sense of Purpose contains some very good tracks, but for anyone still hoping In Flames will return to their mid-90s melodic death metal heyday, this album will be the final nail in the coffin. Their last offering Come Clarity was enormous, mixing the best elements of guitar-heavy classics like Whoracle with Anders Friden’s new-found vocal clarity (more…)

Live Review: The Mars Volta

Gitana Paloma Badrawn — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:43 +0000

Logan Campbell Centre
26 June

What a night, and what a show. Between seeing The Mars Volta’s best New Zealand performance to date (and trust me, I’ve been to every one) and ending up in the sax player’s hotel room, that night will go down as one of my best. (more…)

Hancock

Matthew Proctor — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:39 +0000

Hancock is a feel good action movie. It is everything you might expect, which is reasonable, and nothing more. It has fun and excitement, it will make you laugh, everything is happily resolved, and it has plotholes you could park a truck in. Awesome. (more…)

Graphic Novel

Kerry Tankard and Grant Buist — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:37 +0000

Graphic Novel
Greg Broadmore, Dr Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory
(Wellington, Weta Publishing & Dark Horse Comics &
HarperCollins, 2008)

This is Greg Broadmore’s first foray into graphic novels, and Weta Workshop’s first piece of wholly owned product; in the past, product has been released through New Line production house, with Weta only receiving a proportion of the royalties. (more…)

Metamorphosis

Jackson Coe — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:28 +0000

If you were to wake tomorrow and realise you were different to what you knew, how would you deal with it? And how would you expect the people around you, those closest to you and whom you love the most, to handle this change? This change could come from a range of forces - for instance, maybe your job changes how think or act. (more…)

New Fiction: Snuff

BK Drinkwater — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:28 +0000

Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
(Random House, 2008)

Snuff, the latest novel by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke), features 600 men, one day of filming, and a woman’s quest for redemption in vaginal embolism. (more…)

Too Clever by Half

Douglas Crane — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:27 +0000

Gina Jones opened at Page Blackie on 24 June, with a body of work displaying a strong architectural and fine arts feel utilising abstractionism as its base. This invariably lends itself to reflection or in Jones’ words contemplation – a reflection that brings a sense of tranquility within some. (more…)