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Antenne Books
When trawling through the nets looking for sites to buy cool art magazines to strategically place on your coffee table, it's way too damn often that independent publishers' websites are arty to the point of obscurity - most of the time you can't tell what's inside any of those magazines until you get them.
Save the Children Booksale
What:
Save the Children Booksale
Where:
Winthrop Hall Undercroft, UWA, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley
When:
Fri Aug 20, 6-9pm, Sat Aug 21 8am-5pm, Sun Aug 22 9.30am-5pm, Mon/Tue 24 9.30am-6.30pm, Wed Aug 25 9.30am-1pm
How much:
Free entry, cheap books
There are only few occasions when I'd fight an old lady to the bitter end, and by ‘bitter end' I mean hip, shoulder and elbow nudge to the ground. The Annual Save the Children Booksale is one of those occasions. Every year, someone, somewhere collects all of the rare reads that you've been meaning to get to (but didn't) and puts them under one roof for you.
Event Type: Sale
Genre: Other
Location: Other
Iconoclast Editions
That question where you pick famous people to have over for dinner is as exciting in fantasy (Terry Richardson! Larry Clark! David Shrigley!) as it is depressing in reality (your loser friends, who turn up two hours late, without bringing even a cheap fifth of whiskey*).
If you can't get Neckface, Spike Jonze, Cheryl Dunn and the aforementioned over for pizza and pot brownies, you can at least get them in art form via Iconoclast.
McSweeney's Book Release Club
I've been visiting The McSweeney's Store a lot lately because I heard that occasionally they'll offer huge bargains on their subscriptions just because they feel like it. You never know when it's going to happen though, so you have to be VIGILANT. While I was there, clicking refresh like a deranged mouse in a science experiment, not finding any bargains, I found something else.
Joan Didion, 'The White Album'
I'm sitting at my desk, watching my girlfriend get dressed in the other room. Through the door, gilded by the morning sun, she zips up her skirt and then fusses over her hair. She looks fantastic, and it's one of life's cruel little ironies that she only seems this supernaturally desirable when there is absolutely no chance of congress.
Tiny Vices Books
We live in tiny apartments on tiny budgets. We can't afford giant works of art selling for giant sums of money.
What we can afford are small, beautifully crafted books and zines, cataloguing more works of art in a six-inch stretch of bookshelf than we could ever afford in wall space. Though more expensive than a Whopper value meal, as far as luxury goes, these are our "tiny" vices.
Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves
Mixtapes were, without a doubt, the best thing about the 20th Century. The Theory of Relativity, Cornflakes, Penicillin, teabags, sporks, velcro, crayons and the frisbee were all quite impressive inventions, but I'm sure you'll agree there's a clear winner here. Where was the frisbee when you were clumsily trying to hammer your angsty teenage feelings into a shape another person might understand, hmmm? Where was Einstein when your 'soulmate' dumped you for that dude with the hair? Did Penicillin save you when you were so sick with love you sang 'The End of the Road' 17 times on a deserted beach? No.
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