Browsing All Posts By Ben Munday
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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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Football
When football’s Bad News Bears of Belize took on the Mennonites
The Junior Coach’s prayer Lord, hear me now, for I have forever changed my stance! No longer, Lord, will I scowl like the Devil at mothers and fathers ...
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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
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
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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Football
An Open Christmas Letter To Mark Bosnich
Dear Mr. Bosnich, May I call you Bozza? I am writing, Bozza, to wish you a very merry Christmas and of course the happiest of happy New Year’s. ...
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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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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
“Un dia muy importante”: Costa Rica basks in its World Cup afterglow
A transexual prostitute saunters into a seedy bar in San Jose, Costa Rica’s buzzing capital. She has a Joel Campbell badge fashionably pinned to her knock-off Louis Vuitton ...
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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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Football 3
Oops! Wrong Country: How I Ended Up Watching the Socceroos in a Bolivian Jungle Town
It’s a disturbingly unsettling 35 degrees. 100% humidity. Sweat seeps from every crack and orifice. There isn’t even a hint of an inkling of a gentle breeze to ...
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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
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
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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