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FourThousand is a weekly snapshot of Brisbane's subculture - a Brisbane guide to film, music, design, books, art, goods and links for people who realise that the best things in life are often hard to find. Below you will find the latest additions to our Brisbane guide.

Daybreakers

Article published 9th Feb 10
Format: Cinema
Mood: Gulp

Vampires are everywhere these days, so Daybreakers - a film imagining what happens when vampires take over the world - makes sense, right? It's the near future and everyone dresses like they're in the 1940s and everything looks like a Tool music video. Human blood is low in supply and starving vamps are turning into screeching bat-creatures.

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Reflections Of A Solitary Hamster

Article published 9th Feb 10
Format: Book
Motivation: Kill twenty minutes dead

For me, some French picture books form the "Triumvirate of Utilité". They are charming, fable-like, ostensibly for kids (a niece perhaps) and can double as 'uplifting gift for pal in break-up hell', or triple as a 'de facto love letter to your new crush'. I used to keep a mint copy of Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince for said purpose/s.

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The Wolfman

Article published 9th Feb 10
Format: Cinema
Mood: Gulp

This year, Valentine's Day falls on a new moon. But you'd still better watch out for the signs you may be dating a werewolf. Has your Valentine ever been into ripping villagers to shreds? Does he or she do a really good Chewbacca impression? If you look up a book called Lycanthropy and flip to chapter two, "Ancient Gypsy Lore", do you see a woodcut of your Valentine with a furry head and no pants?

The Wolfman is Universal's homage to its own classic 1941 monster flick.

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Other People's Love Letters

Article published 9th Feb 10

With the Hallmark day for love fast approaching it got me thinking, what is it that fills a love letter with the ‘ZaZaZu'? Other People's Love Letters is 150 texts, emails, letters, scrawls on pieces of crumpled paper, post it notes and telegrams all concerned with the complexities of modern relationships.

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