This Is Your Brain on Music
Music Lover? Check. A little bit nerdy? Check. Ever wondered how music and memory work together? Wondered why all teenagers since 1997 enjoy the song Scatman and anything by Venga Boys? Have you wondered why people either love or hate Weezer? This Is Your Brain on Music helps answer these questions.
Brisbane's Budget Bites 2009
Brisbane might still get dissed by some for being a small country town, but we've really come a long way to be quite the thriving, cosmopolitan city, with a myriad of places to drink, dine and soak up the atmosphere. But if you think it's just the Valley and West End where all the cultural goodness resides, think again - there's gems in places you'd least expect.
Hitman: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors
Tired of your sloppy contractors forgetting to chop the fingertips off their targets and leaving careless DNA evidence at the homes of your enemies? Sick of spending thousands every time you need a new silencer? Then it's time to stop outsourcing revenge.
Your dreams of living by your reflexes, doing whatever is necessary without regard to moral or legal restrictions are but a few steps away thanks to Hitman: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors (1983).
CREATIVEAGGRESSION Magazine
‘EATIV' in capitals has to be one of the most difficult combinations of letters imaginable to kern. The spaces between E and A, A and T, T and I, and so on, are all different, leaving different legacies of space to distract from the reading of the word. The craft of subtly adjusting those spaces is an invisible, mundane but crucial part of one design discipline.
Stuff White People Like
Sure, you're an unassuming, left-leaning gen-X or Y-er who goes to the occasional independent Czech film showcase, has flirted with vegetarianism and secretly likes Kathmandu products. So what, eh? You're just trying to get on in the world, you're not bothering anyone - you believe in social justice, yeah? Of course you do.
Pornocracy
Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan, you will know that her films portray a world that is more disquieting than reassuring, more intimate than objective and more corporeal than cerebral. You may call yourself a Breillat aficionado, but unless you speak French, you have probably never read her novels.
Monocle Top 25 Most Liveable Cites
You can never underestimate the stupidity of majority opinion - value judgements are far better. God knows we make a living out of them here at Right Angle. The Monocle Top 25 World's Most Liveable Cities edition is unashamedly a value judgement, but not an ill-informed one. These are people who trawl the world, think critically about what makes life good, and the degree to which a city supports that ideal.
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