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This week on Soft Focus we talk to Billy Childish England's greatest living garage rocker/poet/painter/writer/woodcutter. On Balls Deep our journey into ultimate fighting reaches its conclusion on fight night.
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Those poached mouse snacks we munched in Malawi left us hungry for more exotic nibbles. Having had our fill of braised puppy, we fancy something a bit different. So we've shopped around and cooked up a buffet of bizarre delicacies from around the world
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Way, way back in the 1990s the best way to jazz up your web-page was to add an animated image called a GIF. These days, now that most animation is done through Flash or video, the humble GIF is starting to gain cult status. A guy called Cyriak has gained a rep for making funny, lo-fi animations. He's recently made a film featuring his greatest GIFs and it's probably the best thing we've seen online this week
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Ryan McGinley: "Jack Walls was an artist, writer, muse, and infamous man-about-town. He was the long-term boyfriend to basically the most famous photographer of the later part of the 20th century, Robert Mapplethorpe. He grew up as a gangbanger in the ghetto of Chicago. He joined the Navy for a few years and then moved to New York and in the early 1980s."
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FILM / LITERARY / INTERVIEW
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Even if he hadn't been the star of maybe our favorite movie of all time, Mike Leigh's Naked, David Thewlis would still be one of our favorite actors. Not only that, but he's a great writer. Thewlis deals in funny, observant rhyming poems and hilarious-but-harsh fiction. Then, every once in a while, he goes and portrays Professor Lupin in a Harry Potter movie, just to pay the rent ...MORE |
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Here's what happens when wives finally get rid of all their husband's friends and Dad's got f**k all else to do with himself apart from obsessing about the integrity of his daughter's vagina
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 Thanks to everyone who came last week. See photos.
* A special thanks to the bands, the DJs and Rockstar Games.
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Our story about Pony the orangutan sex slave has garnered a lot of attention, with some readers debating the corrrect term for human/ape unions (a humangutan, FYI) and others questioning the authenticity of the actual footage we found
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Yes, she's a bit Eurotrashy. But is there anybody alive looking at this that doesn't want to just sink their teeth into her perineum and wave her around in the air like a great white does to a baby seal on Discovery Channel Shark Week? |
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Here's to the black hoodie. Even tie-dyed space clowns from a freezing planet with an unbreathable atmosphere composed mainly of LSD can use it to pull their outfit together and make their style appear totally effortless. |
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The Old Blue
Last
38 Great Eastern St Shoreditch EC2A 3ES
Saturday 1 December
DICE
Live: The Pepys, The Fucks
DJs: Lovetoy, T.E.D.D.
Entry: Free
Doors: 8pm
Monday 3 December
WAKS RECORDS VS MUTE IRREGULARS
Live: The 45's, Electricity In Our Homes, S.C.U.M., Bretton, Cristine
DJs: Hatcham Social, Spider & The Flies, Barry 7, Sam Kilcoyne, Death Disco
Entry: Free
Doors: 8pm
Wednesday 5 December
SPIRAL SCRATCH
Live: Plastic Operator, Grovsenor, Arthur & Martha
DJs: Spiral DJs
Entry: £4/ £5
Doors: 8pm
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Come and join us for festive fun tonight at the 55DSL store Newburgh St, W1, from 6PM. Madcap Matt Sewell and gigantic Jonny Fu (A.K.A Ronzo) will be creating hand illustrated Christmas cards. So, join us for art, shopping, booze and music.
www.55dsl.com
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