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Ivan Vartanian

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‘Japanese Goth’: A Manifesto for the Beautiful Macabre

This book seeks to place Japan's fashion subculture known as "Gothic Lolita" on a continuum of fine art, fashion and literature. [22 April 2009]

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Columns
Pop Osmosis: Farmville: Fetch Me My Manure Boots
From the Cheap Seats: Seeing Stars (Suffer Brain Injuries)

Blogs
Marginal Utility: The authenticity fetish
Sound Affects: Masters of the Form: Rage Against the Machine 1999 - The Battle of Los Angeles
Mixed Media: John Lennon: 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980
Channel Surfing: Top Chef Oddsmakers
Notes from the Road: Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos: 29.Nov.09 - Brighton, UK
Moving Pixels: Gauging Load Times in Games
Consuming Consumables: AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa
Short Ends and Leader: Critical Confessions: Part 19 - Top Ten-tative
Graphically Speaking: The Sociology of Superheroes: Andi Ewington and 45

Music
:. Clipse: Til the Casket Drops
:. Brett Anderson: Slow Attack
:. Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revolution
:. Shafiq Husayn: Shafiq En A-Free-Ka
:. Dufus: In Monstrous Attitude
:. Eric Roberson: Music Fan First

Events
:. Dethklok + Mastodon: 12 November 2009 - Houston, TX

Film
:. Me and Orson Welles

DVDs
:. Imagine That
:. Bootleg Film

Books
:. The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
:. Free for All by Kenneth Turan, Joseph Papp

Comics
:. Hot Potatoe

News
:. INTERVIEW:Arctic Monkeys take new path
:. The iPhone’s online identity crisis
:. ‘Public Enemies’ a good, but not great, effort by director Michael Mann

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