Albums
Grace Jones - Hurricane (Wall of Sound)
Who could really have imagined that Grace Jones’ first album in almost twenty years would be this amazing?
Constantines - Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
The last Constantines album was a glacial and great outdoorsy kind of rock’n'roll record.
Sway - The Signature (Dcypha)
Sway has lyrical skill but that means nothing if you were given a personality by-pass at birth.
Films
The Argentine (2008)
Soderbergh’s four-and-a-half-hour biopic of Che Guevara turned out to be so divisive they even cut the damn film in half.
Waltz With Bashir (2008)
If this animated documentary isn’t a masterpiece, then it’s close enough to make little difference.
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)
Hunter S. Thompson was the anarchic journalist who invented ‘gonzo’; a style of reporting marked by its subjectivism and interpolation of the writer’s personality.
DVDs
The Band’s Visit (2007)
The Band’s Visit is a warm-hearted comedy about the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra’s disastrous visit to Israel to play a goodwill concert.
Games
Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)
The meathead marine Marcus Fenix returns to blast the shit out of the malevolent Locust Horde.
Midnight Club: LA (Xbox 360, PS3)
There may be a plethora of titles offering a street racing experience, but none do it as well as this free-roaming speed-fest.
James Bond 007 Quantum of Solace (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC, DS)
Forgive the scepticism, but multi-port film tie-in games are usually a big pile of shit.
Skate It (Wii)
Thanks to the Wii’s unique controls, the digital skating experience gets a whole lot more real.
Books
Surfing – The Manual: Advanced - Jim Kempton (Wavefinder)
Without getting all clever with things like titles, this book is quite simply, a manual for surfing.
Global Surfari: The Surfer’s Travel Atlas (Global Publishing)
Since Low Pressure brought out their seminal guide in the early nineties, surfing purists have baulked at spot-by-spot guides.
Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk (Jonathan Cape Publishing)
Chuck Palahniuk returns with another sharp and cynical dissection of American life.
Urban Guerilla Protest - Ake Rudolph (Mark Batty Publishing)
Fancy subverting the system in your lunch break?
