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Iconoclast Editions
That question where you pick famous people to have over for dinner is as exciting in fantasy (Terry Richardson! Larry Clark! David Shrigley!) as it is depressing in reality (your loser friends, who turn up two hours late, without bringing even a cheap fifth of whiskey*). If you can't get Neckface, Spike Jonze, Cheryl Dunn and the aforementioned over for pizza and pot brownies, you can at least get them in art form via Iconoclast.
Vitals Book, Zine and Crafty Affair
What:
The Vitals Book, Zine and Crafty Affair
Where:
Waterside Worker's Hall, 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide
When:
Sun July 18, 10am-4pm
How much:
Gold coin donation
Port Adelaide. Home to urban decay, fishing, periphery urban development for greedy yuppy investors, some of the finest meth labs seaward of the mighty North, ghost tours, the excellent Porthole Records, and an incredible weekend market. But that's not all. Down in a charming old hall sits Vitalstatistix Theatre Company.
Event Type: Market
Genre: Other
Location: Western Suburbs
McSweeney's Book Release Club
I've been visiting The McSweeney's Store a lot lately because I heard that occasionally they'll offer huge bargains on their subscriptions just because they feel like it. You never know when it's going to happen though, so you have to be VIGILANT. While I was there, clicking refresh like a deranged mouse in a science experiment, not finding any bargains, I found something else.
Tiny Vices Books
We live in tiny apartments on tiny budgets. We can't afford giant works of art selling for giant sums of money.
What we can afford are small, beautifully crafted books and zines, cataloguing more works of art in a six-inch stretch of bookshelf than we could ever afford in wall space. Though more expensive than a Whopper value meal, as far as luxury goes, these are our "tiny" vices.
Mary Martin Bookshop
Until recently, I didn't realise that Mary Martin was an actual person; I just assumed it was a nice business name devised by booksellers with a love of alliteration. In fact, Mary Martin was a woman, writer and artist who pioneered independent bookselling in Adelaide and the shop bearing her name now has an additional location on Norwood Parade.
Exact Change Rarities: Classics of Experimental Literature
The fiery breeze of psych-noise pleasers Galaxie 500 brought me to Exact Change Rarities: Classics of Experimental Literature, an independent publishing jaunt founded in 1989 by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang of the same band.
Heads of their field, Exact Change specialised in re-publishing 19th and 20th century avant-garde literature with the belief that several important niche titles should remain available always.
Library Love
Remember those things called libraries? They're a little like google scholar, but real. Oh, and they actually work.
Well, turns out they've actually got some pros ; besides weird red brick architecture, local government funding, smelly elderly folks and making your uni essays sound vaguely intelligent that is.
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