Mugwai

Jamie Edwards

Position:
Review contributor, occasional purveyor of music no one likes

mugwai@buttonhole.com.au

Mugwai's Archives (15)

Games:
The Chaos Engine, The Streetfighter Series, The Tony Hawk Series, Doom 2, Bubble Bobble and Crazy Taxi.

Movies:
Blue Velvet, The Big Sleep, The Usual Suspects, Barfly, Smoke, The Maltese Falcone, Naked, Clerks, Escape From New York, Rounders, The Ring and Run Lola Run. Oh and Fisty First Dates.

Music (bands, singers etc):
The Pixies, Shellac, Sonic Youth, Grotus, Tortoise, The Residents, Primus, Jurassic 5, Beastie Boys, Fishbone, Asian Dub Foundation and Bjork.

Wrestlers:
Rey Mesterio Jr, and Hagar from Final Fight.

Comic characters or books and/or cartoons:
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Wolverine, Spider Jerelesuem, and the Flash.

Authors and/or Books:
Joseph Conrad, Charles Bukowski, William Gibson, William Burroughs, William Gibson, Frank Herbert, George Orwell, J.B Ballard. P.K Dick. James Elroy and Douglas Adams.

Food:
Chilli, Lasagne, salmon, prawn, steak, pesto, garlic and any fresh produce I cook myself.

Drinks:
Heineken, Guinness, fresh coffee, and tomato juice.

Heroes (people I admire):
Sam (our fearless editor, with resilience I can’t measure), my wife Melissa (so caring, so Beautiful) Flea (because he admits he can’t read bass clef and listen to him play!), Bukowski (who preached the struggle of the common grunt and the common drunk), William Gibson (who blows my mind back), and Ben Pollock (a man of unbelievable talent but does not recognize it).

Villains (people I dislike):
Racists, whoever signed on the Big Brother series, musicians that can’t just stop talking about how great their band is, the bastard who invented mobile phones.

Editorial

Don't damn me, when I speak a piece of mind

Raise your glasses and rejoice, for the fun times are about to drastically expand. To paraphrase The Rock: "Finally... Old Sammy has come back...to Buttonhole!" ...Read On

Toons

By Borgieman

Manifest '07 Report

Ninja's note: Once again, it's time for another Buttonhole report on the Melbourne Anime Festival, otherwise known as Manifest 2007. If you missed Ichibod's feature on a previous Manifest, check it out here. This Manifest coverage comes to you courtesy of forum regular and newest Buttonhole contributor Borgieman, a cool guy who knows his Anime and has been known to play a video game or two. So read on true believers! A Day at Manifest 2007

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Toons

By Australian Ninja

Only Yesterday. Anime Review

The problem with having favourite films is that every time I watch another Studio Ghibli film it becomes my new favourite. It kind of renders the word 'favourite' meaningless when every Studio Ghibli film takes my breath away. Still, I can't complain about being thoroughly entertained by this whimsical and insightful film, "Only Yesterday". This gem was directed by Isao Takahata, well known for his anime film Grave of the Fireflies. Although Only Yesterday is a light hearted film that ambles along at a leisurely pace, it still manages to explore themes such as love, work, family relationship struggles, following your dreams and country versus city living. In the film, the main character Taeko decides to take a working vacation in the country, getting away from her office bound job and unexpectedly starts t

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By Jason

Speed Grapher V1. Anime Review

Well, "I don't like it" was my initial feeling when viewing this Anime for the first time. Subsequent viewings haven't changed my views a great deal. Nothing really stands out as being absolute shit but it seems that this series tries too hard. It's almost like they were more interested in creating something 'edgy' and confronting but sadly forgot to include an even remotely palatable story. The hero of this particular piece is a bloke called Tatsumi Saiga. Tatsumi is a photographer and a veteran war journalist for whom taking photos has become somewhat of a fetish. Although he seems to have become jaded - nothing is worth wasting his film on - that is, at least until he stumbles across an exclusive club for the mega rich

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