Tino

Martin Saker

Position:
Review Contributor

Games:
Diablo 2, HalfLife, N64 Golden Eye, TetriNET, Pikmin 2.

Movies:
Army of Darkness, Dune, Buffalo 66, Jesus Son, The Lone Wolf & Cud - Baby Cart in Peril, Delicatessen, The Iron Giant, Ninja Scroll, Taxi (France), Akira, Star Trek Voyager, Être et Avoir (To Be and To Have), Lost Highway, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Rockers (Jamaica).

Music (bands, singers etc):
Gregory Isaacs, Grandaddy, Gorillaz, Add N to (X), Calexico, The Arcade Fire, The Streets, Sufjan Stevens, GLC (UK), Bob Dylan, Ali Farka Toure, Clutch, 2 Many DJ’s, Édith Piaf, Ry Cooder, Meshuggah, Micromusic, George Michael, Jill Scott.

Wrestlers:
Can I use one of my lifelines please Eddy?

Comic characters or books and/or cartoons: Lobo - the one, the only, the last Czarnian, The Fabulous Freak Brothers, Scooby Doo.

Authors and/or Books:
John Gray, Raymond E. Feist, John Pilger, Anne Rice, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Alfred Korzybski.

Foods:
Anything except if it’s gross like whale, brains or foie gras.

Drinks:
Coffee, boutique beer and red wine.

Heroes (people I admire):
Reggie Watts, Bill Hicks, Banksi, Howard Marks, my family doctor.

Villains (people I dislike):
I think it’s best if I just don’t get started on that one.

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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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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