Spare Room Be our guest…

A brand-spanking new range of T-shirt designs by local design collective Commune, are out now. We like these two — Monster (left) is from local design gurus RESN and the Paradise Lost (after jump) by Jeremy Bennett, an architect whose mother was a fashion deisgner, and the guy behind Commune.

Oh, and don’t expect the usual too-cool-for-school over-inflated price tag and spit-thru fabric, these are very affordable (US$25) and made from good quality stretch. Girls note, a large is a comfortable size 14 equivalent…

Before voicemail, some tech-savvy entrepreneur came up with the idea to market a cassette tape with musical answer phone messages.

Reverse sexism ad from the 70s; Are you for Sydney or Melbourne; GQ’s 50 Most Stylish Men; Who’s been Tasered now?; Top 10 drugs and their effects; Bad tech ads; Pretentious T-shirt concept; This Buckingham Palace guard is a wanker; Choice crash test videos; Watch things decay before your very eyes; and in the tradition of ‘Funniest Home Videos’ — cats on a treadmill (but if that’s too twee for ya, there’s David Letterman roasting Paris Hilton)…

Knightrider remake on the cards; 24 hour movie marathon; Scorsese to helm George Harrison doco; Great movie deaths; There’s more to the Doors than leather trousers; Sex Pistols re-record “Anarchy”; Reservoir Dads; John Cusack’s War Inc. trailer and more…

Jeff Wayne’s War of the World’s — Vector Arena, Auckland, Friday and Saturday

This week: Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, Fall Out Boy, Marilyn Manson, David Kilgour, Blam Blam Blam, Labretta Suede and the Motel Six, Katchafire and more… click through for listings…