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They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix)
Use your ex’s Netflix password that’s still saved on your laptop and strap the fuck in. John Boyega and Jamie Foxx star in this freakishly good government conspiracy movie where, I shit you not, white people are up to no good! Again! I didn’t look at my phone ONCE this entire film, and that’s saying something. What should be some “regular-degular-vanilla-ass shit” ends up being some “weird mint-chocolate-chip-bukkake shit.” Get Out meets Sorry To Bother You. Retrofuturistic set design, stunning soundtrack, insanely cool costumes, incredible everything I literally cannot shut up about this movie.
Fuck you film bros this is MY Pulp Fiction. Tarantino has NOTHING on this shit.
Read
‘Red White & Royal Blue’ (by Casey McQuiston)
With the film adaptation having just been released on Prime Video (I recommend asking your mum nicely if you can use her login), it’s the perfect time to get back into reading so you can brag. If you read it before the watch party with all the girlies you can point out differences throughout the entire movie and feel that much more cultured. If you have already seen the film, never fear! You can still read the book, then watch the movie again and then you can tell the girlies that the book is soooo much better.
Listen To
Omnibus podcast
Ken Jennings is the guy that’s taken over Jeopardy! after his record-breaking 75 episode run, which netted him a cool $4.5 million. He’s “the world’s smartest man”, or at least when it comes to pub quizzes. He’s also got a podcast with John Roderick called Omnibus, which is a sort of collection of bizarre moments in human history, stored in a digital time capsule for whoever finds it after “the cataclysm that will surely destroy our civilization”. Turns out Ken is into some pretty arcane shit, and the whole show is a great listen. There is something for everyone in Omnibus. In fact, they probably have a whole episode on that strangely specific rant you always go on about at parties. Yes, that one! Free on Spotify.
Go To
The original Heaven’s Gate website
Heaven’s Gate was a cult that committed mass suicide in California in 1997, with the hopes that their souls would latch onto the passing comet Hale-Bopp. That’s a bit grim, but what’s fascinating is that their original website in all its 1997 Javascript glory is still perfectly preserved online. Nobody turned it off - the “Red Alert” is still flashing at the top of the page 26 years later, reminding the few stragglers that the time to escape our mortal flesh prisons is NOW! Genuinely just an incredible digital museum. Macabre, bizarre, arcane and oh-so-1997.
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The Major Ball: Olympus
Classical Society, Anthropology Society, Food Science & Agriculture Students Association, Postgraduate Society, Scuba Diving Club, and Geography & Environmental Management Society - all joining forces for a clubs ball set on Olympus (you can tell the Classical Society is leading the charge). 7pm Saturday, September 30th at the Otago Museum. Sounds like a great time, so check out the event on Facebook and chuck it in your calendars.
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White Fox hoodies
Why does everyone own them? What makes them so special? It’s literally a regular overpriced hoodie? You’re just walking around advertising a brand on you in a 70s-esque squiggly font. Support local instead of the Australians. The fun thing about hoodies is that everyone can own different ones that have something to say about who you are, and the White Fox ones say literally nothing. These are like Oodies, but worse. Please stop.