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WoS GRAND SHOPARAMA
Where your money
buys freedom
Purchasing goods or services? But feel bad about
rampant Western-world consumption? Then why not slow the
rise of corporate globalisation by diverting some of the money away from huge
multinational retailers and into the coffers of WoS, where you can almost
guarantee that it won't be spent on oppressing the poor or curtailing the
ever-more-threatened liberties of the masses? Rebel against conformism - visit the WoS Shoparama!
Click on any of the links on this
page, and anything you buy from that site will earn WoS - at absolutely no extra cost to you - a small
commission, which will almost certainly be spent on exciting things that you'll then get to
read about. And on subverting the international capitalist
military-industrial complex, natch. (All of these are, obviously, retailers/sites that I use personally on a
fairly regular basis, and can, within reason, vouch for the reliability and
general excellence of. I really do have both my car and home contents
insured through the AA, for example.)
Just click the logos to visit the sites and start shopping, secure in the
knowledge that anything you buy will automatically (you don't have to enter
any referral codes or anything like that, just make sure that you start each
shopping session by entering the site through the WoS links) have a fraction of its
price siphoned away from the evil megacorp, helping to save all of
civilisation.
Furthermore, everything listed
below on this page comes specifically pre-endorsed with the WoS seal of
approval - this is stuff that I've already bought for myself with my own
money and recommend, so it's literally impossible to go wrong, unless you're
some sort of tasteless oaf.
VIDEOGAMES
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EARTH DEFENCE
FORCE 2017
Xbox 360
Absolutely
fantastic B-movie game, pitting the player and his EDF comrades
against armies of monstrous insects and colossal silver robots
with absurdly massive plasma cannons stomping through totally-destructible cities. A
modern epic of
exhilarating, exhausting all-out action requiring no brainpower
whatsoever, with dozens of missions to prolong the carnage for tens
of hours. Like Grand Theft Auto meets Robotron. |
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DEAD RISING
Xbox 360
Another game
inspired by low-budget 80s horror movies (this time Dawn Of The
Dead), Dead Rising is a bit of a Frankenstein's monster itself - a
haphazard patchwork of sheer brilliance and total idiocy. At times it seems
like Capcom employed someone solely to try to ruin the game, with
characters like the stupefyingly awful Otis and some annoying
respawning enemies, but it's such an inventive concept and so incredibly enjoyable to play that you
keep forgiving it whenever it does something dumb. |
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ACTIONLOOP
Nintendo DS
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GADGETS
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DS LITE
Nintendo
The greatest and
most groundbreaking piece of videogaming hardware since the original
Playstation. In truth it's almost inconceivable that you could be reading WoS
and not own one of these
already, but just in case you're fresh out of prison or
something, here's a handy link to help you put this careless
oversight/appalling character flaw right. |
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PSP SLIM AND
LITE
Sony
For a detailed WoS review of the
(old-model) PSP, again see
this feature. The new Slim-and-Lite version of the console
offers several significant improvements, most notably a vastly
superior d-pad and a TV-out socket enabling PSP games to be played
on your television. |
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TEFAL QUICK CUP
Tefal
It's a kettle,
except that by some crazy magic it only takes three seconds to deliver you a piping hot
drink. Ideal for a mug of delicious hot Vimto or spiced cordials in wintertime,
or for knocking out some soothing honey-and-lemon with a shot of single malt if
you've got a cold for an instant toddy. |
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MUSIC
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EXCELLENT
ITALIAN GREYHOUND
Shellac
While not deviating
a single step from the classic Albini formula, this is Shellac's
most accessible album yet. Worth the money for "The End Of Radio"
alone, but there's far more than that worth hearing here, with the
band at their most melodic behind the usual stark, uncompromising
sound. |
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PROOF OF YOUTH
The Go! Team
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DVDs
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BURN TO SHINE 02
Various Artists
Second in a series
of compilations where alternative-type bands get together in
buildings that are about to be demolished and perform one of their
songs live in one of the rooms. This volume features nine artists
including Tortoise, Wilco and The Ponys, but is most notable for
Shellac doing a mesmerising rendition of "Steady As She Goes"
from "Excellent Italian Greyhound" (see above). |
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PIERREPOINT
Dir: Adrian Shergold
Timothy Spall
gives the performance of his life in the true story of hangman
Albert Pierrepoint, who sent over 400 men and women to their deaths
at the behest of the Crown. Gripping, harrowing, understated and moving, this is
one of the finest British movies of the last ten years. |
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BOOKS
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WEIRD ENGLAND
Matt Lake
Excellent hardback
stuffed full of really weird places to visit in England (duh), not
dissimilar to "Bollocks To Alton Towers" but in colour with lots
more pictures. Features photographs from,
and edited versions of, two popular WoS travel features (to
Imber and
Tyneham), and if you liked those then you'll be enthralled by
some of the other locations detailed here. |
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BOLLOCKS TO
ALTON TOWERS
Various authors
And you really
ought to check out the original, too. |
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THE BOYS
Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson
First volume of a
very promising new series by Garth Ennis of "Preacher" fame, based
around a group of ordinary men and women who police the decadent
activities of superheroes - in the Jean Charles de Menezes sense of
the word "police", that is. Brutal but funny, and beautifully drawn, this
could turn out to be the next essential comic book. |
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LOST GIRLS
Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
A beautiful
artefact, with echoes of the Kama Sutra in the rather stylised poses
and brash/crayon/pastel colours of the art, and as you'd expect from
Moore the dialogue and plotting are immaculate. The first two books
are better than the rather unsettling third volume, but the
frequent allegories to the Oz/Wonderland/Pan stories are sheer genius
throughout and the box set as a whole is well worth the asking
price. |
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MISC
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COMING SOON
Glamorous WoS stylewear
Ideal for preventing untimely nakedness. |
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