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The DVD

We Jam Econo: the Story of the Minutemen

(Plexi) £19.99

Recent rockumentaries have generally relished dysfunctional acts, but this touching portrait of D.Boon's San Pedro post-punk giants proves it is possible for a great band to love each other.

The book

And They All Sang

by Studs Terkel

(Granta) £15.99

A collection of interviews that the great oral historian conducted on his daily Chicago radio show - here's Alfred Brendel, Mahalia Jackson, Ravi Shankar, Dylan and more. A fascinating document.

The exhibition

Sixties Graphics

(6 June - 12 Nov, V&A, London, SW7) Free entry.

A visual treat from the era of peace'n'love, when acid exploded counterculture conciousness into a riot of colour and weirdness. Starting with material from 1965, this show features posters for the UFO and Middle Earth clubs, works by Pop Art exponent Peter Blake, and arresting images of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Groovy.

I so like this ...

Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard

I got obsessed with the Mighty Boosh recently. I couldn't stop watching it for a week. Noel Fielding is my favourite. It's quite slapstick but it reminds me of old English comedy. It works on two levels: there's the fun exterior and the underlying stuff that you can pick up on. Pi [directed by Darren Aronofsky] is one of my favourite films. It's very surreal. Stuff that's too obvious is really dull. I'm reading Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory, which is dark and weird, as well as Naked Lunch [ by William Burroughs], which is heavy. He has great control over sentences, and he writes beautifully. You get really involved.


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This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 00.07 BST on Sunday 18 June 2006. It appeared in Observer Music Monthly on Sunday 18 June 2006 on p69 of the Reviews & features section. It was last updated at 00.07 BST on Sunday 18 June 2006.

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