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Thursday November 12

Hi! So good to see you again. I still remember our first blind date like it was two weeks ago. Oh wait, it was two weeks ago. Well, anyway, I'm just wondering, why aren't you returning my calls? Really, I'm a great person I just get a little weird sometimes. Don't worry I'm not following you, sure I pop into your inbox out of nowhere at odd times of the day, but that's just a coincidence I promise.

Maybe if I get myself some nice clothes and a hair cut, read more, ride a fast bicycle, and listen to good music, perhaps we could be together? I know you want to, let's not fight this anymore.

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What:
21 Nights in July: The Physics & Metaphysics of Cycling

Who:
Ianto Where

Where:
Purchase here through Format Press

How much:
$10 at the launch, otherwise $12

Related Event:
Book launch Tues Nov 24 at Felt Space, Compton St (just off of Gouger), 6pm-8:30pm

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You would be forgiven for thinking that Dr Ianto Ware is the whitest person in Adelaide. After all, the man has a Doctorate in European Cultural Studies, is a member of No Through Rd (the whitest band in Adelaide), and is a zealous advocate of - wait for it honkies - competitive cycling. Ware's debut book is a kind of poignant hymn to his whiteness, viewed through his endearingly white obsessions with the Tour de France, lycra, identity politics, Roland Barthes and the various evils of post-industrial capitalism.

To his credit, Dr Ware merely alludes to his scary ability to bore us to death. His writing is refreshingly whimsical; almost apologetic in tone, as if it has occurred to him that all the cultural theory and gender analysis in the western world will never be enough to drown out the singular joy that comes from the triumph of a simple derailleur over gravity, lactic acid and automotive hegemony.

21 Nights will do little to overcome the automobile's chokehold on our society, but it will almost certainly inspire you to wheel poor old treadley out of the shed and downhill to the Exeter, where it belongs.

By Stan Mahoney

What:
Earthly Delights

Who:
Lightning Bolt

On:
Load Records, distributed through Stomp

Where:
Fowlers Live, 68 Nth Terrace, city

When:
Fri Nov 27, 7pm

How much:
$30+b/f from Moshtix

MySpace:
www.myspace.com/lightningboltbrians

Win:
Thanks to Stomp, we have a dbl pass and album to give away. To enter, email win@fivethousand.com.au with your mailing address and the subject line 'More, more! Faster, faster!'

Lightning Bolt are a juggernaut. They are two men. Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson. They play and they play and they play faster and they play faster and they play more and faster and more faster. Limbs, masks, and the floor, and the people crushing in, and Halloween. It's like it's Halloween. And then there's the noise, which is the music, and it hits you and you keep going and they keep going. Keep breathing.

Douglas Lance Gibson: Do you guys still record every practice session to 4-track?
Brian Chippendale: Yeah, we record everything. I do all the recording and I still do it onto the cassette 4-track that I have. Actually two of the songs on the latest album are from [recordings off] the 4-track.

DLG: You've done that in the past as well, included home recorded tracks alongside stuff recorded in the studio.
BC: Yeah, we haven't done that in a while. Our first album had some of that stuff, then I've done solo stuff where I've recorded that way, and then, finally, for the new Lightning Bolt we put a few on there. It's the same old story where the demos sounded better than when we recorded them again. The demos just had this sort of magic to them. I think that the 4-track sounded amazing, so I was pushing to get this stuff on there.

Read the rest of the interview here...

By Douglas Lance Gibson

What:
DAS

Where:
Ebenezer Place, City

When:
Tues-Thur 10am-6pm, Fri 10am-9pm, Sat 10am-6pm

Contact:
www.das-revolution.com.au, 8232 8539

Related:
DAS exhibits a great piece by artist Lisa King as part of Fantom Gallery

Offer:
Print this out, take it in, get 20% off your hair cut. Until end of Dec.

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Oh, Germany. All those 'icht's' and 'nichts' and 'ja's' and 'auf wiedersehen's', funny hair, high pants, leather, and that old chestnut Nazism. Versus, berliner buns, hamburgers, the fall of communism, sausages, electro, Kraftwerk, beer, and those krautrock masters, Can. On the balance of all that, things seem about squared up.

So, not quite as efficiently as the Deutsche autobahn, this brings us to the store. DAS ist Adam Hadley Darrie, and Dominic Ossa (das ist nicht gut German nahmen!), two young men bringing a nice new concept store to our fair town, combining hair cuts NOT like this and hard to find clothing and jewellery.

Great name, good threads and haircuts and colours even. Including labels of Death by Drone, Stop Staring, Tesla and Moon Raven jewellery to name but a few.

DAS ist zuper cool!

By Dan Gladys

What:
Pilot & Huxley launch

Where:
Mostly Books, Mitcham Square, 119 Belair Rd

When:
Thurs Nov 19, 6pm-8pm

How much:
Free

Drink:
Vodka Fruit Box

Contact:
8373 5190

Image by:
Dan McGuinness

What's the best thing about kid's media? Is it the important moral and life lessons? Early educational stimulus? A child's first taste of art? These are OK, but, as an adult, it's all about the double entendre. Have you seen Play School lately? Steamy! Shrek? So hot. I jest, it's about the illustration too.

Pilot & Huxley is a graphic novel for young adults written and illustrated by Adelaide comic artist Dan McGuiness who started out selling his work DIY style in hand-stapled booklets at comic-nerd conventions. No entendre there.

Pilot & Huxley is a highly polished and superbly illustrated comic. The cast of characters is led by two young boys (uh...their names are Pilot and Huxley) and there is also a grim reaper, some aliens called Vorcons and a cute little red-head girl called Brett(?). This comic is a rip-roaring adventure with it's characters evoking illustration memories of that not so kid-friendly and oh so creepy David Firth creation, Salad Fingers.

So get along to the launch, you might feel like the kid that ‘gets' the double meanings or if all else fails, maybe you can pick up if your face is painted like a big scary Slobberfink. 

By Chloe Langford

What:
A Serious Man

Where:
In cinemas Nov 19

Watch trailer:
Here

Joel and Ethan Coen's latest film is an absolute winner. Surreal, richly allusive and cruelly hilarious, it narrates a decent man's struggle to reason his way out of a maze of absurd injustice.

Minneapolis, 1967, and physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is stressing about making tenure amid an anonymous whispering campaign against him and a possible attempt to bribe him. His no-good brother Arthur (Richard Kind) won't move off his couch, his bratty kids treat him with indifference, and in the ultimate indignity, his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) wants a divorce. She's taken up with the truly revolting Sy Ableman (a deliciously unctuous performance from Fred Melamed), who somehow has the local Jewish community convinced that he's a mensch - a serious man.

A wealth of detail in this film gestures towards our need to make sense of things: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; Arthur's epic probability project, the Mentaculus; a rabbi's rambling parable about teeth; the Jefferson Airplane lyric "When the truth turns out to be lies..." From the cryptic Yiddish prologue to the ominous ending, A Serious Man offers viewers as little solace as Larry. But like him, I couldn't help pondering what it all means.

By Mel Campbell

What:
TMOD scratchies

Where:
Delivered straight to you! Email info@tmod.com.au for a full pdf of designs and order form

How much:
From $6.95

Unlike this senior, the only thing I've ever won on a scratchie was $2. Nudging away the grey film with a 20c coin, I totally knew that I was gonna win BIG. This certainty was followed by a short moment of burning anticipation before the final, well, FAIL. I always thought scratch and sniff stickers were better, but that's another story. A story before TMOD re-birthed the scratchie.

Brought to the public domain by their Smoke & Mirrors jewellery collection, TMOD (Turn Me On Design) dig the interactive. Putting the coin back in your hand, their scratchie card range - with its mechanical illustrations of castles, damsels and jungle fauna - covers every occasion from Christmas and love notes to fortune cards.

If a message in a bottle delivered by sea seems a little much this Yuletide, deposit your message under layers of silver.

By Lisa Lerkenfeldt

What:
Library Love

Where:
Hamish says Glenelg is good. Click Here for your local

When:
40 degree days (they gots air con!) and hungover Sundays

How much:
Free

Image:
Stewart

Remember those things called libraries? They're a little like google scholar, but real. Oh, and they actually work.

Well, turns out they've actually got some pros ; besides weird red brick architecture, local government funding, smelly elderly folks and making your uni essays sound vaguely intelligent that is. Did you know they have DVDs? And not just beaten up old copies of ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird' and ‘The Godfather', but like good quality recently released flicks.

But you're thinking... that's what Blockbuster is for. Well, your local library has this system right, it's called ‘borrowing'. On the premise of goodwill (with the potential wrath of your local librarian - bats will fly out of her ass at you, terrifying), you can beat those franchised video store monsters and loan your favourite Wes Anderson flick for free.

So hey, free DVDs from your local library might not be the most action packed adventure you'll ever have. But that's what the extra cash in your back pocket is for.

By Nick Peters

What:
Supermild Lounge Bar

Where:
182 Hindley St, city

When:
Thurs-Sat, 9pm-late

How much:
Longnecks from $10

Contact:
Weekly Updates on Facebook

Related event:
Supermild's Thursday Rendezvous

Image:
Courtesy of Spoz

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Do you need somewhere to go when everywhere else has ejected your sorry ass from the premises? In the state that you're in a longneck has gotta help, right? Sure! Outside of Supermild, the longneck is the mark of lowly status, a frowned-upon desire to get as much beer down your neck as quickly as possible. Yet here, it's something else. It symbolises the rad, the blurry, the highest of class.

Supermild's dim red lights create an instant atmosphere for those looking to escape a typical club night. To the regulars, it's a second home.

Sure, we all know it's a bit grungy, but in the same way that your old couch is coated in familiar stains - Supermild is just right. You can't help but feel a sense of homeliness sitting on cold concrete slab and sharing the remnants of a second hand fag at five in the morning, or wandering aimlessly up the renowned stairs to nowhere...

By Jenna Hawkins

What:
Pictures Tell A Thousand Words: The Genius of Jacques Tati

Where:
Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett St, City

When:
Until Nov 23

Tickets:
8410 0979

Fromage. Champagne. Le weekend. RSVP. Baguette. The French are responsible for so much culture. D'accord? Those crazy Frenchies, they took mime, they owned it and they made it mainstream. Oui! After Buster Keaton came Jacques Tati. Tati then went on to become the French master of the fully orchestrated slapstick gag with appropriately placed slide whistle and hilarious results. Don't speak French? Pas de problème. Tati will set you straight, it's really not required to make it over there. Just a wiggle of your nose and everyone's your friend. Oui! Oui! Head to Jacques Tati mini-season at Adelaide Cinematheque.

What:
Findon Skid Kids

Where:
Reserve Parade, Findon

When:
Sun Nov 22, 1pm

How much:
Free

So you think you're all tough riding your brakeless fixie through traffic without a helmet? Well, I guess you are because those cars really are quite sharp and hard. BUT, imagine brakeless around a gravel velodrome with full body contact and five other aggressive dudes, jostling for place in the bicycle version of motorcycle speedway. This largely British phenomenon, possibly the best thing they've invented since crooked teeth, was huge in the 50s and down Findon way it's still huge every Sunday.

What:
Steering By Stars + The Phobias + The Scarlet Ives

Where:
Rocket Bar, 142 Hindley St, City

When:
Fri Nov 20, 9pm

How much:
$10 at door

This is what we know. We know that the indefinable Steering By Stars are getting some pretty good raps around the place, rumours are flying all around of their pending indie rise. We also know that a Friday night of live music at Rocket Bar is a sure thing. In fact, we pine for it. They play this Friday with The Phobias and The Scarlet Ives. Shall we say, a little bit of kick ass line up.

While those kit heavy DSLR nuts are fumbling through enormous bags, doing minute changes through labyrinth settings menus; you could have got the shot and be on your way. The joys of the film point and shoot are back, but for some it never left. The P & S will free you from that monkey with a nut process of take photo - check photo - hate photo - delete photo, because frankly, you don't have a choice - the film's been exposed. You're gonna care about that shot, compose it perfectly, and capture it as intended because film isn't cheap. Unlike digital, every shot counts and instant satisfaction is over rated.

So here it is, 1 Baby Holga + 5 Lomolitos to WIN thanks to CO OP. Check out their summer sale , up to 50% off selected stock!

This week's question:
I like my film grainy, because..

a) ..it reminds me of the bread I had for breakfast. Mmm, grainy.

b) .. Did you say Dave Graney ? I freakin love Dave Graney.

c) ..it's life, man. It ain't all perfect colour, man. Shades of grey, man.

d) .. Film?

To be in the running, send your answer AND postal address to win@fivethousand.com.au, winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? Noes! It's free. Sign up here.

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