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What:
Kick Ass
Where:
In cinemas from April 8
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
Thanks to Universal, we have 10 dbls to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject ‘With no power comes no responsibility'
Related links:
They have the comic at Comics R Us | | Based on a comic book about a comic-book fan who decides to become a superhero, Kick-Ass is a meta-valentine to comic-book nerd culture and the plotlines of Batman and Spider-Man. And like superhero comics generally, Kick-Ass indulges nerds' fantasies of righteousness and power reversal.
Like Tobey Maguire, the charming Aaron Johnson is too doe-eyed and buff to be entirely plausible as a teenage dropkick who pulls on more neoprene than he can pull off. Meanwhile, Nicolas Cage isn't Batman, but he's batshit crazy as wronged cop Damon Macready, whose complex revenge plot against drug lord Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) includes training his daughter Mindy (Chloe Moretz) as tiny assassin Hit-Girl and drawing self-referential comics. Christopher ‘McLovin' Mintz-Plasse is villain's son Chris D'Amico, alias Red Mist.
Kick-Ass combines stylised, John Woo-style fight scenes with Apatovian smart talk, but intriguingly, it's largely the work of Brits. Director Matthew Vaughn helmed Layer Cake; Strong was the villain in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes; Johnson played John Lennon in Nowhere Boy. Perhaps because of this transcontinental mashup, the tone is unsettling. The violence is gruesome and sadistic, yet my audience laughed, cheered and applauded each ass-kicking setpiece. By Mel Campbell | | | |  |
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What:
Acrassicauda, Only the Dead See the End of War
On:
Vice
Win:
Thanks to Vice, we have 2 copies of the Acrassicauda doco Heavy Metal in Baghdad to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'When did Metallica play Newark?' | | You've probably never heard these guys but there's a good chance Acrassicauda's story has ended up close to your ear. This heavy metal band isn't special because they're harder, or more raw, or have faster double bass hits - they do all of that great - they're special because of how they ended up in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There's no real way to summarise their lives in a review this small, but let's try by saying that they went from being the only heavy metal band in Baghdad, to being bombed and threatened, to fleeing and being the subject of a documentary, to receiving a signed ‘Welcome to America' guitar from James Hetfield at a Metallica concert in Newark, New Jersey. ‘What the fuck' is right, my friend. When did Metallica play Newark?
Acrassicauda has overcome Hussein's censorship, Syria's visa bullshit, and living in Elizabeth, New Jersey to finish an album they started two years ago just so you can bang your head. Just appreciate it a little bit more when listening to these guys. By Patrick Collins | | | |  |
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What:
Transmetropolitan issues 1 to 10 (and issue 0)
Where:
Comics R Us, Lvl 1, 220 Bourke St, Melbourne
When:
Comics R Us just got the missing second edition of issue 06 instore, so you can have the complete series if you hurry up and buy before any of the others run out.
How much:
Around $24.95 each for the trade paperbacks | | What do you hate? What do you really hate? And is it deserving of your hatred? Really? Have you critically appraised it through a haze of narcotics and post-cybernetic implants? Have you trashed it and been trashed by it in return?
Spider Jerusalem hates lots of things. People generally. Politicians particularly. But mostly, through the haze that only seems to sharpen his mind and tongue, Spider will most likely say "I hate it here."
Even though he's ostensibly a homage to Hunter S Thompson, Spider is one of the most original characters to have graced the medium of comic books. A fiercely independent 23rd century journalist who has unwillingly returned to the city where he used to be famous for being the only straight-talking, truth-telling reporter left. And he's come back to spit in its face and shout in its ear and make it see sense.
Transmetropolitan is a nose-cracking head-butt of a comic book. Made by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson, it grabs you by the collar pretty early on and all you can do is hold your breath and hope you're still conscious when you hit the ground. By Stuart Geddes | | | | | |  |
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What:
Circle Pit exhibition
Where:
Somewhere Store & Gallery, Lvl 2, Royal Arcade, 314 Little Collins St, Melbourne
When:
Private opening Fri Apr 9, 6-8pm. Exhibition runs until May 3. Win:
We have a dbl pass to the opening to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'How in the world were they making that sound? Velvet Underground' View map | | Sydney band and artist duo Circle Pit (Angie Bermuda and Jack Mannix) inhabit and navigate a murky sea of rock and roll iconography: faded denim, leather, skulls, silver jewelry, bleached hair, fingerless gloves, bird bones, empty beer bottles, feathers, fur, aviator shades, scribbled out or scrawled on text... Hell, even their name is taken from a slam-dance style preferred by skinheads and hardcore enthusiasts of the 1980s.
An exhibition oozing with street attitude, Circle Pit's show at Somewhere Gallery is a peek inside the warped minds and urban primitive detritus that inform and fuel the duo's multi-faceted practices (including their fantastic, just-released debut, Bruise Constellation).
Expect print and photo collages, record cover studies, video works, installation, paintings, flyers, notebooks, and a homemade flag/mural trawling a creepy, cool aesthetic similar to cohort Alex Vivian's or to work by the late Dash Snow. Proof that Angie and Jack don't just talk the talk - they walk the walk. If you're going to the opening, let someone else know, as heavy metal human sacrifices are a likely possibility. By Wilfred Brandt | | | |  |
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What:
Dion Lee AW10, How to be Invisible
Where:
Green with Envy, 176 Bridge Rd, Richmond and 268 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Or buy online here.
How much:
From $500 | | Word on the street is that Sydney-based designer Dion Lee is the next big thing in fashion. He only graduated a couple of years ago, but he's already got four stand-out collections under his belt, debuted at RAFW, and he won the LMFF 2010 Designer Award last month. He has wooed fashion bloggers the world over with his engineering genius and sculptural nous. And just one glance at his AW10 collection inspires feverish plotting as to how one of his crushed sculpture cut-outs can find a home on my person.
Inspired by surrealism and visual deception, How to be Invisible is another chapter in his trademark futuristic tailored lady-origami. Clean, sharp folds are peeled back in architectural onion layers to reveal the unexpected sexiness of your synovial joints - a supple knee here, a slender elbow there - they haven't had this much undivided attention since the '90s demanded jeans ripped at the knee.
Note: A pleated jersey tailored dress or an inverted spinal vest will make you look about $1000,100 better than being at a Nirvana concert. By Rachel Elliot-Jones | | | |  |
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What:
Silver+Black exhibition and temporary shop
Where:
1000 £ BEND, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
When:
Runs until Apr 18, open Mon-Sun 8am-late View map | | The shop part of this colossal Silver+Black exhibition is based on the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi. Please do not confuse it with ‘wasabi'. Wasabi will burn your face off; wabi-sabi will lead you to a better life.
Wabi-sabi pivots on 'finding beauty in imperfection, appreciating simplicity and seeing potential beyond the ordinary', and the creative types contributing pieces to the Silver+Black retail offering hold this common philosophy.
CIBI will be selling Hakusan and Kobo Aizawa, Via Alley is curating Cosmic Wonder and Asuza is bringing black bombers. We're not quite sure what Gary Emery has planned, but he'll be there too, along with Julia DeVille's taxidermy jewellery, giant macramé by Sarah Parkes and pieces from Someday. Basically, Silver+Black won't burn your face off but maybe bring a fire extinguisher for your credit card.
Event:
Don't forget the launch of Paperwork at Silver+Black this Friday. By Nadia Saccardo and Kate Mosh | | | | | |  |
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What:
Johnny Depp's goddamn boat
Where:
Anchored in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico.
When:
This northern hemisphere spring!
How much:
Rent it for US $130,000 per week | | Yeah, he's got a boat. Fucker's got an island! And all because he's ‘quirky'. Don't get me started.
Johnny Depp's 156ft yacht, The Vajoliroja, is available to rent for a mere $130,000 US per week. That's right; you and nine friends (it sleeps ten) could chip in $13,000 each and enjoy seven days of touching stuff that belongs to Johnny Depp. Whoop-di-do. Why does he need to rent his boat anyways? It's not like he needs the money... or maybe he does! Maybe he's pissed away his savings on all that silvery, knick-knacky, ornamental frippery he insists on wreathing himself in. Don't get me started.
The décor of the boat, according to all reports, is distinctly Depp-esque. It's a "vintage cross between an Art Deco-era Parisian bordello and the Orient Express" they say. So basically we're talking about a floating version of his underpants drawer. There's a formal dining room, outdoor seating areas, a master suite, four guest cabins, built in walnut cabinets housing a portion of the actor's "considerable" library (Don't get me started), panelling of Honduran mahogany, and a crew of eight who are contractually obligated to deny all knowledge of anyone by the name of "Johnny Depp" Sound good? Then cough up, Pancho. By Jason Crombie | | | |  |
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What:
Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Cherry Pie
Where:
At your place. Also at our Twin Peaks 20th anniversary screening tonight at The Thousands Shop, Thurs Apr 8, 8.30pm.
How much:
Tickets $10 from here (scroll down), includes bottomless cup of filter coffee. Free pie for ticket holders who come in costume. | | Once, when interviewed, the guy who played the backwards-speaking dwarf in the 'black lodge' scene, which appeared at the end of Twin Peaks season one, described driving down Laurel Canyon with David Lynch on a break from filming. Some character started tail-gating them and honking his horn. David Lynch pulled over to the side of the road and let the man drive past. "Well, David," said Mike the dwarf. "You're a nicer guy than me." "NO..." drawled David Lynch, "NO I'm not. I really wanna DESTROOOY that fellow up there. But I just don't have time."
And that's how I feel about trying to explain to you the terrible joy of Twin Peaks - the greatest TV series ever made - on its 20th anniversary today, April 8, 2010. I can't. Most of the people I work with were born in 1992, a fact that was revealed when I remarked to one of them, "Wow you look like Audrey Horne in that outfit." (I know, right? It was a good outfit). Blank stare. If you were born after 1990, please submit yourself to the sheer, absorbing terror of Twin Peaks. Right now I'm just going to explain how to make the cherry pie that Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry Truman eat at the diner.
Read the recipe here... By Penny Modra | | | | |
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What:
Jackson Dodds
Where:
611 Gilbert Rd, West Preston
When:
Mon-Fri 7am-4pm, Sat-Sun 8am-4pm
Contact:
9471 1900 View map | | Fitzroy is no longer the Fitzroy of old, but a garish theme park for rich people and south-siders. The original ‘Fitzroyalty' are moving further north, where the bravest among us can maybe buy a place, while the rest of us can at least rent a sharehouse with a decent backyard and an inside toilet.
Jackson Dodds is the new venture from Small Block alumni Cameron Willis and his wife Jackie. Initially anxious there would be no demand in West Preston for the kind of café that serves organic OJ and dukkah eggs, the pair have found the locals keener than Tony Abbott on a Sunday. Cameron makes a mean latte, and the breakfast/lunch menu is as good as any I've seen, including front-runner for best-named sandwich in Melbourne: The Cronulla Handshake, Turkish bread with tabouleh and vegemite.
On my visit, the place was packed with young mothers and their fuck-you-I'm-fertile strollers, unshaven dudes with iphones having meetings and hot chicks reading literature. There's even a single-speed chained up out the front and a 112 tram - although it's right at the end of the line. By Max Olijnyk | | | | | |  |
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Family Ties exhibition at the Tinning Street Gallery opening Where:
Tinning Street, Lot 5, 29 Tinning St, Brunswick When:
Thurs Apr 8, 6–9pm How much:
Free! | | Description:
Max Design n Shit's new gallery Tinning Street has got the goods from the council to put the goods on the wall and show it to the wide world. They're pumping fists in the air with their almost inaugural hoodang, a multi-disciplinary group show of about 30 north suburbs artists. It's all about networks, friendships and community. You never know, maybe you'll expand your own networks, friendships and communities on the night. I'll be the one with the free tinny.– REJ | | | | What:
Paperwork Volume 01 launch Where:
1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne When:
Fri Apr 9, 6–9pm How much:
Free! And free drinks! View map | | Description:
If the internet is to be believed, print is dead. If The Internetwork is to be believed, print is well and truly alive. Paperwork - Volume 01 - Life, Death & Progress is a limited-edition printed compendium of new work and words from The Internetwork contributors, including Jonathan Zawada, Karl Maier, Perks and Mini, Deanne Cheuk, Joseph Allen Shea and Thomas Jeppe. As part of Asahi's Silver+Black project, Paperwork is being launched in a flurry of free food, drinks and complimentary copies of the publication on the night. – MO | | | | What:
Pikelet album launches with special guests Where:
Northcote Social Club, 301 High St, Northcote When:
Sat Apr 10, 8.30pm and Sun Apr 11, 8.30pm How much:
Both shows $12 +BF from here Win:
We have 2 amazing prize packs of a dbl pass to the Sunday show and a copy of the album to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with your favourite pikelet recipe. Remember to include your address!
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More than just a sweet little pancake, Pikelet's new album Stem is a pop-folk gem, full of deceptively simple tunes layered with otherworldly crackles and twinkles. With her backing band in tow, Evelyn ‘Pikelet' Morris is launching the album all around the country this month, over two nights in her hometown. Saturday's supporting condiments are The Twerps and Parking Lot Experiments, while Sunday's are World's End Press and Love Connection, not to forget both night's celebrity DJ, the lashings of butter melting on the figurative stack: Jens freakin' Lekman! - MO | | | | What:
Yah Yah's CRATE DIGGER record fair #2
Where:
99 Smith St, Fitzroy
When:
Sun Apr 11, 2-8pm
How much:
Entry $2 before 5pm, free after that. | | Description:
Don't get me started on the types of people who drive to Essendon for a record fair. Old guys and their folk-rock bandana wives, fingering their way through cardboard boxes on the floor until their felt hats fall right off, whipping old Buddy & Sweets records into their vintage airline travel bags quicker than you can say iTunes. Appalling. At least the Yah Yah's record fair is on Smith Street. You've got a fair chance of arriving before Mo 'soul hour' Johnston arrives from Richmond and squirrels all the good stuff into his impressively restored Valiant Charger. - PM | | | | What:
ThreeThousand's 5th Birthday Party
Where:
The Mercat, 456 Queen St, Melbourne
When:
IN TWO WEEKS! Fri Apr 23, doors 9pm
How much:
Tickets $18.70 +BF from here, and soon to be available over the counter at The Thousands shop. View map | | Description:
ThreeThousand is turning five. No-one leaves alive. Dress up theme: 'The Internet'. Rat Vs Possum, World's End Press, The MANGLES (comeback set) and Darren Sylvester live. DJs Mandate, Frostee, Team Opulent, Bongmist and more, let's face it Delaney will want to get on there. Bamboo Musik are taking over the basement so that will be the best-looking area, which is important to know. There will also be a karaoke room. There will be a prize for the best costume. Barrie is thinking about coming as a polystyrene cursor. There will be nowhere to fucking hide. We love you. - PM | | | | | |  |
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They say South Korea's got Seoul, but it's also got stationery. Cute-as-a-baby-lemur-sneezing stationery.
MMMG stands for millimeter/milligram, which aptly expresses their dedication to getting it right down to the tiniest detail. No "That'll do Ron, let's call it a day" from these fellas. They'll ponder over the shape of a pen lid until it doesn't just say "Cleverly designed and easy on the eyes", it says "Cast your old friends aside; I am your everything now". That sounded a bit cultish. | | MMMG is not cultish. Just very good. Twenty designers good! That's a giant design team for a wee stationary company, and it totally shows. Brought to Australia for the first time by Telegram Paper Goods, MMMG is stocked here. Buy online, or get some sweet Seoul action right here, right now for free!
We have five MMMG packs to give away. Each pack includes a blue Recycle Daily Bag, an Ice Cream Notebook, a Flower Notebook and a Wonderyears Notebook. To enter, just answer the following question.
This week's question:
A milligram is
a) a million grams
b) Max's nickname
c) about how much a beetle weighs
d) like a telegram, only smaller
To be in the running send your answer, name AND postal address to win@threethousand.com.au. Winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? It's free you willies! Sign up here. | | |
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