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What:
Black Swan
When:
In cinemas from January 20
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
Thanks to Twentieth Century Fox, we have 4 dbls to give away! To enter, email us with the subject 'I just want to be perfect'
Related links:
Darren Aronofsky on KCRW's 'The Treatment' / Darren Aronofsky's '90s-tastic Tripod site / Ask Colin: Classical Hands / Pi (1998) / Requiem for a Dream (2000) / The Fountain (2006) / The Wrestler (2008) | | Darren Aronofsky's latest voyage into performative obsession is both grittily observational and nightmarishly surreal. It immerses you in the disintegrating psyche of ballerina Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) so convincingly that, like Nina, you're never sure whether what you're watching is real; Portman brilliantly balances naive fragility and increasingly deranged ambition. It's as masterful as the illusion that ballet is light and effortless.
Swan Lake's themes of sexual repression, delusion and self-annihilation have been contemporised by Matthew Bourne and Graeme Murphy; Aronofsky's self-reflexive version cannily employs melodramatic dance-movie clich??s. Paranoid competition between dancers. Creepy, dominating stage moms. Kinetic sexuality. Vulnerable, injured bodies. Tchaikovsky's familiar motifs are everywhere in Clint Mansell's eerie score; the soundtrack is alive with pointe shoes scuffing like swans' wings, and fluttery, unseen breaths.
As manipulative artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) tells Nina, true ballet perfection means abandoning self-control, though this has already destroyed prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder). As Nina struggles free from a mother (Barbara Hershey) who's enthralled her as cruelly as an evil sorcerer, becomes fascinated by rebellious new dancer Lily (Mila Kunis), and actually mutates into a frickin' swan, Aronofsky never loses sight of her ultimate goal: the sublime glamour of perfect performance. By Mel Campbell | | | |  |
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What:
Thee Oh Sees interview
Who:
Patrick Collins speaks to John Dwyer
Why:
Thee Oh Sees play The Totetonight with Boomgates, Total Control, UV Race and Super Wild Horses
When:
(Wed Jan 12 and) Thurs Jan 13, doors 8pm
How much:
SOLD OUT!
Win:
We have a dbl pass for Thursday night to give away. To enter, email us with the subject 'nobody likes going to the dentist' | | John Dwyer loves tacos. No, really, that's a big part of this interview. You're going to get to read about how much this guy likes Mexican food. There's also a bit of rambling about the kooky Australian weather this year, what ice cream he likes, and why he didn't pick up his phone the first two times we called. Oh, you don't think it's going to be interesting? You don't want to know what awesome stuff John is putting out this year? Or the sweet cruise Thee Oh Sees are going to be playing? Yeah. That's right. This interview is chock full of awesome facts, some of them just also have to be about John's testicles. So here it is, Patrick Collins versus John Dwyer. We've got $10 on the indie celebrity.
Patrick Collins: So John, you seem to really love tacos and burritos. Have you ever eaten Mexican food in Australia before?
John Dwyer: Uh, no I don't think I have. I just had two tacos today, so it is true, it is my food of choice. It's so cheap and delicious. I love Mexican people. But uh, no I've never had tacos in Australia. They're always different everywhere and I'm kind of curious to see what someone's take on the taco is. But nothing beats where I am, not even real Mexico. San Francisco just has a chokehold on the Mexican edibles.
PC: Yeah, I'm out here in Colorado right now and we've just got that Tex-Mex going on.
JD: I don't mind the Tex-Mex. The only time I've had a truly horrible Mexican... read the rest here By Patrick Collins | | | |  |
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What:
Hot Dudes
Who:
By Keegan Walker
Where:
Izrock
How much:
$15 inc. postage
Image credit:
Keegan Walker | | ???I don't have the internet at the moment so I haven't seen any of it,' says skater, photographer and raconteur Keegan Walker of the international online controversy generated by the playful homoeroticism in his new photo book.
Taken over a period of a year or so on his travels between Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, London and New York, Hot Dudes is just that: photos of guys with their tops off. ???I talked to Joe (fellow skater Joseph Allen-Shea, of Sydney-based Izrock pressings) about the idea and he told me to send him some photos. To be honest, I'd kind of forgotten about it until recently.'
Aside from the debate whether Keegan's photos of his mates are indeed homoerotic (the fact it's an issue at all makes it interesting), they're an intimate view from within the upper annals of skate culture and a suggestion of further things to come from Walker, whose self-portrait is featured on the cover. As the public face of skateboarding sinks to previously unimagined depths of corporate lameness, Hot Dudes is a welcome dose of personality, fun and yeah, sexy men. By Max Olijnyk | | | | | |  |
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What:
Dagmar Rousset
Where:
157 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
When:
Tues-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm. Closed Mondays.
Contact:
9419 2200
Related links:
Enrol in Julia's French classes here View map | | Some of the best shops around are less focussed on making the big bones and more about sharing the thoughts and ideas of their curators. Dagmar Rousset is the alter-ego and extension of French teacher and colour lover Julia Pound. Having no previous experience in retail whatsoever, Pound instead turned her mind to creating a small menagerie of the avant-garde and un-mediocre that she personally enjoys, searching far and wide across the globe for the perfect selection of outrageousness to purvey to Melbourne.
You will find Dagmar Rousset operating from a small but potent outpost on Gertrude Street, where Eley Kishimoto prints hang alongside those of wunderkind kiwi label Salasai, hand-embroidered jewellery by Colorado's Mananon shares the stage with felt body parts in jars, and ALL knitwear - Annie Larson's incredible Coogi-esque Minnesota-based (and usually) made-to-order label - in its first ever incarnation outside of the interweb.
The store also offers French classes! Pound did not give up her love of teaching French for everlasting retail wenchdom. Instead she combined the two and will now help you perfect your haw haws while the shop is closed. The first semester of beginners classes are filling up fast so sign up now and you'll be saying 'croissant' properly in no time. By Rachel Elliot-Jones | | | |  |
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What:
OK-OK Socks
Where:
OK-OK, Shop 16, Sparta Pl, 459 Sydney Rd, Brunswick; FAT stores; Alice Euphemia; Somebuddy Loves You; Royal Order of Nothing; Kids in Berlin
How much:
$14-$17 | | Across Melbourne, well-heeled toes are turning inwards. Behold: the pigeon-toed stance of the hipster. Where did it come from?? WHERE WILL IT END?? Is it a special sign? A previously undocumented podiatric contagion? Or are the jeans simply too tight?
Well fear not, health-professionals of the foot. Toes may be turning inwards at an alarming rate, but at least THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WEARING SOCKS. Socks with sandals, socks with heels, socks with oxfords and socks with boots.
Having surveyed the major sock players in Melbourne, I can confidently declare Emina Dzananovic the high-priestess of the ladies' summer sock. Emina's label OK-OK produces a fine ribbed cotton sock in a range of flattering pastel colours. They are the perfect bobby-sock length and not too tight at the top, allowing for good crinkling. There is even a jaunty anchor-adorned nautical sock for your inevitable summer boating activities. By Lucy Modra | | | |  |
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What:
The Zero Dollar Show
Where:
The West Wing, Lvl 2, Melbourne Central (next to Gloria Jean's), Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
On NOW, noon-5pm daily. Closing event Sun Jan 16, 4-6pm.
How much:
Zero dollars View map | | In contrast to its location inside an internationally financed mall and entertainment complex - Melbourne Cent - The Zero Dollar Show cost nothing, nada. Scungers, you sluzzas shout. But others note that the field of art has a special relationship with the notion of theft. Famous art heists! Copyright infringement! Stealing from IKEA! And so to build upon this special relationship, 18 artists make up The Zero Dollar Show and each piece of art cost zero dollars to make. They found, they stole, and they exchanged favours for transport.
There is lots going on but some highlights include Taree MacKenzie and Ronen Vecker's Hand Massage service, Christopher Hill's installation Dispersion of fiscal disease and, wait for it??? Nathan Gray's free audio tour titled Introduction to a Recreation of The Melbourne Central Shopping Complex. Okay so imagine you are from the future and Greg Wadley (a second life expert) is lecturing you on the 3D rendering of the past that you are now walking through. Okay so he will tell you things like, 'the presence of all the people represented here is based on data taken from extensive mobile phone records.' Genius. An exhibition with an incredible audio tour that is free. Scunge on. By Marissa Shirbin | | | | | | |
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What:
White Material
Where and when:
ACMI, Fed Square.Jan 14 - Feb 2, times here.
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
We have 10 dbls to give away for Sun Jan 16, 1.15pm. To enter, email us with the subject 'Wait, Claire who?' | | Claire Denis is a conundrum. Her entire filmmaking career has been critically lauded, she's won a swag of awards and is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of the 21st century. However I wouldn't be surprised if you've never seen one of her films. I'm not sure why, but her films are so hard to see, even if you're trying pretty hard to. In fact seeing her masterwork Beau Travail has been on my To-Do-List for at least five years - right next to 'write novel' - but getting a copy is not so easy. As far as I know a Denis film hasn't had a 'season' in Melbourne in the last decade.
Thats why ACMI's season of White Material is so gosh-darn exciting, because you'll have more than a once-off-film-festival-type chance to see a Claire Denis film. If my film nerd guilt-slash-enthusiasm hasn't convinced you to see White Material yet, well... it also stars Isabelle Huppert (on her A-game as per usual), it's set in Africa, it's political, suspenseful and also quite beautiful to look at. BTW did I mention it's made by one of the greatest (yet relatively unknown) filmmakers of our time?! By Samantha Chater | | | |  |
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What:
Origami
Where:
Flat surfaces. Check out Alex's STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONAL CRANE GALLERY.
How much:
Try Melbourne Artist Supplies, 100 sheets as pictured for $15. Or, we bet, Daiso for $2.80.
Related links:
Paper Crane has an online origami store and information about Melbourne Origami meetings / Order a copy of Crease and Fold, by Sok Song | | I'm not a smoker but if I was you can bet your ass I'd be blazing up all day. It's not that I'm a sucker for head spins and calm nerves (although I imagine both would be nice), but more that I appreciate the fine detail that goes into rolling a cigarette. Perhaps it's a biological predisposition that makes us want to create things with our hands. Perhaps it's the meditative side. Whatever the case, I want in. And that's why I'm taking up the next best thing to tobacco - origami.
For those completely unaware, the goal of this ancient Japanese folk art is to transform a square of paper into a sculpture, without using scissors or glue. It starts with paper cranes, and extends to light-up cities (complete with functioning rail networks).
Since deciding to become an origami master, I haven't really mastered anything. My gibbon has two bung arms, and I stopped making my horse at step three. Still, with a bit more practice, I'm quite confident I'll get to the stage where I can start pumping out sweet dragons. At that point, it's only a matter of time before the babes start rolling in.
INSTRUCTIONS. By Alexander Ford | | | |  |
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What:
Caf?? Vue, Melbourne Airport
Where:
Melbourne International Airport (T2)
When:
Daily 4am-1am
How much:
Around $15-$25 for mains
Contact:
9310 5091
Related links:
Cafe Vue, Cafe Vue at Heide, Cafe Vue at 401 View map | | When the Virgin Airlines cabin crew embark upon their idiotic 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls' routine I just want to beat them to death with their demonstration air-masks. It would be a crime of passion because I am obsessed with air-travel - the glamour of which has atrophied remarkably since I was first dressed up in my ???smart clothes' and carted off to see the big planes as a kid.
I've all but given up on having a great in-flight experience, but surprisingly Shannon Bennett has opened up a Caf?? Vue at the Melbourne International Airport and it's bringing back the glory days in some small way. Here, just past the labyrinthine Duty Free you'll find his trademark Wagyu Burger, fresh chicken sandwiches, a great wine list, comfy booths, remarkable lampshades and, for the first time in transit history, the light won't make you look like you died but just forgot to fall over.
Like all of Bennett's ventures, this restaurant responds intimately to the type of people who visit and its physical place in the world. At his Heide gallery caf?? he explores the relationship of the kitchen to Sunday Reed's adjacent vegie garden. Here at the airport you can get all your meals neatly packed in brown bags and ready for the flight, so hopefully you might feel blessed rather than under siege as you arc your way across the sky. By Barrie Barton | | | | | |  |
| | OPENINGS & CLOSINGS
To The Four Corners of the World, Peter Troy surf book launch
Lorraine Heller-Nicholas, Loves Me Not opening at NO NO
TROUGH X_HIBITION opening at Club80
Betty Musgrove, Michael and Wilhemina's Family Album opening at nineonseven
Georgina Cue, On Exactitude in Science opening at KINGS ARI
Helen Johnson, Universal Remote and Nicholas Mangan, Talk About The Weather openings at Y3K
The Zero Dollar Show closing party at The West Wing
CON/STRUCT opening at Pigment Gallery
SALES & MARKETS
Someday SALE!
Record Dave's collection
FILM
Cult Vault screens Blow Up at the Westgarth
PARTIES
Bikini Chain Gang party at The Tote
Two Bright Lakes warehouse party with Collarbones, Super Melody, Wintercoats, The Townhouses, Waves at Night DJs and Two Bright Lakes DJs | | GIGS
Christina Tester, Film Poems fundraiser, with Miles Brown (The Night Terrors), Fjorn Butler, Natasha Rose (Patinka Cha Cha) Absolute Boys DJs
Thee Oh Sees, Boomgates, Total Control, UV Race and Super Wild Horses - GIVEAWAY!
The Bamboos 10th anniversary show with Megan Washington - GIVEAWAY
The Nugs, Constant Mongrel, Bad Aches, Chook Race at Yah Yah's
Absolute Boys, Slow Hog and Pearls at Gasometer
Guineafowl, Newbirds, Dancing Heals, Pretty Littles at Ding Dong
Owen Pallett and Jessica Says at Thornbury Theatre and The Toff - GIVEAWAY!
Toby Tobias at New Guernica
Summer Series presents Magic Silver White, Houlette, Speed Painters, Hammocks & Honey at The Workers
Far Concern residency at The Builders
Wire, My Disco, New War at The Corner
PLENTY OTHER STUFF
Yarra Bend Park monthly bat count. Oh my god it's a bat. Berrgghh. Jesus Christ there are two, (berrgghh) two bats. Three. Threeeee bats. | | | | What:
Wet Wings, Otouto and Pikelet (solo)
Where:
Bar Open, 317 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
When:
Thurs Jan 13, doors 9pm
How much:
FREE!!
Related links:
Wet Wings made us a MIXTAPE View map | | Christchurch duo Wet Wings recorded their EP Skin to Soil in the wake of the massive earthquakes that basically totalled their hometown late last year. Well, it's in poor taste to speak positively of natural disasters, but maybe these guys should chase down earthquakes like Helen Hunt in Twister, cos' it spawned one hell of a collection of tunes. In town performing a spate of gigs over the next week or so, you'd best reacquaint yourself with the safety drill before heading to this show, just to be on the safe side. - MO | | | | What:
Flood Fundraiser featuring Little Red (DJ set), Muscles (DJ set), Mick Thayer x N'FA, 360 x Mat Cant, Knightlife, Oohee and Deacon Rose
Where:
Pretty Please, 61c Fitzroy St, St Kilda
When:
Fri Jan 14, doors 9pm
How much:
$10 recommended entry, larger donations accepted! All proceeds to the Premier's Flood Relief Appeal. | | This fundraiser is pretty much the complete inverse of a rain dance. You can dance the night away and raise money for our needy northern brethren. I mean, come on, when is a club next going to peform such a humane service? Probably the club that knocks out Dancing Matt, but I digress. - KD | | | | What:
Ride, Rise, Roar
Where:
ACMI Cinemas, Fed Square, Melbourne
When:
Fri Jan 14-17, screening times here
How much:
Tickets $11/$14 from here
Win:
Thanks to ACMI, we have 5 dbs to give away for the Sun Jan 15, 7pm screening. To enter, email us with the subject 'Here come the swarm of vets' | | No matter where you fall on the 'David Byrne is a pretentious asshole' spectrum, you have to admit that his track record with concert films is unimpeachable. Which is another way of saying 'Go watch Stop Making Sense again'. You also have to admit that homeboy doesn't rest on his laurels, which Ride, Rise, Roar heartily attests to. Partly a concert film, partly a document of the creative process that produced same, partly Brian Eno Brian Enoing about. No gigantic suit this time 'round, though. - KD | | | | What:
Gold Panda
Where:
Revolver Upstairs, 229 Chapel St, Prahran
When:
Sat Jan 15, doors 9pm
How much:
$15 +BF from here
Win:
Thanks to Opulent, we have a dbl pass to give away! To enter, email us with the subject 'Deleuze and Fartari' | | You could probably draw a line from German label Mille Plateaux's clicks-and-cuts aesthetic straight through to Gold Panda's micro-sampling shenanigans. It probably wouldn't be productive though. There's something more human, perhaps even dancefloor oriented going on with the UK producer's music. There's no chinstroking, allusions to post-structural philosophy or general poncho??isty going on. It's reflected in his gear, or the lack of it. There's no custom MAX/MSP algorithms, hand-built analog synths or other programming hoo-ha required, just a humble MPC 2000. His debut album, Lucky Shiner, is out on Ghostly International. So, Charlie. Unless you can find a platinum panda, this is the golden ticket. - KD | | | | What:
Mountain Man (US) with Wet Wings (NZ)
Where:
The Toff in Town, Lvl 2, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Sat Jan 15, doors 8pm
How much:
$38 +BF from here
Win:
We have a dbl pass to give away! To enter, email us with the subject 'Chimacum Rain' | | Mountain Man makes it sound like Linda Perhacs has just been laying low for a while until she could figure out a way to metamorphose into three young women from Bennington, Vermont. Not familiar with Perhacs? Remedy that. Though Mountain Man forgo the lush intrumentation and tape delay in lieu of a single acoustic guitar and non-interventionist recording, they keep the folk sound and the delicate, wavering melodies. And because I know you can't get enough of sexy ladies harmonising, here is a bonus video of Joni Mitchell, Mary Travers and Mama Cass singing 'I Shall be Released'. Now go folk yourself. - KD | | | | What:
Bamboo Musik and The House de Frost present DJ Harvey & DJ Garth Encore performance
Where:
Rooftop Bar, Lvl 6 Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Sun 16 Jan, 2pm onwards
How much:
$30 from here | | If DJ Harvey is dance music's King Kong and Curtin House is Melbourne's Empire State Building, then this could be the setting for a showdown of epic proportions, Bamboo style. Fingers crossed Rohan dresses up as Naomi Watts. - MO | | | | | |  |
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Like a sailor with a girl in every port, I'm not ashamed to tell you I've got baristas all over town. I'll never forget the time I gave the wrong loyalty card to one. "Ohhh (cringe). THIS is awkward". I've also done the duck-and-dash past an old favorite cafe while carrying coffee procured from a new love. What can I say? I like to play the field.
One thing all my baristas have in common is they LOVE my Hookturn BYO Coffee Cup. | | And so do I. Skirmishes have broken out behind the taps over who gets to handle it. Ladies please, a little decorum! And since we first wrote about them, Hookturn have introduced some new, limited-edition colour schemes. I thought my black on black model was an attention-grabber, get a load of THESE! Red on red, cashmere grey and optional white lids, in 8oz and 12oz sizes. Steppin' out pretty with a lighter carbon footprint. We have three red cups to give away. To enter, just answer the following question.
This week's question:
The best barista ever is someone who:
a) sneaks you to the front of the queue
b) packs that plunger tight and strong
c) puts the 'intern' in International Roast
d) Joe, you know who you are
Send your answer, name AND postal address to melbourne.win@rightanglestudio.com.au. Winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? It's free you twitchers! Sign up here. | | |
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