Wednesday 7 December, 11.43pm. It’s December! You know what that means. Your tax return is 29 months overdue. Also, the Inter-Suburb Chutney Club Christmas raffle is happening again. Dell Stewart and her chutney brigade have broiled up a new batch or whatever it is you do to chutney before it goes in the jars with the little checkered hats and now they’re selling raffle tickets for the hamper! Which includes “various other goods to help you enjoy the Chutney Club experience,” (the Trotski & Ash 2012 calendar). Funds raised will become Kiva loans and also go to Oxfam.
Buy tickets here before Dec 20. IMAGE: By Dell ‘gittin it done’ Stewart.
Wednesday 7 December, 5.05pm. Muralists! The rear of Kumo is a brick wall. Did you just read ‘brick wall’ as canvas? We hope so Pablo. Because Kumo are running a mural competition! To enter the competition you guys need to read up on the size of the space (plus some fine details and an example of an entry) THEN email Kumo a sketch of your idea, a photo and any details you have on the materials you would use to make it. You are the designer and you are the maker. And you’ll be $1,000 richer. Who’s judging? We are! Along with Kumo, Sneaker Freaker and Onitsuka Tiger. Entries close January 8, 2012.
Tuesday 6 December, 11.11pm. Sorry we took two days to point this out (wtf) but Rohan Bell Towers aka Roman Wafers aka Bamboo Musik Man released his first 12″ under the Bell Towers moniker on Monday through Hole in the Sky. Scavengers is available at Juno and Boomkat, is pure hard-edged dancefloor menace, and answers some important questions (including, “What’s more important, to be Pop or Deep? Or is it all about the vibe???”). Listen to a preview mix here. Via the home of good news, Noise In My Head.
Tuesday 6 December, 9.45am. Sugar Mountain, that festival you should have tickets to (oh, you know, Deerhoof, tUnE-yArDs, Thee Oh Sees, Shabazz Palaces) has announced its satellite program! What’s in it? We’ll tell you. Not all of the events are happening on the day of the main line-up at the Forum – they’re spaced around the week.
Speakeasy Cinema presents Grace Note by Melbourne filmmaker Keith Deverell at Polyester Records, Flinders Lane (with a free opening night screening and Q&A on Thu 12 Jan, 7.30-9.30pm). There’s a basement party late on Sat 14 Jan at an undisclosed location (a basement). ACMI presents ‘Notes On Pictures‘ – a screening and Q&A with music video director Vincent Moon on Sun 15 Jan, 4pm. Then there’s a screening of Vincent Moon’s An Island, at Rooftop Cinema on Wed 18 Jan.
And now for the visual art! Opening on Thur 19 Jan it’s an installation by Japanese artist Chaco Kato at new artist-run initiative Chapter House Lane (in Chapter House Lane) – RSVP to info@chapterhouselane.org.au. On the same night a new installation Nachthexan by Dylan Martorell opens in the Fed Square Atrium. A joint exhibition by Maya Hayuk and Kyle Ranson at No Vacancy, QV on Fri 20 Jan, 6pm – and the artists are running a drawing workshop at No Vacancy the following day.
Sugar Mountain‘s music day happens at the Forum on Saturday 14 January. Some tickets are still available here. IMAGE: Still from Vincent Moon’s An Island.
Among science fiction blog nerds, Star Trek is often credited with the invention of the flip phone and the tablet/iPad. They predicted the future by matching their current technology with human desire, and then some very smart people raided the prop department and turned their ideas into a reality.
What we know is that before you can predict the future, you must understand the present. So, as The Thousands continues to think about how we can make our content more convenient and mobile, we want to understand what mobile means to you. And, that’s what our Mobile Survey is all about.
In the survey there are only 12 multiple-choice questions that are so quick to answer you might even go back in time. We are also dangling the proverbial carrot with an iPad 2 to give away to one lucky survey taker. The draw is random and we’ll announce the winner on Twitter and Facebook next Wednesday. It’s simple, all you need to do is click here.
Thursday 1 December, 11.20am. SO:ME Space launched last night at the South Melbourne Market. It’s a curated market, and we don’t mean that in another souvenir stall, juicer and a nut shack kinda way. We mean every mensa-level right-brain creative from Melbourne is now in one place selling their goods. They’ve got Asuza, Mr Simple, Jane, Stone, Glint & Bone, Little Piggie and Bakerlite. They’re stocking LIFE with BIRD, An Ode to No One, Jesen, Skinny Nelson and Handsom. They got a gallery curated by No Vacancy’s Mister Andrew Chew and they’ll be rotating four temporary spaces with a line up of maidenlove, Wet & Wendy, Chip Chop! and Livia Arena. Hours are slightly different to the rest of South Melbourne Market so take note: Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays 9am-4pm, Thursdays 5pm-9pm and Fridays 9am-5pm.
Wednesday 23 November, 7.24pm. BLAM! Today Jon Ronson released a short report on real-life superheroes. KAPOW! Proper superheroes (goodwill and justice mean nothing without costumes). BATANG! The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones and the Less Amazing Adventures of Some Other Real-life Superheroes follows Phoenix Jones and his band of masked vigilantes as they sweep the streets of thugs and crackheads. BAMF! Ronson gets under their latex skins, uncovering an underground network of wardens of the night. SHAZAM! It’s available on Amazon for peanuts ($2.99). PEANUTS! Digital only, because paperbacks just weigh down your cape. Jon: you are our superhero.
Wednesday 23 November, 1.20pm. Sophie, Ash (Mistletone) and Emily (Penny Drop) have joined forces and announced a co-headline show with Toro Y Moi and Washed Out. It’s premium level symbiosis in the music touring world!
The Thousands are chuffed to be co-presenting. It will all happen, with special guests Chet Faker and Tig Huggins (Two Bright Lakes), on Thursday 9 February at The Hi-Fi. Tickets just went on sale! Go nuts here.
FAT is having a one-day sale tomorrow! Wednesday 23 November, 10am-midnight at Chadstone, 10am-7pm at Russell Place, 10am-6pm at Fitzroy, Chapel Street and GPO. There will be 10% off everything in store, 20% off all denim and a further 10% off sale items. It is happening at all FAT stores and it is happening in your wallet. And in my pants.
Friday 18 November, 4pm. PUMA Social are leaving pinatas around the city for you to find. It’s like Hansel and Gretel, paella style. There are sticks too, so go ahead demolition Dan. PUMA gifts are inside. Including a gold ticket. A gold ticket to Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Open House! No! The golden tickets are $200 PUMA vouchers. Via Assange, here are some deets:
Pinatas today at 6pm in Tattersalls Lane, city; 6.30pm across from the Napier Hotel, Napier Street, Fitzroy; 6.30pm outside Penny Black Pub 420 Sydney Road, Brunswick; 7pm in Stewart Street, Richmond and 7pm in Cleve Gardens, St Kilda.
Pinatas tomorrow 11am-1pm in Carlisle Street, Balaclava; 2pm at the end of Coventry Street in South Melbourne; 2pm in Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda (park next to the Stokehouse) and 4pm at the LUCKY COQ, Corner of Chapel Street and High Street, Windsor.
Here is a picture of the one they sent us, mere moments before its demise.
