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Thursday February 4

You know what they say: changing your style is better than a holiday. Or is it, a change is better than a holiday? Or as good as one? Whatevs! We don't got time for holidays, so we're going to roll with the 'changing our style' thing, instead. Which means, if you're a straight dressin' kinda dude, ditch your singlet for something more exotic. Or if you're a lady that paints your lips red, we think: try black lips?

This is a week for ditching the burger bar down the road and trying one out three bus stops away, a week for finally throwing out those kung fu slippers and investing in some real shoes. Who knows? A tweak here and there and suddenly you've got the coolest taste in the universe.

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What:
The New Order magazine issue 03

Where:
Online Someday 

How much:
$25

The first two issues of NZ based street culture mag The New Order were wildly ambitious affairs, squeezing every hip name imaginable from Ian Astbury to VisVim. The results were overwhelming and a little boring, akin to skim-reading a google search for 'cool'.

The third issue is different. Weighing in at 300+pages, it's a hefty tome, but its content is focussed and considered. Featured artist Kostas Seremetis is the subject of an interview but also conducts one with fascinating Belgrade-born photographer Boogie, as well as a three-way chat with rocker Jon Spencer and comic book artist Paul Pope. There's also a feature on Kostas' regular collaborator ShinsukiTakizana, with an accompanying photo spread on his iconic label Neighborhood. The effect is a rounded-out view of an artist, more illuminating and intriguing than a straight Q&A.

On top of this we get pieces on URSUS, Peter Sutherland, Banksy's show in the Bristol Museum and much more. At times, I wish they'd poke a bit of fun at themselves and stop taking 'street culture' so damn seriously. But with The New Order, that seems to be the point.

By Max Olijnyk

What:
Black Lips interview

Who:
Patrick Collins speaks to Jared Swilley

Where:
Buy the record, 200 Million Thousand! Or The Almighty Defenders record!

See them live:
At Perth Laneway Festival, Sat Feb 6, sold out!

The Black Lips just may have finally grown up. Sure Jared threw down and got punched in the face by some Brooklyn band, but that punch won't make them any better. There are fewer and fewer reports of the Lips whipping out their junk unexpectedly and pissing off (and on...) their fans.

What has become apparent through talking with Jared Swilley in this interview is that they surely used to be little pukes, but these days they're all about bringing rock to the under rocked, working with Canadians, and living their dream, which is to spit in the faces of everyone who was sure they'd end up homeless.

PC: So Jared, this is covered territory but back in the day your family had a band, The Swilley Family Band. Have you guys ever thought of covering one of their songs?
JS: Yeah, the Swilley Family Band was a couple of my twice removed cousins. I don't think we'll ever cover them but, well maybe I should go back and listen to them again. It's just that they're more of a novelty.
PC: It's Southern Gospel stuff right? Not really your guys' scene.
JS: Yeah, pretty straightforward Southern Gospel music.

PC: You boys got into some trouble in India while you were out there, do you think you'll ever be going back?
JS: (laughs) No I don't think any time in the foreseeable future. Read the rest here...

By Patrick Collins

What:
Go To Hell, new works by Andrew Nicholls

Where:
Turner Galleries, 470 William St, Northbridge

When:
Fri Feb 5, 6-8pm
Runs until March 6, Tues-Sat 11am-5pm

Contact:
www.turnergalleries.com or 9227 1077

Image:
I Hope Your Babies Look Like Monkeys, Andrew Nicholls

Answer us this: how can the dude who did the totally cute double-headed dog on the Third Drawer Down tea towel be the same dude who draws weird runt-ish monkey babies, owls raping baby cherubs and bulls with boa constrictors where their private parts are? Everybody has an inner pervert, but you've gotta wonder about a guy who who sits around doing detailed drawings of mermaids (*cough* mer-MEN!) all day, right?

From the looks of his drawings, Perth artist, illustrator and filmmaker Andrew Nicholls likely doesn't give a shit about whether other people think he's weird or not. But we can tell you this for nothing: Nicholls' nonconventional approach to illustration, an approach that sees him merge religious art with pornography and horror in supremely fine ink sketches, demonstrate some effin' amazing talent at work. And when you've got that much clever blood running through your veins, damn straight you draw whatever you want. Perhaps only the cute dog might make it on the tea towel, but for sure it's the runt-ish monkey that makes your shit turn heads.

By Danielle Marsland

What:
Hunter Store

Where:
Shop 1/226 Carr Place, Leederville

When:
Mon-Wed, Fri 10am-6pm, Thur 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm

Contact:
9328 7300 or info@hunterstore.com.au

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When teenager Andy Montgomery was caught wearing a dress his dad prescribed NBC TV's Hunter. The titular Sgt. Rick Hunter (badge# 089), was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking LAPD homicide detective, whose catch phrase "works for me!" was used four or five times an episode.

So, Andy was ‘cured' and made his old man proud by opening TOV landmark Urban Records. But upon Hunter's untimely demise in 1991, Andy lapsed: he kept his promise never to don another frock, but the music store's high counter ensured his fetish for ladies shoes (specifically those by local expat-wunderkind Tristan Blair) could be kept secret. It's small wonder that now Andy has opened the eponymous Hunter Store round the corner.

After fitting it out with some serious wooden curvature, he poached Zomp's best staff and they began peddling footwear maestros, such as Blair and the Alexander McQueen-schooled Beau Coops. Andy accessorizes with (just don't tell papa!) vintage-inspired earrings by Erica Weiner and a handmade leather clutch from Johnny Ramli. Hunter Store - it works for us.

By Jimmy Jack

What:
Daybreakers

When:
In cinemas from Feb 4

Watch the Trailer:
Here

Win:
Thanks to Anarchy PR, we have eight dbls! Just email win@sixthousand.com.au with the subject line ‘We're the ones with the crossbows!'

Vampires are everywhere these days, so Daybreakers - a film imagining what happens when vampires take over the world - makes sense, right? It's the near future and everyone dresses like they're in the 1940s and everything looks like a Tool music video. Human blood is low in supply and starving vamps are turning into screeching bat-creatures. A vampire scientist (Ethan Hawke, his best bloodsucker since Reality Bites) is looking to create synthetic blood to supply the public demand and satisfy the corporate interests of his vampire boss (a suave Sam Neill). Hope arises in the form of a car-loving renegade human named Elvis (Williem Dafoe), who has the lowdown on a potential cure based in something that vampires hate... and it's not shimmering-diamond-skin envy.

The Spering Brothers were responsible for the entertaining Aussie zombie film, Undead, and while their latest film, Daybreakers, forsakes that local flavour for a global audience (warning: features almost the entire Secret Life Of Us cast with flat Yank accents), it's worth it for the spectacle of a crossbrow-carrying Dafoe delivering one-liners like, "We're as safe as riding bareback on a five dollar whore."

By Tristan Fidler

What:
Zooper Dooper popsicles

Where:
In your supermarket's cordial aisle

Where else:
SixThousand Laneway Markets

Alfred Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons. I measure mine in Zooper Doopers. Motivated by this long hot summer (and childhood nostalgia), I've become addicted (although at 20c a pop, a freeze-your-own-popsicle habit is hardly debilitating). But which to choose? Funny Faces are defunct. "Healthy" fruit juice ices are a ruse.

So go for "The Coolest Taste in the Universe". The Dooper dudes reinforce that big claim with even bigger flavour names: Galactic Grape, Deep Space Lime...There are different flavours in the boy pack and the girl pack (call me a chauvinist, but go for Zooper Boy - his Space Pineapple easily trumps Zooper Girl's Beaming Banana). Hey Mr Prufock - enough with the coffee - have a drag from my Fairy Floss Forcefield!

SixThousand loves Zoopers. Drop by the SixThousand markets at this Saturday's Laneway Festival and choose your favourite flavour (Florence loves Red Rocket while N.A.S.A. commend Bubblegum Quasar).

By NvH

What:
Bilby's Chargrilled Burgers

Where:
2/64 Davies Road, Claremont

When:
Daily 9 am- 7:30 pm

How Much:
Aussie Battler $6.95

Contact:
9383 2997

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When I wake up hungover I eventually (after much to chuck, or not to chuck musing) come to the same thought...burger. Yet who can be fucked moving let alone trying to decipher the Transperth website. This agoraphobia is compounded by the realisation I lost my sunglasses last night (again) so I won't be able to ‘hide' from commuters.

Despite all this, Bilby's in Claremont makes any sort of hungover public-transport ordeal worthwhile. Tucked behind the show grounds, this little slice of burger heaven serves up the best value gourmet burgers south of Alfred's. The quality / quantity ratio has been blown to bits by Bilby's - these are big burgers! This time I had the "City Slicker" with whole char-grilled field mushrooms on sun-dried tomato pesto, caramelized onion, eggplant, char-grilled capsicum, feta cheese, salad and basil aioli carefully stacked between 2 whole grain buns (baked on site).

You can feed yourself and get home (on a 1 zone concession) for under 10 bucks! And, unlike some lesser burger barns, it'll stay down regardless of your condition.

By Brodie Kammann

What:
SixThousand Laneway Markets

Where:
Perth Laneway Festival, Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Northbridge

When:
Sat Feb 6, 2pm-8pm

How much:
Free with Laneway ticket

Image:
Maja Baska

No matter how many mint acts are on the bill, there's always going to be "dead festival time". Not familiar with this concept? Well - you've just been blown away by Black Lips when you consult your crumpled timetable and note the next decent act is a lifetime (20mins) away. The intermediate period is called "dead festival time" and SixThousand is murdering it.

Hang on, you can't kill something that's already dead? You can. It's called the SixThousand Laneway Markets. Come to our Welcome table and eat lollies, while we make a mess of your face with paint in an attempt to turn you into a "Little Lion Man". Win some local music in our Lucky-ish Dip, play with our giant Imperial typewriter, or suck on tasty sticks of ice! Test your poetry skills with dotdotdash! Mosey over to Coastal Shelf's tropical watermelon stand! Watch those sticky fingers on The Butcher Shop's artist tees!

Plus: Love is My Velocity's silkscreened doggeh bags! Little Design Horse's leather iPod covers! And finally, Cottonmouth debut their anthologous Anthologiy! Whoa. Dead festival time, we are the SixThousand Laneway Markets, and you are dead to us.

By Danielle Marsland

What:
Six Characters in Search of an Author

Where:
Octagon Theatre, UWA, Crawley

When:
Sat 6 Feb 7.30pm, Sun 7 Feb 1.00pm + 7.30pm, Mon 8 - Thurs 11 Feb, 7.30pm

How much:
$47.50-$67.50 book through BOCS

Darth Vader's one evil mofo, right? Absolutely. But there's one person worse. Much worse. Who? No, not Festival 10 director Shelagh Magadza. She's lovely. So who then? The Emperor, that's who. Because a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away he corrupted the shit out of Anakin Skywalker etc. Well this weekend in our, our galaxy (the Octagon Theatre to be precise) the dude who played The Emperor (Ian McDiarmid) stars in Rupert Goold's Olivier award-winning, Jedi mind-trick of a play, Six Characters in Search of an Author. - JJ.

What:
Cult Minds

Where:
The Castle, cnr Newcastle and Stirling St, Northbridge, The Rocket Room, James St, Northbridge + The Swan Basement, Queen Victoria St, North Fremantle

When:
Fri Feb 5, 8pm (Castle), Fri Feb 5, 11:45pm (Rocket Room) + Sat Feb 6, 8pm (Swan Basement)

How much:
$8 on door

Last year's Laneway Festival was a veritable US proto-punk/ noise bonanza with the likes of No Age and Jay Reatard (RIP) but this year, not so much. So to make up for it, ripping Victorian hardcore band Cult Minds are having a little party of their own, outside of the Perth Cultural Centre borders. Sprung from the ashes of long gone skate-thrashers Cut Sick, fans of Straight Jacket Nation and Massappeal can find consolation in missing Florence and the Machine after all. - JK.

What:
Bada Bingo

Where:
Rosemount Hotel, corner Angove and Fitzgerald St, North Perth

When:
Mon Feb 8, 8pm

How much:
Free, but book on 9328 7062

In between sips of her sherry flagon, great aunty Ethyl will tell you that bingo rocks her cotton socks off. Here's a youthful take on the geriatric classic: Bada Bingo. Bizzare ‘super host' Patrick runs three rounds of bingo, thingo and singo (not for the musically illiterate) every Monday, with bonus games to win free drinks. ‘BINGO' first to get a $100 bar card, or $12 gets you a pizza AND pint. But you probably don't even need those free drinks, especially when you factor in Ethyl's sherry. -JvB. 

If you're a guy, then you probably like wearing clothes. If you don't, this isn't Cap D'Agde, please cover your bits. And, as far as covering your bits goes, you can't do much better than a bit of quality shirting or suiting or knitwear from Vanishing Elephant. Much more respectable than nudity. Cheaper than a lawsuit. Easy on the eyes.

Vanishing Elephant is a young Sydney-based menswear label designed by Felix Chan, Huw Bennett and Arran Russell. It's the kind of entry-level, high-end fashion that'll make you look all fancy and dapper without costing a fortune.

Their Spring '10 collection just hit the stores and is getting snapped up faster than Mark Roberts at the Super Bowl. An ode to the old man of the sea and earth and the ever-changing seasons, the ready-to-wear collection is one of gentlemanly elegance, incorporating Italian lamb's leather, fine wool suiting, jacquard and cable knits, jersey basics and covetable footwear.

The Vanishing Elephant guys have given us the pictured shirt to give away! To enter, just answer the following question:

This week's question:
Brotherhood of the Vanishing

(a) Pants
(b) Elephant
(c) Facial hair
(d) Antelope

Send your answer, name, shirt size and mailing address to win@sixthousand.com.au. Winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry! Not a subscriber? It's free you noodles. Sign up here.

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