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What:
Kill Your Darlings
Where:
Independent bookshops like these or online here
How much:
$18 or $58 for a subscription | | Despite its title, there's very little actual or suggested violence between the covers of Kill Your Darlings. Unless you count Gideon Haigh's point-blank assassination of Australian book reviews.
Named for William Faulkner's oft-quoted advice to writers to 'ruthlessly cut out that which doesn't serve a purpose', the brand new fully independent local journal is neatly segmented into Commentary, Fiction, Interview and Review, assisting reader and writer alike. The subject matter is totally en pointe: Raymond Carver, Sarah Waters, roller derby and Ricki-Lee Coulter (thank you Oslo Davis).
For fear of bleeding over into extraneous territory, we shall say simply that it is difficult to highlight one piece over another, but do pay particular attention to the bits by Clementine Ford, Justin Heazlewood and Chris Womersley, and to Rebecca Starford's consideration of the new short story collection by Mary Gaitskill. By Kirsten Law | | | |  |
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What:
Are The Roaring Night
Who:
The Besnard Lakes
On:
Jagjaguwar / Inertia
Myspace:
myspace.com/thebesnardlakes Win:
One of three albums! To enter email your name and address to win@twothousand.com.au with the subject 'eww/you're like the ocean' | | Sometimes I wish I didn't have to tell you about music via a flashing computer screen.
I wish I could just play you something at a party. Or make you a mix CD. Some things are better if you find them out by accident, or from a friend. The Besnard Lakes have too much personality for the impersonality of a computer screen.
Taking segments of rock songs and stretching them, like taffy, into slow, fuzzed-out, gorgeous sonic strands, The Besnard Lakes create something with familiar reference points but an entirely new structure. Each album has explored this same idea but with a different sound.
Debut Volume 1 was all about long pauses, prog progressions, and vast expanses. Are The Dark Horses had Beach Boys harmonies and Interpol grandeur. And Are The Roaring Night adds heavier classic rock riffs and drum kicks (and occasionally corny lyrics: "ewwww / you're like the ocean").
Actually, I wish you could just forget you read this review, go find this album in some weird, obscure place, buy it and become obsessed with it. It deserves that kind of mystique. By Wilfred Brandt | | | | |
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What:
The Ruby Suns interview
Who:
Dominic Kirkwood talks to Rhyan McPhun of The Ruby Suns
Where:
The album - Fight Softly
On:
Sub-Pop
Myspace:
www.myspace.com/therubysuns | | Ryan McPhun is a musical Krishna; the multi-talented operator behind The Ruby Suns has a new album out on Sub-Pop called Fight Softly. With an almost entirely new sonic palette compared to that of 2008's lush Sea Lion the Sun's new album represents a trip out into sparse synth land. I spoke to Ryan during my lunch break.
Dominic Kirkwood: I heard on the grapevine that you recently bought a house in New Zealand?
Ryan McPhun: Bought a house? No (laughs)
DK: I thought with ‘Oh Mojave' being on that Microsoft ad it would've been enough...
RM: ...Not enough money to buy a house! DK: Do you record at home?
RM: I've got a space now.It's next to a commercial studio (in Auckland) and I've got this bigroom where I put all my stuff. When I recorded the album (Fight Softly) I ended up being there most days. Read the rest here... By Dominic Kirkwood | | | |  |
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What:
Built in Wardrobes
Who:
Michelle Hanlin
Where:
Gallery 9, 9 Darley St, Darlinghurst
When:
Runs until Mar 27. Open Wed-Sat 11am-6pm How much:
Free
Image:
Courtesy of the gallery View map | | Michelle Hanlin may fool you with her kinder sherbet colour palette but it's important you realise she is performing a particularly good assault of the contemporary monument.
If you were to term it in music, her works (sculptural and painted still lifes, busts and figures on ornamental plinths) are much like Sonic Youth appropriating Debussy with a spoken word introduction from the local St Vinnies clerk. Her jungle salad of historical and contemporary components cut and paste the art deco surroundings of her apartment, civic architecture and adornments of her peers with elements of Cubism (with its avant-guarde angles) and Futurism (with its industrial eye for life on speed).
Her cultic sculptures stand alone while her ambiguous humanoid paintings are paired so as to welcome a dialogue between couples.
Her opaque metaphorical rainbows are are telling and allegorical. They're the architectural tools of her reality placed on pedestals under review. By Lisa Lerkenfeldt | | | |  |
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What:
One of a Kind
Where:
114 Burton St, Darlinghurst (entrance Darley St)
When:
Opens Fri Mar 12! Tues-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
How much:
Smart prices Contact:
0414 617 450 | | I assumed men like convenient, calm shopping. I asked one. He agreed. So if you generated a fit out with newsagent-style practicality and a 20th Century modern lounge room sensibility you're set, right?
Curtained by vines and suitably hidden on Darlinghurt's Darley Street, One of a Kind is just this. With a focus on Australian luxury menswear it assembles a national family portrait of Three Over One, Rittenhouse, The Cloak Room, Vanishing Elephant, Claude Maus. Special appearances from global headmen including Superfine, Generic Surplus, Dior, Margiela and Comme des Garcons feed the need for a retail box that delivers (in the experiential sense).
Considered, transactional and led by Dion Kovac (Our Spot), One of a Kind is a bell-and-whistle free head quarters of premium basics and occasionals to dress your anatomy. By Lisa Lerkenfeldt | | | | | |  |
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What:
The Thing with Two Heads
Where:
Mu-Meson at The Annandale Hotel, 17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
When:
Tues Mar 16, 7.30pm
How much:
$5 suggested donation | | The fool who said two wrongs don't make a right obviously ain't never seen The Thing with Two Heads. Take two seriously unfunny things, such as racism and irreversible medical mistakes. Combine them. Add a bitchin' bongo rock soundtrack. Shake and bake and there you have cult comedy genius.
Like many dying rich people, the bigoted white protagonist has arranged to have his head transplanted on another body before he shuffles off. His health slips away before he can finalise arrangements, and when he comes to he finds his redneck sewn fast onto the shoulders of a black death-row inmate. Surprise! Oddball odd-couple comedy ensues. The flick features some of the baby special effects designers like Rick Baker who grew up to revolutionise effects in film.
As a camp classic with a dedicated fan following, The Thing with Two Heads snuggles in neatly to Mu-Meson's Cult Sinema Tuesdays. The night is dedicated to left-of-field features with heart (mega violence, cheesy dialogue and sexual deviance), and plays out in the stained, sticky and seriously beloved surrounds of the Annandale. By Jacqueline Breen | | | |  |
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What:
Moscot Originals
Where:
Incu, Somedays, George Skoufis
When:
As you wish
How much:
Lemtosh with clear lenses $290 | | Moscot Eyewear have been trading out of Manhattan's Lower East Side since early last century. Painted on the walls of their dilapidated showroom is a frankly incredible list of customers including Woody Allen, Truman Capote and Johnny Depp.
Very soon they'll be able to add the name of every roll-cuffed, Incu-wardrobed nut from Bondi to Avalon to that wall because Moscot are now selling their classic frames range here in Australia.
While the thought of everyone in Sydney swanning around in Moscot Originals is vaguely horrifying, it's not as horrifying as the knowledge that a 22-year-old Buddy Holly had a pair of Moscots perched on his nose when his plane plowed into a frozen Iowan cornfield fifty years ago.
Still, if you're going to be incinerated alive you might as well be wearing a beautiful pair of glasses. By Daniel O'Connell | | | | | |  |
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What:
Shady Pines Saloon Where:
256 Crown St, Darlinghurst (in the alley behind American Apparel)
When:
Mon-Sun 4pm-12am
How much:
Can of beer $6 View map | | An oft-had discussion in my house goes like this:
"Seriously, there are no bars here like American bars."
"I know, where it's all dark, and you sit at the bar and just shoot the shit."
"Exactly - let's just open one."
"Well why not?" Etc. That conversation has now been shot. After an age of bureaucratic hassle, Shady Pines Saloon is finally open. Down in the underground space, your cans are served on a napkin, the bourbon is varied and Dylan crows through speakers. The generous, parquet bar beckons long seated sessions, the roadside Americana surrounds, and the music ties it all together in a way that forces you to stay. Indeed, so successful is the operation, we're prepared to forgive the absence of neon Pabst signs and college football. By Alex Vitlin | | | |  |
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What:
Platform 3 Hip Hop Festival
Where:
CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh
When:
Lead up events on NOW!
Fri Mar 19, 7pm & Sat Mar 20, 2pm & 7.30pm
How much:
Ticketed events $18, the rest are FREE! View map | | When I was 14 I got Eminem's Stan single. His acapella version of Hazardous Youth still gives me goosebumps and hope, that one day, I could be a famous white gangster. How good is 8 Mile? No, I mean, how good are rap battles and free styling and watching people get burned? So good! And it's all happening over the next few weeks at CarriageWorks, yo.
Friday night sees an opening party with the Flexing Skills MC, DJ and breaking freestyle jam/competition with Julez & DJ Sizzle, Morganics and Mathmatics. Plus a pre-show hip hop theatre performance, A Maze In Grace, with Sista Native. During the day on Saturday, everything is FREE. Homeboy Mistery shows us how to spray paint walls and make our tags extra drippy. There's a hip hop film exhibition. Plus dance, MC and beatbox battles. Humiliation guaranteed.
Saturday night is the real deal. Freak The Technique breaking competition finals featuring performances from Brethren, Ill Will, Mathmatics and Class A & Nikkita, and again, there's a pre-show performance. This time its Stalker Theatre Co's Elevate - think break dancing and stilts. Oh gawd, it is going to be SO liberating walking through Redfern in my bright yellow, silky Wu-Wear. By Hayley Morgan | | | | | |  |
| | What:
Wooden Shjips
Where:
Annandale Hotel, 17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale
When:
Thur Mar 11, 8pm
How much:
$33 + BF here Win:
One of three dbl passes thanks to Mistletone. To enter, email win@twothousand.com.au with the subject 'Homo Erectus lives' View map | | Description:
It began as an exercise in rhythmic primitivism. A clan of non-musicians making sounds with a three chord limit on each song. But the psychedelic stylings of San Fran's Wooden Shjips have turned out to be the metaphorical opposable-thumbs that allowed them to evolve. Now they bring their dancing drone from the bay city to the harbour city, and specifically, the Annandale. With Naked on the Vague and Circle Pit in on the jam, Homo Erectus lives. - CB | | | | What:
Death in Bowengabbie
Where:
Old Fitzroy Theatre, 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo
When:
Opens Thur 11 Mar, 8pm
Runs until Fri 26 Mar, Tue-Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm How much:
From $17 + BF here View map | | Description:
For too long the young and healthy have hogged all the themed party fun. In this killer black comedy the old and ailing are clawing back the fancy dress as they compete to stage the most happening funerals in town. The piece soaked up massive props at last year's Adelaide Fringe Festival, and is now wheezing in to an Old Fitzroy Theatre near you. Grab a beer-laksa-and-show deal, because nothing prepares you for discussion of death and incontinence like a bowl of creamy soup. - JB | | | | What:
Vintage and Retro Sale
Where:
Hibernian House, L6, 342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills
When:
Fri Mar 12, 12pm-4pm, Sat Mar 13, 9am-6pm, Sun Mar 14, 10am-4pm
How much:
From $2 (cash only) View map | | Description:
Take a bunch of cool young things - designer, band-member, stylist types - take the stairs, and take their stuff. Residents and friends of Six-Oh-One in Hibernian are putting on another sale of curated finds. They roll out the racks of clothes and some music, and bam it's a boy-girl party in their penthouse, restocked daily with props and punk and pretty period pieces. - BS | | | | What:
Body Electric documentary on TV Where:
Art Nation, ABC 2
When:
Sun Mar 14, 7pm How much:
Free to air! | | Description:
Up until now, the only dancing on TV has been the sweat, more sweat, and tears of c-grade celebrity-infested Dancing With The Stars and Australia's So You Think You Can Dance where everyone in wardrobe should be shot for the truly offensive garb they conjure up each week. But this Sunday that's all set to change, with Melbourne's own grassroots dance movement Body Electric - led by founder and dance tutor Jade Duffy - set to feature on ABC TV's Art Nation. Guaranteed not to cause the usual television lycra heart palpitations, however viewing may result in a strong urge to don leg warmers and join in. - REJ | | | | What:
Go Font Ur Self
Where:
Peer Gallery, 153 Bridge Rd, Glebe
When:
Wed Mar 17, 6pm-10pm
How much:
Free View map | | Description:
I dig words. I like hearing them and I like talking them. I like them in my room and in your room, in books, on coasters, under chairs, behind doors and up legs. I especially like them on gallery walls, and they're scrawled all over this here typography exhibition. Typography is lettered art, where the alphabet is rocked and rolled into new forms of visual expression. Sometimes it's crass and obvious, often times it's beautiful and arresting, but every time it's worth the ink. - JB | | | | | |  |
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We like to think of Semi Permanent as the school timetable you'd invent yourself. First period is 'how to be one of Australia's most popular magazines' and your teacher is Frankie Magazine. Then you've got double art with Travis Millard and Mel Kadel, who've worked with King Brown, Transworld and have shown their work all around the US. After lunch, author and broadcaster, Craig Schuftan schooling you from a new historical and philosophical angle. During fourth period you'll learn all about starting a respected online art community with the masters Fecal Face. You've got an afternoon break, bonus! Your last class of the day is Photo Journalism with Ashley Gilbertson, sick. He took some amazing photos in Iraq and he doesn't even care if you swing on your seat. | | On day two you've got more smarts than you can squeeze into your notebook (or this section). There's Roll Call with design team Tin&Ed, who originally designed ThreeThousand and won the SOYA for Visual Communication. Then Jessica Hische, T Magazine, Jill Greenberg and Jasper Goodall. And finally, Animal Kingdom director, David Michod teaches you exactly how to win the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sun Dance. You're not dreaming. It's the school of Semi Permanent, where you're taught about shit you care about, by industry professionals who're still practicing (and are relatively wrinkle free). You can buy a ticket here, or try to win one, here.
We've got a double pass, valued at $580 to giveaway. To enter, just answer the following question. This week's question:
1+1=
a) 11
b) a window
c) idk, but 58008 looks like 'BOOBS' when you turn the calc. upside down
b) 2!! Now gimme the tickets!!
To be in the running send your answer AND postal address to win@twothousand.com.au, winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? It's free you willies! Sign up here. Image courtesy of Tin&Ed | | |
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