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Wednesday 16th January
Like that kid in the front row of vegie maths, there are
people all around you who are reaching for the stars. They may
not be better looking than you, but they do stuff better. Like
the guy with a brass
band in his book shop, the pioneer who has documented
16,000 ants on
waterproof paper, the people who can ride their bikes
downhill with
no hands, the dudes who spent four years making
a documentary.
Don’t get mad. When you live life
bending chair legs in the back row, you can’t expect the front
row to put you on their doorlist.
ThreeThousand 138 - go go the front row
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Cover image by Phil
Harkin. If you would like to submit a cover image, email
photo@threethousand.com.au
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What: Let the Blind Lead Those Who
Can See But Cannot
Feel
Who: Atlas
Sound
On: Kranky
Records
When: Released Feb
19
Related links: Deerhunter / Atlas Sound blog Atlas Sound hype at Quiet Noise
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Everybody likes to think of Bradford Cox - frontman of last
year's best buzz-band, Deerhunter - as a freak, anorexic Perry
Farrell-lookalike. "True queer art punk", twenty-something
virgin and major mover in America's now-music underground;
it's an image Cox encourages and lives to the full - giving
sensationalist interviews and posting numerous songs,
sometimes EPs, overnight on his super-popular blog.
If this profile has threatened
to peg-hole Cox as simply infantile, all's set to change next
month when Kranky release his debut as Atlas Sound, Let
the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot
Feel.
Enigmatic, overwhelming and joyously
melodic, it's a record that mesmerises with the repetitive
beat of Cox's filtered subjectivity. His tone is confessional
throughout, his voice seductively encouraging a certain trust
which is then complicated by sheets of emotionally-shredding
sounds. Extremely elusive, with a lot of what is heard so
distant that a single effect is hard to grasp, songs like
'River Card' and 'Quarantined' have childishly simple lyrics
and arrangements that are extraordinarily delivered.
Guitars, bass and drum-set flicker through soft electronics
and nameless percussion, with Cox's ethereal vocal drawing
everything out in a dry-ice epiphany.
By Mark
Gomes |
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What: Rite in the
Rain all-weather
notebooks
Where: James
Cameron, 18 Oliver La, Melbourne
How
much: From
$22
Contact: 9662 2506
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Notebooks used by Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway and Chatwin
are gaye with an e. Now everyone has the notebook used by the founder of antweb.org.
“I am an
ant collector. I travel the world in search of new species. My
motto ‘Map an Ant, Save a Plant’ reflects the importance of
including these small insects in conservation planning. Ants
are the glue that holds the forest together.”
Word.
Such notebooks, made by Rite in the
Rain in various sizes and bindings, using all-weather
writing paper, are now stocked at James Cameron.
The
All-Weather Field Book (No. 980T) also contains useful
references such as ‘Tactical Mission Graphics’ (for
synchronization matrixes and manuever sketches), ‘Friendly
Unit Symbols’ (infantry, artillery, air defence etc), ‘US Army
Troop-Leading Procedures’ with handy tick boxes (receive
mission, issue warning order, conduct reconnaissance, etc), a
list of Mortar / Artillery Capabilities, guidelines for the
preparation of an attack ‘Range Card’ (may be used for all
types of direct fire weapons), and a ruler.
By Penny
Modra |
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What: E.W. Cole: Chasing the
Rainbow, by Lisa Lang
Where: Foyer at the State Library, 328
Swanston St Readings, 309 Lygon St, Carlton Online at Arcade Publications
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Edward Cole, creator of Cole’s Funny Picture Book,
was not a conventional Victorian fellow. An entrepreneur and
idealist, he took it upon himself to spread love and rhetoric
to all who might pass through the doors of his Bourke Street
Book Arcade. In line with its proprietor’s progressive
attitude to living, Cole’s was several floors worth of whimsy
and readables, complemented by an in-house brass band, a hall
of mirrors, a tea salon and reading chairs that would put the
modern-day book
barn to shame.
Fond of a good pet monkey and of
racial equality, E.W. Cole’s legacy has now been immortalised
by Arcade Publications in mini-book form. Find out more about
the man who patented the rainbow and married a woman he met in
the classifieds (who very much enjoyed wearing rainbow-shaped
brooches), here.
By Kirsten Law
Win: We have one li'l copy to give
away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject
line 'patent the rainbow'
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What: MASH
SF – Australian Premiere Presented by PAM and
supported by ThreeThousand
Where: Rooftop
Cinema, Lvl 7, 252 Swanston St
When: Sun Jan 20,
7pm
How much: $15 / $18 here
(warning, probable sell-out)
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Past. Present. Future.
As a myriad reflection of track heritage and contemporary
style MASH SF rider James Newman also believes that
riding fixed can “make you look into the future. Since you
can’t stop as fast, you have to plan ahead”.
Cavalier
or clairvoyant, MASH SF – a film by Gabe Morford and
Mike Martin, watch the trailer here – creates
the sense that this elite group of San Franciscan riders
navigate using the palms and not the backs of their hands.
By Chris Barton
Win: We have a double pass to give
away. To enter email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject
line 'ESP beats GPS'
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What: Juno
When: Opening
January 17
Where: Kino Dendy Cinema
Nova And yeah, even Hoyts:
Watch the
trailer: Here
Win: We have one double pass, valid for
the season, to give away. To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject
line 'terrifying charisma'
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Ellen Page's role as 16-year-old mother-to-be Juno MacGuff
guarantees that every vaguely alternative boy in the western
world is now in love with her, and critics everywhere seem
equally powerless to resist Juno's quirky assault.
(Her
frankly terrifying charisma is also helped by the fact her
romantic interest is played by Arrested Development's Michael
Cera. Remember: Impossible Is The Opposite Of
Possible.)
Juno is written by the
awesomely-named Diablo
Cody, whose script crackles with whip-fast pop-culture
rhythms that make the dialogue a joy. However, when Juno
mentions that after listening to Iggy and the Stooges all
other music sounds a little "precious," she accidentally
provides the perfect word to describe how there's maybe
something too easy, too calculated, in the film's
name-dropping of McSweeneys
and Thundercats for cultural
cred.
Juno is so big-hearted, well-acted, and
damn enjoyable that it gets a free pass on any major
criticisms. Still, don't you think it's time for a pro-choice
comedy? Picture it: the protagonist has an abortion in the
first ten minutes; she goes on to have various, unrelated
highjinks; the abortion is never mentioned again…
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Martyn Pedler |
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What: Order & Progress
Where: Here
When: 24
hours!
Contact: 9654 132 or online@orderandprogress.com.au
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Online shopping: for or against? I, personally, am for.
Insert this into your vocabulary: “Ooooh”, “Aahhh”, then “Add
to cart”. What’s not to love?
Welcome to Order & Progress, the latest in a line
of real world shops to open a digital gateway. The ladies
behind O&P, Cath and Katrina, are now allowing both ladies
and gents to look amazing with a simple click of a button.
This means an end to walking around aimlessly in the hope of
finding something cherry, before spiraling into depression and
a subsequent ‘impulse’ spree.
Are you excited yet? Key
words in the last paragraph were: - Shopping -
Amazing - Gents (a charming, exclusive men’s range
including Blank, Scottish label Folk and the goodie favorite
Mike and Chris) - Button (the link that may change your
life)
And there’s plenty for the ladies too. Labels
such as exquisite Brazilian Maria Bonita Extra, the once
Lanvin collaborator, jewelry designer Sabrina Dehoff and of
course the fun-loving bubblegum-smelling, jellybean-believer
Melissa!
By Natalie Nikitovic |
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What: The Super8 Diaries
Where: 47 Coppin St,
Richmond
When: Sat Jan 19, doors
1pm
How much: $12 at the door. All
ages, so bring your Gran
Win: We
have two copies of The Super8 Diaries documentary to
give away. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with subject line
'I’m only entering this competition because I fear threats
from ThreeThousand'
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Take a deep breath and reminisce the mass of muddy punters
sweating out their day's worth of beer. Remember the good
times?
Last year the Trainwreck
20/20 people threw a fundraiser event for their
four-year-long project, The Super8 Diaries. A
documentary about fall-to-your-knees-and-praise-worthy
Australian bands shot on the kind of Super8 cameras film nerds
sell their bikes at Cash Converters over.
This
Saturday, they will be throwing another party celebrating the
launch of the documentary in a big old warehouse in Richmond.
From 1pm you can tuck into sausages in bread (possibly the
greatest meal known to mankind) and listen to bands until
midnight – or at least until you develop tinnitus. Bands
bringing the ruckus are Baseball, Made for Chickens By Robots, Tucker Bs,
Ladybird, Eucalypt, Aleks and the Ramps, Charge Group, Chris
Cobilis, Majorca, Touch Typist, The Thaw and Ooga
Boogas.
Excerpts from the documentary will screen at
9pm and if you arrive late or leave early, we will never, ever
forgive you. We know where you live. Well, we know your email
addresses and we’re not afraid to send you pictures of
ourselves. Got it?
By Isabel
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What: Atticus
Finch
Where: 129 Lygon St, East
Brunswick (kind of opposite the
Alderman)
When: Wed-Thurs 5-11pm,
Fri 5pm-1am, Sat 2pm-1am, Sun
2-10pm
Contact: 9387
0188
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The lovable crew behind the boutique wine store Black Hearts & Sparrows Wine Purveyors
on Punt Road, Windsor, have been doing the wine game proud for
years, sating the most demanding of palates.
Now, at
the vanguard of Lygon Street’s increasingly gentrified lower
stretch, they’re not only upgrading a spanking new shop,
they’ve also revamped its neighbouring, former goth-rock den
into the top notch bar, Atticus Finch.
Aptly monikered
– being named after the fatherly hero in To
Kill A Mockingbird – its aesthetic is bookish, kind
of courtroom-like. (But there’s no jury, except your peers and
the following morning people!)
In fact, it’s so in keeping with said literary classic’s
subtle elegance, and so replete with hot ticket wine labels,
summer’s favourite new elixir (glorious cider), cold beer and
even cooler tunes, it’s sure to rate as highly among
Melbourne’s epicural elite as the novel does the Pulitzer
Prize list.
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What: For Better or Purse #2
Where: Lady, Shp 8 Kings Arcade, 974-978 High St,
Armadale
When: Thurs Jan 17,
6.30pm
How much: $7 and eight of
your past loves. Booking ESSENTIAL, contact /external.html?link=mailto:forbetterorpurse@hotmail.com
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Description: Clearing the
cobwebs off old treasures can be the kind of nostalgic episode
that only a bath, wine and Lou Reed crooning out of tinny
speakers can aide. This week, For Better or Purse is back to
help make giving up past loves a little easier. Pack your
suitcase with eight items of clothing and travel over to Lady where you can refresh your sad case for
a new one. There will be champagne, cupcakes and a genius
clothes category system to make the handover a little sweeter.
Plus it’s for charity! Fifty percent of the funds raised go to
the International Women's Development Agency.
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What: Gay Gay
Straight
Where: Shit Town,
Caledonian La (next to St Jeromes),
Melbourne
When: Every Thursday,
doors 9pm
How much: Free
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Description: This party has no
dress code, door charge, frills or fuss. But, while it may be
lacking some tried queer-party ingredients, it is sufficiently
trashy and thrashy. Indeed, according to a reliable source,
it’s a “Mid-'90s halcyon Berlin bunker style party.” The night
is called Gay Gay Straight (which the aforementioned reliable
source says is a true representation of the gay to straight
attendance ratio). Regular DJs fuelling the fun include the
man-tastic Mark Patrick, Gay Gay Straight, Shags and Fierce
Brosnan. And dear God, kudos to Fierce, where have you and
your awesome DJ name been all our lives? |
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What: The
National
Where: The Corner
Hotel, 57 Swan St,
Richmond
When: Fri Jan 18
(supported by Ned Collette and Deloris) Sat Jan 19
(supported by Ned Collette and Gaslight
Radio)
How much: $35 + BF, but it’s
SOLD OUT!
Win: But DON’T WORRY,
thanks to Remote Control, we have a double pass to the
Saturday show to give away. To enter email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject
line ‘the best kind of nerd’. Include your address, we will
send Express Post on Thursday.
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Description: Sure, The National
are Brooklyn nerds, but what better kind of nerd is there? And
this is their first Australian tour. The music is pop, but
it’s layered with brass, woodwinds, backing vocals, strings
and organs. So obsessed are Melbourne’s music mafia with this
band that both shows sold out pretty much straight away.
(Mental note: if you want a job writing for music press, a)
dude, seriously? b) good chance right here to stalk editors at
the bar – even Lester Bangs would leave his bedroom for this
show.) |
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What: Kes
and Yuko Kono
When: Sat Jan 19,
doors 9pm
Where: Hells Kitchen, Lvl
1, 20 Centre Pl, Melbourne
How
much: $5
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Description: Scrounge behind
your sofa for five bucks and take your findings to Hells this
Saturday. Instead of spending all your coin on sour warheads
and fizzers, spend it at Hells where Yuko Kono of Tokyo-based
psychedelic folk group, My
Pal Foot Foot, picks you out a mixed-bag of
multi-instrumentalism. Supported by everyone’s man of the
moment, Guy
Blackman, Yuko will give you the perfect soundtrack for
sucking on longnecks. |
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What: Badlands – Marcus
Keating and friends
Where: 69 Smith
Street Gallery, 69 Smith St,
Collingwood
When: Launching Tues
Jan 22, 6-8pm Exhibition runs until Feb
10
How much: Free
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Description: This exhibition is
billed ‘part teenage regression and part late twentysomething
optimistic belief system'. Marcus Keating is headlining it,
but don’t miss works by Tristan Jalleh, Clinton Hayden, Cara
Jones and Michael Brady as well. Brady’s show, in Room 2, is
called My Pop Life 88-89 and involves him re-creating
his bedroom from 1989. Build up your Debbie Harry fever by
visiting his My Pop Life blog time warp. |
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What: Hot Little
Hands and Sly
Hats, at the Welcome
Stranger Theatre
fundraiser
Where: Gertrudes Brown
Couch, Lvl 1, 30 Gertrude St,
Fitzroy
When: NEXT WEEK - Wed Jan
23
How much: $8 on the door
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Description: The multi-talented
Raph Hammond from Hot Little Hands isn’t just a Hammond player
with Hammond for a last name. Oh no. He’s also an actor. And
his theatre company, Welcome Stranger, are putting on a new
show. This gig is the fundraiser and, aside from that, what an
awesome Wednesday night lineup. Hot Little Hands and Sly Hats
on the one bill. Eight dollars is obviously too cheap, round
it up to ten and buy Raph a beer as well. |
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Whatever happened to Sarsaparilla? It was a darn fine drink
(or so we're told), which unfortunately died out that same
time as a public Charleston or Yosemite Sam. Until now. Bim
Kenesis's latest line 'The Sarsaparilla Gang' slips a swig
of hooch into your swagger. With smoking grey dresses,
swinging high shorts and zingy frills, the Perth label is
bringing '30s
sass back at Holly Golightly and YTBA.
We have one Best at Being Bad skirt valued at $240 to give
away, just answer the following question. |
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This week's question: Yosemite Sam
did NOT go by the alias of...
a) Shanghai Sam
b) Sam Von Schamm the Hessian
c) Dangerous Sam McFoo
d) Chillicothe Sam
To be in the running send your answer, name AND postal
address to win@threethousand.com.au.
Winners will be notified by email. |
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subculture, fired by email into the loving arms of people who
realise that the best things in life are often hard to find.
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Saccardo Chris Barton Josh Gardiner Natalie
Nikitovic
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Age EG liftout every Friday...
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