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Wednesday 5th – 12th April
Some say that secrets make the world go round. Gossip journalists and bored commuters thrive on them, bad friends and Bill Clinton can’t keep them. They are powerful burning embers of the unknown that have the potential to cause joy and devastation in equal measure.
Apparently, no city is as capable at keeping the good things secret as much as Melbourne. Everything is kept hush-hush. However, ThreeThousand Issue 049 thinks that you ‘deserve to know’. We reveal the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s new album Show Your Bones, James Deutcher’s Cosmic Divisions, and Self-Service Magazine. We also encourage you to cultivate some secrets of your own, like getting drunk and calling in sick for work or pashing your best friend’s boy/girlfriend at the IsNotMagazine party. So whether your behaviour is good, bad, or ugly, the only thing we ask is that you make sure it is interesting.
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ThreeThousand Issue 049 – not to be trusted
PS- make sure you check out NowNow for The Age vs The Herald Sun top 3 stories, tomorrow’s weather updates at 4pm daily, and coming soon, photos of your friends looking trashed.
ThreeThousand Issue 049 – not to be trusted
Cover photo by tin&ed. If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au |
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If you’ve always felt like a bit of a lame-o singing along to Run DMC’s My adidas, because, well, they weren’t just your adidas (tonnes of other sneaker freakers probably have the same pair), then you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
adidas have just re-released their 1983 adicolor sneakers, the shoes that let you customise them like you used to customise the back of your high school science folder/toilet wall/idle trains.
The original white series sneakers come with six ink markers, so you’ll be fully equipped to make your mark. To celebrate the re-launch, adidas have collaborated with some amazing designers, to create works based on one colour from the palette.
J Money for NYC’s Dave’s Quality Meats got busy with a red marker, while the creators of Mr Happy© stuck with the colour of happiness, yellow. Pucci greened their shoes, and the Keith Haring foundation crew painted theirs black.
Artistic design lasts throughout decades and beyond time, so forget fashion forecasts – nothing else matters when you’ve got your own personal kicks. |
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What:
adidas adicolor
Where:
Most good shoe stores |
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The shapeless sacks and “so Sienna” tents that are supposedly ‘saved by the belt’ are the fashion equivalent to fast food. They’re a quick fix, often cheap and nasty, and like a whopper, ‘rounding’. Moreover, they often leave you unsatisfied and out of pocket.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Melbourne boutique Queen is plump with well tailored, modern, locally made dresses (and pants, shirts, skirts, et cetera), that will transform any lady into a femme fatale – flaunting the right parts, and leaving the other parts to the imagination.
Queen’s avant garde, intelligently constructed pieces, with an air of ‘Le Japon’ (Japanese-Parisian) grace, will take the heartache out of dress shopping – something that should only be a trial when a bride’s involved.
Queen. It’s the start of a revolution.
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What:
Queen
Where:
71 Smith Street, Fitzroy
When:
Mon–Sat 11–6 Sun 12–6
Contact:
9416 4964 |
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Self Service magazine doesn’t mince words. In fact, apart from the editor’s letter they barely have any until page 264. Not that we are complaining - people talk too much anyway.
Self Service Spring/Summer 2006 is premised upon the broadening of perspectives and on recognising the numerous influences, artistic and otherwise, that are imbedded in great fashion. In keeping, traditional editorial features are at a minimum, and are instead replaced by what could be considered ‘editorial insights’ into people such as Helmut Lang, Mike Mills, David Sims and cinematographer Darius Khondji.
Issue No.24 of Self Service is best purchased hard-cover, and appreciated with as many senses as possible. Touch the matt and gloss stocks, smell the glue of the binding, see all the pretty pictures within and most importantly hear other people’s cries of jealousy when they see it on your bookshelf. |
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What:
Self Service
Where:
Most good bookstores (definitely at the NGV shop)
How Much:
$35.95 |
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Inevitably, with a band such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, sound and style are intricately linked. Each listen is imbedded with images of Karen O in all her glory, of places where all the kids are cool, and where the sun rises only so it can set again. However, having risen to semi-stardom in 2003 with their debut Fever To Tell, and now having backed it up with Show Your Bones the YYYs are without a doubt one of the best examples of how to remain hip while avoiding clichés.
With Show Your Bones (and second albums in general) it’s tempting to over-intellectualise things, and way too easy to forget how an album makes you feel while chained to a computer.
So without trying to piss off the purists, ThreeThousand does not intend to judge this album until we have listened to it at a party, hungover sitting at breakfast, or while making out with a random on a couch. Only then will be able to tell you exactly how good Show Your Bones is, and list all the reasons that we love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. |
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What:
Show Your Bones
Who:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
On:
Modular / Universal |
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When it comes to a sexy, captivating film, nothing works like an onscreen prostitute aching for reform. Julia Roberts was the loveable hooker who made our jaws drop in Pretty Woman. Jodie Foster was the rough and ready little lady of the night in Taxi Driver.
However, in Bertrand Blier’s How Much Do You Love Me? (Combien tu m’aimes?) Monica Belluci outdoes them all.
As red light hooker Daniela, Belluci is no floozy chanteuse – her pout, pose and feistiness are some of the hottest hookerisms since Klute.
How Much Do You Love Me is the tale of balding Francois (Bernard Campan), who, transfixed by the mysterious Daniela, offers 100, 000 euros a month for her companionship.
What follows is a quirky, delightful caper inverting social nuances. A whore makes the perfect wife, love is a business transaction and infidelity plays out on the table.
How Much Do You Love Me? will leave every red-blooded man, and woman for that matter, very hot under the collar. |
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What:
How Much Do You Love Me?
Where:
The French Film Festival at Cinema Como
March 29–April 12, 2006.
On general release at the Nova, Como and Brighton bay from April 13.
Watch the trailer
here |
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If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Pimm’s is a drink best served en masse.
The nectar of toffs, dandies and fops alike, it was invented back in the 1840s by James Pimm who served it exclusively at his posh London oyster bar, preferring to serve his concoction in a tankard mixed with lemonade or champagne – forging the “no. 1 cup” moniker.
Time-travel a century and a half to the present, and the ladies and gentlemen at the swanky Flor Wine Bar have modernised the no. 1 cup, and served it in a jug big enough to share (sharing is recommended – solo juggery oft leads to drunken tomfoolery, which has no place in toff culture, unless it be behind closed doors).
If you’re interested in something to nosh in-between gulps of chilled Pimm’s, gallivant through Flor’s impressive tapas menu; sharp-cheesed risotto balls, octopus in red wine, and green beans with flaked almonds, amongst others.
And if you tire of the Pimm’s, there’s always the 36-or-so single malt whiskeys, and other transatlantic tipple delights to keep your whistle whet. |
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What:
Jug of Pimm’s for two
Where:
Flor Wine Bar
555 Nicholson Street, Carlton North
When:
Mon–Thu 4–10
Fri noon–10
Sat–Sun 10–10
How much:
$15
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What:
Black Day and Lullaby Me to Sleep
When:
Wednesday April 5th until April 15th
Tues-Sat 12-6pm
Where:
Seventh Gallery, 155 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
How much:
Free |
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Description:
Our Autumn days are growing darker, and so are the latest photographic offerings at Seventh. Ian Tippet plays on paranoia with his city-surveillance shots, while Vivian Cooper Smith explores the grief and trauma of repressed memory. |
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Is Not Magazine #6 launch:
Beatles vs. Stones party
When:
Saturday April 8th, 9pm
Where:
Public Office,100 Adderley Street,
West Melbourne
How much:
$15 from Metropolis Books or online |
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Description:
Hot Little Hands, Plug-in City, The Rumours and Moscow Schoolboy face off in a rockin Beatles vs. Stones battle. Add to that The Whiskey Go-Gos, DJs Declan Kelly, Manchild & Mu-gen, and the Slum Honeys. Don’t be late! There’s an exclusive edible giveaway @ 9.30. |
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What:
BOOTLEG, Starring Treetops,
The New Black and The Inkrements
When:
Saturday April 8th, 9pm
Where:
Ding Dong Lounge, 18 Market Lane, Melbourne
How much:
Free |
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Description:
Principal Entertainment & Dr. Martens present tasty treats for the eyes and ears. BOOTLEG dishes up an independent banquet for the music starved masses, including Entrancing Visual Projections by The Light Fantastic and Beatnik beats by resident DJs Boogievan & Gringo Bootleg. Dine courtesy of executive chefs the Treetops, sou chefs The New Black, and chef de partie The Inkrements.
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What:
Fiona Hall 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth
When:
Sunday April 9th, 3.30pm
Where:
NGV, Level 3, Ian Potter Centre, Corner of Russell and Flinders St
How much:
Free |
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Description:
Part of the NGV and ACMI collaborative ‘2006 ContemporaryCommonwealth’ exhibition, Australian Artist Fiona Hall gives a behind the scenes lecture on the showcase. Using unconventional materials like banknotes and gouache, Fiona’s work forms part of the series that unites 22 artists from global Commonwealth countries. Runs at the NGV until May 21st and ACMI until June 25th.
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What:
The Suicide Girls
When:
Tuesday April 11, 8pm
Where:
The Salon @ Melbourne’s Spanish Club, 59 Johnston St, Fitzroy, 8pm
How much:
$41 plus b/f from Corner Box Office 9427 9198 or online |
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Description:
If you missed them at HIFI, catch the unabashed Suicide Girls’ alternative burlesque at Melbourne’s Spanish Club. On their first ever tour outside the US, the notorious show merges playful peek-a-boo tradition with raw Rock n’ Roll. Also features guests The Exploders + Young and Restless.
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ThreeThousand is a weekly snapshot of Melbourne's subculture, fired by email into the loving arms of people who realise that the best things in life are often hard to find. It is compiled by an amorphous gaggle of writers, stylists, designers, photographers, sub-cultural attaches and a large troupe of monkeys who enjoy working for peanuts.
Without editorial independence ThreeThousand has nothing. All editorial you read is featured because it's worth it – not because it's paid for.
Advertising Partnerships:
ThreeThousand is funded in full by one advertising partner per issue. We warmly invite advertisers who see the benefit in speaking to Melbourne through a trusted and targeted medium to contact Francesco at frunch@rightanglepublishing.com
Editorial Submissions:
The editorial team at ThreeThousand may know a lot - but they don't know everything. Feel free to send information on events, venues or anything else to chris@threethousand.com.au
Feedback:
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Publisher
Barrie Barton
03 9662 1657
barrie@rightanglepublishing.com
Editor
Chris Barton
chris@threethousand.com.au
Deputy Editor
Kath Loftus
kath@threethousand.com.au
Design Monkeys
tin&ed
www.tinanded.com.au
Contributing Monkeys
Charlotte McInnes
Nigel Carboon
Reuben Ruiter
Tom Hyde
Will Larnach-Jones
Max Olijnyk
Ana Cecilia
Toby Temper Temper
Jade Barclay
Joanna Weekes
Blingrid
Pollyanna
Jeanne Tan
Annie Fox
Dan Honey
Richard Hack
Lewis Mulvey
Richard Janko
Tom Jackson
Nick Sweeney
Lauren Katsikitis
Reuben Acciano
Lucy Morieson
Nadia Saccardo
Dana Nikanpour |
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