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Wednedsay 20th – 26th June
There are plenty of ways to save the world, not all of them warm, none of them cheap, and most of them involving bad outfits.
In these heady days of triple bottom lines, and unattractive save-the-planet poster boys (we’re looking at you Al, good job, but think about some new pants) we are all starting to forget the simple power of plastic and good looks to save the day. Thusly, this week ThreeThousand is consuming for a cause. From a retrospective featuring everyone’s favourite pill popper to the save McSweeney’s sale; from buying Columbia’s finest to supporting St Martins youth – our wallets can make this city, nay, the world a better place.
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ThreeThousand Issue 110 – plastic fantastic
Cover photo by Hayley Ward. If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au
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Images from Cutters party at Third Class, courtesy of NowNow Pics |
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We've all been there. In the red for 130 large. Mustached men at your door, brandishing cigar clippers. Delicately tying your privates between your legs, wandering the docks to pleasure lonely seamen. The blood. The screaming. The feathers... Oh the twisted agony of it all. You wouldn't wish those dark times on your worst enemy, would you now?
Well here is your moment to shine people. McSweeney's, the publishing empire that you love to hate for doing everything better than you could ever hope to do yourself, needs your help.
See now, poor Timothy has recently been shafted to the tune of 130,000 USD due to a distributor bankruptcy. Rather than let the swift hand of street justice smooth things out using only a dirty sock and a handful of batteries, McSweeney's has opted instead to have a giant sale on all existing stock, as well as a bevy of mouth-watering auction items that you will never be able to afford. Featuring one-of-a-kind pieces from Miranda July, Chris Ware, Tony Millionaire and Marcel Dzama. There’s even a rare painting from His Holiness Dave Eggers up for grabs. Read the full story here, shop online here. The auctions, however, are here.
By Jeremy Wortsman
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What:
McSweeney’s sale
Where:
here
When:
at the moment
How much:
In many cases, not that much |
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Melbourne’s The Emergency return as a duo with two new disco cuts on New York’s Metal Postcard label. More delicate and spacey than anything on their excellent last album, The Spectrum Deadly, this 7” finds Milo Kossowski and Morgan McWaters down the bloody vampire vibe in favour of a colder, more pneumatic kind of funk. It’s as fresh and breezy an effort as anything produced by the much hyped Italo-Disco school and, while all the signifiers of that movement are here – synthetic guitar, sequenced bass, arpeggiated synths – The Emergency never sound quotational or calculated like so many new club acts.
A-side ‘Spending Time’ is calypso robotics with handclaps and rubbery bass throbs. Shakers and electronics are distanced by reverb, and probing lyrics loop like a half-remembered thought; ‘Spend some cash / Waste some time / Life is a string of desires’. ‘Switch Me’ on the flip is a replicant love song with laserbeam synths, cowbells, obsession-fuelled vocals and an exploding second half. Packaged in a black and silver sleeve designed by Milo, this single is a classy outing by one our most futuristic sounding groups.
By Mark Gomes
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What:
Spending Time c/w Switch Me 7”
Who:
The Emergency
On:
Metal Postcard
MySpace:
here |
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ThreeThousand has never attended a contemporary dance performance before. Not even accidentally while walking down the Bourke Street Mall when that belly-dancing lady is turning everyone on. So this was a big deal for us and we think we got it.
Grotesque Beauty is a part theatre, part dance work created by Emma Anglesey, who was recently accepted into St Martins’ new ‘Next Gen’ program. There are six dancers in the show and a virtuoso cello player. It all seems to be set in the 16th century where everyone is walking around the court (Venetian?) gossiping about one another and drinking tea. (So, pretty much like your Mum’s tennis club, but with more silk, less four-wheel drives). One minute it’s calm, paced, rhythmic, the next minute it’s bodies convulsing all over the place in wild, vomitous spasms. The thing is though, all of it is beautiful to watch and kind of funny. It’s like an aromatic tea with a kick of whiskey.
Alongside Grotesque Beauty, Jennifer Monk presents Whose Memory? It’s a short piece combining a photography exhibition and a theatre performance. It perfectly captures the abstract idea of developing a memory.
By Penny Modra
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What:
Grotesque Beauty and Whose Memory?
Where:
St Martins Youth Theatre, 44 St Martins Lane, South Yarra
When:
June 20 - July 1
Wed-Sat 8pm, Sat June 23 matinee 2pm, Tues June 26 6pm, Sun July 1, 6pm
How much:
$17.50 full, $14.50 conc, $12 members
Contact:
9252 0760 |
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So your iPod is full and every time you download new music you have to go through and delete a bunch of stuff that you downloaded last month and haven’t listened to yet… what to do? Buy records!
But from where? Unlike juice bars and cheap fashion retailers blaring B grade dance music (Supre flagship store coming soon, sigh), CBD record stores are a dying breed. Au Go Go. Gaslight. Rhythm & Soul - Gone! Even Bourke St Sanity has given way to Bras N Things… Yes, our parents are buying more cheap underwear than we are buying new music.
It should be music to your ears then to hear that a new record store has opened in the CBD, and a mighty fine one at that. Located discreetly off the lower end of Flinders Lane, Off The Hip has a basement filled with literally thousands of titles on CD and vinyl, with a sprinkling of zines, tees and DVDs for good measure. Punk, garage, psych, rock n roll, folk, RnB, soul, rockabilly, rare imports, Australian titles you never new existed and two very comfortable looking armchairs - Off The Hip would kick iTune’s ass in a fight faster than you can say “have knees, will tremble!”
By Matthew Hurst
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What:
Off The Hip Records
Where:
Tavistock House Basement, 383 Flinders Lane (enter from Tavistock Place)
When:
Mon-Thur 10am-5.30pm, Fri 10am-6.30pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun closed
Contact:
9621 2044
MySpace:
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It’s time to put an end to tabloid magazines. Supermarket checkout-stands could instead be filled with sardonic literary journals and a shining utopia couldn’t be far behind, right? The first step in the revolution is replacing all actors with animation. The 6th Melbourne International Animation Festival features more than 350 different films from animators around the world: painstakingly poetic ‘hand painted under camera’ films, computer-generated battle sequences, and everything in between.
Highlights include: monkeys fighting robots in Burning Safari; a scientific exploration of cartoon physics on a real-world mouse in Carlitopolis; and Weiss, a nightmarish depiction of a lone figure in a world of white, navigating through a maze using only his shadow. Inevitably, some try to use pretty visuals to distract from a weak concept and worse script. Joanna Quinn’s Dreams & Desires: Family Ties plays out like a reheated sitcom and, even at less than ten minutes, long overstays its welcome.
There's even a long-overdue retrospective for Fred Crippen – whose career spanned Sesame Street to Playboy, but who is best known as the creator of Generation X’s favourite ironic patriot and infamous pill-popper Roger Ramjet.
By Martyn Pedler
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What:
Melbourne International Animation Festival
Where:
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
When:
June 19 to 24
How much:
From $11 / $14
Win:
For Saturday 23 June, we have three double passes to give away.
For International Program #2, 1.30pm, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘Recto Verso’
For Australian Panorama #1, 2.30pm, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘Ticketweavels’
For International Program #6, 7.15pm, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘I want a nannybot’ |
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What:
Temper Trap
When:
Fri June 22,
Where:
East Brunswick Club, 280 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
How much:
$8 + BF here or $10 on the door
Contact:
9388 9794
Win:
We have 3 double passes to the show to give away. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘We will succeed where science has failed’
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Description:
Temper Trap. Ten bucks. Cheaper than Laneway fest and without all the hoo-ha with wrist bands and overseas ring-in headliners. They’re going back to the studio soon to record an album that everyone is gonna love, then they’ll be famous. Famous we tells you! And we’ll all be paying 25+BF to throw our underpants at Dougie. They’re supported by Hot Little Hands, who have a new song, some new facial props and at least two new haircuts.
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What:
Sly Hats Liquorice Night album launch
When:
Fri June 22
Where:
The Toff in Town, Lvl 2, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
How much:
$10 on the door
Win:
We have two double passes to the show to give away. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'Putting the tang in Tangiers'.
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Description:
As Danny B said a few weeks ago, “Geoff O’Connor is a pop maverick who looks like a librarian.” The olde-world stage of The Toff in Town might be the perfect setting for “putting the tang in Tangiers” then. Sly Hats are supported by Always and Francis Plagne.
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What:
The High Society Winter Solstice Ball
When:
Fri June 22, doors 8pm
Where:
Regal Ballroom, 216 High St, Northcote
How much:
$25 + BF here
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Description:
Moscow Schoolboy, Big Shot Manoeuvre, The Reefers, Queens of the Crossbones, Declan Kelly, people playing Middle Eastern surf rock, ‘Vaudevillian illusionists’. This one looks weird in a goodly way. Haven’t we been wanting to go to a ball since, like, Cinderella did?
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What:
Favela Rock 14: Never Scared
When:
Sat June 23, 10pm
Where:
Miss Libertine, 34 Franklin St, Melbourne
How much:
$7 on the door
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Description:
Throw up yo' kicks for Favela Rock this Saturday. From Scattermish to the gameboy/gamegirl boy, Tranterco, you'll stumble out, keeling over with post booty popping muscle aches during the wee hours. Don't spend too long adjusting the side angle of your headwear. Favela are celebrating Dizzee Rascal's album Maths + English and have some to spare for the likes of you. Don't miss M.A.F.I.A, CWD, Mu-Gen and Ooh-ee on the ground floo-ah.
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What:
Witness Protection Program prison party
When:
Sat June 23, 10pm
Where:
Roxanne, Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Pl, Melbourne
How much:
$20 on the door, $15 for WPP members and people in Wentworth prison fashions
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Description:
We think everyone should be rewarded for good behaviour. That includes the prettily pouty heiress, rewarded 23 days in jail for smiling sweetly. Whether you are jumping up and down gleefully in ode of her punishment or applauding her good behaviour behind bars - we've all got a reason to celebrate. Hand-cuff your friends and drag them along to Roxanne Parlour this Saturday and dance the jail house rock to DJs Frost, Luke McD, Shaggs and Red.Light.Disco. No jail bitch scrag fights please.
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Pigeon Combine’s 2007 winter range pays homage to the macabre literature of Edgar Allan Poe. The dapper garments of the ‘Tails of Terror’ collection draw on gothic themes and the eternal battle between vampire and man. The designs boast teeth, tails, hoods – everything, in fact, but a fear of the dawn.
Meanwhile, their upcoming spring collection is called ‘Nights in Azeroth’ and takes inspiration from the online role-playing game World of Warcraft. As Pigeon Combine says, “It’s gunna be bulk Gangsta. Expect volume, big hoods and wool. Shit you can ride into battle with.” (Check stockists and contact for phone orders here.) Before the battle begins though, we have a boys ‘Toy Soldier’ tee and a girls ‘Scary Stories’ tee from the winter collection to give away. Just answer the following question…
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This week’s question:
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
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a DVD but they wanted a utility bill and two other points of ID
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a cigarette lighter
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against the equity on my home loan
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from my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore
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To be in the running send your answer and postal address to win@threethousand.com.au, winners will be notified by email. |
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