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Wednesday 30th May – 5th June
Cosiness has got a bad rap over recent years. The making of soup, the wearing of slippers the penning of memoirs and such and such – not very punk. Even Martha Stewart, queen of the cosy, went down for insider trading. But for those about to embark on a Melbourne winter, when walking out your front door at 8am feels like drinking from a fire hose, cosiness should be starting to look pretty good.
Rather than stay at home with the cat and a whisky flagon, we’ve decided to take cosy to the streets. From a bandroom named after a couch to tracky dacks masquerading as jeans; from a book you can’t read to books you can read but didn’t know about; from hanging salamis to hanging out with Slayer, this week the coolest things are, um, also the warmest things.
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ThreeThousand Issue 107 – cosy like the wolf.
Cover photo by tin&ed. If you would like to submit a cover photo, email photo@tinanded.com.au |
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Images from To All The People We Love at Roxanne, courtesy of NowNow Pics |
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The Skin Project by Brooklyn artist Shelley Jackson is a 2095-word story published exclusively in tattoos, one word at a time, on the skin of volunteers.
Jackson considers the work to be, in some ways, a 'hidden track' of an earlier collection of short stories, The Melancholy of Anatomy. Unlike her other published works however, you won't find Skin on Amazon. The author has strictly stated that the story in its entirety will be published nowhere else and only be known to volunteers, who are known as 'words'.
Interested in becoming a word? Perhaps looking to cover up your Power Piglet? Head on over to Jackson's website for more details on how to get involved. While there are very few remaining words to be allocated, the author is still accepting applications.
There are some strict guidelines though. The word must be tattooed in black ink, large enough as to be visible by the naked eye, and in a classic book typeface, so no Comic Sans people.
By Jeremy Wortsman |
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What:
The Skin Project
Where:
On people’s bodies
How much:
The price of a tattoo
Contact:
Shelley Jackson shelley@drizzle.com |
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Deerhunter’s Fluorescent Grey EP is the dream existential suicide, insofar as you can commit it / listen to it more than once. There are only four songs, but each is a chemically lucid vignette of hazy psych-sex. Saturated in the sounds of transcendental death, the record plays out as an extended epiphany as good as the calm part of drowning is meant to be. Words and music repeat out like a mantra, mourning and learning in patterns beyond recognition, over and over, forever delayed towards the post-coital ecstasy of being no more than an object.
Opening track, ‘Florescent Grey’, sets the tone with strung-out guitars and doubled-up vocals spoken as if from behind and in front of a mirror. ‘Patiently, patiently… Patiently, patiently’, intones bandleader Bradford Cox ad nauseum until the song explodes in a whorl of casket dust and blurred lights on rainy windows. ‘Dr Glass’ jabs the same vein, considering all the world’s ‘Couples kissing’ and ‘Corpses rotting’ in the same phrase, and then there’s ‘Like New’, perhaps this year’s best song to date. This one is inscrutable; for a feeling touchstone combine Murmur -era REM, Disney’s The Skeleton Dance, Alexander Trocchi and psyclocybin.
By Mark Gomes |
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What:
Fluorescent Grey
Who:
Deerhunter
Where:
Missing Link
On:
Kranky / Inertia
MySpace:
here
Related Links:
Bradford Cox Interview |
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There’s more to being a slayer fan than obsessing over serial killers, satanism and warfare, collecting box sets and feuding with Megadeth. If you’ve been to a Slayer gig you have probably also crossed the lens of UK photographer Sanna Charles, who has spent much of her grown-up life following Tom Araya, Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo, their predecessors and their fans around the world.
This exhibition is a tribute more to the fans than the band. Photographed around the venues of Slayer shows in the UK, Oslo and Helsinki, they appear to be a friendly bunch (many of them too young to remember the Studio 54 show of ‘84). Charles says she is drawn to the ‘nostalgic timelessness’ of metal culture. Her work plays on the contrast between primal mosh pit shots and intimate fan portraits. This exhibition is presented by Vice and Insight.
By Penny Modra
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What:
Slayer Rules
When:
Sat June 2 – Sat June 23
Where:
Don’t Come, Lvl 2 Royal Arcade, 314 Little Collins St, Melbourne
How much:
Free |
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There is a book sale on at The Athenaeum Library at the moment. ‘The Athenaeum Library?’ you may ask. And if so, you have stumbled upon our real reason for writing this article. Winter is upon us – people’s roofs are already blowing off and the usual umbrella midgets are on the streets poking us in the eyes with metal spokes every which way but straight.
In short, it’s time to find some new, cosy places to hang out where there are little antique tables, nice plush rugs, flowers in vases and friendly ladies with whom we can chat. Enter the Athenaeum Library. Established in 1839, it began as an institution that would assist in ‘the diffusion of scientific, literary and other useful knowledge’. These days it’s a not-for-profit lending library with a large ‘leisure reading’ collection.
So, back to the book sale. On offer you’ll find cheesy romance and thrillers alongside weighty non-fiction tomes with titles like The United Nations Year Book 1998. Importantly, you can pop by with your coffee, or ask for one when you get there. As their flyer says ‘you’re never just a number at the Ath’. And you’re not cold or wet either.
By Penny Modra |
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What:
Book Sale
When:
Mon-Thurs 9.30am-6pm, Fri 8.30am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm
Where:
The Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Lvl 1, 188 Collins St, Melbourne
How much:
Free entry, books from $1
Contact:
9650 3100 |
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In the 1800s, Levi Strauss would have had little concept of the implications of his invention. Of the jiving, the flaring, the acid-washing, the skinny legging, the denim madness that would ensue. Even less so could he, or any of us for that matter, have anticipated this new advancement. These jeans that are not jeans.
Talking About the Abstraction is made up of three fashion and design graduates from Japan who have gained acclaim by digitally printing images of clothes onto, well, clothes. The brand is renowned for its trompe l’oiel prints on shoes but the real coup is the pants. They start with an innocent pair of tracky dacks and print a jeans-like image onto them. The effect is so life-like (edging on the hyper-real) that only turning them inside out gives the full effect of what’s been done.
In our never-ending copy of a copy of a copy world, Talking About the Abstraction appears to be taking comfort-dressing to a new level. Maybe next they should apply a Cheap Monday narrow print to breathable cotton leggings? Ventilation is just as vital as style.
By Nick Jumara
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What:
Fake Jeans from Talking About The Abstraction
Where:
L E F T, 161 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
When:
Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm
How much:
$650
Contact:
9419 9292 or left@left-fashion.com.au |
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It would be fair to say that each gig-going Melburnian has exhausted their whinge-o-metre for one lifetime when it comes to the closing down of iconic band rooms.
Well, whinge no longer. Like superheroes with their knickers on the outside of their sparkly leggings, A Good Sort are saving the day. They may not rescue kittens from trees or scale the Eureka Building with suction-caps for feet, but they will bring you live and local music via the refreshed band room at Gertrudes Brown Couch in Fitzroy.
A Good Sort have lovingly booked artists; Sly Hats (this Thursday in fact – more on that later), Tic Toc Tokyo, Marcus Teague (Deloris), Big Cats, Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth and Ned Collette among others.
At Brown Couch there are fine and affordable drink prices Wednesday to Friday evenings and cheap door charges too. This Thursday, for $5, see Sly Hats (mental note, a good preview of the album before the June 22 Toff in Town launch) supported by Barrage and Failing Star. It’s comforting to know that live music continues to survive the battle against pizzerias. Cheers to A Good Sort for the peace of mind.
By Isabel Dunstan
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What:
A Good Sort band nights
Where:
Gertrudes Brown Couch Bandroom.
Upstairs, 30 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Contact:
9417 6420 or agoodsort.bookings@gmail.com
MySpace:
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What:
Punkasila CD launch
When:
Thurs May 31, 8pm
Where:
Ding Dong Lounge
How much:
$10 |
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Description:
Punkasila are an 8-piece punk-rock band from Yogyakarta. They wear camouflage patterned hand-painted batik, tailored military fatigues. They play hand-crafted mahogany guitars that simulate hybrid M-16_s/AK-47_s. They’re launching their debut CD Acronym Wars. With The Histrionics in their final Australian show before a European tour. |
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What:
Laneway 3000: Winter Party
When:
Fri Jun 1, 6-9pm
Where:
Niagra Lane, between Little Bourke and Lonsdale Sts, west of Elizabeth
How much:
free |
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Description:
This hard-to-find party is not in a laneway bar, it’s in a laneway, which makes things easier. Presented by the City of Melbourne, this event presents a good chance to grab a free drink (one on entry), watch some contortionists, circus artists and say a big hello to winter. There’ll be a sneak peak of winter events planned for the city, backed up by a set from Caz Reitops regular Mr Lob and the ladies of High Ball Burlesque. There are some after parties planned too, apparently there will be arrows to follow, which might be required by 9pm. |
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What:
‘The Golden Years’ Is Not Magazine Party
When:
Sat June 2, 9pm
Where:
Miss Libertine
How much:
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Description:
Is Not Magazine is two years old now and they are celebrating geriatric status with a birthday party called ‘The Golden Years’. The rumours about a senior citizen tap dance troupe are true, they’re called The Golden Girls, get there at 9.30 or you’ll miss ‘em. They’re supported by Near Your House and The New Electric live, plus DJs Mafia, Barrie Glitter and podwars champions Plump’n’Rosie. $2.50 sherry shots all night.
Win: This OUT has been brought to you by Penny Modra who edits both ThreeThousand and Is Not Magazine, and stresses that no bias has been brought to bear upon the listing, adding that she has managed by dint of alcohol to convince the other Is Not editors to give away a double pass to the party and those interested should email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘two years of anything deserves a sherry’.
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What:
Little Red on the roof
When:
Sun Jun 3, 7pm
Where:
Rooftop Bar, Level 6, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
How much:
Free |
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Description:
Little Red. On the roof. Free. Madness! Turn up early and play bocce on the fake grass, or get there at dusk for a dose of Jackie Cooper, Speedo and Coca Cola. (Maybe this will thin the madding crowds at their Tote gig tonight too.) Taka says if you throw your underpants at them they might give you a free pair of Little Red merch undies as a prize (Dominic, Adrian and Quang have not necessarily agreed to this.) |
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What:
Youthquaker Exhibition and after party
When:
Thurs May 31 – Sun 24 Jun
Launching Thurs May 31, 6-9pm
Where:
Exhibition at 293 Drummond St, Carlton
Launch after party at Miss Libertine, 34 Franklin St, Melbourne
How much:
Free
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Description:
An exhibition inspired by ‘60s fashion, music and culture, curated by Tracy Quertier. The youthquaker movement may have had a weird name, kind of like an underage church service, but Twiggy was its poster girl. It was all about miniskirts, jumpsuits and hanging out with Andy Warhol. There’s an after party for the exhibition launch at Miss Libertine. Hot Little Hands are playing it. Due to an innate ‘60s leaning, no members of the band will be requiring costume hire.
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