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Images by Mia Mala McDonald at Nathan Gray’s Love, Purity, Accuracy launch, Utopian Slumps. |
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ABC,
as easy as
Gilles Deleuze…
Hang on… What kind of magazine uses another magazine’s masthead on its cover? Or uses, as its premise and structure, an obscure interview with a dead French philosopher? (In fact, this philosopher thought so little of the premise of the interview that, although he consented to the interview, he stipulated that it was not to be screened until after he was dead.) What kind of magazine has an article called ‘Shoot the Player Piano!’? What kind of magazine has, in the same issue, articles that touch on North Korean super-accurate counterfeiting of US dollars (called Superdollars), Herman Melville, the aesthetics of distribution, Marcel Duchamp, stenography, Richard Hamilton, typography, Brian Eno, modernism, Hitchcock, Esperanto, David Tudor, Ames Rooms, John Maynard Keynes, schnapps, Irvin ‘Zabo’ Koszewski, mathematics and shorthand, architecture and nihilism?
Well… either a very good one or a very bad one. OK, Dot Dot Dot does. Specifically, Dot Dot Dot issue 14 (‘S as in Sstenographer’), which does all this and too much more to fit here. Somehow, they do it in a way that keeps sucking you in instead of freezing you out. Like your most interesting friend, Dot Dot Dot is learning things and evolving. Where it's going we don't exactly know, but judging by the jaunty swagger in its stride, we're going to enjoy the finding out.
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What:
Dot Dot Dot issue 14
Where:
Single issues available from Typotheque, subscriptions (2 issues per year) available from Bruil & Van deStaaij
When:Out now
How much:Around AUD $20 per issue Notes:Yes, the double ‘s’ in ‘Sstenographer’ is correct. It’s the title of the issue. |
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Envisage the Vanishing Point crossroads of German electronic Kraut and heavy-headed late night rock’n’roll. Portland trio, Chromatics, go there with spunk on the new Italians Do It Better disc release, Night Drive – a patient and affecting shake down of synth sequences, Alloy-tinged guitar melody, Hollywood Babylon production strength and all the creeps of standout UK darkwave. It’s a heavy concept record using narrative devices – including lengthy set songs, stylistic sound effects, soundtrack-inspired transition pieces and all the analytical cool of a future robot space assassin.
The record opens with a hyperreal / druggy soundover of a girl leaving a club close to dawn; she rings her boyfriend, deadpans “I’m going for a drive”, then sings outright: “When I came to this world / I arrived in a car”. A propulsive, heady mix of minimal dance and Cure sublimity scrolls out as a highway passing underneath her, produced with a ‘70s grandeur and the reanimated cool of vintage analogue gear. ‘Healer’ takes a brilliant lick of Joy Division and covers it in cellophane and elsewhere they weirdly make-up the perennial Kate Bush favourite, ‘Running Up That Hill’.
By Mark Gomes
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Some summer’s day. The nineteen-eighties. Led Zeppelin IV on a Walkman as I complete my paper run. My first exposure. Magic. I saved up for the matching tie-dyed T-shirt with the angel logo, only to be laughed at by the metallers at school who – unbeknownst to me – owned this stuff. I was a nerd and Zeppelin were metal. Lesson learned.
Only really it was the other way round. I was a nerd into Dungeons & Dragons, which, if you believed Christian hysteria at the time, was an occult plot to lure kids into Satanism. Really it’s just a hodge-podge of Tolkein and escapist power fantasies. Which could be the one-line review of Led Zep’s entire career. But, any way you look at it, I knew more about rock, runes and magick than those hair-Metallers ever would.
Next Monday three cool nerds, Haig, Samartzis and Tofts, step inside the Pentagram – protected only by their back-issues of Uncut magazine ?– to summon the spirits of Aleister Crowley and Jimmy Page. The occultist and the demon guitarist will be united – like Rick Moranis and Sigourney Weaver – in an unholy alliance consummated by the evil ministrations of live band Black Dog.
By Dylan Rainforth
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What:Zoso - A ritual of rock, runes and magick, by Ian Haig, Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts
Where:
Project Space / Spare Room, 23-27 Cardigan St, Carlton
When:
Opens Mon Oct 29, 5-7pm
Exhibition runs until Fri Nov 16, Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm
How much:
free
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What:
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
Where:
ACMI's First Look "Art Stars" program
When:
Limited season Oct 25-28
Read more and watch a preview:
here
Win:
We have 5 double passes to the opening night screening (tomorrow) to give away. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘bursting with soup flavour’
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Lou Reed sang that Andy Warhol’s diaries “were not a worthy epitaph” for his life’s work. Warhol was constantly claiming his own blank simplicity, but many disagree with this self-diagnosis. In this new documentary – helpfully entitled Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film – we hear Andy’s 32 soup cans described in one word: “Complicated”.
This old-fashioned doco is filled with rare footage and smart commentary but, most importantly, remembers to focus closely on the art itself. It’s narrated by Laurie Anderson, the only performance artist to ever have a breakaway pop single, here keeping her sing-song elocution in check.
Being two episodes of the PBS American Masters series strung together, there’s admittedly no real reason to see this in a cinema, except to lock yourself in a dark room with Warhol’s work like you won't with your loungeroom TV. Be warned: though it's always interesting, it turns Andy’s fifteen minutes into just shy of four hours.
Warhol became a celebrity through sheer force of talent and will, wanting to be famous so badly that he changed the very rules of fame. Was he a genius? Anyone could paint one Campbell’s soup can. A genius paints all 32 different flavours.
By Martyn Pedler
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Not long ago we somehow found ourselves reading a transcribed PDF file of the new Harry Potter book on a laptop, in a public bathroom, and decided enough was enough, and made a pact to never, pirate, rape, or pillage again.
To atone for our sins, we now just shop at TITLE.
Following the success of its flagship Sydney store, and a 2007 retail interior design award under its belt, TITLE has now opened up shop in Melbourne.
Specialising in "the best music, films and books that this little planet has produced", one step into this marvelously curated store will make you totally forget that all their stock can be found much cheaper online.
Coverflow on iTunes may be nice, but can pale in comparison to TITLE's heavy wood shelves, which are a pleasure in themselves to browse through. Flicking through CDs and DVDs, staring at the cute person shopping next to you, looking at the ubercool clerk, wondering if you will have the guts to ask them about the song playing on the system, as you recall with fondness the faraway city shops from your youth that held such mystery and possibility...
Or you could just go home, listen to some Pavement, stare at your bittorrent ratio, and masturbate into an old gym sock to internet porn.
It’s your choice, really.
By Jeremy Wortsman
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What:
TITLE
Where:
183 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
When:
Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, Sun 11am-6pm
Contact:
9417 4477
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Tom DiCillo made one of the ‘90s most canonical indie films: the great low-budget movie about the ego-driven horrors of low-budget movie-making, Living In Oblivion As Jim Jarmusch’s ex-cinematographer, DiCillo seemed guaranteed to share in that same kind of laconical success… but only released a few forgettable straight-to-videos and mostly disappeared.
Now he’s back with Delirious. A homeless young man (the wonderfully pouty indie wunderkind Michael Pitt), Britneyesque teen popstar (the wide-eyed and mostly-underweared Alison Lohman) and a lonely paparazzo (who else but Steve Buscemi?) have their lives interact in the predictably fateful ways that they always do in these kind of movies.
Despite some missteps, and a hamfisted, failed attempt to ratchet up drama in the final scene, Delirious is oddly lovable. It’s refreshing to see a film about fame without the glut of obligatory celebrity cameos throughout. (When one slips through, it’s disappointing.)
When the satire arrives in the last act, it’s pretty limp, but that’s to DiCillo’s credit. He just doesn’t have the bite for it. Unlike so many of his contemporaries, he never mistook cheap cynicism for wit. He’s happy making these sweet fairytales for bitter hipsters.
By Martyn Pedler
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What:
Delirious
Where:
Cinema Nova
When:Opens Nov 1, with a special preview Oct 31, 7pm (see win)
Watch the trailer:
here Win:We have 50 double passes to give away. This is pretty much our own screening. Wooo! (We would love you to come, Martyn might even buy you a choc top.) Email win@threethousand.com.au with YOUR MAILING ADDRESS and the subject line ‘sweet fairytales for bitter hipsters’ |
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Emma Grace’s new range of wearable art is, in more than one way, The Hunted. It’s called The Hunted. It’s modeled by the hunted, it’s a tribute to hunted animals.
Created from 925 silver, this collection features antlers, dove wings, deer heads and hearts. While tiny and perfectly formed, the pieces that make up The Hunted – like Bowie, Stevie and John – seem to have their own dark histories.
Bowie: The word is that the hunted one is out there on his own.
ThreeThousand: The word is you can totally find The Hunted at Emma’s Open Studio* this week.
By Penny Modra
*When you visit level 4, room 11, don't miss Jasmina Krupic's new range of jewellery, Jo Duck's photography, Tai Snaith's illustrations, Narinda Reeders' photo media art, plus design by Nadine Treister.
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What:
The Hunted by Emma Grace
Where: Craft Victoria, Obus, Rich Fitzroy store, Pussycat Black, 3 Edwards St, Brunswick. OR Level 4, Room 11 at the Nicholas Building Open Studios this Thursday and Friday
When:Nicholas Building Open Studios on Thurs Oct 25 and Fri Oct 26, 5pm-9pm How much:The Hunted from $85 Notes:There will be 12 Nicholas Building studios open for visitors this Thursday and Friday. Go forth, drink, buy stuff. |
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Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The report you see before you concerns Tourism Victoria’s Red Thread campaign. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to film or photograph your completion of one or more of the following tasks in this city of Melbourne. You must then upload your documentation here. There is $1000 and a Blackberry to be acquir ed from each mission. You may be rewarded with such riches if you complete a mission imaginatively 1. Slam your snooze button 765 times instead of 764 times one morning 2. Hijack Cupid’s arrow 3. Eat so much you have to loosen a notch on your belt 4. Tie a siren to your head and play Fashion Police 5. Find a door. Don’t try and be clever and hunt down a member of the '60s American rock band. 6. Show off your city nous As always, if you or any of your team is caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Jim. Please dispose of this message in the usual manner. By Isabel Dunstan |
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What:
Melbourne Mission: Is Possible challenge
Where:
Melbourne, 3000. Enter here
When:
Now until Fri Nov 16, 12noon
How much:
Free |
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Handsome Steve is a hospitality revolutionary. Not in any namby-pamby Nike-loving Che Guevara kind of way. Steve is iconic, sure – his fearsome bowtie is more than a match for Che’s ponsy beret. No, HS is the real deal. Hospitality’s Great Dictator – its Josef Stalin. The House of Refreshment is totalitarian. Soy milk, skinny milk, tea, light beer – these things have been done away with. Sent to the gulag for re-education. Best not ask after the fate of Comrade Decaf either.
From his first floor fortress in the Abbotsford Convent, Steve and his army of apparatchiks have returned the art of eating and drinking to Year Zero. The pegboard menu is a shining manifesto. Putting the pure back in purge it offers a few essentials done well, in the old manner.
Many of us like it this way. We men and women of simple taste. Rallying behind our great leader, we revel in the security of knowing that our beer will be Carlton Draught and that after a long day toiling in the field we can feast upon a ham and cheese (or ham or cheese) sandwich. Comrades rejoice, the five year plan has been achieved in four!
By Dylan Rainforth
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What:
Handsome Steve’s House of Refreshment
Where:
Lvl 1, Abbotsford Convent, St Helliers St, Abbotsford (directions here) When:
Open in accordance with Handsome Steve's dictatorial whim. But usually around midday until around 9pm. |
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What:
The 38k Benefit Gig
Where:
The Prince Bandroom, 29 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
When:
TONIGHT! Wed Oct 24, doors 8pm How much:
$18 BF from the prince public bar, book online here or phone 9536 116 |
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It comes along rarely, but right here is the chance to party in the name of something worthwhile – rather than in the name of getting wasted and squandering the brain cells you will paradoxically require to pay off your drinking debts. All ticket sales, auction proceeds and donations from this show will go towards the Kamala Arn Benefit Foundation Fund, to aid her recovery and future medical costs and to support The Alfred Foundation. So who will be assisting you in your Wednesday night wastedness-for-a-cause? Rok Radio (Nick Thayer and N’Fa), Mu Gen, Thief and The Sure Shot Hunters.
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What:
Us vs Them and L.I.M.P present The Mint Chicks
Where:
Roxanne, Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Place, Melbourne
When:
Fri Oct 26, doors 9pm
How much:
$15 on the door
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Description:
Live Independent Music Project team up with Us vs Them to put on a gig - nay, a showcase – this Friday. New Zealand rock punk powerpop call-the-ambulance outfit The Mint Chicks are headlining in their shiny lace-up shoes. They’re supported by electro-punk heroes Group Seizure,
Shooting At Unarmed Men
And DJs Post Percy, BROmance and Chestwig. This showcase is proud to have no sponsors at all. |
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What:
Junior and Jerry's Birthday - This is Not a Party
Where:
Meet at the corner of Centre Place and Flinders Lane
When:
Fri Oct 26, 8pm – Sun Oct 28
How much:
Your entire weekend
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Description:
This is not a collection of words. They do not string together to invite you to some guy’s birthday party. The birthday that we are not mentioning here will not be a three day bender of spontaneity or heavy drinking. We swear you will not be found by your Mother coiled up in a gutter with someone else’s underwear pulled over your eyebrows which have been replaced with drawn-on squiggly lines.
Please do not turn up on the corner of Flinders Lane and Centre Place this Friday at 8pm as no one else will show. This is not another event in our OUT section. In fact, we don’t even have an OUT section.
Happy Birthday Junior and Jerry. Whoever you are.
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What:
Fashion Keyboard featuring ThreeThousand DJs
Where:
Upper levels, 189 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
When:
Fri Oct 26, doors 10pm
How much:
free
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Description:
Penny and Bel reach Melbourne’s nightlife pinnacle, playing the main room at Fashion Keyboard this Friday at midnight. Last time, they may have only had two CDs but this time they’ll have at least three and Bel will actually pay attention to the decks instead of dancing around with her shoes off and demanding jagerbombs from her many fans. They’ll be in a solid gold line-up with Alex from Alpha 60, Oprah Winfrey Disco (FAT), Gossip Girls (Kids in Berlin) and Led Zephyr (Material Boy).
Actual DJs watch out: because people who can’t DJ are DJing this Friday night. And there’s $2 pots. Yeah.
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What:
Favela Rock 18: 2nd Birthday!
Where:
Miss Libertine, 34 Franklin St, Melbourne
When:
Sat Oct 27, 9.30pm
How much:
$10 on the door |
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Description:
Why the best things come in pairs:
1) Two is the atomic number of helium
2) Animals boarded the Ark two-by-two
3) Springsteen thought that two hearts were better than one. He also believed it took one for the running but two for the road
4) Favela Rock has been bringing hustlers and grinders together for two years now
Playing at Favela’s second burrthday will be Mafia, CWD, Steezy, Hans, Edo, Mexi and OohEe, Jimmy Sing (Syd), Tranter and GapTooth.
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What:
Swap to Shop, 'Frock Exchange'
Where:
Third Class, Duckboard Place, Melbourne
When:
Tues Oct 30, 7pm
How much:
$25 including complimentary bubbles and treats. To reserve you place RSVP to info@clothingexchange.com.au with subject line “The Frock Exchange” Win:We have two double passes to Swap to Shop to giveaway. Email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line “I wear a paper bag because a fiery Dragon burped on me.” |
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Description:
Worried that the paper bag you took your groceries home in yesterday won’t compliment your needle-thin stilettos this racing season? Fear not. The frock exchange strike again and this time ladies flounce around at Third Class for their swap fest. Trade in your old dresses for new ones. However, they will be checking your goods at the door and may or may not accept paper bags.
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 As we are all aware, Brit/Oz cult label ANTI!PODIUM recently released limited edition prints exclusively for London Fashion Week. What do we care about London Fashion Week? You ask. Not a great deal, we answer. We all know who invented New Rave and let’s just say it didn’t happen in a city where the toilet flushes clockwise.
Don’t let that cloud your vision, however, because the 2007 ANTI!PODIUM line (No Romance Without Finance) is named after their own club night in London and the LFW release included a limited edition collaboration with Rinzen – a design collective with whom we like to knock back a beer or 72 rather frequently. ANT!PODIUM asked Rinzen to put their spin on ‘Skippy’ for the range, which produced some amazing totes (pictured).
ANT!PODIUM have released limited editions of the Dead Skippy design for Australian buyers, printed on their 'Bit on the Side' tank and their 'Don't Screw the Crew’ tee. These are available at Fat and Alice Euphemia in Melbourne. And, thanks to ANT!PODIUM, we have two tanks to give away. Just answer the following question…
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This week’s question:
Dead Skippy will be mourned by...
a) his friends ever-true b) Sonny Hammond and the gang c) Tchk tchk tchk, tchk tchk tchk
d) His cousin Skipinder, the Punjabi kangaroo
To be in the running send your answer, gender and postal address to win@threethousand.com.au, winners will be notified by email.
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