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Author results: Dylan Rainforth

Jon Campbell, 'Folk Songs'

Article published 27th Jan 10

Artist and musician Jon Campbell has a delicate constitution and a nose for the important things in life. First felony: prima facie and to wit, commenting on his new painting Cheap Perfume and Fried Dim Sims Mr Campbell says, "At Flinders Street Station you can buy take-away food from a little kiosk on the platform.

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You're the *Cunt*, Donut.

Article published 10th Dec 09
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Herbal tea

"Patty Hearst, you're standing there in front of the Symbionese Liberation Army flag with your legs spread, I was wondering were you gettin' it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women..." (from the spoken word ‘breakdown' of the Patti Smith Group's cover of 'Hey Joe').

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The Shilo Project

Article published 25th Nov 09

Will the real Shilo please stand up? I'm not just talking to the ninety artists involved in "covering" Neil Diamond's join-the-dots album cover for The Shilo Project at the Ian Potter. Or the fact that the song itself is an ode to Diamond's imaginary childhood friend. Imaginary. Not real.

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*Tastes Self*

Article published 21st Oct 09

Goin' up the country - still don't give a fuck. *Tastes Self* is psychocowpunkhorseshitmentaldrama dredged from the childhoods of the sprite-sized Kate Smith and the benign sorcerer Alex Vivian. Introduced at Kate's first show at Utopian Slumps, Whoops Kibbutz, the pair got chatting - just like the yokels they aren't - about growing up in lower NSW's bucolic Riverina and all that pastoral goodness.

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Tomorrow The World

Article published 12th Oct 09
Ambience: hardcore
Difficulty: Depends how hard you push it

Call it THE OTHER Melbourne International Arts festival - West Space are putting on a three-week festival of sound, performance, and audiovisual art. And the most you'll pay is $20 - can't say that about the German opera can you? If it makes noise or it's got images that move then you'll find it in Tomorrow The World.

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'TS2' by Slow Art Collective

Article published 1st Sep 09

Eighties kids TV series Fraggle Rock always was ripe for Marxist analysis. The Doozers are obviously the proletariat, and the Fraggles represent an apolgetic for first world capitalism (Doozers LIKE being exploited). Gorgs are a stupid (inbred) Old World aristocracy. The wise, all-knowing Trash Heap is none other than Mother Earth, representing historical inevitability - the environment and the in-built obsolescence of an unsustainable capitalist economy.

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MIFF - Arts and Minds

Article published 13th Jul 09
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Dandy shandy

Appearances can be deceptive. Or at the very least, seductive. As a photographer, Anton Corbijn made images of rock stars - then he made a movie about a rock star (Control) to become a star himself. Documentary isn't always a mirror to reality. Sometimes it's a mirror to another mirror. To another mirror to another.

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