Thursday 18th June
Pat, click this. Let the dramatic intro load. You have been a great Ass. Ed. You have shown us how to use a mixer. You have put up with us when we asked you to supervise a room full of lycra models. You have written great things. You have told us about Twitter. And now you are going home to NYC. And we will come stay at your apartment. Whenever we want. Love, your friends.
ThreeThousand 210 - take the long way home
Also on the site right now:
STREET - Good looking people at the Lenko shop launch!
GOODS - Think Geek. Incredible.
READ - Chris Flynn disses the classics. Episode one: Ulysses
Cover image by Tin Nguyen. If you would like to submit a covershot, that would be so rad! Email photo@threethousand.com.au.
Terrariums
Giant shirts
Temper Trap's new video!
Loud People, Todd Lamb
Choosing exactly the right Facebook username
Aleks & The Ramps
One free roller coaster
One in ten
Design Files travels the world
The Auteurs
Hand-drawn street pics
Shooting rubber bands
Tell us what's cool
cool@threethousand.com.au
Meteorites
No desserts
Princess Leia's old bikini
Loud people on the tram
Facebook username users
The most annoying guy in France
One nagging dream smashing man hater
Hairless men
Designer bin liners
McLeod's daughters
Help me meet chicks
Book smell in a can
Tell us what's fool
fool@threethousand.com.au
Apartamento, An Everyday Life of Interiors Magazine, issue 03
This may be creepy, but Apartamento is the sort of publication that I like to pick up and smell: in private, in public, it doesn't matter. I like to flick through the pages about a dozen times to let it wash over me before I settle on an article or an image to really sink into.
It's the sort of magazine that I've stopped lending to friends because I always want it back. I need it near me, always at arm's length so when my own apartment is messy with an ad-hoc interior it still feels okay. And so when the light shines through the windows it is somehow brighter, warmer, more inspiring.
Issue 03 of Apartamento has articles on slaves, Julio Inglesias, forest books from Hiroshi at Utrecht bookstore in Tokyo, plants, BLESS and an ‘everyday life travel supplement' with contributions from Geoff McFetridge, Ari Marcopolis and Elk Zine's Jocko Weyland.
Format: Magazine
Motivation: Improves creativity by osmosis
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
What:
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Who:
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
On:
Lost and Lonsesome / Slumberland
Related links:
MySpace
You might have already heard of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Given that they've been blogged within an inch of their lives and have the twee-est name in existence. It also hasn't hurt the publicity zeitgeist that they're label mates with Crystal Stilts and constantly compared to Vivian Girls and, yes, they're from Brooklyn. Now would you believe that their album sounds nearly perfect?
TPOBPAH's (or Pains for short) self-titled debut has obvious reference points with its jangly Jesus and Mary Chain guitars and Moz-esque lyrics, not to mention shades of the entire Sarah Records back catalogue. Derivative? Hells yes, but when when you're songs are as infectious and clever as single 'Young Adult Friction', I can't say it's a problem.
Its hard to single out tracks when a band's done you the favour of making a 35-minute album. 'Contender' and 'Gentle Sons' bookend the fizzy pop harmonies of this album in jackets of fuzzy guitar squall - you reach the end itching for the play button. TPOBPAH's debut is catchier than swine flu and a lot more fun to listen to - if you like super cute noisy pop songs rattling around in your head for days, anyway.
Release: Album
To Cure: A broken heart
Keywords: Pop, Slumberland
Disgrace
What:
Disgrace
When:
In cinemas from June 18
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
Thanks to Madman we have 5 dbls to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘He is what he calls himself - a monster'
Based on JM Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace is set in a post-apartheid South Africa that's renegotiating privilege and power. With a striking juxtaposition of brutally beautiful landscapes and plush, paranoid cities, it's the perfect backdrop for a provocative meditation on race, class, sex and violence.
When poetry professor David Lurie (John Malkovich) is kicked out of his university for a callous affair with a student (Antoinette Engel), he retreats to his grown-up daughter Lucy's remote farm. Lucy's market garden business relies on the protection and financial assistance of black farmhand Petrus (Eriq Ebouaney), and when father and daughter are brutally attacked by black youths, Lurie's racist anger at Petrus threatens to destroy Lucy's precarious existence.
The film resists the temptation to paint Lurie as a sympathetic figure. He's a self-absorbed aesthete and sexual predator with no compunction or social skills, which highlights the hypocrisy of his outrage. Still, the perfectly cast Malkovich makes Lurie intriguing. Newcomer Jessica Haines is fantastic as Lucy. The decisions she makes aren't easy to understand and feel like capitulations, but Haines's toughness suggests Lucy will weather life's storms far better than her father.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Gulp
Keywords: Drama, John Malkovich
Comeback Kid
What:
Comeback Kid
Where:
Lvl 1, 8 Rankins Lane, Melbourne
When:
7 days, 11am-6pm
Contact:
9670 7076
Launch:
Thurs June 18, 6-8pm
Walking down a laneway and into a strange, low-ceilinged stairwell is normal for us citymaholics. But to stumble upwards and arrive at a beautifully presented fashion boutique rather than some dilapidated drinking hole can still flip even our Melburnian minds.
At the end of Rankins Lane (around that corner from Brother Baba Budan, fiends), Comeback Kid is a surprise. The store has glossy hardwood floors, industrial paraphernalia scattered around, a changing room the size of my best friend's NYC apartment, and an absolutely stunning photographic mural by Ben Davis pasted up over an entire wall.
The brain child of Greta Larkins and Patrick Roberts, Comeback Kid has been in the making since 2007. They registered the name, and then sat back planning and plotting, making it perfect. In stock are latest menswear lines from Does Not Equal, Limedrop, Odeur, Neon Sleep, Orri Henrisson, Trimapee, and about five other labels coming soon.
Comeback Kid is not just cool for being beautiful or stocking beautiful clothes, it has that ‘I-just-found-something-secret!' feeling, which for us jaded hacks doesn't come often enough.
Product: Fashion
Anatomy: Whole body
Keywords: City, Launch, Men's Fashion
The ThreeThousand Shop - Ideas Wanted!
What:
The ThreeThousand Shop - ideas wanted!
Where:
Lvl 6, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Opening early September, 2009
Contact:
shop@threethousand.com.au
We have always been passionate about connecting people to people and people to things and, as an extension of this, we are transforming the front half of our studio on the sixth floor of Curtin House into a ThreeThousand Shop.
Opening in September, the shop will naturally stock a highly filtered selection of local products but will also cast its net more widely to source and curate a premium offering of international objects, publications, stationery, music and other random goodness.
Preferably local, preferably exclusive and definitely innovative, this is a call out to fashion and product designers, publishers and record labels who would like to see their ideas sitting on our shelves. Write to us at shop@threethousand.com.au - get your skates on.
Product: Everything you dreamed
Anatomy: Whole body
Keywords: Music, publishing, Design, independent
Ry Haskings, 'Backtrack (aka Catchfire)'
What:
Ry Haskings, Backtrack (aka Catchfire)
Where:
Utopian Slumps, 25 Easey St, Collingwood
When:
Launching Fri June 19, 6-9pm.
Exhibition runs until July 4
How much:
Free!
The genesis for some of the work in Ry Hasking's new show was a conversation about postmodernism with his father during half-time break at the footy. Now, I've been to the footy and seen all the fathers and sons getting about, doing their bonding thing. It's a wonderful thing to witness, but I wonder how many of them are discussing Nietzsche. In these enlightened times, probably more than you'd think!
Anyway, this story illustrates how Hasking's colour pencil drawings of movie posters, tubas, self-help gurus and tombstones deal with direct ideas that come from all kinds of different angles. When they are grouped together, they form a whole new set of meanings through the way they intersect and compliment each other.
Reinforcing this approach, his ultra-realistic drawings are hung in pyramid shaped frames, within an abstract wall painting, based on the concept of the magic square. So, in a way, if you were to tinker away on a Sodoku while viewing the show, you would be getting into the spirit of things. Sort of. Regardless, I think we're all agreed on one thing. Going to the footy with your dad is always a good idea.
Medium: Illustration
Drink: Double espresso
Keywords: Art, Collingwood, Utopian Slumps
Getting fit, the rock 'n' roll way
What:
Getting fit, the rock 'n' roll way
Where:
Immortal Fitness, 483 St Georges Rd, Thornbury
How much:
You're looking at around $60 per hour
Contact:
We recommend Sharryn, or email the gym's owner, Byron, for a recommendation
There's an urban legend that Wolverine-esque former-Misfit-come-band-leader Glen Danzig keeps up his muscular physique by working out in a private backyard gym. The short-in-stature punk/metal icon allegedly performs this ritual to the soundtrack of his own records. Personally, I hope he sticks to the first four and skips Black Acid Devil.
Laugh - then look shamefully at your own bulges and remember what it was like to have a lightning fast metabolism. But who wants to frequent a neon-lit sweat factory blasting top-forty-FM and be surrounded by the very worst of the upper-middle class lycra brigade?
Quietly providing the antidote is Immortal Fitness. Decidedly sans-neon, this private gym is a paradise worthy of Mr Danzig himself. Your only in is through one of a select group of personal trainers.
We recommend Sharryn Groves, who has been tailoring her services to accommodate many musical identities (helping them with blast beats) and bar staff (cocktail twirling). Sessions can be solo or in small groups and, you never know, you might bump into your punk/metal hero while doing dead-lifts.
Event: Supper
Difficulty: Depends how hard you push it
1000 £ BEND
What:
1000 £ BEND
Where:
361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
When:
Drop in from Monday
Open Mon-Fri 8am-8pm, Sat-Sun 11am-8pm
Contact:
No phone. No skinny milk either
If I had a pot plant for every time Jerome said to me, "The new place will be opening soon," the air would be a lot cleaner in our office. Just kidding! Jerome usually says "Goddamit Penny, get out the way so I can get this f--king cafe set up, don't you have work to do? Jesus."
Anyway, finally my useless hanging around has paid off. It's called 1000 £ BEND (thousand pound bend, you Aussies) and it's a cafe on Little Lonsdale Street. When I say cafe, I mean GIANT HOLY CRAP WAREHOUSE. From Monday, the cosy front room is open. You'll recognise a lot of the furniture, but there are big ol' couches too, and a totally sealed off outdoor smoking cell. Monkey is doing the cooking, and soon the kitchen will be set up in a 'magic wagon' that Jerome drove in through the front door. Breakfast burritos, toasties, soup, lasagne, pies, daal, what have you.
All kinds of stuff is coming up in the warehouse out the back and upstairs - like exhibitions, the Bicycle Film Festival and, if I have my way, flash dance classes. Anyway, they're getting some Feng Shui experts through first. And, you know, electricians. Okay back to work slackers.
Venue: Café
Meal: All day
Keywords: Jeromes
More OUTS - June 18
What:
More OUTS
Where:
On the site right now!
Description:
Magic is in the Air, exhibition launch TONIGHT at Design A Space in Windsor
Deerhunter. You know, we know. Princess Mary's iPhone knows. No excuses.
Science get together. Don't be ashamed! You can meet others like you. Canapes available.
Melbourne International Animation Festival starts Monday!
Ghostface Killah. No big deal. JUST THE BIGGEST HIP HOP TOUR OF THE YEAR.
Mistletone presents Castle Tones next week! We have a giveaway. Thanks Soph.
Event: Beach Volleyball
Stimulus: Cheap Treasure
Keywords: More OUTs
Alice Euphemia GARAGE SALE!
What:
Alice Euphemia GARAGE SALE!
Where:
Shop 6, Cathedral Arcade, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Thurs June 18, 9am-7pm; Fri June 19, 9am-7pm; Sat June 20, 10am-6pm
How much:
Up to 80% off! Starting at $20.
Contact:
9650 4300
Description:
Put your leggings on ladies, you need to do everything you can to avoid changing room queues today. Just get it all off, that's right, and throw yourself onto a pile of Ellery, Arnsdorf, Maus Cat Berlin, Marnie Skillings and Romance Was Born. There are samples, seconds and heavily reduced end of season stock. Take the dog whistle if you have to. It's bitch eat fashionista. - PM
Event: Sales
Stimulus: Clothing
Keywords: Alice Euphemia, Fashion
Synaesthesia - Qua with Isobel Knowles and Paul Robertson
What:
Synaesthesia - Qua with Isobel Knowles and Paul Robertson
Where:
ACMI, Fed Square, Melbourne
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs June 18, 6.30pm
How much:
Free! You can pick up tickets during the day at the box office though, just to make sure you get in.
Description:
Producer, experimental musician and all round nice guy who likes puppets, Qua, is putting on a free performance at ACMI tonight as part of their Synaesthesia program. It's a collaboration with the beautiful Isobel Knowles and Gus Kemp, who will do "live mechanical and digital visuals". After that, Paul Robertson is showing some of his work. He's an animator who has made Japanese-style 8-bit video games and video clips for Architecture in Helsinki. This will essentially be a reunion for everyone who makes good music and good art in Melbourne. Book a wax, wear a suit, have some dignity for god's sake - KM
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
Keywords: ACMI, QUA, synaesthesia
Marching Band rehearsal
What:
Marching Band rehearsal
Where:
VCA, studio B301, Dance School
When:
TONIGHT! Thurs June 18, 6pm
How much:
Free!!
Contact:
Email but you don't have to RSVP, just show up!
Description:
The people behind Sweet Jelly Roll have decided to make a new event, Disappear Here, that will be taking cues from the Paradise Garage and being a one-night-only art experience. But one thing that they haven't worked out yet is their marching band. They are calling for applicants to march themselves up from Centre Way to the Mercat Cross and cause all brands of calamity. But first, you have to practice. Twice. So if you're up for it, show up to the first rehearsal. Jazz belts and activity clothes welcomed but not necessary. - PC
Event: Fun in the sun
Stimulus: Fame
Keywords: Sweet Jelly Roll, Art
Monster Children and Asahi present ROKU
What:
Monster Children and Asahi present ROKU
Where:
The Lee Gallery, Lvl 1, 491 Chapel St, South Yarra
When:
Thurs June 18, 6-9pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Real simple. Six international artists. Four images each. Best one from each artist is applied to a limited edition series of Asahi beer glasses. If you known your Initial D backstory, have a thing for J-pop, like to read magazines back to front and lust after Japanese 'AV Idols' this is the time and place to let your Otaku tendencies shine. Maybe check out some artwork too. - MN
Event: Launch
Event: Supper
Keywords: Otaku, Art Exhibition, Japan
Stu Morley's Aspirational Interlude launch
What:
Stu Morley's Aspirational Interlude launch
Where:
No Vacancy Gallery HAS MOVED! Pop Up space at QV, 191 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne. Enter at street level, 10 meters from the Russell street corner.
When:
Thurs June 18, 6.30-8.30pm. RSVP essential, email RSVP@stumorley.com
How much:
Free!
Description:
Is anyone in Melbourne not planning a trip to New York in the near future? Anyone? Anyone? Seriously, it's like you can't move for people telling you about their holiday plans, arguing about the best bagel spot and trying to reach consensus on the 'Bushwick is the new Williamsburg' issue. Stu Morley's b/w photo exhibition about the five burroughs should put you in a suitably New York state of mind ahead of your trip. - MN
Event: Launch
Stimulus: Culture
Keywords: New York, Photography
DJ Glorious Basterd returns to the ones and twos
What:
DJ Glorious Basterd returns to the ones and twos
When:
Fri June 19, doors 10pm
Where:
Risky Business at Alia, Lvl 1, Cnr Smith St and Gertrude St, Fitzroy
How much:
Free entry until midnight!
Description:
Dave Chestwig's new night Risky Business is really good you guys. But this week he enters the Michael Coppel Presents league by booking Ronan Macewan to DJ. Ronan says: "This rare event is my long awaited return after a hiatus of well cooking spaghetti and soups (think: Farnsy). Besides modern favourites like Daft Punk, Dizzee Rascal, The Knife and Frank Sinatra, I'll be playing everything from 'Word up' by Cameo, and 'Mars' from The Planets suite by Holst to dance floor favourites like Disco Duck and Guru Josh's 'Infinity'. It will be special, and by the power of grayskull I will make cocktails half price until midnight." The bar has risen, Waters. - PM
Event: DJs
Stimulus: C
FBi fundraiser
What:
FBi fundraiser
Where:
Roxanne Parlour, Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Pl, Melbourne
When:
Fri June 19, 8pm
How much:
Presale $10 here or $15 on the door
Description:
While the Melbourne vs. Sydney feud will never fade, sometimes it has to be put on the backburner. FBi is a very rad community radio station that needs a giant chunk of money to stay alive. I mean, it's really rad. Imagine the Sydney version of Triple R but with awesome parties and no ageing rock snobs who do embarrassing things like name-drop The Dirty Three. The catch is, it's in Sydney. But supporting FBi is like supporting your friends who are in bands who need people with great taste to play their songs in NSW. Go see Qua, Faux Pas, Hot Little Hands, The Frowning Clouds, Tan + DJs and fundraise! Not you, Dirty Three, you stay away. Oh, you guys. - PC and PM
Event: Bands & DJs
Stimulus: sound the horns!
Keywords: Roxanne, Fundraiser, FBi
Minutes with Jim Patterson and Like Dealers
What:
Minutes with Jim Patterson and Like Dealers
Where:
The Public Bar, 238 Victoria St, North Melbourne
When:
June 19, Doors 8pm
How much:
$7 on the door
Description:
The last time we ran something about Minutes, it was two sentences long, and we said they sounded like Sonic Youth. Not helpful. They deserve more than that, but we like to keep things simple: a laid-back guitar driven indie rock band featuring four very attractive men. Why wouldn't you go? - PC
Event: Bands
Stimulus: W
Keywords: Music, North Melbourne
Peacocks are back!
What:
Peacocks are back!
Where:
Mercat Cross Hotel, 456 Queen St, Melbourne
When:
Friday June 19, doors 9pm
How much:
$10
Description:
I used to be in Peacocks. It was the greatest thing that has ever happened in my short and pitiful life. The glamour, the unbridled sexuality, the virtuoso musicianship and the adoring crowds would combine and combust each time we stepped on stage. It made me feel like a cross-dressing disco superhero (possible name: Amylman). But it turns out that Peacocks don't want me in their little band anymore. Why? Who knows! Sure, I've put on a bit of weight and my tights don't fit anymore. And maybe I missed a few practices because I was playing Fable II on Xbox. But I'm going to go and watch them anyway. They'll still be the best live band in Melbourne. They haven't played in six months, and the new songs are amazing. Whatever. I wrote all of them anyway, and when they get famous I'm suing the shit out of those guys. I'll see you there - I'll be the chubby guy in the back, dancing poorly. - SM
Event: Bands
Stimulus: C
A Name Is A Label sale!
What:
A Name Is A Label sale!
Where:
5 South Daly St, West Brunswick
When:
Sat June 20, 12pm (aka noon)
How much:
Free!
Description:
A Name Is A Label take old clothes and give them a new lease on life. Op-shop monstrosities are salvaged, deconstructed and spliced with other fashion mistakes to create double stitched, one-off, bundles of joy. It's like recycling that isn't tedious and doesn't involve Al Gore forcing you to use crappy light bulbs... Anyways, the label is having a sale and we strongly suggest you get there early. - MN
Event: Sales
Stimulus: Cheap Treasure
Controversy
What:
Controversy
Where:
Roxanne, Lvl 3, 2 Coverlid Pl, Melbourne
When:
Sat June 20, doors 9pm
How much:
$15 on the door
Win:
We have 1 dbl to give away! To win, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject ‘The ghost of future disco past here to show you your dance floor wrongdoings'
Description:
Controversy is a new night of future disco. Or maybe it's a future of disco past? Either way, it features Cameron Bird (him from Architecture in Helsinki) and friends behind the turntables / laptop / iPhones. They're playing everything that doesn't suck and arguing over who gets to drop 'Controversy' by Prince. Unless things go spectacularly wrong this is gonna be a semi regular thing. - MN
Event: Party
Stimulus: C
Keywords: Architecture in Helsinki, Roxanne, Disco
House of Baulch studio sale!
What:
House of Baulch studio sale!
Where:
Studio 4, 60 Langridge St, Collingwood
When:
Sat June 20, 10am-5pm
How much:
Cash only!
Description:
Kathryn Baulch is that chick you've seen at the Grace Darling wearing hot jewellery, but you couldn't get close enough to look properly because Moi Rogers' afro was in the way. Her stuff is amazing though - and she's having a studio sale this Saturday, including one-offs and samples. Costume jewellery, bags and accessories that make the ladies jealous and the men stop looking at your tits. (If you would like expert fashion copy written for your business email penny@threethousand.com.au). - PM
Event: Sales
Stimulus: Cheap Treasure
Keywords: Jewellery, Accessories, Fashion
Nat Nikitovic's Camberwell Market stall
What:
Nat Nikitovic's Camberwell Market stall
Where:
Camberwell Market
When:
Sun June 21, 7am-noon
How much:
Cheap
Description:
Why are we telling you to meet us at Camberwell Market? I mean, it's on every week, isn't it? The only difference is the outfit Dougie from Temper Trap is wearing as he trawls the aisles, dropping hot jam on people's vinyl collections. Well, this week, Nat Nikitovic has a stall - the same Nat who recently rose to fame in a pair of boob-high leopard print leggings on the cover of M Magazine. This is a perfect storm for vintage tight-wads. Nat spends her entire life shopping for vintage and now she needs to sell it all so she can spend her life shopping for vintage in Europe. All the hard work has been done for you! Nat says: "Note: I take a soy latte with two sugars and I wouldn't say no to a hot dog." - PM
Event: Sales
Stimulus: Cheap Treasure
Keywords: Fashion, Camberwell
The guys at Schwipe got no flies on them. They know how the economy works, yes Cher. They are having a $50 web store sale right now, and everything is going faster than original recipe Vegemite. There are some beautiful yacht rock knits, a few reduced from $180, their famous No Sweat Sweater (or, as we like to call it, the Goonies parka) and some shirts that seem to say "Indeed, I have a collar, but I'm still telling you to chill the f--- out Harold."
Thanks to Tim and Misha, we have one Schwipe sale item of your choice to give away! We might as well hand you $50 because, unless you're a gnarly old Fitzroy fashion-pit, where else would you be spending it? To enter, just answer the following question...
This week's question:
The Schwipe guys know
a) how the economy works
b) Cher
c) that Harold needs to chill the f--- out
d) Harriet Beecher Stowe
To enter, send your answer, name and mailing address to win@threethousand.com.au. Winners will be notified by email Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? O RLY? Sign up here.
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