Thursday 25th June
Sometime in 1988, N.W.A. released Straight Outta Compton and condemned everyone else to be crapper from then on. But that doesn't stop us from trying. We might be getting older, but at least now we can afford to open our own milk bars, watch films about people our own age who have become famous and successful beyond our wildest dreams, and use human clones in our subterranean firing ranges.
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What:
un Magazine 3.1
Where:
Stocked at GCAS, The Narrows, Conical inc., West Space, CCP, Hell Gallery
When:
From June 30
Launch:
Sat June 27, 2-5pm at the Builders Arms. Performances by Pissypaw, Rod Cooper and Snawklor!
One time I tried writing about art and let me tell you it was no 50 cent bag of lollies. It was hard. Some people make it look easy, but reading their articles is sort of like watching Tom Pietrowski's finance report. You desperately want to share in the excitement, but you have no idea what he's lisping about. Other people, like the un Projects committee, make it look easy, AND they make a magazine people can understand.
This issue is edited by freelance curator Zara Stanhope and sub-edited by Jared Davis. There is a myth-busting analysis of the West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial by Brad Haylock, and an interview with experimental musician 'Jim Denley', which could convince even the hardest old jazz beret that it's jive to play harmonics in the bush.
Designed by Sam Moffat and Warren Taylor, un 3.1 includes artworks by Alex Martinis Roe, Alex Selenitsch and Matthew Shannon as well as the regular features and reviews. Apparently there's also a titillating gatefold, but I've only seen the PDF layout so I'm not sure what they mean. I hope it is not a picture of Alex Vivian. (And now, so does Alex.)
Format: Magazine
Motivation: Improves creativity by osmosis
Keywords: Un Magazine
What:
Negative Vibes
Who:
Chrome Dome
On:
Magic Crowbar, $7
Launch:
Fri July 3 at The Empress, with Naked on The Vague, Wasted Truth and Bum Creek
Chrome Dome's pass at the commonest subjects of outsider music - misanthropy, deadened feelings, self-hate and insanity - is brilliantly skewed, catchy-as-heck and potentially disturbing. The local duo makes a rattling, drugged-disco chug with heavily intoned suicide-note lyrics, machine sounds in spasm, atonal synthesiser step-melodies and eerie, childlike tambourine accompaniment melting down as the sound of mental disintegration: chilled, deathly, tinted with hysteria and madly funny.
Negative Vibes is the band's first release and has three tracks playing out like the stages of a stalker killing - premeditation, murder and then empty desolation. 'Negative Vibes' starts with darting-eyes pace and spoken thoughts: 'She's scared / He's aware'. 'Battered and Bruised' is heat-of-the-act chaos with cranked sirens and muffled screams, while closer 'Waste of Time and Space' is slower and shame drenched, with lyrics like 'Self destruction / Never felt so right'. Fractious and indulgent bum tripping downer dance.
Release: 7"
To Cure: A predictable playlist
What:
Beautiful Losers
Where:
ACMI Cinemas, Fed Square, Melbourne
When:
Premiere Thurs July 2, 7pm. Then Fri July 3, 7pm; Sat July 4, 7pm; Sun July 5, 5.30pm.
Image:
Photo of Ed Templeton by Mike O'Meally
Beautiful Losers is directed by Aaron Rose and tells the story of his semi-legendary Alleged Gallery in downtown '90s NYC. Alleged provided an incubator for a group of taggers, skateboarders and other criminally disposed minds AKA young artists (such as Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Ed Templeton, Barry McGee etc) who hung/worked and 20 years later became famous and successful beyond your wildest dreams. Tough life huh?
The film covers off their progression from DIY street art twenty-somethings to mainstream success in advertising, film, and graphic design. Even though it somewhat glosses over trickier subject matter about what happens to punk ideals when they meet big bucks - the film does provide nice insights into some of the greater artistic minds of our time. Plus their can-do-art attiude is pretty inspiring.
Special props must be given to Harmony Korine and his general randomness. "Hey, my friend Samuel's head, was found right there back in '86". Yes its good to know he's still got '95 Letterman interview in him. Rad.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Nostalgic
Keywords: ACMI, Aaron Rose, Alleged Gallery
What:
Mark Drew, C-90
Where:
Don't Come Gallery, Lvl 2, 314 Lt Collins St, Melbourne
When:
Opening Thurs June 25, 6-8pm
Win:
Thanks to Mark Drew, we have 3 artist prints to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line 'Gangsta fairies ain't nothin to puck with"
I've often wondered how NWA's Straight Outta Compton found its way into the Millicent public library in the first place. Gangsta fairies, perhaps? Needless to say, I was drawn to it like a moth to the flame. And even more needless to say, the tape was hella overdue when I returned it. You think I paid the late fees? Hell no!
Those of us for whom tapes like this played a central, formative role will find a lot to smile about in this new collection of works by Mark Drew, he of China Heights and man-about-Sydney fame.
The large-scale prints seem to reflect the large scale impact such small things had on our young minds. And what a huge pain in the ass it was when they chewed up and you had to wind them back in with a biro, and how every time you hear certain songs to this day, you expect them to end where your dubbed copy changed sides.
The work on display at Don't Come is a further development on the theme Drew has explored for the past year or so referencing his own teenage tape collection, including a mural on the wall of Sydney's Oxford Art Factory.
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Anything, as long as you look good holding it
Keywords: Don't Come, China Heights
What:
Carousel Girls Pop Up Shop
Where:
Level 6, Curtin House, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne
When:
Thurs June 25 - Sun June 28, 10am-7pm
Images:
Dress from Natasha winter 2008 range, and April77 trench
It's mushroom season in Victoria and the pongy brown things are popping up all over, which, quite frankly, is awesome if you're jonesing for a my-arms-are-giant-golf-umbrellas experience. But we're not here to enlist you for the next Ninja Muntathon. No, there's other good stuff temporarily popping up on our winter radar. Why, it's the Pop Up Shop, run by Sydney darlings the Carousel Girls, and it doesn't grow in manure.
Having played the seasonal peek-a-boo game for bargain-hungry label lovers in Sydney, Kristen and Paula have decided it's time to bring their ephemeral Pop Up Shop right to our sixth floor doorstep and shout "four day sale!" from the rooftop. Yesssss. Designers on the table include Cohen et Sabine, Bowie, Natasha, melissa shoes, Shona Joy, April 77 and four others, plus vintage pieces at really decent prices.
(If they say something's too good to be true it probably is, but it's worth checking their shoes for spores too.)
Product: Fashion
Anatomy: Whole body
Keywords: Pop-up store, Sale
What:
Shooting Target (70 x 45cm)
Where:
Online at Supermandolini, Other styles available for download at Aushunt.
How much:
The Supermandolini AUD $32.90 + shipping from Greece. Aushunt download free!
Contact:
The Pentagon
A friend of mine, who works at the Pentagon, was telling me how they don't use paper targets in their subterranean firing range anymore. They use human clones. Sounds pretty far fetched, doesn't it? Well, that's exactly what they want you to think. They want you to read this, roll your eyes, and go "Pfff." That way they can keep firing nickel-tipped skull-busters at living targets, 500km beneath the earth's surface.
My buddy says they've got them corralled by the thousands in enormous caves, where they feed on all the African goat-bats they can catch. And, in what must be the most grotesque example of symbiosis ever, the bats feed on the clones. So, when they're not being shot like fish in a barrel for the sake of marksmanship, the clones are fighting for their lives against giant bats.
And, how's this for morbid irony, these clones have pale, bulbous, faceless heads - much like the paper targets that they've succeeded. The original plan was to make them all look like Abby Hoffman but that didn't work out. Someone bumped a Petri dish and now there's an army of grey, bald, eyeless freaks copulating in their own filth, drinking bat blood, somewhere between here and the earth's core. Pfff.
Product: Objects
Theft: Theft is a risk
What:
Coco Avant Chanel
When:
In cinemas from June 25
Watch the trailer:
Here
Win:
Thanks to Roadshow we have 5 dbls to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘Qui qu'a qui qu'a vu Coco?'
This elegant, French-language biopic of iconic fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco' Chanel shows how she rose from humble origins to revolutionise the way women dressed. It also reveals how much her business was inspired - and financed - by her early affairs with louche aristocrat Etienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde) and dashing Englishman Arthur ‘Boy' Capel (Alessandro Nivola, who learned French for the part).
Having previously studied Chanel's life - which has inspired various biopics, including a recent telemovie starring Shirley MacLaine as the elderly couturier - I found the perfectly cast Audrey Tautou oddly unsympathetic. Chanel was famous for her savvy networking and her charm with men, yet Tautou presents her as an irritable, socially awkward sook who's almost unwillingly seduced.
However, Tautou does evocative work with intense black eyes in a pale, makeup-free face. The camera follows Coco's gaze, alighting on a nun's pin-tucked habit, the stripes and layered textures of ladies at the races, and fishermen hauling their catch in shapeless jackets and striped T-shirts. It's a clever way to show that Chanel transformed the quotidian into luxury - and that this, ultimately, is what made her designs so radical.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Nostalgic
Keywords: chanel
What:
Grigons & Orr
Where:
445 Queensberry St, North Melbourne
When:
Tues-Sun 7am-7pm (kitchen open until 3pm, coffees until close)
Contact:
9663 5192 or grannydavis@grigonsorr.com.au
Remember those days when you picked up a Sunnyboy from the milk bar on your way home from school? Well they're back. Kellie May Grigons and Margo Orr, who also own the Order of Melbourne, are taking a trip down memory lane one soda float at a time with their new corner store. They're selling all sorts of grocery items (watch your backs, Errol Street convenience stores) as well as butter by the pound, organic milk in glass bottles and mystery tins!
"What's in them?"
"It's a mystery. Derr."
Okay, milk bars rule, but aren't we all grown up now? I'm a rocket scientist! She's a brain surgeon! The important thing is, we both do brunch - and Margo and Kellie are offering an all-day breakfast menu, including a curious item called ‘Spam'. All the jams and relishes they use are home-made, just like Grandma's (actually Margo's mum makes them).
Oh and make sure you grab a lolly bag before you go. Maybe pack a few extra freckles for little Georgie across the road. You don't like her yet, but you will.
Venue: One stop shop
Meal: All day
Keywords: North Melbourne, Lollies, milk bar

Description:
Thee Pet Shop party TONIGHT – a noirish origin story
Forever Barbie. Yes, really. She will never die. And her stylist is coming too.
Muph & Plutonic. Hip hop artists are simply more efficient.
Wolf & Cub launch Science and Sorcery!
This is Not a Design Market, but this is a stallholder call-out
The Birmingham has not been shit for one year now. Go to their party.
Glitzern's sale ends soon! That hot dog bag is not going to buy itself.
Make it Up Club special event! Not to be confused with the Make Up Club's event. Different crowd.
Event: Escape
Stimulus: Clothing
Keywords: More OUTs
What:
Cailan Burns, Too Much To Dream launch
Where:
Lamington Drive, 89 George St, Fitzroy
When:
Launching TONIGHT! Thurs June 25, 6-8pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Cailan Burns was born in the town of Elizabeth in South Australia, "a place where happy pants do not make anyone happier." He's launching his first solo show tonight at Lamington Drive. Friendly, hairy creatures inspired by lucid dreams, Japanese ghost pictures, Czech and Russian animation and forgotten childrens' books. He has also made a Babushka Doll band with Sun Ra as the lead singer. ThreeThousand hopes it will be called the Babarkestra. Jeremy Wortsman promises Operation Mulled Wine, Part 3 will be in effect. - PM
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: Hana Shimada
Keywords: Fitzroy, Illustration, Lamington Drive
What:
Donuts Deluxe Fat Ass Sale!
Where:
Shop 3, Vesta House, 1-7 Carson Place, Melbourne
When:
Right now! Finishes Sat June 27.
How much:
Free!
Description:
You know a sale is going to be a bit special when the flyer promoting it is TOO REAL for Photobucket. Seems the photo sharing service couldn't deal with all the junk in the trunk and deleted it from their servers - oops. While the online flyer is dead, you can still make it down to Donuts Deluxe and catch a bargain. They've got sneakers, sneakers and magazines. New Era, WeSC, 20s and 10s and sneakers. And accessories. - MN
Event: Sales
Stimulus: Clothing
What:
Sabbatical presents: Isomer
Where:
Pony, 68 Lt Collins St, Melbourne
When:
Thur June 25, 9pm
How much:
$6
Description:
The weather got a bit better there for a while - well, temperatures in the high teens at least. That's all over again and we're back to the stinging cold and threatening skies. The only way to cope is to embrace it and Sabbatical offers the perfect soundtrack: SA native and bleak soundscaper Isomer, ably assisted by a reconstructed string trio, one man's lonely aggression and misguided aural exploration. - Us
Event: Bands
Stimulus: Chaos
Keywords: Sabbatical, Noise, Experimental, Pony
What:
dot dot dot launch
Where:
Hell Gallery, 5a Railway Pl, Richmond (behind Coles Supermarket)
When:
Launching Fri June 26, 6pm-late
Exhibition runs until July 18
How much:
Free!
Description:
The amazing Lisa Radford and Sam George have made an exhibition with their friends. It is a collab about collab. It is confusion about confusion. It is a launch about launching. It includes an 'everything flag' (brown), a songlist to be played by DJ Everyone. Sausages. Chutney. A Richard Lewer painting, the most comfortable corner of the world, and take-home pens. The great thing about post-modernism is you can just do what you're doing and it happens anyway. I swear to god, I was so glad when minimalism ended. What a hassle. All that dry cleaning AND no food at the openings. - PM
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: Sausage Sizzle
Keywords: Hell Gallery
What:
Disappear Here
Where:
Mercat Cross Hotel, 456 Queen St, Melbourne
When:
Fri June 26, 9pm-5am
Marching band starts at GPO, 9.30pm
How much:
$10
Description:
Party of the week! Brought to us by the people behind Sweet Jelly Roll comes the chance to dress up crazy fresh, and the best press release ever: "Inspired by underground art movements like London's Act Art and legendary New York club Paradise Garage, Disappear Here takes contemporary dance, video art, lighting installations, original music and drag terrorism and piles it all in to a confetti canon that catapults into the audience in a fleeting moment of glorious confusion." Apart from air-punching anthems there will be a sixty piece marching band. Hannah Fox says you don't have to dress up in a disguise, but she is trying to decide whether to go Bollywood gimp or disco burqa. YOU WON'T EVEN NEED TO SHAVE! - Us
Event: Party
Stimulus: Chaos
What:
John IV
Where:
Geddes Lane (near corner King St and Flinders La), Melbourne
When:
Fri June 26, doors 10pm
How much:
$20 on the door, $10 between 10-11pm, $15 on guestlist
Description:
Although it seemed to be a match made in heaven, JOHN (the party formerly known as Trough) is kissing the sweaty basement of Geddes Lane goodbye before taking a hard earned winter break. Accompanying the warming disco tones of Hysteric, Animal Instinct & Jerky Chicken and Kapitolina, DJs Bromance, Leslie Salvador and Sweat Midler, there will be a special performance by Luke George of Chunky Move fame, channelling Johnny 'John' Young and all the loving of the Young Talent Team.- MO
Event: Party
Event: Supper
Keywords: Trough, geddes lane
What:
Favela Rock
Where:
Miss Libertine, 34 Franklin St, Melbourne
When:
Sat June 27, 10pm-5am
How much:
$10, $8 on door list
Description:
High tops, hoodies, gold chains, Baltimore, Baile funk, hip hop. Favela Rock is looking to grind the indie right out of you no-pager pussies. Mafia, Steezy, Ooh-Ee and Team Opulent are behind the decks. In the immortal words of Wreckx-N-Effect, "All I wanna do is zoom-zoom-zoom and a boom-boom." And drink some goon.- MN
Event: Party
Event: Supper
Keywords: Baile Funk, Baltimore, Hip Hop, Hoodie
What:
Hello Sailor Vintage Fair
Where:
The Carlton Hotel, 197 Bourke St, Melbourne
When:
THIS WEEKEND! Sat June 27 and Sun June 28, 1pm-6pm
How much:
Free entry!
Description:
Aside from their obvious ‘we come from a sweet era which you can never personally revisit' charm, vintage goods are also brilliantly seasonless. It doesn't really matter that it's as chilly as Anna Wintour's stare outside - if Hello Sailor Vintage Fair beckons, we go, because there is ALWAYS stuff to fawn over ('who cares if it's a light shift dress - it's vintage! I'll hang it up until next summer, damn you'). And this time around, you gentlemanly types get more than vinyls with your beer and bbq - there's heaps o' clothes, 40's hats and Mexican kitsch handcrafts stuff too. - ST
Event: Sales
Stimulus: Cheap Treasure
Keywords: Hello Sailor, The Carlton Hotel, Second Hand, Vintage
What:
Mistletone Records present Castle Tones
Where:
Edinburgh Castle, Cnr Sydney Rd and Albion St, Brunswick
When:
Sat June 27, 3pm-12am
How much:
$16 +BF from here and Polyester
Win:
We have a dbl pass to give away! To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'Stereolab would have asked for M&Ms'
Description:
Mistletone's latest festival shifts from the label's regular theme of seasonal change to specialist locale - specifically, Brunswick pub The Edinburgh Castle - in making Nordic headliners, Je Suis Animal feel at home, or simply in recognition of the thriving venue's recent contributions to local live music. As usual, Mistletone's line-up is inspired and places some of Melbourne's best bands on the same bill for the first time. ThreeThousand favourites Scott and Charlene's Wedding will be worth the price of admission alone, and don't miss indies of the moment Dick Diver, The Twerps and Brisbane's digital folk twanger, Anonymeye. - MG
Event: Bands
Stimulus: Hana Shimada
Keywords: Stereolab fans, Bands, Experimental
What:
Goonlight Cinema
Where:
Man With a Van depot, 23-25 Russell St, Abbotsford
When:
Sun June 28, 5-9pm
How much:
$5 donation, cheap beer and wine available for your liver damage project. And toasties.
Description:
They (Ronan) at Australian Film Review are (is) having a series of screenings (reunion of Goonlight Cinema) to raise funds for a new website. The money is going toward paying writers and also to fund the remaking of Starwars I - III. At the press conference, Ronan said, "We are sure to have a lovely time together. Unless something dreadful happens. Which is always possible." He is showing Mike Leigh's Naked as well as some public domain shorts and a few other miscellaneous items to fill in the silence. Oh god, the silence. Expect the silent short film of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, some informational videos from the '50s and maybe some video clips. - PM and RM
Event: Film
Stimulus: Cheap Beer/Drinks
Keywords: Abbotsford, Film, Fundraiser
What:
The Petrol Can Rider by Simon O'Carrigan
Where:
Bus Gallery, 117 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne
When:
Tues June 30, 6-8pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
"Pshhhh why would I go watch something that isn't even three minutes long?" Shut your face. This animation screening is going to be one of those moments when you realise just because technology lets you tweetwatwit every peeny detail of your life, that doesn't mean it's the ruler of the world. And especially not the ruler of animation. Remember when people drew cartoons? Without a computer? With a pen and paper? Do you?! Well that's why you need to go see The Petrol Can Rider. With more than three-thousand hand drawn cells, it will be three minutes OSX can't compete with. No live Tweeters. - PC
Event: Supper
Event: Supper
Keywords: Animation, Bus Gallery
What:
The Last Tuesday Society, Jagged Little Pill Edition
Where:
Yah Yah's, 99 Smith St, Collingwood
When:
Tues June 30, 7.45pm sharp!
How much:
$8/$10 on the door
Description:
Presented by Bron Batten and Richard 'midriff' Higgens, it's a Last Tuesday Society special event! The Jagged Little Pill Edition. A ragtag team of artists including The Suitcase Royale, The Caravan of Love and Simonce Page Jones will each interpret one track off this seminal album. It's the last LTS until September. During the press conference, it became uncomfortably clear that Bron likes the Alanis thing more than Richard. They both said, however, that only genuine audience members need apply. No time wasters, no c*nts. Carn.
"A theatrical tour de force!" - Guy talking about Jersey Boys.
"It's going to be totally rad," - Bron.
"I'm going to be sick" - Richard.
Event: Supper
Stimulus: Chaos
Keywords: Last Tuesday Society, Yah Yah's, Theatre
What:
Batman vs The Dark Knight
Where:
Astor Theatre, Cnr Chapel St and Dandenong Rd, St Kilda
When:
Wed July 1, 7.30pm
How much:
$8 ('80s price!)
Description:
It's Michael Keaton vs Christian Bale as O.G. Batman (1989) takes on the Dark Knight (2008). It's Jack Nicholson vs Heath Ledger. It's Vicki Vale vs some broad. It's a tag team cinematic battle of the ages. We're giving the 1989 movie the nod based on the Prince soundtrack, but you can make up your own mind when they go head-to-head at the Astor. - MN
Event: Supper
Event: Supper
Keywords: Batman, Christian Bale, Prince
What:
Trivia and bingo nights at Pushka
Where:
Presgrave Place (off Howie Place, off Little Collins, off Swanston, off the Yarra, off Bass Straight, off the world, off the universe) Melbourne
When:
Wednesdays from 7.30pm
How much:
Free!
Description:
Pushka do their Wednesday evening booze between games of trivia and bingo, and so should you! This week it's trivia and the winner takes it all - a $50 voucher at Newtown Worker's Club! Arrive in teams of between two and four for a few rounds of questions of varying subjects and difficulties. Charlotte says, 'Winners of each round can dip into the box of mystery prizes." The drinks are cheap and they have nachos.Important: choose your buzzer here. I have dips on 'Ohh'. - MS
Event: Supper
Stimulus: Cheap Beer/Drinks
Do you know what sucks about regular comics? Well, apart from the costume conference circuit. And the constant griping about when they will be accepted in fine literary circles. Blah blah blaaaah. No, what really sucks is that most of them come already coloured in! Where's the Sunday fun in that? Third Drawer Down knows that the world needs more interactive publications. And they've also perfected the art of decal sheets. Now they've put two and two together and given us decal zines!
Basically, you get an original artist's zine, but it comes with a special decal set to match, so you can grab your little blunt pencil and start rubbing things off onto the pages. Such as, in the case of Textqueen's zine for instance, bikini tops and bling. There are four zines to collect so far: Colour in Nudes Rub on Bikinis by Textaqueen; Les Enfants de L'atome by Dylan Martorell; We Are Totally a Verb by Maya Hayuk (USA) and Weird Woods by Seth Scriver (Canada). They're $16 each, but we have a full set of four to give away! To enter, just answer the following question...
This week's question:
If anything rubs off on me, it will be
a) more greylead. Gah, when will I get my pen license?
b) the desire to pose nude for Textaqueen
c) nothing compared to what Frank Miller could do
d) someone else's little blunt pencil
Send your answer, name and mailing address to win@threethousand.com.au. Winners will be notified by email. Subscriber only entry! Not a subscriber? Oh noooess! It's free you willies. Sign up here.
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