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Toxic Lipstick (Japan)
What:
Toxic Lipstick (Japan)
Where:
Roxanne, Lvl 3, 3 Coverlid Pl, Melbourne
When:
Fri Aug 8, doors 9pm
How much:
$10 on the door
Description:
Salient points according to the promoters:
1. They are two babes ready to drop le bass in your face!!!!
2. Fractal-crackin' bass junkies toxic lipstick drop beats like acid.Their new album Poopin' will make u lose yr lunch....in yr pants!!!!!!!!
Salient points according to us:
1.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: sound the horns!
The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions
Meet Kenji Kawakami, designer, pathological mail-order enthusiast and author of this book. Kawakami is the founder of Chindogu, the art of the 'unuseless' idea and the tome's premise. He's developed an entire philosophy around bizarre gadgets. There are 10 tenets of Chindogu; man-made objects that have broken free from the chains of usefulness.
d.v.d at Aphids Reel Music Festival
Comprised of two human drummers and a visual artist, d.v.d piece together live animations triggered by the musicians' drumming. They push music/gaming boundaries by reworking the ‘80s arcade classic, ‘Pong' (You all know, Pong, yeh?) with their own unique tribute. These guys are just one of the groups performing at the Aphids Reel Music Festival - four nights of live performances combining music with the moving image.
Toolz
Five degrees can make all the difference in Melbourne: five degrees this way, and the humid streets are transformed into Henry Miller’s World of Sex. Five degrees that, and hands not stuffed into pockets are busy stirring fondues, mulling wine, thumbing Picador Classics and caramelising figs.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
Spring is the perfect time to put away Moby Dick and go back to the classic works of Japanese haiku-master Matsuo Basho. Spring needs no florid Shakespearean drivel, no extended Biblical metaphors, no tricky rhetorical devices. It is a time best spent outdoors beneath the cherry, not curled away trying to make sense of Ahab's puzzled mutterings.
Branded To Kill (1967)
Everyone has a cinema aesthetic they'd secretly like to live inside. Tim Burton's gothic whimsy? Michael Bay's hyper-saturated blockbuster sheen? Don't make your final decision until you've witnessed Seijun Sukuzi's Branded To Kill.
Hanada is Japan's #3 killer, with a "peculiar quirk" for the smell ofboiled rice and strangely padded cheeks that make him look like the Radiator Girl from Eraserhead.
Fake Jeans from Talking About The Abstraction
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.
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