Melbourne International Shooting Club
Do you ever get the urge to go to a dark and spooky part of town where you can visit a Lynchian clubhouse and fire off a few rounds with a mystery man named Laszlo?
The Melbourne International Shooting range is a parallel world where everyone's invited, and there is nothing like the cold hard thrill of lining up the sight range on a Smith & Wesson Colt 45.
First Annual Pan-Brunswick Car Wash Interpretive Dance Championships
In places like South Central Los Angeles, Saturday nights are for listening to N.W.A and mulling over two possible career choices: Bloods or Crips. It took Tommy the Clown and a jar of face paint to change this trend, uniting the people by knocking out some interpretive dance moves to the gangsta rap his older brothers were playing.
Fitzroy Gardens (community service announcement)
Fitzroy Gardens is undeniably one of Melbourne's daytime delights. Ice cream vans. Peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. A greenhouse and statues. I once saw people rooting there which was weird but strangely exciting because I was only about 15. Then there's the moments when frisbee meets family picnic with terrifying results.
Rock climbing walls
You don't have to be full of steroids, speak with a moronic drawl, and share your first name with a cartoon cat to do the rock climbing thing. Beneath a section of the Monash Freeway in Richmond hide three walls just off the Main Yarra Trail, which are open to anyone who ever considered telling gravity to ‘go shove it'.
I Dream of Derby
What is always better than violence? Correct: violence on wheels. And Roller Derby has been flying this flag in various American states since at least 1922. Luckily, men have been sidelined over the years because they always want to wear bulbous padding, which goes against the whole Xanadu spirit of the activity.
RUN Melbourne Museum, The Movement Movement
The Movement Movement. Or: your chance to make like Anna Karina running through the Louvre in Jean Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders. Canadians Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rowe organise large groups to participate in ‘choreographed jogging expeditions through the world's major cultural institutions.
International Skull Drawing Competition: Call For Entries
It's time to bring out your dead. Rise and Fall have just announced the inaugural International Skull Drawing Competition. With no million dollar platinum or diamonds, and certainly no excuses, the competition requires artists to simply submit their own black and white, A4 (297 x 210), skull creations to be judged by a panel and eventually exhibited in the lift/stairwell/rooftop of Curtin House.
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