WEDNESDAY 14 MAY
Joni Mitchell sang it best "you don't know what you've got till it's gone". Her words were high pitched and slightly annoying, but they still ring true. Sometimes you need to leave a city to realise how good it is to you. How it feeds and waters you. How it embraces those from far a field, how it takes risks; some successful, others less so - but you love it for trying. For those of us who can't afford a shift in geography; here's one in perspective.
Issue 136. Optimism is the new pessimism
Cover photo by Robert Barton. If you would like to submit a cover shot email nadia@twothousand.com.au.
Spaghetti Benches
No Age on Show
Emotional Twitter Tickers
Totes
Pet Shop Boys in neon
Baby Sister Gallery
Robert Rauschenberg
Flash games
Mike Mills
Nothing
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Spaghetti-o ads
Sick dogs on show
Obama Twitters
Totes (aka totally)
Pets in New York
Baby Co
Instant Rimshot
Plastic Mothers
Millsy
Something
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WON
WHAT
WON MAGAZINE ISSUE 02
WHERE
SEE HERE FOR FOR DISTRIBUTORS
WHEN
ISSUE 02 AVAILABLE NOW
HOW MUCH
FREE TO PICK UP, $8 TO ORDER ONLINE
If you're reading WON MAGAZINE, wash your hands before you touch your face, or you will end up with gridiron style under-eye war paint. Yes, WON is constructed of humble newsprint and is absolutely free (where you can get it), though its content is no hastily slapped-together assemblage of sensation like our daily rags.
Inside Issue 02 (Autumn 2008)is enough magic and mystery to compensate for all the art openings and gigs you've been too lazy to attend in the past six months. As well as news on the Arthur Russell film and a revelatory chat with CAN's co-founder, Holger Czukay. Other illustrious interviewees include Thomas Baldischwyler and Vernon Treweeke in conversation, Daniel Wang and Will Sweeney.
Format: Magazine
Motivation: Improves creativity by osmosis
Keywords: WON, Will Sweeney
Worldwide, The Death Set
Ever wondered what The Banana Splits would sound like after they'd smoked crack?
Gold Coast natives Johnny Siera and Beau Velasco found a nurturing home for their techno punk in their adopted hometown of Baltimore's DIY warehouse art scene (home to similarly inclined wunderkind Dan Deacon). Their debut full-length WORLDWIDE melds toy electronics with the energy of screamo, producing pop punk songs that sound like Le Tigre without the politics, Atari Teenage Riot without the rage, or Blink 182 without the, um, total lameness.
Making their name as one of the wildest live bands around, WORLDWIDE is a bit a cock tease, as their live show's said to be orgasmic. So keep an eye out for their newly pasty skin returning to our shores soon. Tra la la, la la la la...
Release: Album
To Cure: Hypertension
Keywords: The Death Set, Gold Coast
Courtesy of the Artist
WHAT
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
WHERE
547 BOURKE ST, SURRY HILLS
WHEN
TUES - SAT, 11AM - 6PM
HOW MUCH
PRICES START AT $30
CONTACT
9380 9499
Curators are lucky people. Not only do they live their lives surrounded by beautiful things and host frequent exhibition openings with free cask wine, but they also get first dibs on the artworks being displayed. Excuse me for getting all red in your inbox, but wouldn't the world be a better place if some of this vast cultural wealth could be shared with the common proletariat?
Hustle over to one of the best kept secrets on Bourke Street - a mysterious shop front bearing the initials CA. It's not the headquarters for the Communists of Australia. It's Courtesy of the Artist, an aesthetically delightful shop stocked with a diverse collection of limited-edition ceramics, homewares, jewellery and glass from over 50 designers. Run by the same folks as the Metalab studio up the road, CA also carries selected exhibition pieces from the featured works at the Metalab gallery so you too can get your mitts on items never destined for the Ikea shelves.
Product: Design
Anatomy: Torso
Keywords: Jewellery, Surry Hills, Artist
Fassbinder Exhibition and Film Series
WHAT
FASSBINDER EXHIBITION AND FILM SERIES
WHERE
GOETHE-INSTITUT AUSTRALIEN, 90 OCEAN ST, WOOLLAHRA
WHEN
MON-THURS 9AM-5PM, FRI 9AM-3PM. RUNS UNTIL JUNE 30
CONTACT
83568320 OR HERE
Alongside pretzels, Bauhaus, some of the world's best death metal and Claudia Schiffer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films are amongst Germany's top exports.
In a career that lasted less than 15 years, the radical perfectionist created 35 feature-length films, three short films, two television series, 24 stage plays and four radio plays; and did 36 acting roles in his own and other's films.
His phenomenal creative energy and intense discipline when working were in contrast to the scandalous, self-destructive libertinism of his personal life, and his death from a drug-overdose at 37 is often considered to mark the end of the New German Cinema period.
On the 25th anniversary of his death, the lovely guys at the Goethe-Institut in Woollahra are presenting an exhibition of Fassbinder's film posters, and are putting on free screenings of his films every Wednesday for seven weeks, starting tonight with his adaptation of Fontane's famous novel, Effi Briest.
Medium: Painting
Drink: Dandy shandy
Keywords: Exhibition, Germany, Goethe
Southland Tales
WHAT
SOUTHLAND TALES AT POPCORN TAXI
WHERE
GREATER UNION, WESTFIELD, BONDI JUNCTION
WHEN
THURS MAY 15, 7PM
HOW MUCH
$15 / $12 HERE
DVD
OUT NOW!
WATCH THE TRAILER
HERE
Richard Kelly won fans with his slice of moody postmodern angst, DONNIE DARKO. Now thanks to Popcorn Taxi you get a one-off screening of his follow-up - the long-delayed, much-maligned SOUTHLAND TALES - and the chance to participate in a Q&A with the director, live from Los Angeles.
You might want to start with this: uh, what the hell?
SOUTHLAND TALES is a sprawling, semi-satirical apocalypse flick, populated by visionary porn stars, amnesiac celebrities, giant dirigibles, and other Warhol wet dreams. Kelly obviously has an audacious vision, but wants to squeeze so much in that characters spend their screen-time just explaining stuff to each other.
It strives for Philip K. Dickian oddness, but often seems like still-a-first-draft oddness instead. Embedded at random intervals, though, are some jaw-dropping scenes: Justin Timberlake as a scarred Iraq veteran hallucinating wildly while singing a Killer's refrain - "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" - is strangely moving.
Is SOUTHLAND TALES a failure? Well, it's a fascinatingly pyrotechnic one, and you have to admire it for that.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home
Keywords: Donnie Darko, Sci-Fi
Pantone Mugs
WHAT
PANETONE MUGS
WHERE
MCA SHOP, CIRCULAR QUAY FOYER, L1, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, WEST CIRCULAR QUAY, THE ROCKS. OR ONLINE HERE
WHEN
STORE OPEN 10AM-5PM DAILY
ONLINE PURCHASE SUBJECT TO YOUR WHIMSY
HOW MUCH
$19.95
If you are colourblind you can forget about a career in aviation. Make-up? Also not for you. Lollypop person? Ten points for good intentions. Assisting Patricia Field? OK, yes, but c'mon.
In all, it's slim pickings. And who would have thought Pantone - those Nazis of the spectrum since 1962 - cared? But they're throwing you a bone in the form of Pantone mugs, stamped with the code of their colour. Now you can absorb the richness of PMS 032C, refracting off your coffee mug onto your eyeballs, just like the rest of us.
Note: There are many products in the Pantone Universe, including house paint, notebooks, cashmere jumpers and laptop bags, but most of them can only be shipped as far as Europe, where the rights of the colourblind are evidently a weightier concern.
Product: Design
Theft: Theft is inevitable: Buy two
Hannah's Pies
WHAT
HANNAH'S PIES AND PASTRIES
WHERE
562 HARRIS ST, ULTMO
WHEN
MON-FRI 7.30AM-8PM, SAT 9AM- 7PM, SUN 10AM-6PM
HOW MUCH
$4-$7 DEPENDING ON HOW MANY TOPPINGS YOU LIKE ON YOUR PIE
CONTACT
9211 2506
IMAGE
COURTESY OF GRAB YOUR FORK
They say that behind every great man is a great woman. In the case of that larrikin pie man down at Woolloomooloo there has never been a truer word spoken. Harry of Café de Wheels fame has one of the best women going around to back him up. Hannah is in fact the one that makes all of Harry's famous pies, pastries, hot dogs and it would seem, packs his lunch everyday.
While that may suit Harry just fine, the best part for the rest of us is that Hannah gives it up on the side as well. Literally, she sells the pies filled with chunky beef and topped with peas, mash and gravy, real sausage rolls and the best hot dogs this side of the USA from a hole in the factory wall. All this, with a fraction of Harry's drunken crowd or aspiring cast members from the FAST AND THE FURIOUS.
Venue: Eatery
Meal: Lunch
Hope Street Markets, Autumn 08
WHAT
HOPE STREET MARKETS
WHERE
PADDINGTON TOWN HALL, CNR OXFORD ST & OATLEY RD
WHEN
SAT MAY 17, 11AM - 6PM AND SUN MAY 18, 11AM - 5PM
HOW MUCH
FREE ENTRY
If there is a perfect time to smash open a piggy bank, it must be now. Hope Street Markets are back, with more than 60 designers waiting to be blessed with your pennies. With Paddington Town Hall providing a new shelter, separate sections have been delegated for design, fashion, art and music. This gives room for a mini art exhibition as well as a cafe.
Music from local acoustic artists such as Jordy Lane, Kaity Fox, The Falls and Red Ghost and more shall reward the ears of all that enter, and Frankie's cosy lounge section will provide a much needed 'stop, revive, survive' type of environment.
So there should be no "I'm too tired to stick around" kinda 'tude when you're prompted to buy a ticket for the designer raffle, which is raising money for the Hope Street Mission. Not that we're suggesting helping out the homeless this winter isn't reason enough.
Ambience: Indoor
Difficulty: Won't hurt a bit
Keywords: Hope Street Markets, Paddington, Markets, Designer
Internal Workout Volume IX
WHAT
INTERNAL WORKOUT VOLUME IX
WHERE
BLACK & BLUE GALLERY, 302, 267-271 CLEVELAND ST, REDFERN
WHEN
OPENS THURS MAY 15, 6PM. RUNS UNTIL JUNE 1
HOW MUCH
FREE
Anyone who went to William 'Grohl' Harden's last exhibition doubtless remembers the certain style accompanying each painting. It felt like walking onto a porn set directed by Salvador Dali. This time round though, it looks more like Rorschach blots on acid. Harden's work is a kaleidascopic dreamscape, where ghostly shapes shift in and out of swirling colours. As the title suggests, this exhibition is about the inner workings of Harden's mind, and after seeing this, you'll think he's plagued by acid flashbacks and hardcore porn, a healthy diet I'm sure you'll agree. - DW
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: A
Keywords: exhibition, black & blue, redfern
Adelaide: 1966-1999
WHAT
ADELAIDE: 1966-1999
WHERE
MONSTER CHILDREN GALLERY, 20 BURTON ST, DARLINGHURST.
WHEN
OPENS THURS MAY 15, 6.30PM. RUNS UNTIL MAY 30
HOW MUCH
FREE
Andrew Cowen’s exhibition of photography seems fairly ordinary upon first inspection. However it would be a mistake to assume this is the case. The exhibition is a timeline, from 1966 to 1999, of Adelaide’s most infamous crimes, from murder to abduction. Each citation details a particular crime, thus adding a disturbing, and fascinating, dimension to Cowen’s photographs, one that makes you question the appearance of innocence. - DW
Event: Exhibition
Stimulus: A
HOOPS
This week you'll not only see Nina Las Vegas, Bad Ezzy, Anna Lunoe, DJ Crane, Ariarne Halls & MC Gaffe E whip William Street into a frenzy of flailing arms and legs, but you can also see some familiar faces pimping and pumping it out... Does anyone remember Annalise Brakenseik? -KB
Event: DJs
Stimulus: E
Love of Diagrams
WHAT
LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
WHERE
SPECTRUM, L2, 34 OXFORD ST, DARLINGHURST
WHEN
SAT MAY 17, 8PM
HOW MUCH
$10
Melbourne's Love of Diagrams return to Sydney for a Saturday for a night of noise. Why should you care? Because their mash of no wave and post punk creates a sound that recalls Sonic Youth's early years or Joan Jett's scratch lyrics. They're bringing good friends St Helens up for their first Sydney show too. Opening the night will be DIY crunk rock homies Circle Pit. - AL
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
Keywords: Love of Diagrams, Spectrum
Kino #13
WHAT
KINO #13
WHERE
CHALK HORSE GALLERY, 56 COOPER ST, SURRY HILLS
WHEN
MONDAY MAY 19, 6.30PM
HOW MUCH
$10
Apart from a name which, (for those not fluent in Russian) may evoke mental images of old folks blowing their pension at the local RSL, Kino has it all. The creepy 13th installment includes films, booze, home-made food, music, live entertainment and the best excuse to wear a hockey mask other than a game of hockey. We also approve of practical attempts to bring back the bartering system - register to bring some food and forgo the $10 cover charge. - JG
Event: Film
Stimulus: W
Keywords: Kino, Film, Chalkhorse
In June last year Melbourne-based collective Albert's Basement rounded up 15 bands to play in some dude's bedroom. If you're thinking some hippies lined their walls with egg cartons, set up a tape deck and bashed their knuckles over a few fashion keyboards, read further. Spear-headed by Michael Zulicki, the Albert's Basement movement has put together gigs, fundraisers, parties and exhibitions across the southern city, now filtering up north. Their latest achievement is this fine record. It's the first of the series and features: Great Earthquake, Humansixbillion, Patinka Cha Cha, Low Rise Estate, Fulton Girls Club, Extreme Wheeze, Popolice, Touch Typist, Guns For Saint Sebastion, Seagull, Johnny Saw Horses and Oscar's Psuche. We have one record to give away, just answer the following question.
This week's question:
Where exactly is Albert's Basement?
a) under some crazy lady's staircase. Albert is a one-eyed ragamuffin who was left on the porch many moons ago.
b) some hippie's egg-carton hovel.
c) in Melbourne somewhere, perhaps down a laneway or up a staircase.
d) an illegally run bar in 1920s New York. Albert is bootlegger with loose women and looser morals.
To be in the running send your answer AND postal address win@twothousand.com.au. Winners will be notified by email. NOTE: Subscriber only entry. Not a subscriber? No sweat. Sign up here.
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