Keyword results: France
For JD - With Love and Squalor
France you have given me many things - family holidays in the mountains when all the cool kids went to the beach, long car journeys reading until it made me spew, Dad being slapped in the face by a monkey, a pontoon face-plant while trying to impress the lake boys with my front flip, Serge cassette tapes on repeat, castles, wineries, ravioli in a can.
GoldenHook
Got a grandma? I do. Too bad she's the chainsmoking, leather pant sort who wouldn't know her yarn over from her slip stitch. I love you Nan, but your new age, anti-bake-sale jabber won't keep my ears warm this winter.
If, like me, you don't have the hook-ups to hand-knitted headwear this side of the equator, then French website GoldenHook is the answer your frostbitten extremities have been longing for.
Camille
WHAT
CAMILLE
WHERE
BECK'S FESTIVAL BAR, CNR MACQUARIE ST & PRINCE ALBERT RD, CITY
WHEN
TUES JAN 27, 8PM
HOW MUCH
$48 HERE
Bossa nova belle Camille lends her vocal strains, hiccups, animal noises and body percussion to the Beck's Festival Bar. Drawing from a grab bag of French chanson storytelling, 60s folk and 70s soul influences, expect experimental alt-pop with a Gallic twist, avant-garde a cappella that interprets real instruments rather than using them, and a cute-as-a-button Parisian songstress you'll want to adopt and keep in your handbag (or manbag) forever.
Event: Festival
Stimulus: C
Pornocracy
Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan, you will know that her films portray a world that is more disquieting than reassuring, more intimate than objective and more corporeal than cerebral. You may call yourself a Breillat aficionado, but unless you speak French, you have probably never read her novels.
Etat Libre D'Orange Perfumes
Got a score to settle with your Nan? Need to deodorise your car? Why not get a bottle of Hotel Slut? Etat Libre D'Orange perfumes are either cashed-up punk like Vivienne Westwood, or try-hard punk like Richard Branson when he reminds people how he used to hang out with Malcolm McLaren.
Choose from aromas such as ‘Don't Get Me Wrong Baby, I Don't Swallow' and ‘Jasmine and Cigarette' - which receives the TwoThousand prize for best Frenglish blurb.
Paris
There are only a handful of cities around the world that popular culture won't stop mythologising. Yes, this is yet another film about Paris - but after an opening that looks like a slick travel infotainment show, a TV host asks "Who is Paris?" and immediately flubs his lines.
In PARIS, a charming French bakery is a site of casual, everyday racism.
Reality Check, The Teenagers
The American media only invented "the teenager" as recently as the '50s. Yet those melodramatic, erratic, sexy sexy young thangs have come to TOTALLY take over the world, gripping the global marketplace tighter than Britney's fist on a Chihuahua-laden fluffy pink handbag. OMG!!
Taking our continual fascination and fetishization with teenagers to laughable, logical extremes are Parisian trio The Teenagers.
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