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Cosmo Vitelli
WHAT
COSMO VITELLI
WHERE
OXFORD ART FACTORY, 38 - 46 OXFORD ST, DARLINGHURST
WHEN
FRI NOV 7, 11.30PM
HOW MUCH
$15 + BF HERE
WIN
ONE OF FIVE DOUBLE PASSES. JUST EMAIL WIN@TWOTHOUSAND.COM.AU WITH THE SUBJECT LINE 'GALAXY'. SUBSCRIBER ONLY ENTRY. IT'S FREE HERE.
Why are the French so damn good at everything? We don't know. It was meant to be rhetorical. Ah rhetoric. Yet another thing they've got down. You just know that if they can turn something once taught by a bunch of reserved old Greek dudes back in 5th century BC into a finely honed art of seductive conversing, then their music is guaranteed gratification.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: San Pellegrino
Sexuality
Sex sells. It certainly does Mr Tellier. Sexuality is Sébastien Tellier: l'man, l'myth, l'wonder's third studio album. He's all up in American Apparel's grill, DaftPunk's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo produced this album and it's released by Records Makers, the next coolest French record label, after Ed Banger.
Good Sex Illustrated
In 1973, French writer Tony Duvert conducted a close reading of a series of children's sex manuals with the aim of revealing how the ‘sex-positive' culture of the 1960s had been officially rerouted into promoting the nuclear family. Perhaps because of his passionate belief in the integrity of unpoliced sex and pleasure and the contention that sex education retards what might otherwise be naturally developed sexual behaviour and attitudes, GOOD SEX ILLUSTRATED was met with controversy.
La Patisserie
The Rocks...what a strange mix it is of international retail and terribly garish Australian culture. While I find the fluorescent illustrations of koalas and emus beside Kate Moss' worst ambassadorial decision to date (yes, wearing Burberry IS worse than dating deadbeat Dougherty) endlessly amusing, my ultimate thing about Sydney's tourist Mecca is La Renaissance Bakery.
Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki
It's 1971 and you are French. You wake up, get dressed and eat a croissant - the crispy, buttery flakes fall onto your copy of LE MONDE with every bite. You peruse the travel section with a rote sense of boredom, traversing from country to country with every article.
Then all of a sudden, it hits you.
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Are you ready for nightmare fodder? Locked-In Syndrome is a rare disorder where you can't move, can't speak, can't swallow, can't do anything - except blink.
Journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a memoir about this experience called THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, dictated by painstakingly blinking out each individual letter.
Hunting & Gathering
When did ‘romance' turn into ‘romantic comedy'? Barring sometight-corsetted period pieces, Hollywood decided that audiences only wanted love stories if they came wrapped in self-depreciating pop-culture gags. Thank god the French don't always feel the urge to befunny.
HUNTING & GATHERING is hardly dour, though.
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