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Cheeky Freak Of The Week!

gabe — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:27:19 +0000

Text: Tristan Ceddia

Found this AMAZING animation on You Tube last night from 1978 by Russian Director Vladimir Tarasov. There isn’t much information on Tarasov readily available from a Google search (might have to hit the library), but from what I can tell he was the director of animated propaganda films during the Russian Communist era. Look out for the killer Godfather soundtrack!

If you are in Melbourne this weekend, we are hosting The Blackmail’s second issue launch party on Saturday night at Revolver, Prahran from 5pm-8pm featuring free drinks along with tunes from Emillionzzz, Nervous Jack and Bizkit and film projections from Johan Rashid.

People of Sydney, this weekend you are spoilt for choice with power posse Ro Sham Bo’s new Friday night party Survivor at The Bunker Bar in Kings Cross along with Bag Raiders Shooting Stars launch at Oxford Arts Factory featuring Van She Tech, Bang Gang Deejays, Magic Happens and U-Go-B. Saturday night sees Podwars long-haired return to the Cricketers, aptly themed Anything Goes. Sounds like a PARTY to me!

OH, and remember, Issue 2 of The Blackmail goes out Monday, if you haven’t already subscribed, get on it! Issue 2 features Kill Pixie, Beautiful Kate, Mikey Young from Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Darcel and more!

Anything Goes!

gabe — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:25:54 +0000

Text: Digby Woods

Seems like every party has a theme these days: dress-up like this, dance like that, play only that genre… it’s for the birds, man. That’s all changed though, because starting this Saturday 1st August, ANYTHING GOES at The Cricketer’s…

Come in and play twenty minutes of Beethoven if you want, wear what you want and, most of all, dance however you want to dance, because Pod War will not refuse you entry, kick you out for dirty dancing OR skip your tracks! Now THAT is what I call a Democracy.

Email enter@pod-war.com to book in your 20 minutes of glory. Time slots available from 8pm. The Cricketer’s Arms, 106 Fitzroy St, Surry Hills.

Hunter S Thompson Is Back!

gabe — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:24:54 +0000

Text: Tim McInerney

There’s news for Hunter S Thompson fans, filming has finished on the adaptation of his first novel The Rum Diary. Johnny Depp plays another of HST’s alter egos, Paul Kemp, alongside the brilliant Richard Jenkins who plays Lotterman. Set in Puerto Rico in the late 50s, tells the story of a young American journalist working for moderately dodgy local paper. It’s directed by the underrated Bruce Robinson, famous for making Withnail & I, but hasn’t had much luck after his film How To Get Ahead In Advertising flopped in ’89.

There’s good news and bad news as well for Hells Angels fans, Stephen Gaghan, the filmmaker behind Traffic and Syriana, is set to pen the screenplay, but super cringe Tony Scott may direct it. His film Domino was probably the crappest movie in history, supposedly with the shortest average shot length on record. Let’s just hope they include the bit where one of the Angels wins some raffle and with the money he buys a gold plated cattle prod. Then suffering paranoia, he beats the shit out of the dude who put the raffle on with the cattle prod. Cinematic gold.

Are You A Survivor?

gabe — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:23:56 +0000

Text: Tristan Ceddia

Ro Sham Bo, Sydney’s well oiled four man rhythm heavy machine, returns to the clurb for a new night of tropical B-B-B-BASS. The Bunker Bar, beneath The Bourbon in Kings Cross, will be home to Ro Sham Bo’s new monthly party: RO SHAM BO SURVIVOR

Known for playing a mix of absolutely everything on their Ro Sham Bo Double Hour every Tuesday Sunset on Sydney’s FBi… Ro Sham Bo Survivor will see DJs Jimmy Sing, Moriarty, Sleater Brockman and Spruce Lee focusing more on the uptempo side of club music from all over the world. UK Funky, kuduro, cumbia, juke, dubstep, Jamaican dancehall and troppo house – they gots the percussion without a stinking drumming circle. And don’t think it’s to an easy step, coz Ro Sham Bo, they break a rhythm ~ they CONFUSE DI DANCE!

Download Ro Sham Bo’s latest mix Confuse Di Dance

Friday July 31 at The Bunker Bar beneath The Bourbon, Kings Cross.
10 till morning. $10

BUSY SIGNAL like a shaker
ROSKA gone to a better place
cHUcKIE drop low
EMVEE glitch dub
DJ BIGGA boeke anthem
STEVE ANGELLO flonko
JUSTIN MARTIN my angelic demons
MJ cOLE gotta have it (MJ’s funky dub)
ALTERED NATIVES rass out
MERcURIAL MYRMIDON adjusted funk
NB FUNKY riddim box
NB FUNKY remix box
KYLA do you mind (cRAZY cOUSINZ remix)
DJ NG tell me
cRYSTAL FIGHTERS xtatic truth (RENAISSANce MAN remix)
LUcKY cHARMS & KID KAIO plain dots
DANIEL HAAKSMAN Copacabana
HOT cITY no more
DVA god made me funky (remix)
ZED BIAS neighborhood 09

It’s A Circus

gabe — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:22:10 +0000

Text: Billy Bride

After falling in love with the mystical miasma of carnival garb in last weeks post, I haven’t been able to move on. I feel my style-spire has been sent off kilter, whirling topsy-turvy through space and time. Round and round and round it goes, and where it stops, nobody knows…

Where to go from here? Once one has tasted the heady nepenthe ambrosia of the carnivale, how can one possibly return to the 2D world of the sapient and mundane? Why must we be forced to live our lives within the confines of the “sane” and the “possible”? Why do we pressure ourselves into investing in 1 key look for each season, when visits to the Mall would be so much more enjoyable if we were allowed a chance to revel in the indulgent abandon of indiscriminate impulse buys! Plus, if you’re anything like me you have a head full of pastels & pilgrims one day, then lashings of leather and latex the next.

So why choose to be “this” or “that”? Take a deep breath and set your wardrobe free! No longer will your dress sense be dictated by era or icon – let loose the labyrinthine visionary that lies dormant within! Feel an affinity for both Marant’s ‘Gypsy’ and Gaultier’s ‘Cyborg’? Why not wear both? Can’t decide between Cowboys and Indians? Prep school or Pirate? Pile em on! We are living in the Age of Enlightenment, express yourself – Excess is your ethos!

Check back each Thursday for more on the fashion world from Billy Bride

Trying To Coax A Lion Out Of My Chest

gabe — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:21:20 +0000

Text: Gabriel Knowles

Everyone does something else these days. Just working one job isn’t enough these, you have to have something else to tell people at the pub. Amiel Courtin Wilson’s got that covered. Not content with releasing top notch films like Bastardy and Chasing Bhudda upon us he decided to pick up drawing a few years back. Amiel’s foray into a new medium came about as a means to reset his brain from the rigorous of daily life. Naturally then, his works are a compendium of the ups, downs and side to sides of the body and soul as a filmmaker sees them.

Trying to Coax a Lion out of my Chest by Amiel Courtin-Wilson opens 6pm – 9pm on Friday 31 July at Utopian Slumps, 25 Easey St, Collingwood. Showing until Saturday August 15.

Licorice Ice Cream

gabe — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:19:59 +0000

Text: CC Bakes

There is nothing better than when two things you love come together. For me, licorice and ice-cream. Now, I know you are thinking, this is the case with any flavour of ice-cream, a fruit or nut or alcohol or chocolate is made icey and creamy to become a delectable ice-cream flavour, but with licorice, it’s original form (black, molasses sugar stick) is something so far different from ice-cream (white, creamy, frozen block) – it feels like a weird union no?

Licorice is, after all, originally a legume (related to beans and peas) and native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. But it is the extract of this roots that makes the sweet black confectionery of a bullet or a licorice allsort. Whatever your feelings on this, mine is simple. If you like licorice, you’ll love licorice ice-cream. It combines the flavour and thick stickiness of licorice with the cold creaminess of ice-cream, and is black bliss.

And I know a place where you can get it that isn’t an ice cream parlour!

A Little Piggie!

gabe — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:18:52 +0000

Text: Tristan Ceddia

Just got sent a link to this AMAZING site that translates Pig Latin – the only language I managed to learn other than English in school. For those who aren’t particualy fluent in Pig Latin, and want to have a private conversation in a room full of people, the English To Pig Latin Translator could be for you!

Thanks for the link Oli. Start translating now!

Atlas Obscura

gabe — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:17:33 +0000

Text: Toby Marlow

This week for You & Your Blog we spoke to Dylan Thurlas and Joshua Foer about their travel site Atlas Obscura which covers “the strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist”.

What do you hope people will get out of Atlas Obsura?

We want people to have the travel resource we always wanted to have. For us, the Atlas Obscura is not just about collecting oddities. It’s about creating a lens through which to see the world. In an age where people think everything has been explored and there is nothing new to be found, we want to remind people just how wondrous and amazing the world really is!

As a wiki site have you ever had to reject any articles you felt were too inappropriate?

Nothing so far has been too inappropriate. If it is wondrous, curious, or esoteric, we will accept it, provided the place is real and its story checks out. If we reject something it’s usually because the history and interesting background isn’t really there, or it is just too commonplace. But people seem to really get it. More than 90% of what gets submitted is right on and makes it in.

What has been your favorite article so far?

Well, we have a new favorite everyday, but right now my mind was just blown by these incredible root bridges in India grown over a period of 10 to 15 years. They are literally living bridges, and look like something out of Lord Of The Rings. We are regularly astounded by the quality and time that people have put into their entries. It is such a thrill to read about a new, wondrous place. The Atlas wouldn’t be possible without the work of everyone that has added to it.

Visit Atlas Obscura

Cheeky Freak Of The Week!

gabe — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:16:34 +0000

Text: Tristan Ceddia

This clip is taken from John Lurie’s incredible 1991 TV series Fishing With John. In each episode Lurie takes a famous friends on a remote fishing adventure, though the show is not as much about fishing as it is about the banter between Lurie and his counterpart. Featuring Jim Jarmusch, Matt Dillon, Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe and Dennis Hopper Fishing With John is available on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection and comes HIGHLY recommended!

People in Sydney tonight be sure to check out Jesse Hogan’s We Can’t Put it Together. It is Together. Opening at Black & Blue Gallery from 6pm.