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The Cheeky Freak this week is Melbourne documentarian/comedian John Safran who we interviewed for this months issue of The Blackmail. If you missed John Safran’s Race Relations this week on the ABC, be sure to tune in next Wednesday at 9.30pm for episode one. In the mean time, read our interview with John here.
If you’re in Sydney this weekend get down to Angelique Houtkamp’s book launch and exhibition at Outre Gallery, 13A Burton St Darlinghurst from 6pm.
On Saturday night check out some Disco, early Boogie, Balearica, Hip Hop and leftfield electronic jams from the Popular People’s Front at Goodgod Small Club.
Those in Melbourne check out Don & Johnson with Leslie Salvador at Match Bar tonight and make sure you check out Ricky Swallow at the NGV.
Feeling tired? Gloomy? All dried up inside? I think I have the key to cure what ails you! If nourishing your dusty innards, whilst simultaneously stimulating your creative genomes is your idea of a good time – boy, have I got the item for you! It’s Bodum‘s indispensable, can’t-live-without, take-everywhere ‘Design-A-Thermos’.
“Thermos? Thermos?” I can already hear the incredulity in your voices. Never fear, this compact, chic, intelligent contraption is nothing like the cumbersome grubby Gremlin-themed germ farms we carted around as pre-schoolers. It’s been 10 years and mankind has made some astounding technological advances. These marvellous interchangeable insulators come in a variety of ergonomic options. The simpler model acts as a standard travel mug (with a twist), keeping cool drinks cool, and hot drinks hotter. This works well for teas, shakes and juices on the go. The more advanced option, molded from plastic and steel, has all the insulative powers of the first, but with an added ingenious inbuilt plunger feature. This means you can cart about freshly brewed steamers of your fave gourmet coffee blends, or harness your inner well being with your own individually concocted loose-leaf tea infusions. Brilliant!
But best of all, these multi-sized magnifico’s have been designed with a little creative space inside, a blank canvas if you will, as each Bodum thermos comes with an interchangeable custom insert panel that slips neatly between the unique trademarked double-wall exterior. Within these walls exists your own portable universe of creative expression, an empty space crying out to be adorned with all the wild and wondrous images of your craziest imaginings. The two of you shall be inseparable!
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Im not going to lie, I have a sweet tooth. So when asked to make dessert for a dinner party, I’m going to turn my favourite Spiced Chocolate Mousse from the Gourmet Traveller website.
It’s not your ordinary chocolate mousse, it packs a punch of chilli after every mouthful, and is guaranteed to please your dinner guests. It only takes 15 minutes to make (not including the setting) and costs about $5 with all its ingredients, and in these troubled times, we all know that counts!
If you didn’t already know about the Gourmet Traveller website, you are in for a treat. Every recipe that has ever graced the pages of their magazine is available through their online search engine. You can even so specific as to type in any ingredients you may have in the fridge and all of a sudden you have two pages of gourmet delights that you can whip up.
Buon Appetito!
This week, Adriana steps in for CC Bakes who is on a three week gourmet tour of the globe. Check back next Wednesday for another delicious taste from Adriana Giuffrida
This week The Wiz speaks to artist/designer couple Biddy Maroney and Sonny Day, AKA We Buy Your Kids in the lead up to their exhibition Trials at Monster Children Gallery this Thursday about five figures they would love to be in attendance…
5. Tracey Jordan/Stabbing Robot
For our show, we would make sure Tracey didn’t get his meds from Dr. Spaceman and just watch him go.
5. Vincent Price
It would be great if Vince arrived in a smoking jacket, though he would have to drink his beer from a whiskey tumbler. He could just stand there and drink and smoke and talk really loudly. He could just recite his bit from ‘Thriller’, if he liked. He was also really great in the original ‘House Of Wax’. He is dead of course, but that’s cool. We could get the Vincent Price character from The Simpsons if necessary.
3. Danzig
It would be awesome if Danzig came to our show… and wasn’t wearing a shirt… and did his thing. Not sure what happens if you get Andrew WK and Danzig in the same room, but it would be interesting. They could lash each others chests with their long, sweaty hair.
2. The Mooninites Ignignokt and Err
The Mooninites are two 2-dimensional pixelated pranksters from the moon. If they were at the show, they would steal some hard liqour and smokes and bitch slap the party into shape.
1. Andrew WK
AWK is both our first choice. We would like AWK to come to our show because he would probably like it. He seems to like everything. He would make us feel happy and also excited.
Trials opens at Monster Children Gallery Thursday October 15 from 6pm
Show runs from October 16 to October 31.
This weeks Cheeky Freak’s are Leo Holiday and Ryan Sea-Mist, AKA DJ Tuna Mornay and DJ Pasta Bake AKA Canyons who we featured in the July issue of The Blackmail. Recently back from a tour of the States, Canyons bless Goodgod Small Club Saturday night with the launch of their new 7″ Fire Eyes out now on DFA Records.
Canyons All Night Disco with Steele Bonus, Jimmy Sing and Toni Toni Lee at Goodgod Small Club on Saturday night. $10 before midnight, $15 after – be early this WILL SELL OUT!!
If you’re in Melbourne, check out Grafik magazine and Luke Lucas who feature in the current issue of The Blackmail speaking at Semi Permanent on Friday and Saturday. Book tickets here.
We’ve all been there before, alone in a hotel room – not knowing who preceded us or what’s to follow. Room Service has taken the delirium, frustration and inspiration of the solitary hotel room and turned it into a group show with some of Melbourne’s finest including Martin Bell, Oliver Georgiou, Denny Stocks, Tom Sullivan, Johann Rashid, Benjamin Lichenstein, Yoko Georgiou, James Eisen, Rick Milovanovic, Rudin Rashid and Greatest Hits. Their installations, painting, video art, sculpture, photography and drawing are all worth checking out at the very least.
Room Service opens tonight from 6pm-9.30pm and shows until October 22 from 4pm-7pm every day. The Carlton Hotel & Studios, 193 Bourke St Melbourne.
I have found a new love. Unlikely as it would seem, in this dismal era of ubiquitous brunette Balayage – I had feared I was doomed to drift in an anchor-less eternity of Wasson wannabes, only to wash-up on a nightmarish desert shore swathed by Kerr, Edwards, Diaz and the rest of their sun-kissed zombie army. But no, not me, not this summer! A new dawn has broken and the writing’s on the wall you tawny tressed tyrants! Your reign of terror has ended!
Think back to our fondest high school days and recall the outrageously awe-inspiring Fudge ‘Paintbox’ colour system – Joico’s polychromatic wonderland for those of us who’d like to look a little more Bowie and a little less Bo Derek (yawn!). A spectacular array of rainbow rocket-queen rinses that Mother Nature never intended. As seen on the runway at Proenza and Posen, and off-duty a la Dazed & Confused Fashion Editor Katie Shillingford. Think Kate’s pillow-pink, Kurt’s roaring red, and Ga-ga’s visionary violet. A welcome wind of change.
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So I’m on to a baking thing now. I am now the owner of the Bourke Street Bakery Cook Book, The Ultimate Baking Companion. And I have begun my quest to make the perfect banana cake, in time to submit an entry to the Royal Melbourne Show Cookery competition next year (2010). My first attempt at banana cake a week or so ago was met by harsh criticism after I blended the mixture in a milkshake maker, an absolute no-no in the world of baking. Second time around I used a recipe from an old hand at cakery, certain that with a few gentle folds my cake would be much less rubbery than the previous blended kind.
My only reluctancy to baking cakes, is the eating cakes part. I always seem to be the only one in my house who will do the eating of the cake post-bake. So this time, I thought, I’d bake for a purpose, and it just so happens that my friend Mim, who has been living in the UK for six months, got back earlier in the week, so I baked her a welcome home cake. I iced my cake with thick white cream cheese icing, and decorated it too (see above). Then my housemate left the heater on in our kitchen/living room all night, and the icing and little sugary balls melted and it didn’t quite look like this when it got to Mim. But, it was a step in the right direction in the taste department. A little dense, but not rubbery, and good flavour from well ripened bananas. And I still have 11 more months to perfect the recipe.
Another delicious taste from our Wednesday regular CC Bakes
Thanks to everyone that made it down to Goodgod Small Club on Thursday night! Special thanks also to Steele, Shunji and Radge for the freshest of tunes and the crew at Goodgod for the throwing the doors open to Sydney’s sweetest venue.
Aah, its been a big week! Issue Four landed just in time for our sick Party! Parti! Parte! last night. Big thanks to Grolsch for the cold hard liquor (beer really), Steele Bonus, Shunji and Radge for the tunez and the ever amazing Jimmi, Amy and Hana of Goodgod Small Club – these guys are doing great things for Sydney’s night life! Thanks to everyone who came along to the party – without you the place would have been empty!
Oh, and eternal thanks also to all of our amazing contributors for supply amazing content to keep our amazing readers (thats you!) entertained! Thanks Thanks Thanks!!!!!!!!!
This week, the Cheeky Freaks are Boys II Men and YOU – the people who came and partied with us last night – we will post some photos from the party next week… stay tuned!
This weekend I recommend relaxation! But if you feel like partying in Sydney, Goodgod Small Club is open late all weekend with all sorts of action, including a Modern Blue & White party tonight, G-Orgy tuning out Saturday and The Clambakery fundraiser Sunday night! Party Party Party!
