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This week’s Cheeky Freak comes via filmmaker Eddie Martin and some of his own favourite filmmaker’s, the Dardenne brothers. L’Enfant is a powerful French film from a few years back that’s probably a bit dark for Friday afternoon but well worth checking out. Also well worth checking out is the interview with Eddie in the May issue of The Blackmail which will be hitting inboxes on Monday. If you haven’t subscribed already do it today so you don’t miss out!
On a lighter note those in Sydney get down to new venue at 149 Chalmers St, Surry Hills for a Warehouse Jam. Check out Faxhibition at China Heights first if you get the chance. Level 4, 16-28 Foster St, Surry Hills.
If you’re in Melbourne on Saturday get down to Fitzroy Bowl in the Edinburgh Gardens at North Fitzroy for the Skateistan Jam from 2pm and help the Skateistan crew keep teaching Afghani kids to skate.
This weeks post is an homage to two of my favourite bloggers, Pia Arrobio and Alicia Torello, who are both massively talented, insightful, intelligent and hilarious women. Please check out their blogs and revel in the raw amazing-ness of their beings.
I recently caught up with my kindred pen-pals, and managed to sneak in a few Q&A’s…
Billy Bride: You guys both have unreal jobs, what about them keeps you happy?
Alicia Torello: Doing nails is great because not only do I get to make my own schedule, being on set is amazing, watching the creative process and seeing the outcome is really satisfying. I get meet interesting people all the time as well, which rules.
Pia Arrobio: Working at an agency allows me to be a part of the creative process as well. Both Alicia and I love photography so much, so we are doing what we can to be a part of that process without actually trying to be a professional photographer. I get incredible satisfaction from producing – seeing an idea come to life – that’s where I get my high.
BB: Ellington is my favourite skater of all time! You guys seem pretty tight with the Baker/Deathwish crew, who gets wildest off-duty?
A&P: We have no idea how to narrow that down. We’ve raged with all of them, but to put things in perspective, we are never allowed at The Palms in Vegas again after taking Antwuan with us for a weekend trip. We lasted three hours in the room before security came. Continue reading…
Check back each Thursday for more on the fashion world from Billy Bride
Biannual fashion and culture periodical doingbird is in a unique position. Independent, far from the fashion capitals and without a concrete staff, founders Malcolm Watt and Max Doyle make room within the pages of their book-like quality driven publication for this earth’s most forward thinking and renowned creators, fashionable iconoclasts such as Ann Demeulemeester, Hedi Slimane, Helmut Lang, Lee Ranaldo, Bruce Labruce and Nobuyoshi Araki. Between navigating technological advances to retain only the most important aspects of the printed format, avoiding the constraints of clocks and locating the cultural cartographers, editor Malcolm Watt gave The Blackmail an insight into creating from the clink. Continue reading…
One thing I love about New York is that Mexican food is everywhere. Before I left for my adventures in the big apple, I did a stint in a newly opened Mexican taqueria and tequila bar in Melbourne. Though I’ve been to Mexico before, this was my first proper foray into Mexican cuisine in a dining sense. While in Mexico I was in fact lucky enough to stay with a Mexican family and got to sample real home cooking, which meant I was eating quesadillas for breakfast, tacos for lunch, mole for dinner, and corn chips for snacks in the middle, all washed down with beer and margaritas. Sounds like the life right? Anyway, my point is, though Australians are relatively starved for proper Mexican food, save for a few places that have opened recently, the Mexicans have totally take over the streets of NY, and everyone loves it. I know I know, it’s due to geographical proximity right? But it never kept maple syrup off our pancakes and Canada is way further away, you know…
What do you get when you have someone wear a hat made out of tin foil in the shape of an aero plane, while wearing black clothing from the neck down and then shoot them in a dark room with props moving past? A plane with a face on it of course! After the success of The Girl You Lost To Cocaine & Buttons, it seems that once again the planets have aligned in the solar system of Kris Moyes and Sia. This time after a whirlwind mission to New York on Kris’ behalf, the duo have come up with an awesome mixed media music video for Sia’s new clip Clap Your Hands. Spotlights, dark rooms and puppetry make this clip a journey into another world with a colourful dark city theatrical feel. Just one thing though guys, I don’t think koalas lay eggs?
This weekend be sure to pay your respects to the ANZAC. Buy a badge and hold one minutes silence at 11am on Sunday.
Tonight in Sydney, go see The Bats at the Oxford Art Factory. Doors open at 8pm, tickets are $30 +bf. Saturday night put on your favourite Akubra and hit The Cricketers for OZ Wars, your one stop Oz music stop.
In Melbourne, see The Bats Sunday night at the East Brunswick Club, 280 Lygon St East Brunswick. Doors open 8.30pm, tickets $30 +BF.
If you happen to be in Paris in the coming weeks, our old mate Darcel aka Craig Redman is having an exhibition of paintings, prints, sculpture, animation and blogging at the wonderful colette. Prends-moi!
And A Miserable Day To You Too
May 3 – 29 colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris
The above trailer for Autoluminescent, a film about the life and music of Rowland S. Howard who sadly passed late last year, has just been released online. You can read an excellent interview between Michael Kuyck and Rowland in Volume 1 Issue 3 of Mountain Fold Music Journal if you happen to come accross a copy.
This ANZAC day eve, smash a pie, blow the froth off a few, listen to some bloody dinkum music and embrace all that is f#cken Austrayan for Pod War’s first ever OZ WAR!
I mean seriously mate, WHERE THE BLOODY HELL (else) ARE YA (gonna go)?!
Oz Wars
Saturday April 24, 8 – 12pm
Cricketers Arms
106 Fitzroy St, Surry Hills
As the number of food allergies and those with them increase, small companies making specialty artisan products do too. So it is with those lactose intolerant in mind that I introduce you to Dr Cow. A small, environmentally friendly company based in Williamsburg in Brooklyn. They are into the idea of ‘living-raw food’. Their signature piece is their cheese made from nuts, using home-made acidophilus and nut curd, with the same methods you would use to make diary based cheese with milk curd. They use aged cashews and macadamias to make hard cheese and cream cheese.
What time is it? 3 o’clock? Sweet, right on time. Walking into the Townie Bar in Newtown, my eyes scan the scene for two people in particular. I’ve seen photos of them. Not good photos, but good enough that I’m able to make a distinction between the two. The first, Luke O’Farrell, has longer hair, and the second, Piers Cornelius, has shorter hair. That’s it. Anyway, as far as I know, they’re both pretty much the same. They both play guitar, they both sing… oh, and they’re both in this ripping Sydney psych/shoegaze band called The Laurels. You may have heard of them. Continue reading…
