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February, 2011
The older you get the shorter years become. Why is this you ask?
I take you back to 6 years old. Running in the backyard, swimming lessons, sleep overs, tantrums. This whole year is only a sixth of your life. Now I take you to the ripe old age of 14. Making out, spin the bottle, "sleep overs", parties, movies, making out. Did I say making out?!? This year is a fourteenth of you life.
Now let's fast forward the the old age of 35. Back aches, work, bills, drinking, partying, rent, lets just say responsibility (even to a small degree)... This is one year is a thirty fifth of your life. Depressing isn't it!
So why not take this moment by your 'short hairs' and Get Notorious!
This newsletter hails from the heavens of St Jeromes. If you like
what you see, you can go backwards in time at www.getnotmag.com. For advice or information on
life, love, luck or science email howdy@getnotorious.com.
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Acid Over Easy
Backwoods Gallery is proud to announce Acid Over Easy, a solo
show by Zach Johnsen featuring the continuation of the explosive
"Acid in the Ice Cream" series.
Acid Over Easy is a frenetic show of new works on paper exploring
a break in habits of everyday man and woman. Artist Zach
Johnsen presents all new drawings in graphite and watercolor of
human forms in moments of suspended movement and anxiety ..
capturing continuous explosive moments on one piece of paper.
Acid Over Easy is a world of 9 to 5ers in moments of pure
revelation. It is a real estate agent confronted by spirits that just
became visible. It is hidden energies that tug at the back of the
neck. It is psychadelic purple drink in the water cooler. It is sudden
moments of inspiration. It is the catalyst that makes time stand
still for a moment. It is getting in touch with nature for the first
time. It is the realization that the monotonous routines of day to
day living isn't all there is to experience.. that there is so much
power within ourselves and all around us just waiting for us to
notice....
The Acid trip continues...
Backwoods Gallery
25 Easey St, Collingwood
Friday, February 18th
www.zachjohnsen.com
www.backwoodsgallery.com
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Blowup Cinema
It's here! Blow Up Cinema pops up west side! With a mission to show new and classic films in eclectic, apt venues, Gus and the team from Blow Up Cinema are bringing some silver screen magic to our beloved river banks. We're ready for our close up!
Bran Nue Dae (PG)
Bran Nue Dae is a foot stomping tour-de-force road movie
centering on the romantic adventures of a young aboriginal
couple set against the spectacularly beautiful Australia.
Starring Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush, the film
literally bursts onto the screen with unbridled energy and
fun.
Sunday 13 Feb 7:45pm
Tickets: $15/$10 conc
LANTANA (M)
A woman disappears and subsequently four marriages are
drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death.
Not all of them will survive. Winner of seven AFI's including
Best Picture, Lantana is a psychological drama about love,
infidelity and mistrust. It's about the mistakes we make, the
consequences we suffer and the attempts we make to fix
things up.
Sunday 27th Feb 7:45pm
Tickets: $15/$10 conc
Footscray Community Arts Centre
45 Moreland Street
Footscray VIC 3011
Australia
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Toro Y Moi
Toro Y Moi at Workers Mistletone proudly presents the first Australian tour by South Carolina daydreamy electronic-pop innovators, Toro Y Moi. Led by 24 year old producer/musician Chaz Bundick, Toro Y Moi come to our shores as a trio to fill the dancefloor with the hazy and timeless beats of this year's sublime debut, Causers Of This (out now on Mistletone through Inertia). Wire magazine recently described Toro Y Moi as "demonstrating a joy in the elastic properties of rhythm and sound that immediately recalls Flying Lotus, J Dilla and Madlib", whilst the Sydney Morning Herald praised Toro Y Moi for "blending patches of R&B, indie rock, electro dance and a good dose of psychedelica to create soundscapes that are as beautiful as they are disorientating".
Friday, February 18th
The Workers Club
8.00pm, $23+BF on the door
www.moshtix.com
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Parading
After spending the last year or so playing sporadic shows with some local and interstate favourites, Melbourne three piece Parading is set to bring it home with the release of their debut self titled album on Saturday 12th of February at the Workers Club. Taking in the breezy and noisy elements of the last 50 years of Pop culture, Parading have been building their own breed of modern Psychedelic Alternative music. Helping celebrate on this fine evening will be, brand new Avant-garde project from Duncan Blachford and Alison Bolger Actual Holes, the ever- enigmatic Alex Jarvis with full band and freak jam legends Bum Creek.
Saturday, February 12th
The Workers Club
$10 on the door
www.myspace.com/parading
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Sinoia Caves
Sinoia Caves is another name for the analog synth wizard Jeremy Schmidt, who is also a principal member of the critically-lauded, maximal-rock band called Black Mountain. The Enchanter Persuad- ed is his solo debut full-length. It is an ambient psych masterpiece, bringing to mind, as one writer puts it, "the warmth and majestic epic swales" of Florian Fricke's Popul Vuh plus a "little Rick Wakeman and Kraftwerk."
In addition to his solo music and his contributions as part of Black Mountain, Schmidt is also known for his work as former member of the celebrated space rock band
Tuesday, February 22nd
The Workers Club
$10 on the door
www.myspace.com/sinoiacaves
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Brunswick Street Gallery
Opening 18 Feb at 6pm - running until the 3 March 2011.
- 2011 $10,000 Works on Paper Prize - 50 finalists in
Printmaking and Drawing
- The Small Sculpture Show
- Helen Brancatisano - Back from Black
- Kate Shone - Love Clipped Wings on Birds of Stone
- Faces: Out of the Shadows - Danielle Salvemini, Evan Jones
and Ileana Clarke
- Katia Carletti - Stop Singing.
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Sister Bellas RENOS
Well Sister Bellas renovations are going crazy! It starts with Kim
and Sam cutting their hair and Jared trimming his beard!
Then moves onto the re-upholstery and the downstairs bar will
be up and running in the next fortnight. It'll be a beer and wine
dispense that will be open 8-12 Fridays and Saturdays (and
maybe Thursdays).
Plus they have a new menu and it's a gastronomic masterpiece
that includes an antipasto plate, beef + shallot + red wine pie,
nachos (v), chicken Caesar salad and a roasted tomato + chick
pea + basil + caramelized onion Cacarecchia (pasta) (v) just to
name a few. Pizzas are $7 ALL DAY on Mondays and until 7pm
Tuesday - Saturday.
And to top it all off The internet is back! Woo!
Just when you were thinking it couldn't get any better than
that… they are also currently looking for artists (photographers,
illustrators, writers) to put something in their boxes! Light
boxes! They've got 4 (3 small inside and 1 large outside) of 'em
and they've had the same images in them for tooo looong...
successful applicants will be able to exhibit for a fortnight and
in that time they can chop and change the exhibited pieces
(if they want to) and even try and sell them. Applications and
inquiries to kim@getnotorious.com
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Lachlan Anthony
Sydney born, Melbourne based Lachlan Anthony woke up
to imagination about the same time he lost his virginity, a
dual birth, he was maybe 18 and has been making sculpture
and installation ever since.
"I started by spending hours holed away in a suburban loft
shuffling domestic items and furniture into new configura-
tions, eventually it led to a sculpture practice. I have always
been fascinated by the deconstruction of functional objects
and the act of breathing congruous magic into the banal."
Whe asked what inspires him, Lachlan replied, "I guess it
would be fair to say I am inspired by social realities that
both disgust and perplex me. I am interested in why people
choose to spend their lives the way they do, whether in free-
dom or control and in particular those that through unique
life craft discover and share new modes of reality."
fitnessfisting.blogspot.com
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Ponyfish Island
So the Ponyfish Island has set sail up the Yarra river with its
liquor license onboard. The party has been a fantastic ride with
beautiful sunshine in our faces, super hot staff and delectable
treats to eat. Our 3 great explorers and pioneer founders have
successfully secured the best new spot in the whole of Mel-
bourne. Our Captain Matti is ensuring that all the fauna and flora
is kept alive and thriving upon the Island. Join us in the future
for squid catching competitions and social excitement.
Come down to eat, drink and be merry (and see what you seek
floating down our Yarra river). Venture down to our magical
land and see if you find Reggie on our Island.
Under the Southgate Footbridge (enter via stairs)
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This is NOT a Film Festival
This is Not a Film Festival is the side project of film maker Ben Andrews, who became fed up with
the lack of exposure that short films get, and grew tired of the competi-
tive nature of film festivals and the circuit's cliches and bitching. He now
screens the best of Australian (specifically Melbourne) made short films,
monthly, at 1000 £ Bend's cosy 'Noises in the Attic' cinema, for the pure
purpose of enjoying them.
Those of you present, may remember seeing the (non film festival)
Melbourne premiere of Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing, just days before it
was nominated for an Academy Award. Coincidence? We didn't think so
either.
Who knows what may happen to your film after entry to Australia's fastest growing anti-film-festival short screen event?
2011 sees the event opening in Sydney, where we're told "it all happens".
What "All", and the exact definition of a "happening" is, we are still un-
sure of, however screening your film at 'this is NOT a film festival' would
get it seen by a large audience of very enthusiastic short film goers.
The best part is, they aren't vicious fascists choosing what they screen.
It has virtually no entry requirements - it is just about promoting and
screening interesting, original films. They even screened a film called
'Cheeses of Nazareth' once. Edgy.
1000 £ Bend
Wednesday, March 16th
361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne
(The deadline for entries at this event are the 10th of March).
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