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Kripy Irregular Mailer #130, Recycle, Yellow Bin Grass, Green Bin Bottles, for Wednesday April 16th. |
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Recycle, Yellow Bin Grass, Green Bin BottlesI've been recycling my thoughts and words of late, kind of like the evil robots in "The Matrix" feeding the blood of dead batteries into the newer ones, the process is not without its black spots. Lucky for me I'm as colour blind as a shark else your compost would be filled with the shards of my empty beer bottles. Reiterating through old thoughts all shouted out loud is not as invigorating as it sounds, I was hoping for a more calming effect, spurred on by my insightful memes. So words die fast, don't wear them out.
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Kripy SelectsBang Gang 12inches 1st Birthday feat. Bag Raiders + KIM + Like Woah! + Soft Tigers + Spruce Lee
Friday April 18th (10pm) at Upstairs, The Bourbon (24 Darlinghurst Rd, Kings Cross). $10. Doom's little BG12 spiel tells the tale of a record label upstart: "Seven releases, lots of annoying German manufacturers, lost records, millions of emails and late nights". From Soft Tigers' "Mr. Ice Cream", through "The Bag Raiders EP" and out the other end with K.I.M's "B.T.T.T.T.R.Y", the releases fill a nice rounded void of noise.
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MusicThe Raveonettes
Thursday April 17th (8pm) at Oxford Art Factory (38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). Presale $37. I still can't quite pick The Raveonettes' sound, low-fi distortion, heaps of treble in the guitars making them sound like raindrops hitting a roof, sugary pop hooks ... ah ... The Jesus and Mary Chain perhaps. (If they didn't gel with you at V Festival don't worry, they have their own unique take on the "wall of sound" sound). Supersuckers + Spurs For Jesus 
Thursday April 17th (8pm) at Annandale Hotel (17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale). Presale $40. Truth be told the only Supersuckers record I've ever listened to is the first one, "The Smoke of Hell". Recorded in three days way back in 1988 in the same studio that Nirvana popped out "Bleach", the album is country-speed-punk at its best. With Spurs For Jesus in town, ensure you're wearing your very best cowboy/cowgirl attire. Bumblebeez + Goons of Doom + Soft Tiger Food Fight 
Friday April 18th (8pm) at Mona Vale Hotel (2 Park St, Mona Vale). Presale $12. Catch the bus (L90), get in a fight with a bunch of crack-heads, watch the Bumblebeez, get in another fight with a bunch of crack-heads, catch the bus (L90) home. Sounds like a fun night out to me! Die! Die! Die! + Talons + The Ripping Dylans 
Saturday April 19th (8pm) at Oxford Art Factory (38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). Presale $15. Are the DDD kids getting softer in their old age? Only time will tell although I must say that the tough as a nut Polaroid kids gave their sophomore release, "Promises Promises", a solid 9.7 out of 10. If you're strapped for cash the lads are doing a FREE show Sunday April 20th (6pm) at The Beach Road in Bondi. |
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Electronic Sky FilmFLYINGStrange Fruit: Swoon! 
Wednesday April 16th (6pm) at Sydney Opera House (2 Macquarie St, Sydney). Performance continues until Saturday April 26th. FREE! A "spectacular story of love, loss, joy and freedom" played out four metres up in the sky. There's not that many events that come with a warning like "if steady rain or high wind - session will be cancelled", so pray for a sunny one and check the BOM before you head. FILM Goethe-Institut Festival of German Films 2008 
Wednesday April 16th (7pm) at Chauvel Cinema (Corner of Oxford St and Oatley Rd, Paddington). Festival continues until Sunday April 27th. $16/$13.50 I like the look of "The Wave", which takes on the subject of the seductiveness of power; "Cherry Blossoms - Hanami", a dark sounding story about death, kids, foregoing your life and cherry blossoms; and "Latebloomers", in which 80-year-old Martha, along with the help of her mates, realises her dream of opening a boutique lingerie shop. Ro Sham Bo Knights 
Saturday April 19th (10pm) at Will & Toby's (134 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). $10. The four riders (Jimmy Sing, Moriarty, Sleater Brockman, Spruce Lee; collective noun "Ro Sham Bo") of the dance genres with strange names (Baile Funk, Baltimore Club, Crunk, Hyphy, Grime, Dancehall, Bassline, Kuduro) return. And hopefully for good this time. Hard Sell feat. DJ Shadow + Cut Chemist 
Saturday April 19th (9pm) at Big Top Sydney, Luna Park (1 Olympic Dr, Milsons Point). Presale $76. For some reason I skipped over the DJ Shadow bit and focused hard on Cut Chemist. I should probably strike that and reverse it but no matter, 8 turntables, 4 mixers and an array of audio and video equipment, with all the skills that these two have between them, this is the easiest sell of them all. |
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CultureTHEATREAntigone 
Belvoir St Theatre (25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills). Performance continues until Sunday May 25th (Tue, 6.30pm; Wed-Fr, 8pm, Sat, 2pm, 8pm; Sun, 5pm). $54/$33. "Antigone" is writer Seamus Heaney's take on Sophocles' "The Burial at Thebes", a tale of that pits the heart of an individual against the needs of the state. Old school "Days of Our Lives" perhaps. (Cue angry Greek scholars' abusive emails). Tragedy yes, but so succinctly wrapped "in an ancient play about here and now". ART Ghosts in the Machine 
Thursday April 10th (10am) at Art Gallery of New South Wales (Art Gallery Rd, The Domain). Exhibition continues until Wednesday July 16th (10am-5pm daily; Wed until 9pm; closed Good Friday and Christmas Day). FREE! COMEDY Cracker Comedy Festival 2008 
Sunday April 13th (8pm) at Various Venues (In and Around, Sydney). Festival continues until Sunday May 11th. Depends on who you see. Massive, massive, program to big to go into here. Look out for "Scrabble Unscripted", "Chaser's Age of Terror Variety", "One-Man Star Wars" and of course "Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance" (who I learnt on the weekend has been writing for The Chaser which is no mean feat). MORE COMEDY Reginald D Hunter 
Thursday April 17th (7pm) at Sydney Opera House (2 Macquarie St, Sydney). Performance continues until Sunday April 27th. $32/$28. A Cracker Comedy Festival sideshow that deserves its own post just because of what The Guardian kids said: "The magic of the man is that he has the sensitivity to mine pure gold from awkward admissions without using a jackhammer". Audience beware: if you give away too much you're likely to end up part of the show. |
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Please, Think of the Kittens Somehow the "God kills a kitten" meme entered my brain and I couldn't get it out until I bestowed it upon someone who's never heard of it before. Another soul scared for life. Domo  NHK television station mascot who chases kittens in his spare time is also known to pass gas repeatedly when nervous or upset and has a strong dislike for apples due to an unexplained mystery in his DNA. Fold-Ins, Past and Present  I remember as a wee tike hanging out for Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine ... bless The New York Times for bringing them back into my world. |
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MGMT I had a beer with Nicky Van She on the weekend and he told me to go find MGMT and have a listen. He mentioned a cross between David Bowie and I can't remember who else. W.A.S.T.E. Central  The Big M, he's almost a contributor by default, is spinning out at Radiohead's take on the whole social networking thing. Why use what's out there when you can go roll your own? On The Fly Updates  It seems live everybody's getting into extreme web-overhaul thing of late. Next off the jump are the kids over at On The Fly, going large and widescreen. |
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In An ABSOLUT World Water polo-playing sperm whales. A diamond run off Cape Byron. One less car aka parking stations full of bicycles. The Great Barrier Reef at our doorstep. Props where props are due. (There's also the Moon and pillow-wielding riot policeman involved). In An ABSOLUT World you kids decided on the execution. Invasion of Kathmandu  My boy Invader is at it again, this time getting slightly spiritual in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. A Winter Jacket  Just in time for winter, the BM Andy Warhol icon print jacket comes stocked with a cosy looking furry hood and iconic imagery laced throughout. |
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