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Kripy Irregular Mailer #132, Bulbs, for Wednesday April 30th. |
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BulbsIt's time to plant them now kids, start them off in a cool dark place and wait until the tips pop up and begin to grow actively. I can totally relate at the moment, and if someone turned me upside-down, buried me in dirt, and left me in the laundry sink for a few days I'd relish the opportunity to think about not much at all. The little things are biting: Mackerel's new found fascination with Frogger; inspiring conversations I have to let go; finding three gas plumbers and adding them to Highrise. Dirt never tasted so sweet.
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Kripy SelectsShort Magazine Launch
Sunday May 4th (3pm) at Black & Blue Gallery (302/267-271 Cleveland St, Redfern). FREE!"You're going to ask Genevieve Gauckler, Mike Giant, Stefan Marx, We Buy Your Kids (etc) to contribute illustrations towards a kid's colouring-in book? And they all said they'd love to get involved? You're a genius Bender". So sort of went the conversation around six months ago. Short Magazine may be for kids, but I can always get down with some colouring-in. |
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MusicGuns Are For Kids + Athol + Biopsy + DarksliderWednesday April 30th (8pm) at La Campana (53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney). $5. Amy Meredith + The Protectors + Guns for Glory Wednesday April 30th (8pm) at Spectrum (Oxford Street, Darlinghurst). $8. The Mess Hall 
Friday May 2nd (8pm) at The Gaelic (64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills). Presale $20. I haven't as yet had a chance to listen to "Devils Elbow", the duo's second full release, lucky for us the Polaroid kids have. Except they don't rate it. I totally understand the comment about not being able to capture their live sound though. Damn shame because I rate their cover of Nirvana's "Breed". The Holidays + Chambers + Tennis 
Saturday May 3rd (8pm) at Spectrum (Oxford Street, Darlinghurst). Presale $10. I actually got busted for mentioning these kids in Kripy version 1.0, when a lonely Australian record label was chasing them. I broke the circle of trust. Funny they signed to Liberation then. Nice album cover too. Rocket Science + I Heart Hiroshima + The Dead South + Violent Soho 
Saturday May 3rd (8pm) at Annandale Hotel (17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale). Presale $15. Originally signed to Modular, the wheels fell off the Rocket Science bandwagon in 2004 when lead singer Roman Tucker fainted and hit his head on the hardwood floor of the Ding Dong lounge in Melbourne, awaking four days later out of a coma and going on to suffer from post traumatic amnesia. Hard-Ons + Regular John + Violent Soho + Feed The Horse + The Vignettes 
Sunday May 4th (5pm) at Annandale Hotel (17 Parramatta Rd, Annandale). $5. Pop-punk heads who led the charge for injecting the colloquialism of the West - inner, outer and all the way to Perth - into the Australian vernacular. Malcolm Middleton + Parades + Jordy Lane 
Wednesday May 7th (8pm) at Hopetoun Hotel (416 Bourke St, Surry Hills). Presale $30. Says Middleton on the progress of his next full-length release: "Right now, everything sounds like a fat child throwing a Casio keyboard down a flight of stairs and hitting an old man at the bottom who’s playing Verve songs badly on an over-priced guitar". Works for me. |
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Club / Film / WordsDJ/CLUBClick Click feat. The Galvatrons + Cassette Kids + The Jezebels + Ajax 
Friday May 2nd (8pm) at Oxford Art Factory (38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). $20. A Galvatron sounds like something you clean the kitchen sink with, lots of scouring and frothy, grainy, scratchy white stuff everywhere. The Galvatrons are four wacky retrofitted kids from Melbourne with world domination on the to-do list and and EP, "When We Were Kids", that's just been freshly laid. DJ/CLUB Eli Escobar + S.Y.L.K + Art Rush 
Saturday May 3rd (9pm) at Oxford Art Factory (38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). Presale $20. Edits ... it's always all about the edits, and Eli Escobar cuts like the best of them: "Hollertronix #7" (with Diplo), "Jimmy" by M.I A and Chromeo's "Bonafied Lovin'" have all been touched by the hand of Eli. And it seems everything that Eli touches turns to gold. DJ/CLUB No Answer Launch feat. Dangerous Dan + Chicks On Deck + Mik Tha Menace + Mike Tyson + Gaybash DJs 
Saturday May 3rd (9pm) at Q-Bar (Upstairs, 44 Oxford St, Darlinghurst). $5 before 10pm, $10 thereafter. I like being buttered up by the "old school" crew: "Hey man, long time fan of Kripy even in the old format". The No Answer kids are bringing Saturdays back, stealing it from the clutches of yet another banging electro track, cheesy bars with terrible music and seedy pub dwellers. The music policy is "anything goes", cut across two rooms, meaning fun for all the family. FILM The Time Machine (1960) + Yellow Submarine (1968) 
Sunday May 4th (4pm) at Chauvel Cinema (Corner of Oxford St and Oatley Rd, Paddington). $11. Hands up those of you that have never encountered The Countdown Clowns, The Jack-the-Nippers or The Dreadful Flying Glove? For those in the know the Blue Meanies - and I'm not talking about something that was handed to you early Sunday morning - are an army of music-hating creatures that cruise around Pepperland, a (fictional?) land under the sea that forms the backdrop for "Yellow Submarine". BOOK LAUNCH Georgia Clarke: She's With The Band Tuesday May 6th (6pm) at Gleebooks (49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe). FREE! She bloody did it. Last time I chatted with digital-buddy Georgia Clarke, it was about propping the premier screening of her short film, "The Heist". She signed off with "next step is developing a TV pilot for a series. That's after I finish the book I'm writing: teen fiction, baby - way of the future". Indeed. |
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CultureTHEATRERuben Guthrie 
Performance continues until Sunday May 11th (Tue, 7pm; Wed-Sat, 8.15pm; Sun, 5.15pm) at Belvoir St Theatre (25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills). $29/$23. "Ruben Guthrie is on fire. At only 29, he is Creative Director of a cutting edge advertising agency, lives with his Czech supermodel fiancé and drinks like he invented it". If this sounds like someone you know or indeed, someone you work with, then you need to go and see this. Now. THEATRE One-Man Star Wars Trilogy 
Performance continues until Saturday May 3rd (Wed, 7.30pm; Thu, 8.30pm; Fri, 7.30pm; Sat, 5pm, 7.30pm) at The Metro Theatre (624 George St, Sydney). Presale $39. Everyone loves a one man band, watching the awkward coordination and vain struggle to simultaneously clash symbols, foot stomp and blow wildly into a harmonica brings a smile to every smug onlookers face. Now imagine an actor in the same one-man scenario, who plays every character in a Star Wars play. Clearly he is using the force to portray favourites including, the incestuous Luke and Leia, Yoda, Darth Vader, Chewbacca and C-3PO. ART Melissa White: Whoo Knows Honey 
Wednesday April 30th (6pm) at Somedays (72B Fitzroy St, Surry Hills). Exhibition continues until Tuesday May 20th (Mon-Wed, Fri, 10am-6pm; Thu, 10am-7pm; Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, 11am-5pm). FREE! Winner of the inaugural Somedays Gallery Artist Competition, Melissa White has put together an exhibition of works in graphics, acrylic and illustration with that wise old bird, the owl, figuring prominently. See "Whoo Knows Honey" is the unknown, or the act of not knowing. The owl counters this in its traditional place in history as a symbol of knowledge. ART Head On: Alternative Portraits 
Friday May 2nd (12pm) at Australian Centre for Photography (257 Oxford St, Paddington). Exhibition continues until Saturday June 7th (Tue-Fri, 12pm-7pm; Sat, Sun 10am-6pm). FREE! There's an awesome photo that forms part of the fifth annual Head On exhibition, a shot of Aaron Paine photographed by Matthew Bickerton, that's been squashed flat with some Photoshop wizardry and is one of those images that is too hard to look at, at the same time too hard to look away. Thing is they haven't announced the winner meaning the 2008 gallery isn't live. No matter - I'll make you stare at it next week. |
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One Nation Under CCTV Or "Return of the Banksy". Coca Cola x Evan Hecox  First there was Sony Bravia ripping off Kozyndan, now it's Coca Cola lifting the work of Evan Hecox. And again the same thing happened: the artist was approached but turned the job down, only to find the work making it up there anyhow. Niwouinwouin  Niwouinwouin seems to be a French electronic music label complete with cute creatures galore. Found this one off Bobby's ever refreshing Desktop Wallpaper Project, leading me onto Jean Jullien. |
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Vice Global Trend Report 2008 - Melbourne The demise of the thong: "Summers get really hot in Australia, and it's tempting to bare your little piggies by wearing flip-flops. Ugh". Van She Stache  The video clip for "Strangers", from the forthcoming debut by Van She title "V", has just dropped. Thing is the Hipster Runoff kids are having issues. (That link is clean, the website isn't). Hacking Digital Billboards  Surreal stuff from Skullphone who took it upon himself to hack ten Clear Channel digital billboards in and around Los Angeles. |
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Mercy Arms x Club 77 Live music, cheap drinks, free CD, Mercy Arms, Club 77, the acid thickens. One Day Poem Pavilion  "Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion's surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem". Samuel Francois  Draws and photographs and is just plain rad. Ill Studio  Great and somewhat trippy work from Ill Studio. |
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About KripyKripy is me, Arturo Escartin, trying to make sense of the city I live in, Sydney. The Kripy Irregular Mailer contains the picks of the litter with the website updated daily. I may miss a week here or there - don't hate me for it. Ulterior motives exist: a place to brain dump; a way of sharing the constant deluge of things that are sent to and discovered by me, both analog and digital; a website I can truly call my own, the essence of "time suckage" which keeps me creating, evolving, learning and innovating on all things web.
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