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We are the champions, my friends! In case you have not yet heard, Is Not Magazine has just won the Premier's Communication Design Award. Stuart and Jeremy got all the glory, but they know what's good for them so they thanked Tash, Mel and Penny in their speech. They did not, however, thank God. Nor Peter Stuyvesant, who is another kind of god to us.
The design madness happened just as soon as we got back from This Is Not Art in Newcastle, and we haven't been resting on our designey laurels. There has been our Issue #8 launch to organise, and YouTube Tuesday continues to thrill weeknight crowds. We have applied fresh whips to the army of cellared orphans who provide our amusing weblinks section. Plus, this issue we have a CD giveaway. Ain't we good to you?
Love,
The only friend who'll grovel under the table looking for your lost $2,
The Magazine.
THIS MONTH:
City Diary - Our calendar of diverting October events in Melbourne and Sydney
Festival of Sturemy - Or, Is Not wins Premier's Communication Design Award
Paper Faces on Parade - We're launching Issue 8 with a Masquerade Fantasy Ball
Honkytonks People - Win a mix CD from a soon-to-be-gone clubbing institution
Fresh from the Compuglobalhypermeganet - These are a few of our favourite links
CITY DIARY - MELBOURNE
6 October
Ghislain Poirier, Gorky, Catchdubs and Lemon-Red
This is truly an amazing lineup. Woody, Opulent and Sound Summit have brought out four international DJs. From Montreal comes Ghislain Poirier, who was recently Lady Sovereign's tour DJ; Gorky is one third of Brazilian group Bonde Do Role; New York's Nick Catchdubs is associate editor at The Fader magazine, while Chris Lemon-Red co-runs Mad Decent records with Diplo and maintains hip-hop blog, Lemon-Red.org. Public Office, 100 Adderley St West Melbourne. Doors open 9pm. Entry is a mere $15. You really have to go to this.
6 October
The Brief Case @ Order of Melbourne
Hula hooper extraordinaire Ms Fat Booty presents Friday night drinks with more than the usual amount of hoop and trapeze action, with DJ Red Light Disco and a special guest appearance by chaotic rollerskatin' performance duo the Rollergrooves. 7:30pm, the Order of Melbourne, level 2/401 Swanston Street Melbourne (across from RMIT). It's free! We suggest starting here and then heading to the Public Office afterwards.
8 October
MTC Garage Sale
Ever been to a play and thought sadly, "Shit, this set is nicer than my house?" Well get down to Melbourne Theatre Company's Garage Sale, at which you can buy up eight years of costumes, props, posters, set furniture and office equipment! Get into David Wenham's pants (from Cyrano de Bergerac, 2005), or perhaps Sigrid Thornton's (from The Blue Room, 2003). And don't miss your chance to own the toilet from Urinetown! Last time they had a garage sale, queues stretched round the block, so get there early. 9am to 3pm, 129 Ferrars Street, Southbank. $2 entry with a sausage sizzle on site.
12-28 October
The Ringtone Society
As part of this year's Melbourne International Arts Festival, The Ringtone Society is getting composers and musicians worldwide to create original ringtones, so you can download them to protect society from the digitally-dull ringtone! Download them for $3 from the website, and check out the ACMI Screen Pit, where guest artists will lay down their ringtone tracks in front of a live audience on 13-15 Oct and 19-28 Oct at 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm). And at the Ringtone Machine on screens throughout ACMI, you can create and download your own original ringtone from a music sample bank created especially for the Festival, completely free.
12 October
Dylan Martorell - The Infinights
Illustrator and musician Dylan Martorell (Hi God People) has a new solo mixed media exhibition at Someday Gallery. Dylan promises a world of silk-screened costumes, sound sculptures, handmade books, limited edition screen prints, 3D photography and video. Infinights opens 7-9pm on 12 October, and runs from 13-29 October. It's sponsored by Red Stripe, so get down and show Dylan some support.
13 October
Is Not's Grand Masquerade Fantasy Ball
Yep, we're celebrating various things, not least of all the launch of Issue 8, "Honesty Is/Not The Best Policy". And what better way to do it than with a masquerade ball featuring The Sticks, Spider Vomit, Declan Kelly, Mafia and Bromance? Backstage (corner Russell and Little Collins Streets), 8pm-3am. Drink specials 8pm-10pm. $10 entry.
14 October
Gimme Shelter
60s soul night Gimme Shelter is back in the city after two years. Now it's upstairs at the refurbished Exford Hotel on the corner of Russell Street and Little Bourke Street. Scurry past the weird drunkards downstairs and head up for some classic garage, northern soul, freakbeat and old-school R'n'B. We also really recommend the Who Wants to Be A Mooyanaire game machine in the corner - it's really addictive. 9pm til late. Happy Hour 9pm-10pm! Entry $6.
24 October
YouTube Tuesday
Get ready for the third instalment of our internet video cinema night. Last time we laughed ourselves stupid at the antics of the Bing Bong Brothers, Flavor of Love, Yacht Rock and Bohe-Man Rhapsody. What will our curators pick this time? Send your favourite videos to Jeremy, or put your hand up to curate a themed seven-minute program.
29 October
Trash & Treasure @ The Tote
Come spend a lazy Sunday arvo with live bands Telecom, The Kissingers, The Cheats and Blackchords, plus awesome DJs, with a trash and treasure market set up in the beer garden. There will even be a bake sale - and everyone knows Is Not loves a bake sale! It kicks off at 3pm. Entry is $6, which goes towards raising funds for 'self help' community group projects in South Africa. Any queries, contact Christabel (0419 115 945) or Gemma (0439 423 959).
6 November Is Not Magazine Cup Eve Party
We are still working on the details of this event, but it will be at Loop, and if our Halloween party last year is any indication, it will possibly feature such antics as panto horse races in Meyers Place. Put this date in your diaries, people. Will you make any other plans for the evening? Neigh!
CITY DIARY - SYDNEY
7 October
Modular Presents MSTRKRFT
MSTRKRFT is the pet project of Toronto musician Jesse F Keeler (formerly of Death From Above 1979), a package of house, hip-hop, grime, punk, and all kinds of electronic experimentation rolled into one. They're keen remixers, handling everyone from Annie to Wolfmother. Now they're in Sydney - this looks huge. The Forum (Entertainment Quarter, Oppoisite Hordern Pavillion), 8pm-2am.
8 October
Garden Music
What a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Bring a picnic to the lush lawns of Government House (Macquarie St; enter via gates opposite Conservatorium of Music), or buy your own food and drink (it's licenced!) Explore the opulent state rooms, join in a game of croquet, soak up the breathtaking harbour views and enjoy music from CODA, Astronomy Class, Tango Saloon and the hottest Cuban hip-hop band in Australia (and Is Not Magazine's good friends), LABJACD. It's hosted by world music radio and TV presenter Jaslyn Hall. Kicks off from 12:30pm. $15/$10
10 October
Attitudes: Alterations + Additions
10 October 2006 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Doors Open 6:00 PM) Architects awake! RAIA is presenting a panel session on the most mundane yet often most complicated and challenging aspect of building design - renovations and extensions. The ideals, philosophy and attitudes of the architects and clients involved can have a significant impact on what results. Hear David Ostinga, Ian Moore, David Boyle, Rowena Marsh and David Melocco outline their particular approaches. Tusculum Auditorium, 3 Manning St Potts Point. $10/$5. Doors open 6pm.
14 October
Amnesty International Freedom Festival
Well this looks massive. Koolism, The Bird, Foreign Heights, deepchild, Regal, The Tongue + DJ Diaz, Rephrase, Nick Toth, James De La Cruz, Funk Trust DJs + Nova, Percussion Junction, Basslines, Edseven, Bentley, Mr Pez. All for $25 ($20 AIA members or Students). Century Theatre aka The Metro, 8pm.
16 October
Choc Tops in the Attic
If you're in the entertainment industry and you'd like to hobnob, do it at Choc Tops, an initiative of NAFA (Networking Action for Filmmakers & Actors). It's a friendly forum held on the third Monday of most months in the Attic Bar of Sydney's ArtHouse Hotel, 275 Pitt Street Sydney. Each evening has Industry Announcements where various castings, crew calls, and industry events are pitched, followed by a guest speaker. See the NAFA website for more info.
30 October
Annandale Cult Sinema - Halloween Double!
Every Monday, the Annandale Hotel's main bar is transformed into a cinema as Jay Katz and Miss Death present a series of rare 16mm feature films and oddities. You won't see these films on cable, TV or video! For Halloween, they're screening the Frankenstein and Poe-influenced Maniac (1934) and the awesome-sounding The Killer Shrews (1959), which is pretty much about shrews that grow to the size of wolves and behave accordingly. Get there at 7.30pm; features start at 8pm. Corner Parramatta Rd and Nelson St, Annandale.
3 November
Burlesque Ball
Join Bessie Bardot as she hosts this fabulous feast of all things burlesque. All manner of saucy acts will perform, as well as live quartets from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, devilish dessert delights and more. The Eastern, 500 Oxford Street Bondi. $70, which includes express entry to the after party at Soho and Yu until 5am. Dress: strictly red and black or burlesque. Buy tickets here.
We like to keep this space friendly. To list your upcoming event in the next City Diary, email info@isnotmagazine.org
FESTIVAL OF STUREMY
On Monday 2 October, all five of us attended the announcement of the Premier's Design Awards at Melbourne Museum. Then we drank a considerable quantity of alcohol and did karaoke. How else does one celebrate? Here are a few selected photos.
Unfortunately, the only photos Stuart and Jeremy could find where they weren't drunk were their prison photos. Let's not talk about the time they went to prison. Suffice it to say the trail of blood led from the school bus to the church.
Here they are standing under a massive quote of Stuart's. You can't really make it out, but perhaps you could bail Stuart up sometime and he'll recite it for you.
Their bromance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky...
Bonus points for anyone who can identify the song Stuart is singing. Jeremy bruised himself severely sinking to his knees during some Morrissey caterwaul, but we didn't get a picture of that.
We would all like to take this opportunity to thank you, the Friendly People. We're often told our project is great, but many don't realise just how much we depend on the support of our community. If it weren't for you guys coming to our events, buying our merch, writing and drawing for us, and spreading the word, Is Not would have folded months ago.
And it might be easy to think we've hit the big time now we've won this award. But it's not like our prize money went on hookers and eight-balls. We threw it straight into our $9000 debt hole. And we still don't have the money to pay for the next issue. As ever, your Magazine needs you!
PAPER FACES ON PARADE
In old Paris and Venice, masquerade balls were carnivals of debauchery, where respectable people enjoyed all manner of pleasures under the protection of anonymity. To celebrate the release of our latest issue, "Honesty Is/Not the Best Policy", we invite you to paint your face, slip on a mask, and for one night, be the person you honestly want to be. Unmask Spike Jonze and win a prize!
HONKYTONKS PEOPLE
You may already know that legendary Melbourne club Honkytonks will be closing down after New Year's Eve this year. Basically, club owner Michael Delany has had his fun turning doofuses away at the door and DJing in the girl's toilets. Now he has bigger fish to fry. But not before releasing a two-CD compilation mixed by the club's Saturday night resident DJs, Mike Callander and Aram Chapers.
It's over 140 minutes of cutting-edge electronic music, packaged with a swank eight page booklet featuring images of debauchery from the club. On disc 1, Mike presents a mix of German-inspired leftfield minimal sounds from the last five years, while on disc 2 Aram goes more for current French acid house and techno.
The CD is released on 23 October, and is being launched at Honkytonks on 28 October. But we've got three of these babies to give away. If you want to create a little bit of Honky's at your place, steal your grandma's collection of china dogs and install them outside the loo, put up a pole in your living room, shanghai a hot barkeep to make you Long Island Iced Teas, and then email us with the subject line, "I'M A HONKYTONKS PERSON". The first three emails will win the CDs.
FRESH FROM THE COMPUGLOBALHYPERMEGANET
Run, don't walk, to the Potato Museum, the world's first and largest collection of all things tuberous. There are movie references to potatoes, a photo history of Belgian chip vans, recipes, poetry and gardening tips, and so much more starchy goodness! Ah, ah, we're really trying not to, but we gotta say it - we wonder how much of their traffic comes from Ireland. Ahh, that feels better.
This guy has got to be the best named cop in America. His photo is like, "Yuh-huh! You best believe it!"
Check out this amazing 1945 aerial map of Melbourne. Notice the tent city in Royal Park, as at the time there wasn't enough housing for all the returned WWII personnel and their families. We also had fun finding our houses, which probably says volumes about our determination to live on the 'red pages' of the Melways. Oh, speaking of that, check out the 1966 first edition of Melbourne's beloved street directory.
Jarrett Davis is an LA-based comedian and his MySpace blog posts are pretty hilarious. We enjoyed the one about the covers of gay-themed children's books, and the one where Jay imagines the worst mp3 blog in the world.
Whether you're worried about revealing your ignorance to your coolsie friends, or whether you enjoy annoying people at parties, Stupid Questions Answered will put you in touch with a community of fellow eejits who'll answer questions like "What colour does a Smurf go when you choke him?", "How old is too old to trick-or-treat?", "Why do cows and rabbits have different sorts of poo?" and "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?"
There's a new way to enjoy iced water. Bling H2O is sold in limited edition frosted glass bottles, with the brand name spelled out in Swarovski crystals. Decorating bottled water is bold new territory for the crystal mob, who've so far restricted themselves to mobile phones and the dresses of bogan brides.
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