Tracy Redhead, supported by Ken Watt, July 16th, Indian Ocean Hotel, Scarborough
Entertainment at The Indi Bar is a bit like Mark Harvey’s top lip; you’re never really quite sure what’s going on there. Seemingly endless residencies by stoner bands are erratically punctuated with one-off appearances by bands THAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO SEE (and the occasional fire) with little or no advance warning. Read the rest of this entry »
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Who said state and federal don't mix...
The Bunbury Italian Club played host last Saturday to the Hugo Chávez Testimonial Dinner, an annual open-bar knees-up attended by a who’s who of South-West identities. Spotted cheerfully discussing the finer points of state and federal legislative interaction were Opposition Whip and parliamentary hottie Nola Marino (Member for Forrest) and the ever debonair Giovanni (John) Castrilli (Member for Bunbury). Read the rest of this entry »
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Astute Perthetic readers will already know that we have a special fondness for mallee root artifacts produced by Western Australia’s gifted artisans; particularly mallee root clocks. We can’t get enough of them – especially the ones with clocks AND barometers – and always stock up when we’re out (of the metropolitan area) and about (searching in vain for a decent cup of coffee) in the State of Excitement’s rural provinces.
Well, fellow devotees, we’ve just discovered there’s a MALLEE ROOT FESTIVAL! Read the rest of this entry »
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Au contraire, this isn’t some diatribe concerning appalling media pics of female politicians. It’s about Kevin Rudds.
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Thanks to docker_tragic for this intriguing porno boxcover which appears to show ever-reliable-goal-kicker Matthew Pavlich reverse skull-fucking the Dalai Lama while flipping a victory sign with his right hand. It might be interesting to contemplate which one of those events is more unlikely. No word on where this curio came from (thank god). Read the rest of this entry »
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Movie Review: Inside Man
Remember Superfly, that blaxploitation pic from the early 70s? It was notable in that the soundtrack out-grossed the movie itself, a feat I’m not sure has been repeated since. As well as some seminal music from Curtis Mayfield, the movie also had some killer dialogue. Youngblood Priest, the coke-dealing hero(?) is planning one last drug deal to set himself up so he can quit the mean streets of the ghetto. His buddy doesn’t want him to quit, imploring him; “Why you wanna quit Priest? You got an 8-track stereo and a colour TV in every room. You’re living the American dream!” Read the rest of this entry »
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“What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”
Marcel Duchamp“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
Oscar Wilde
City of Joondalup Community Art Exhibition
(until the 21st June at Lakeside Shopping City)
This exhibition of mostly paintings (all for sale) by Joondalup residents raises some intriguing questions. Firstly, how is it possible that in Joondalup, a city of 100,000 people, there are no artists? Statistically, that would seem quite unlikely to me, but it appears irrefutable once you have a gander at this little lot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Curbside Scavenging Report: Subiaco
Six weeks I’ve been gomi hunting
And every night, I dream of Subi
They say junk is what you’ll find there
But shit, it worked for meFor I’ve come South gomi hunting
I always scab, off the verge
Now I’m fossicking here in Subi
And my brain, it’s taken leave(with apologies to The Warumpi Band and Neil Murray.)
A total gomi mind-set and presence. If you have it then you will be inexplicably drawn to a particular pile of trash, and, usually, extract some morsel of interesting tat. Thus, for me, a casual scavenging jaunt to Subi during their rubbish throw-out yielded up a car-full of unpricelessly fabulous trash in less than an hour. Read the rest of this entry »
Movie review: In the Valley of Elah, National Treasure 2 – Book of Secrets
Video stores make me prickly. Whenever I enter one I feel like I’m wearing a sign that says; “LOSER: he doesn’t have anything better to do with his life than watch television.” Gawking at box covers with other plebs just adds to the overbearing sentiment of mindless consumer subservience. And later, to add insult to injury and complete the victimisation process, you have to RETURN the goddamn thing. Read the rest of this entry »
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From the ABC. Yeah, yeah, I know that the link with Perth is tenuous, well, non-existent actually. But it was too good to pass up.
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The Horn Collection, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
Bunbury and art. Strange bedfellows perhaps, but Perthetic art snobs could do worse than take the trip south to view a sampling of the Horn Collection now showing at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries (until June 15th). Read the rest of this entry »
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Curbside Scavenging Report: Nedlands
The astonishingly successful gomi hunting jaunt we undertook in Floreat a month back had us well primed for a curbside scavenging expedition to Nedlands this week. Just thinking about the unpricelessful junk that awaited us in the rich-bastard suburb made our gomi glands fully engorged. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tip for job hunters who might want to work for the local council, sorry, I mean “Team Stirling”: Get ink declaring your allegiance to your council and wear a pair of red heels.
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What a funny old fellow is Pumfrey,
He paints all manner of shite,
He likes his Belgian linen,
And Kwinana’s his favourite place,
Which is hardly so very surprising,
He’s a really obsessed detailist,
What a painterly fellow is Pumfrey,
Pumfrey the factory loving realist!
Terraform II, Turner Galleries
Garry Pumfrey’s new exhibition of photorealistic works, Terraform II (Turner Galleries, until 14 June), delivers a deliciously tart rejoinder to the mindless boomtown rhetoric that Western Australians are currently immersing themselves in. Read the rest of this entry »
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Thanks (?) to Shaz for this pic, which she reckons depicts a fellow auto-sodomising at Scarborough beach while eating a Mrs Mac’s pie. We prefer to believe it’s a new CoastWatch initiative.
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This somewhat disquieting bumper sticker was sighted in Scabs, and one has to ask, whatever happened to discretion? Isn’t part of the attraction (?) of an intimate (one would guess) piercing the fact that only you and your lover know about it?
When did it become desirable to advertise your genital modifications? And perhaps most vexing of all, does the person displaying this sticker really want people at the lights to bellow out their best guesses? “Hey luv, my mate reckons it’s your clitoral hood but I’m punting on yer labia majora. Giss a Captain Cook!”
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Movie Review: Iron Man
Firstly, I’d like to congratulate Innaloo Megaplex Cinemas for managing to show this film without something going wrong. We went and saw Deception (don’t bother) last week and they managed to get the aspect ratio wrong. For the first 20 minutes of the movie it was like watching it through a slit. Finally, someone in the audience toddled off to find a spotty teenager to come and fix it. Some clunking sounds came from the projection booth and suddenly half the movie was projected onto the ceiling of the cinema. It stayed like this for 10 minutes before someone again went off to find a staff member. Finally, after half-an-hour, they got it right and the audience broke into rapturous applause. It was like being at Cannes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Thanks to Rusty for this contribution of a tree stricken by agent orange; well, bits of the tree, anyway. Read the rest of this entry »
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“If it was not for the circus coming to town most people and children would not know what the animals looked like and all you animal do-gooders out there thanks a lot now a circus is not the same without animals as you all know when you were all kids I bet you could not wait for the circus to come to town.”
Post by Kenneth to animalactivism.org“A whole seven incidences of animal cruelty in 11 years is surely a very small percentage. I think, what with the Tower of London’s history, for example, is that you folks must have more important moral work to do than worry about circus animals. And I think you should get about doing it. Mind your own business, surely that will keep you busy enough.”
Post by Anonymous to animalactivism.org
Quite. But with animal acts in circuses having effectively been abolished, what is there to fill the gawking vacuum left by the disappearance of the mangy lions and deranged elephants? Read the rest of this entry »
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