Make It Happen: Repower Monk Bodhi Dharma.
For all you green cats and lovers of delicious food out there, the AYCC (Australian Youth Climate Coalition) are putting on a sparkly little shingdig this Saturday eve to raise money for the solar re-powering of the St Kilda cult classic institution Monk Bodhi Darma. The event is going to be showcasing ethical and reworked fashion, soulful folk music, organic beer and wine and delicious vegan food with the hopes of raising money for solar panels for the quant little roof of the Monk cafe. Tickets are $35 and are selling fast, so get it on it kids. Be ethical and dance with a beer in your hand.
Buy your tickets here, at http://www.trybooking.com/23836 .
Melbourne Cinémathèque: The Weird, Rare & Euro Trashy
If you’re one of those great unwashed souls with a penchant for watching films, especially weird and wonderful ones that no one has ever heard of, then you should check out Melbourne Cinémathèque.
It’s a great resource for film students and students of life alike. With each screening bearing a themed focus on one particular filmmaker (April 11-24th the focus is French filmmaker Robert Presson, who’s style is described by Wikipidea as spiritual and ascetic) it really widens the eyeballs and mind. An annual membership is only $99 so if you have some money left over from this weekend’s party-fun-times/the purchase of expensive new pony skin clogs*, then you should make your way over to ACMI and get involved. Screening’s occur every Wednesday night from 7pm and they show two films in the one night, so it’s some definitive bang for your buck. I might see you there sipping some mulled wine from a thermos and discussing the symbiotic reading of various films of the French New Wave with my main man, Warwick Hogwash Esq.
* Not real pony skin, surely not.
Designer Bread is Saah Indie
Designer bakeries are apparently the new du jour. And as wanky as the proposition of specialist bread sounds, the potential for deliciousness overwhelms Kook’s aching self-conciousness. A second shop of the ever-hip St. Kilda bakery and coffee-maker Baker D. Chirico has opened in Carlton on Faraday Street. Not only does it sell bountiful offerings of beautiful and tasty bread, but it does so in a way-to-funky-for-a-breadshop interior. When you first walk in you may be forgiven for thinking an alien spaceship has crash-landed in Carlton with the sole purpose of selling us their fine bread. Well I for one say we welcome our new flour overlords. If you live or go to uni nearby then you’ll inevitably make it a staple on your daily journeys. Yes, there’s no coffee machine, but then if there’s one thing Lygon Street doesn’t need, it’s another place to buy a freaking latte.
Source: Thecoolhunter.net
Deets: 178 Faraday Street Carlton.
Touring Like an Active Child
Yank-man Pat Grossi, under the moniker of Active Child, is touring around this old-country of ours with his pretty voice, and a bunch of harps. While we don’t envy whomsoever has to tune those damn harps, we sure would like to rip his vocal chords out and proudly display them for all to see. So go enjoy the show, be merry, get crunk, do whatever… as long as its not crystal meth.
Tour Dates:
Presented by Pedestrian.
With special guest Caitlin Park.
Tickets on sale Monday 21 November 2011.
Saturday 28 January – Laneway Festival – Brisbane.
More information and tickets here.
Sunday 29 January – Oxford Art Factory – Sydney.
Tickets from Moshtix, online www.moshtix.com.au, by phone 1300 Get Tix (438 849), on your mobile via www.moshtix.mobi and Moshtix outlets.
Saturday 4 February – Laneway Festival – Melbourne.
More information and tickets here.
Sunday 5 February – Laneway Festival – Sydney.
More information and tickets here.
Wednesday 8 February – East Brunswick Club – Melbourne.
Tickets from the East Brunswick Club, online www.eastbrunswickclub.com, by phone 9388 9794 and 57 Swan St Richmond, 10am-8pm Mon-Sat.
Friday 10 February – Laneway Festival – Adelaide.
More information and tickets here.
Saturday 11 February – Laneway Festival – Perth.
More information and tickets here
More Talk About Girls: Girl Talk Sideshows
Greg Gillis aka. Girl Talk is pulling side shows off the back of the 2012 BDO. While Kook does not recognise Girl Talk’s pop-noise collages as strictly musical, we do maintain that they are the best damn swell time you can have with a man half-buried in a lawn.
Saturday 28th January
ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY
With Special Guests to be announced
Tickets on sale: Noon Monday, November 28
Tickets from www.ticketek.com.au, Ph 132 849
Tuesday 31st January
PALACE THEATRE, MELBOURNE
Tickets on sale: Noon, Monday, November 28
Tickets from oztix.com.au, Ph 1300 762 545 and Oztix outlets Polyster – City & Fitzroy, Greville, Espy & National Hotel.
ALSO APPEARING NATIONALLY ON BIG DAY OUT
Community Out, 30 Rock In, & Arrested Development Comeback Edging Closer
Feeling a douche chill coming on? That’s because Netflix has announced exclusive rights for airing new episodes and/or a movie of Arrested Development in 2013. Which, yes, for the short-term means the new episodes will be locked into a platform that absolutely no-one in Australia uses. But still… There will be new episodes and/or a movie of Arrested Development. One of the finest comedy series in recent times is set to return like Scipio Africanus to Rome. The cast announced something was happening at an awesome-filled New Yorker reunion roundtable (you can watch the whole thing here), but it’s nice to know there is serious backing behind them. And, an online streaming company bankrolling a niche TV show? New media landscape, etcetera etcetera.
For fans of good TV this is a welcome respite from life-altering devastation of discovering that Community has been pulled. TV-Nerds have been wandering the streets, alone and afraid, winking to imaginary cameras, waiting in vain for awkward Dean-entrances. While not cancelled—all the episodes of season three will eventually air—the show faces being canned next year unless a couple of million more people become rabid fans pretty quickly. An interesting question the pulling has raised, is why Community, a well written and genuinely funny show, has thus far failed to find a big-enough audience. Some said it was because of the show’s in-jokes, meta-humour and long-running gags. Essentially, the same thing that killed Arrested Development—it was hard to get into. But that raises the question, why do we allow dramas to have season-long arcs and slow-building stories, but not comedies?
At Kook we think Community was pulled because the third season has sucked. We get it, some crazy shit happens and the group breaks down and has a big collective argument. Stop it. Find a new storyline. And preferably, one with less Chang and alternative universes.
The silver lining is that 30 Rock is set to replace Community, and Tina Fey can try to claim back the coveted prize of Most Meta Show on TV for her little show-about-a-show. Oh, and there’s always Bored to Death. You know, with the glorious George Christopher winning our hearts with a puff of pot and wave of his hand.
Le Fox’s New Banger — Hospitals
In such online publications as this one, Le Fox have been characterised as ’post-hardcore rapists’, while their shows are seen as comparable to being accosted by Peter Frampton and a jar of mustard, in a good way. In any event, Melbourne’s Le Fox are a band to watch, even if its just to prevent them from stealing your car, your dignity, and your best friend.
Listen to their new track Hospitals, as a special taster for you Kooks before they drop their new single later this year.
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Eat Tapas, Seduce Women at Huxtable
Huxtable Restaurant can be found at 131 Smith Street, Fitzroy.
Huxtable purveys top quality tapas-style food, at prices reasonable to the distinguished gentleman.
Dare I say, that this is no mean feat in these times of woe.
This is simply the perfect place to impress that indie-vagrant you picked up across the street at the Grace Darling, even if she is beneath you.
Menu for your perusal, sir.
Sincerely,
Warwick P. Hogwash esq.
Strange Talk’s New Jam — Sexual Lifestyle
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Strange Talk’s new single is catchy like syphilis, and twice as rude. You should probably listen to it, and maybe go to one of their upcoming shows. We imagine they will appreciate it as much as our attorney at large, Warwick, would appreciate treatment for his syphilis. Which unfortunately, the Kook medical budget simply cannot stretch to as of yet.
Tour Dates
Thursday 10 November – Karova Lounge – Ballarat.
Tickets on the door only.
Saturday 12 November - Corner Hotel – Melbourne.
Tickets from www.cornerhotel.com / 03 9427 9198.
Friday November 18 - Elsewhere Bar – Gold Coast.
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 Get Tix (438 849).
Saturday November 19 - Bowler Bar – Brisbane.
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 Get Tix (438 849).
Friday November 25 - Oxford Art Factory – Sydney.
Tickets from www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 Get Tix (438 849).
