SixThousand is a weekly snapshot of Perth's subculture - a Perth guide to film, music, design, books, art, goods and links for people who realise that the best things in life are often hard to find. Below you will find the latest additions to our Perth guide.
The Killer Inside Me
Since I don't enjoy films whose gaze lingers on sadistic violence, I was a little worried about Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's brutal pulp novel. For god's sake, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson have stunt doubles for their bashings, and someone appears in the credits as Alba's "prosthetic makeup artist".
Studiomama
When you move house and are without the thing that they call 'furniture', there are only so many neighbourly garage sales and flea markets that you can ransack before you start to want your Sunday sleep-ins back.
Forget the old poor artist mantra: 'bricks + planks = pretty good shelves'. Studiomama has designed some easy-how PDFs which tell you how to turn packing crates into a chair, stool, table.
Interview with Bret Easton Ellis - PART 1
Bret Easton Ellis is taller than I'd imagined and less humble than I'd hoped. I guess I had it coming - never having finished any of his books and substituting lack of research by watching American Psycho for the first time after nine beers only the night before. The surprising outcome was, as he put it, "an undiluted Bret Easton Ellis experience.
'Strange Weather, Isn't It?', !!!
!!! new full-length Strange Weather, Isn't It? is a reflection on the bands glary decade together. The lyrics point towards a serious life stock-take; "you'll never hear the same song again/nothing in the rear view mirror/except a trunk full of reasons" or "I felt strangely free as I caught the last bus from the place I'm supposed to be/and it's a good thing I like being alone I made a promise to the mirror long ago".
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Blood donation
7th Apr 10
Alanis was right - life sure deals some ironic blows sometimes. Like being mocked by that shitty pirate busker as you walk down the street, even after...
Perspectives
3rd Mar 10
In year Nine, I went out with Sheridan. Sure, she was knock-kneed and had an overbite, but for those five days we dated, my life approached perfect. Then...
Melissa Numa & Love Foxx shoes
4th Apr 10
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21st Aug 09
In this age of digitisation, there's an almost troubling democracy to photography. Every man and his miniature toy poodle can take mediocre photos with...
Sherbert Cupcake Shop
27th May 10
No birthday party is complete without punch and cake. Maybe I'm just unco, but when balancing punch in one hand and a piece of cake on a napkin in the...
Wind Waker, 'Wind Waker'
27th Jan 10
The Zelda references have been flowing thick and fast since the genesis of young super-talented and ultra-motivated Perth young ones Wind Waker. Indeed...
Tomorrow When The War Began
2nd Sep 10
A bunch of unfeasibly attractive teenagers go bush. Laughing, flirting, frolicking beside creeks and campfires... Something bad's definitely about to...
The Velvet Underground, 'New York Art'
25th Mar 10
If you've not heard of the Velvet Underground I suggest you crack open the wikipedia; I certainly wont be wasting the next 200 words brewing the coffee...
My Year Without Sex
28th May 09
My Year Without Sex begins as the kind of shaggy suburban comedy that Australian cinema does so well, but writer/director Sarah Watt has meshed a low-key...
Private Investigator Training Courses
22nd Aug 10
Every now and then I get a little misty eyed and wish I'd devoted my life to solving crimes rather than office admin. Telling the chief to shuttup and...
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