The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, With Patrick Lenton!
In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is seen reading a wide array of books. Whether in preparation for Harvard or for her time at Yale, she is always improving herself via literature. Juxtapose this with Patrick Lenton, who found himself re-reading The Wheel of Time for the seventeenth time, grimly hoping the ingrained misogyny might somehow disappear if he just believed hard enough. What happened to his days of challenging himself? What about that one time he read Moby Dick and felt good for eight years? Patrick decided to take a leaf out of Rory’s books and read Rory’s books.
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Painting it Red
Trash McSweeney is the front man of The Red Paintings, a band that started in the beach side town Geelong in the late 1990's. He is also a Wizard of Oz character - proverbially speaking that is, because of his musical journey, McSweeney says he created his “own yellow brick road.” But despite almost 15 years together, these guys are only now releasing their debut full-length album. And boy-oh-boy-Toto, it sure is a wild and extreme ride.
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50 Worst Dates
One of our PEOPLE WHO DO STUFF, Matthias McGregor, is putting together a collection of mico-non-fiction which chronicles terrible first dates and he wants to hear about yours! We've stolen the first four to jog your bad-date memories and we want you to contribute in the comment section or email them directly to him, if you want to keep it totally anon.
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Art in Question: Lily Mae Martin
For the first round of our new corner ART IN QUESTION we thought we'd kick things off with the ridiculously talented artist and blogger Lily Mae Martin. Her hyper realistic and beautifully sensitive work caught our collective eye in the latest issue of Going Down Swinging and we certainly plan on seeing more of her in the months to come.
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Our Lady Of The Roadside
We’re driving back from Patagonia to Buenos Aires. Just the two of us this time, he at the wheel and me beside. The four-day drive down had been done in two, and mostly at night. I’d spent that trip curled in the back, the only girl in a car of boys in what had been two months of boys, boy jokes and boy smells. I slept a lot of it and read and read and read. I listened to music and watched from the window the red rags and ribbons waving from trees, from signs, from anything permanent along the roadside. I made myself sad guessing they were markers for fatalities. I tenderly imagined the heavy pilgrimage loved ones would have to make to these empty places – near no houses or towns, by long flat roads where you can drive hundreds of kilometres without turning once.
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Drugs Are Probably Bad
“No, I’m not putting my hands up. I don’t even like Detroit”. I stand on the outskirts of the smoky karaoke bar, deep in the heart of Chinatown, arms crossed, forbidding myself to participate. My friends on stage are riled up Lady Marmalade style, and the crowd around us is the regular daddy-issue-blondes and football-is-a-real-thing-dudes. "Come on," my friend Alice coerces “I just found some acid”.
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THE BEST OF THE WEEK
Can I get a TGIF up in here? Anyone? Because it’s that time of the day where no one wants to do anymore work but is still obligated to sit at a desk, we’re giving you the best and worst of this week, so you have plenty of conversational topics to take with you to your party tonight.
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Bloods: Crips and Cats
Three, oh, it's the magic number. Yeah it is. Somewhere in that ancient mystic trinity, you'll get three as the magic number. Or you'll get amazoid Sydney trio, Bloods, who have just release an incredible new EP.
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PEOPLE WHO DO STUFF: BROOKE PERSICH
Fashion comes and goes, but jewellery is forever. If you don’t agree, just go into any history museum and check out their ancient artifacts section. Okay, so let me rephrase that, urns and jewellery are forever. All of this leads us to introducing the latest lady of the PEOPLE WHO DO STUFF series, Miss Brooke Persich. Her love for Gothic undertones and incredible eye for detail is what’s sending her straight to the top and sending me to the optometrist from staring at her creations online for too long.
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Return of the Juggernaut
Way back in 2007 when we were all a little bit younger and the sun was shining a bit brighter, little known Melbourne three piece Midnight Juggernauts put out a debut album that would go on to blow them into stratospheric fame. It was an album that for a period was played everywhere, all of the time and holds a level of nostalgia for almost everyone. Now six years later, the band return with their third album and we spoke to front man Vincent Vendetta about meeting expectations, creating challenges and the curse of indie-dance music.
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