Sticky Shop benefit for Romalang 17 – long reach stapler – April 23rd

THE STICKY ROMALANG 17 LONG REACH STAPLER BENEFIT.
Type: Party – Benefit
Start Time: Friday, April 23, 2010 at 10:00pm
Location: Pony bar
Street: 68 Little Collins Street
City/Town: Melbourne, Australia

Description.This is a fundraiser show Sticky is coordinating to raise cash for a Romalang 17 long reach stapler from Italy and import it to Sticky for public use.

The Romalang 17 is the mother of all long arm staplers and is capable of pushing staples through as many pieces of A4 as any zinemaker could imagine.

Playing on the night will be OUCH MY FACE + GO GENRE EVERYTHING + THE CHURCH OF HYSTERIA & there will be a STICKY ZINE STALL. First band is on at 10pm and it is $7 to get in. All money raised goes towards bringing the Romalang 17 to Melbourne.

Ada Lovelace by @emcee #emcee

This is cool I stumbled across it today.

Ada Lovelace by M-C Turgeon

emcee’s site

Happy Ada Lovelace Day Gurls #adalovelace #polynomial #geekgirl

Ada Lovelace the Legend

Ada Lovelace was born Ada Byron in 1815. Though she never met him, Ada was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

In 1833 (when she was only 17), Ada met Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine. They became lifelong friends, and later, scientific collaborators.

In 1835, Ada married William King, who subsequently inherited a noble title, whereupon Ada became “Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace.”

Babbage enlisted the Countess’s help in translating the memoir of an Italian mathematician, (Bernoulli) and in the process Ada produced copious notes of Babbage’s Difference Engine. It is for these documents, simply titled “Notes,” that she remains famous today (although probably less so than she deserves). Although she is credited as the “founder of scientific computing,” I would also argue that Ada was the first technical writer.

Ada Lovelace died of cancer in 1852.

Cited: Dunechaser

Have Zombie Go Go action with Mu-Mesons for New Years Eve – Sydney party

Thursday 31st December
Sounds of Seduction
Celebrity Zombies

Well into the 21st Century and especially in 2009 our notion of celebrity has become unstuck. When they are worth more dead and the living ones are acting like the undead its time for the Sounds of Seduction to embrace this theme and to douse our audience with fame. Come and do the moon walk in the grave yard with Mu-Mesons on New years eve as we turn the Annandale into a Dawn of the Dead shopping mall of the Stars. With Zombie Go Go action and zombie visuals all night long. Prizes for the best dressed. Knock yourself out.

Annandale Hotel – 9.00pm to 3.00am $20+BF pre sale (02) 9550-1078 $25 @ the Door

Annandale Hotel at 17 Parramatta Rd Annandale, Sydney, Australia.  Ph (02) 9550-1078

Scrabbled Eggs screening a new raptastic movie by Anna Helme

A new film by Anna Helme – “Scrabbled Eggs” (8 mins) is a raptastic comic tale about two nerdy rapper rivals who face off across the divide between the living and the dead in a word-play battle for supernatural scrabble supremacy. This very special one-off movie preview event will also feature musical performances from many of the colourful cast members from the movie.

PARTY!!

DISCO VORTEX this legendary duo flashily rap the now over the trash beats of the future
RYAN I kicking out funny n sad jams on keys n guitar, cut n pasting eclectic electric n acoustic with musical gluestick
PAUL BOURKE he’s just a lonely cowboy playin new-romantic post-folk
PASH she’s the femcee that’s gonna make you wanna smile – she got you foot tappin, lip smackin, rappin pash stylez.

Tuesday 10th November
730pm
303 High St Northcote, Melbourne

Who wants to be murdered for Halloween?

Opening appropriately on Halloween Vincent Lyce’s Final Curtain is a macabre mix of comedy, murder and mystery served with a delicious dinner. Ex wives, illegitimate sons and fans alike will gather to celebrate the illustrious career of Vincent Lyce. Forty years as the star of horror movies as forgettable as “Dump of Death” and “When Death Knocks Don’t Answer”.

For the night you will be allocated a small character to play as much or as little as you choose. You might be a former co-star, a member of the press or maybe a movie star’s agent or a fan. You’ll be united in your admiration for the great star’s life work and dress as your favourite Vincent Lyce movie character – werewolves, vampires and mummies will rule the night. Click to view Vincent Lyce’s Filmography

But will all be as it seems? Could there be skullduggery afoot and a mystery to solve? Who can tell where Vincent Lyce, ‘the man behind the mask‘ is concerned?

Another unique evening of interactive comedy, murder and mystery from the producers of A Dinner to Die For.

Book to celebrate Halloween on Saturday 31st October
Venue: Queens Loft,133, Queensbridge Street, Southbank, Melbourne, Australia
Bookings: (03) 9698 8011

More info at http://vincentlyce.com/

#The Yes Men. #Age of Stupid. Climate Action Week in New York.

If you live in New York, please visit http://newyorkbigevent.com/ to sign up for some GIANT, extremely FUN, potentially WORLD-FIXING shenanigans on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. (Even if you don’t, you can sign up to participate in The Yes Men’s  “digital fun squad” by clicking the option on your profile.)

Everyone who shows up Monday morning will get a FREE GIFT you can SHOCK your friends with for years. Even just a few minutes Monday morning will help. Sign up now! http://newyorkbigevent.com/

The Yes Men can’t tell you much about what they”ll be doing, as the element of surprise here are crucial. But they can tell you that it’ll be huge and absurdly fun, and when a hundred world honchos meet the next morning to discuss climate change at the UN, you may have helped set the tone for progress.

Then, that evening (Monday, Sept. 21), we’ll unwind from the action by dressing up in our very best, er, suits and heading to the global mega-premiere of climate blockbuster The Age of Stupid (http://www.ageofstupid.net/). (LA Times: “Think An Inconvenient Truth, but with a personality”)

The premiere will be linked by satellite to 444 cinemas across America and 300 more worldwide,with special guests Kofi Annan, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke (singing live), Gillian Anderson, Heather Graham, Moby, James Hansen, Mary Robinson, and the film’s star Pete Postlethwaite.

The Sept. 21 events (http://newyorkbigevent.com/ and Age of Stupid premiere) are part of Climate Action Week in New York. A good way to warm up is to join an “international photo opportunity” coordinated by Oxfam on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 20 in Central Park: the Human Countdown.

Chris Badenoch, from Masterchef Australia and BeerMasons present Party for Strays

If you love animals and you love to party you have the power to save their lives.

Our resident foodie, frontman and MasterChef contestant, Chris and the chefs from The Court House Hotel, North Melbourne, have whipped up a night of boutique beer and mouth watering bites for your partying pleasure.

Join in this Party for Strays and help the Lort Smith Animal Hospital give stray, abused and abandoned pets a second chance at life and help reduce pet euthanasia (currently 200,000 animals a year in Australia.)

Door prizes, competitions, DJs, sensational beer, fine food and excellent company.

It’s time to party with a purpose!

Thursday 10th September, 2009
@ 7pm
The Court House Hotel
Cnr Errol and Queensbury Streets
North Melbourne, VIC
BeerMasons Party Team
info@beermasons.com

Register for this event

RENAISSANCE Festival launch PARTY. Northcote, Melbourne

A day and night of non-stop MUSIC til ……….LATE. To be held in my community of Northcote, Melbourne, Australia.

Saturday 26th September, 2009
2:00pm
To highlight the opening of Open Studio
204 HIGH STREET, Northcote.

Only $5.

BUSH FESTIVAL in the CITY
Pre- RENAISSANCE get together with MUSIC, PERFORMING acts and VISUAL INSTALLATIONS.

DUB THE MAGIC DRAGON
- main act -
Live acts all day:
- CLASSIC JAM*
- PETER HAREN
- …..MANY MORE tba

*Classic Jam is Melbourne’s contribution to the Classical Revolution taking hold world-wide. It is a group of unconventional classical musicians taking their art out of the concert hall and letting rip around Melbourne. Through fun, informal, high quality chamber ‘jams’, we aim to bring our music to audiences beyond the concert halls by playing in bars, cafes and unusual spaces in and around town.

Performers’ Wish List:
- Peter HAREN
- Hannah CROFT
- Matt KELLY
- Jelly Tub R…
- Pristessa
- ….. to be continued

Melbourne Underground Film Festival

22 – 30th August, 2009

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is back to celebrate MUFF X – the festival’s prestigious tenth year of championing alternative cinema in Melbourne. MUFF is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated 2009 lineup and full schedule of events.

MUFF X will run from Saturday August 22nd until Sunday August 30th. This year’s venues will be Noise, Loop, Glitch, and the Embassy (the old QBH).

Opening night at the newly converted Embassy will deliver Into the Shadows – a fascinating and important documentary about the state of this country’s film industry and the challenges faced by Australian independent cinema throughout the past century. It features interviews by Rolf De Heer (The Tracker), George Miller (Mad Max), Andrew Denton, and many more film practitioners and representatives.

The 2009 festival programmers are proud to present a selection of exciting and provocative pictures from interstate, overseas, and many from the festival’s home town of Melbourne. MUFF may be the only chance Melbourne audiences will have to see many of these films.

Local highlights include Sleeper – a thriller starring wrestler Scott ‘Raven’ Levy as a mute serial killer with an aversion to daylight, Eraser Children, an ambitious and absorbing sci-fi flick set in a futuristic dystopia, and Carmilla Hyde, a darkly seductive twist on the traditional Jekyll & Hyde story. International highlights include Impolex, the bizarre story of a WWII soldier in search of undetonated German missiles, and Modern Love is Automatic, a comedy about an apathetic nurse who moonlights as a dominatrix.

MUFF Website with program now available.