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Murdoch Empire Telegraph & Indian Ocean Review – Since 1975 Edition 4, 2011 - Western Australia Metior acknowledges that this is and always will be Aboriginal land. Metior is a Murdoch University student publication. For latest Guild news, events and info go to www.the-guild.com.au Find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/metiormagazine Want to catch up on previous issues? Go to www.the-guild.com.au/metior Editor Sonia Tubb

Graphic Design Karmen Lee

Our undying everlasting gratitude to... Clint Little Kyle Pauletto Kate Collier Nicola Sheridan Kingsley Norris Rachel Watts Sonia Tubb Matt Baldock Jeremy Sheehan (Krause Komics)

Photographers Duncan Wright - Photographic Director Sonia Tubb Clint Little Aidan White Tom Blake Fiona Hoy

CONTENTS President’s Notes.................................................2 Editorial................................................................2 Meet the Team!...................................................3 What Exactly is Hetero Sexuality?.......................6 The Ten Commandments of Share Housing.......7 Cover Photographer: Tom Blake.........................8 Book Review: Black Jesus.................................10 Writing The West...............................................11 Photographer: Fiona Hoy..................................12 Skating in WA....................................................14 Behind the Screens...........................................15

Metior’s deadlines for the remaining three issues of 2011 are 22nd August, 19th September & 17th October

Poetry: Bryn’s House.........................................15

If you’d like to contribute writing, photography, poetry, illustrations or ideas please email us at metior@the-guild.com.au

Someone to Watch Over Me.............................16

Editor Sonia Tubb

Advertising Alex Bellotti

Nick Gardner......................................................20

Phone 9360 2158

Email metior@the-guild.com.au

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Address Murdoch University Guild 90 South Street, Murdoch WA 6150

Sullivan McLeod.................................................18 Film Review: I Love You Phillip Morris.............22 Film Review: Sleeping Beauty..........................22 Frank Turner.......................................................23 Matt Baldock vs. the WQS.................................24 Castle Bravo.......................................................26 Carl Fox...............................................................27 Nic Owen............................................................28 STYLEAID - Tindale.............................................30 STYLEAID - Zsadar...............................................31 Roller Derby.......................................................32 Where To Find Us...............................................33

Disclaimer Metior is published by the students of Murdoch University, under the governance of Murdoch University Guild of Students. Content should not be regarded as the opinions of the Guild unless specifically stated. The Guild accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within the magazine.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

MEET THE TEAM!

Words by Brodie Lewis Semester Two! Welcome back, and a special welcome to all our new students.

Sonia Tubb - Editor

The Guild has a great start planned to the Semester. Dis-Orientation Day is this Thursday the 4th of August, 10am – 2pm we have heaps of fun things for you to do. Come ride the Mechanical Bull, battle a friend in a Sumo suit, tunes thru out the day will be supplied by DJ Drew.

I moved to Perth from Augusta when I was 17 to study at Murdoch University. Looking back now I can’t help but laugh at who I was when I first came here. I’ve met some pretty cool people, who like everyone, has shaped me in some small way. I study Journalism/Public Relations. I am in love/smitten with the editorship role of Metior; it’s thrilling, exhausting and challenging. I am so proud of everyone who has helped the 2011 team and I in some way, we have all grown. I don’t do much outside of Metior and study, where does one find the time? I don’t have facebook, or really keep up with trends. I don’t try to be anything; I think we should all be honest with ourselves. I don’t know what else to say... except thank you to the editorial team and all you cats for your support!

Looking for somewhere to chill? Bush Court is the place to be, Georgi Kay will be playing a 45 min acoustic set, followed by Carl Fox. Orientation Day isn’t all about fun, it’s also for finding out about our facilities and services. Come visit a guild stall, taste the samples from Walter’s Café, grab a gym membership to The Zone, buy or top-up SmartRider’s from The Guild Shop. WIN WIN WIN – is our theme for the day. We have 2 x 6 months The Zone Gym memberships, 2 x $100 Walters Food and Drink Vouchers, $250 Book Vouchers to University Bookshop (courtesy of Student Life and Learning), Red Parking Permit, Murdoch Uni Jumpers and lots more to give away on the day. Murdoch Guild of Students Book Subsidy Scheme is underway again, $200 book vouchers are available to eligible student, head to the Guild website to download a form or complete the online application. Cut of date is August 21st. This semester is going to be a totes exciting one, keep an eye out for Multicultural Day and the Fringe Festival occurring later in the year. Clubs and Societies will again be holding fundraising BBQ’s on Thursday’s on Bush Court as a part of the ever increasing Market Daze. (Want to hold a BBQ, head to the website www.the-guild.com.au/bbq). Make sure you keep reading your G News and the Metior to be in touch with every-thing that The Guild’s doing across the campus. Sweet Times! Brodie

EDITORIAL

Duncan Wright - Photographic Director I am an enthusiastic photographer trying to make my way in the world of photography. I work at a camera store and do work experience with an amazing local photographer with whom I’m very privileged to work. I am also studying photography at ECU, in my 1st year. I enjoy all aspects of photography but have particular passions for documentary, travel, some sport and advertorial styles. I gain a lot of inspiration from the images in magazines such as National Geographic, Time, The Big Issue etc. I have long enjoyed downhill skateboarding and have developed a particular skill at downhill photography, resulting in the recent success of having a portfolio of my photographs published in Concrete Wave, a Canadian skateboarding magazine.

Words by Sonia Tubb Hey, how was your study break? Did you do overtime at work to get a little bit of cash on the side before returning to your povo lifestyle yet again? I hope so! Almost every time I see my Grandpa he tells me the story of how when he was at university he could survive four days on half a litre of milk and a pack of ciggies until his next pay day. If he can do it, so can you (p.s my Grandpa is a very well groomed, respectable man). I spent the study break planning the next stages of Metior, and would like to take the chance to give a friendly welcome to our new designer, Karmen Lee! This issue is loosely themed around Western Australia and what it has to offer. However, according to contributor Michelle Stanley who recently returned from a work experience stint at Triple J, Sydney, the price of coffee here is a rip off and so is the efficiency of public transport. [Insert rant here.] But seriously, is there anything we can do, or will our hard feelings on such topics (come on, we all get a coffee and take the 99 in the morning in the hope of getting to tutes on the dot and EVERY GODDAM TIME we’re late! No fault of ours!) go unnoticed? I want to hear your debate. No really, email it to me at metior@the-guild.com.au

Kyle Pauletto - Music Journalist Hello. I’m Kyle, one of Metior’s music journalists. I was born in Perth and haven’t ventured nearly as far away from here as I’d like to, if all goes how I’d like it too I plan to move to London next year, never been but from what I hear, it’s where I need to be. If I’m not working or interviewing, I’ll most likely be skating, buying Cd’s, trying to make music or playing Xbox. I’m pretty easy going; I like a good joke, especially jokes that involve puns. I like tattoos, most of them anyway. I like greasy food, especially bacon deluxe heavy cheese. I’m mostly into music though. Not all kinds but a good variation. If you’re reading this I’m very thankful that you decided to pick up Metior, otherwise it means someone slipped it into your bag at Retro Vinnies and now you’re wondering who’s responsible. I swear it wasn’t me.

MEET THE TEAM!

Clint Little - Film God

James Ahern – Skating Maestro

I must begin with a disclaimer, I write these brief words about myself with a gun pointed at my head by a person who knows who she is.

I grew up in Perth, have lived here my whole life and have skateboarded more than half of it. Skateboarding is a true passion of mine; finding new ways to skate the streets is how I try and unleash creativity. I am now a trained skateboard coach and am sponsored by companies GMTA, Momentum Skateshop, Dekline Footwear and Odyssey Sunglasses. I also like making art out of anything I can find on the street or in my house. Things I can mainly draw or paint on seem to interest me, but that is only a hobby. I study Geology and Chemistry at the University of Western Australia and I have nearly finished my three year degree. I enjoy playing guitar, listening to nice tunes and I would love to learn how to play the piano in the near future.

But with said gun to head, the salient details are that I’m a “mature” age Screen & Journalism student who, in a bid to stave off a mid-life crisis brought on by a lifelong career mastering the soul destroying art of selling insurance over the phone has returned to university life. I was born and raised in WA’s goldfields and can safely say that my time there has been well and truly served. I am an urban creature and I don’t really do “off-road”. Partly because I’m a wheelchair using paraplegic, but mostly because I just don’t like getting dirty.

Michelle Stanley - Music Journalist Described as “one of those kids who always got told to shut up in class”, I’m one of Metior’s music journalists. I like moonlit walks to the liquor store and long drives in the countryside. Kidding! I study a double major of ‘How to talk shit and get paid for it 101’ (AKA Radio and Marketing Management at Murdoch). I grew up in the country spending most of my 19 years in Woodanilling, Katanning and Albany before moving to the big smoke at 16 to start becoming an alcoholic whilst the parents are still proud - university. My radio addiction started at about 8 when I learnt there was such a career that I could get paid to talk non-stop… but was only fuelled at 14 when I had my own show on Albany Community Radio and more recently spent two weeks in Sydney working for Triple J’s HACK program.

Kate Collier - Book Reviewer As a 21 year old English and Creative Writing student here at Murdoch, you would think that it might be slightly easier to write so many words about one’s self. I can tell you now, it is not. So, with that said...I was born here in Perth and spend a majority of my time reading books for study and Metior. I have spent far too much money at J.B Hifi and now own way more seasons of Roseanne than any person should. I love the crap out of this magazine, and the authors that it has introduced to my life. Speaking of Metior, unlike our lovely editor Sonia, I have an unhealthy addiction to Facebook etc, which lead me to run the magazines Facebook page. So don’t forget to check out that bad boy. As for my university life? I’m not quite sure what I will eventually do with this degree, but I figured I may as well study something I love than succumb to an office job...

Nicola Sheridan - Author What to say? I’m a mother of two, wife and published author. I moved to WA when I was ten, and after high school went to University and studied Archaeology and Anthropology – interesting, but not particularly practical. After University I worked for a mining firm until I had my first child. Since then I’ve been at home raising children, writing and I’m planning on going back to University and studying a DipEd. I write paranormal / fantasy romance, so I have an enduring love for mythology and love researching mythological creatures to use in my writing. You’re not likely to find a vampire or werewolf in my novels, more like Genies, Sirens, Manticores and Harpies. I have a wonderful family, great supportive friends and I feel very lucky to have gotten published. All up I’m a happy little author.

Karmen Lee - Graphic Designer Hi my name is Karmen, I am new to the Metior team and I am a freelance graphic designer. I hope to bring something fresh and new to the magazine. I spend most of my weeknights and weekends doing freelance design work as I also have a fulltime job in a printing shop. I also help out with my boyfriend’s company GMTA Skateboards. The dream is to one day be able to run my own graphic design business. When I am not working I like to try get a skate in, I have been skating for around 15 years and have met many amazing people through it. I also train Muay Thai kickboxing a few times a week at a gym in O’Connor called SMG (Sangmorakot). Other than that I love eating yummy food, watching bad tv and red pandas.

WHAT EXACTLY IS HETERO SEXUALITY?

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF HOUSE SHARING

As Published in Metior Edition #1, 1990 Heterosexuality is a condition in which people have a driving emotional and sexual interest in members of the opposite sex. Because of the anatomical physiological, social and cultural limitations involved, there are formidable obstacles to overcome. However many heterosexuals look upon this as a challenge and approach it with ingenuity and energy. Indeed it can be said that most heterosexuals are obsessed with the gratification of their curious desires.

Many unthinking heterosexuals succumb to the daily bombardment of conditioning from the mass media and live out their lives trapped in oppressive stereotypes. We should feel compassion for such people not hostility, for their rejection of all those parts of the self that do not conform to the “married couple” ideal is a measure of their loss of contact with their own unique sexuality.

A bad experience with a member of the same sex while young may cause rejection of all members of the same sex through fear. The desire continues in the subconscious and emerges as a heterosexual neurosis.

AND WHAT CAUSES IT?

Our society grants financial and other incentives for exclusively (i.e. neurotic) heterosexual coupling: from tax concessions to housing loans. To be gay is expensive and many people simply cannot afford it. One theory advanced is that heterosexuals have an imbalance in their sex hormones – instead of the normal mixture of the two, they have an excess of one or a dearth of the other, resulting in an ability to enjoy full and satisfying relationships with their own sex. In most cases of compulsive heterosexual behaviour, the parents will be found to have suffered from similar difficulties.

Most heterosexuals will be found to have come from a background in which an appreciation of the beauty of their own bodies has been ruthlessly suppressed. Heterosexual men in particular think themselves “ugly”, beauty being ascribed only to women. Many psychic disorders stem from this self-rejection.

As Published in Metior Edition #3, 1992 1. Thou shalt never put a toilet roll on the toilet holder. 2. Thou shalt never pay bills on time. This only confuses SECWA and Telecom who have reminder letters already made up for student digs like yours. 3. Thou shalt leave doors open throughout the house. This will make it easier for high density traffic of druggies/musicians/religious maniacs/hippies/relatives that fill your abode during the weekend. 4. Thou shalt never put any kind of musical recording device back in its cover. This sort of anal retentive behaviour is bad for two reasons – it wastes time between albums and it makes it much harder for you to pinch your flatmate’s music. 5. Thou shalt love thy neighbour. But only if they invite you to their house-warming. 6. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife. Thou shalt ask her over for bongs and seduce her. 7. Thou shalt come home early when thou flatmate has put on dinner for their new lover. 8. Thou shalt never garden. Gardening is something that you do for money in someone else’s house. In your own house you have a back yard for the sole purpose of being a gent’s toilet at parties. 9. Thou shalt burn every saucepan except those that you own. This ensures your flatmate’s dreadful cooking is minimised. 10. Thou shalt never live in a share house group of three. This is so because when one is out, the other two will always bitch about them.

Shalom - Moses Tenant

A terror of mortality lies beneath much heterosexual coupling. Driven to perpetuate themselves at any cost, most heterosexuals are indifferent to the prospect of thee world-wide famine that will result if the present population explosion continues unchecked.

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Want to take this relationship further? We can’t offer you moonlit walks or intimate dinners, but we can publish your writing, photography, illustrations and poetry. Email your contributions to metior@the-guild.com.au

PHOTOGRAPHER Tom Blake

Growing up in Western Australia, by the Indian Ocean, I have always been surrounded by water. I am intrigued by our relationship with these oceans, rivers and lakes. Photography allows me to explore this somewhat shallow relationship and depict our foreign presence in these vast bodies of water.

BOOK REVIEW

WRITING THE WEST

Words by Kate Collier

Words by Nicola E. Sheridan

Black Jesus - By Simone Felice In all honesty, when I picked this book up and read its blurb, I judged it straight away. As a reader that tends to stick to a certain literary comfort zone, my mind jumped straight to the natural assumption that I would not enjoy reading the words on its pages. I am not afraid to admit that I was wrong. While I was not drawn to the story of an ex marine ‘Black Jesus’, injured in the war in Iraq, or the puzzling young ‘dancer’ that mysteriously entered his life, the novels description did it absolutely no justice. ‘Black Jesus’ is the debut novel of one of The Felice Brothers’ founding members, Simone Felice. The celebrated songwriter and poet tells the story of Lionel White, also known as ‘Black Jesus’. Given his witty nickname by fellow soldiers and his birthday being on Christmas Day, Black Jesus finds himself back home living in a Dairy Queen after being blinded by a roadside bomb. Dealing with the nightmares of his time at war, as well as adjusting to his recent loss, Black Jesus finds himself a little too comfortable with his painkillers, using them to try and forget what he saw and what he knows. That is until Gloria the ‘dancer’ rides her moped into Black Jesus’ mothers Dairy Queen Junkyard. Told between the points of view of Black Jesus himself and Gloria the ‘dancer’ aka stripper, this potential love story is humorous in the most charming way. On an adventure of self discovery, Gloria is escaping her life as a ‘dancer’ and the grasps of her crazy ex lover Ross. Felice’s interesting and somewhat twisted sense of humour shows itself in Ross’ venture into a household refrigerator in order to cool his crazy. While this novel is hard to read without the thick American accent creeping into your mind, it is just yet another way to fully absorb the plot, its characters and add to the humour. Managing to turn something as hilariously inappropriate as squatting to pee in a field in front of a giant crucifix into something poetic, Felice has the magical ability to make you laugh, roll your eyes and sigh in delight within one sentence. All in all, this descriptive, witty, charming little novel belongs on my bookshelf, and yours too... Metior’s review books are proudly provided by Crow Books - Victoria Park

Perth – the most isolated capital city in the world. How does this affect writers? Does being Western Australian influence fiction? For me, yes it does. I love to use real locations in my writing, Hilton, West Perth, Mandurah and Rockingham – garner a mention in “Magical Gains” and “Mimosa Black” (coming December). However, it’s not just locations that reflect Western Australia in literature; it’s also language, attitudes, and a sense of being. I remember moving to Western Australia from the east and noticing differences in dialect. The term ‘mintox’ was common, as was placing a ‘but’ at the end of sentences e.g.: “He was really nice, but.” I don’t notice things like this anymore, but my American publisher does...

seem, perhaps changing the language into American English is little different from translating from English to German, and the novelty of reading about a far flung country has its own appeal regardless of language. Jenny Schwartz, Steam Punk and Paranormal author for Carina Press, thinks so. “I think WA has a lot going for it in terms of selling to American/ International audiences. It’s exotic (distance lends enchantment), but not too exotic. Also, I just plain love sharing my home state with people.” Jenny’s Steam Punk story, “Support your local Suffragette” is set in the Swan River Colony in 1895 and due for release in December. When asked how they use WA in their writing, the answers of authors varied. Shona Husk, a multipublished WA author of paranormal romance, replied, “I have used WA as a setting twice, although I did have to make it less Australian and more global for the ‘The Goblin King’ (coming, Source Books, October 2011) while a novella set in Margaret River (‘Brightwater Blood’, January 2012) got to remain as is.”

There is a trend in American publishing houses to “Americanise” the Australian lexicon. This means words likes kitchen bench, jumper, car boot, windscreen and biscuit are translated into American terms. Kitchen bench becomes kitchen counter, jumper becomes sweater – the list is literally endless. Initially, I was affronted at having to make this change. After all, my character, a Western Australian woman, now wears a sweater and makes cookies on her kitchen counter. It just seems wrong, however, I can’t complain, I’m not alone. Whilst researching this article I asked a few other Western Australian Paranormal authors their opinions.

Everyone I spoke to however, agreed to some degree that being in Western Australia did influence their writing, whether they noticed it or not. “We are exposed to a wide variety of landscapes to draw upon,” said Shona Husk, and she’s right. WA has a varied and many environments to use, whether basing a novel here or not. How the sand falls beneath your feet on a beach in Rockingham could easily be applied to a beach in Costa Rica, and gazing into the blue, cloudless, summer sky, you could just as easily be sweltering in the desert of some far flung planet. The sheer range of experiences both physical and environmental that WA offers is a banquet of epic proportions to the imaginative mind – and one I personally am grateful to have at my disposal.

You may be surprised to know that Western Australia is a hive of activity literarily speaking – alas many are published and target their audiences in the US. Of the three West Aussie paranormal authors I spoke to, all were published in either the US or Canada. All also agreed that they had to change language into North American vernacular. Christina Phillips, a writer for Penguin US (Berkley Heat), explains; “Because my publisher is aimed at the North American market, I do write American English, so I’ve got used to writing words like “honor” and “toward”. However, my books are set during the first century when the Romans invaded Britain, and while I had no problem using American English I really didn’t want to substitute words like “arse” for the American “ass”.” Luckily Christina had an editor who agreed.

I would also like to add, that there is one other massive benefit to being a West Australian writer –WA has a smaller population so it’s easier to connect with fellow writers and this cannot be under-rated. I’d like to thank Shona Husk, Christina Phillips, Jenny Schwartz and Peta Crake for their kind assistance and opinions.

So, does WA have a place in the international readers market if our language has to be changed? Is it still authentic? I hope so. Irksome though it may

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SKATING WA

BEHIND THE SCREENS

Words by James Ahern

Words by Clint Little

Western Australia might not be the most ideal place in the world to grow up skateboarding. Most of the state is arid to semi-arid desert, and towns are few and dispersed. But for such an isolating place it is, we on our western side have come quite a far way. Early skate shops have made it large, for instance Momentum and Beyond are some of the biggest growing skate stores in the west. There are many other smaller, more localized shops, mostly thriving off their neighbouring customers.

Western Australia has produced some amazing skateboarders in its time; Aaron Nannup from Geraldton is an amazing indigenous skater, Nick Boserio grew up in Perth and has moved to Melbourne to live the skateboarding dream, and Morgan Campbell grew up in Perth back in the day and has travelled the vast corners of the earth skateboarding. Amongst all those good things, Western Australia also has its bad things as well. For instance, its capital city, Perth, is very separated from the other major Australian cities. This is potentially a bad thing as Perth tends to miss out on touring professionals, and it lacks the ease of ability to travel nationally. But for this reason, when pros do come to Perth on the occasion, or when you do travel to a different city, skateboarders from Western Australia are more psyched, amazed and thankful for it.

Some of the biggest brands have come out of Western Australia too; GMTA Skateboards originated in Kalgoorlie, Folklore Skateboards from Perth and new apparel brand Butter was created by two young, artand-craft enthusiastic skateboarders from Perth. We also have some of the best skate-parks in Australia. To name a few concrete jungles; Manning, Nedlands, Bassendean, Ellenbrook, Bayswater and Claremont. Claremont skate-park near the PCYC is on the verge of ‘destruction’, where the council are planning to redevelop the area. The only chance to save such a good skate park is with community interaction and a public want for the training ground. The more skate-parks for the future will lead to kids with more active lifestyles, so go utilise them as much as you can because it’s uncertain how long they’ll be sticking around!

For any information regarding; Momentum - momentumskate.com.au Beyond - beyondskate.com.au Skate-parks - skateboard.com.au follow ‘parks’; enter name in ‘search’ GMTA - gmtaskateboards.com.au Folklore - folklore.com.au Butter - quite-buttery.com

Diary of a student filmmaker How to succeed in filmmaking without really swallowing. Why is failure such a fabulous teacher? Is it because discovering your weaknesses illuminates the yellow brick road to the magical land of not sucking? It’s highly likely. And if that’s the case, I learned a LOT last semester. It’s not all dark and twisty news though, on the bright and shiny side; the good thing about being able to identify your weaknesses is that the strengths of others get thrown into sharp focus. As it turns out, when it comes to filmmaking, spotting talent in others is called Producing. Who knew that being a control freak with limited personal skill set could actually be a job? Lesson learned? Exploitation can be a key ingredient to success! The collaborative nature of filmmaking can be a tricky experience but for each project that doesn’t quite work it inevitably leads to the next hopefully more successful one. Which is handy considering it takes time to build up the battle hardened exoskeleton required to survive. Next lesson? Teamwork is not always bunnies and hugs and rainbows but learning to navigate difficult working relationships is a handy asset to be able to whack onto your special skills list. Working with people you don’t like can be difficult but as Catherine Zeta Jones said to Renee Zellweger in Chicago, “there’s only one business where that’s no problem at all”. What matters most is what winds up on the screen. The ups and downs that mark any student production will either make you or break you. It’s like trench warfare; you can’t help but feel closer to your fellow crew members when you’ve shared the delirium of a 36 hour stint in an editing room to meet a deadline. As Christina Ricci wisely says in The Opposite of Sex, “giving a blow job is a lot harder than getting one, but if you breathe through your nose, a person can do anything for five minutes”. Filmmaking is a lot like that, sometimes you just have to remember to breathe, wait five minutes and everybody gets a happy ending.

POETRY Words by Anonymous Bryn’s House

Photo: Aidan White

The bat shaped Warrick Buzzard.

Boards of small connections, caps, metal

‘at last...my love’

under a lamp by a chopping bowl.

the old grey couches formed in an ‘L’

No art on the walls, just cream like

Nick has fallen asleep in the corner

the moleskin pages.

one side of his mouth, the left,

The curls, the straight and hairspray,

opening like a gaping hole

the broken down van!

that drags into his neck,

Chop Chop scissors, bowl in hand.

the skin crumpled.

Stretched body, seated bodies,

‘for you are mine...at last’

clumped body.

A little wine left in the bottom of the glass.

borrowed jeans, woollen jumper.

Blood red, Shiraz.

and the creaks of a leather jacket.

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME

A Work of “Fiction” by Anonymous

A Work of “Fiction by Anonymous

You know how sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, only to realise that your bedroom window is wide open and there is a Polaroid photograph of your sleeping self on the nightstand and you think, oh for fuck’s sake!.... not again? Okay it didn’t come to that so neither do I but I swear it came creepily close. It started innocently enough on a random Tuesday afternoon (as these things do) when I made my first mistake. I helped out another student with a history essay for uni. Jeremy was like an abandoned month old Labrador puppy, cute, stupid and in need of my help. He had enthusiasm to burn but his literacy skills were on the seriously wrong side of shocking, and his grades were a clear and present danger to him being allowed to continue his studies. Given his tenuous grasp of the English language I’m still a little unclear as to how he even got in to university. But to be completely honest, the bottom line was this; Jeremy was cute and I was single. So with a little tweaking and some judicious use of the delete key I was able to turn a barely passable 3000 words into a respectable Distinction level essay. In other words I basically wrote the whole thing for him. And he was extremely grateful. Unfortunately his gratitude took the form of a steeply escalating series of requests for further assistance. I have to admit that in the beginning I was flattered by his appreciation of my knowledge of long dead cultures and I maybe even encouraged him to come to me for help. This was my second mistake because telling a person with no concept of boundaries or conventional notions of personal space to “call anytime” is like punishing that naughty puppy with hugs and squeaky chew toys, it only encourages him.

ones that don’t know they’re stupid and have the baffling habit of barging into rooms, saying something stupid and then stupidly leave again for no other reason than to make another stupid entrance in a different room.

quite get that they are making fun of him). His little stakeouts marked the start of the transition from naughty puppy to parasitic pest. He well and truly crossed the line not long after when I had spent a pleasant night at home making pasta and playing scrabble with my flatmates when I glanced out my kitchen window whilst doing the dishes to be greeted by Jeremy’s smiling visage. Standing in my flower bed & staring.... At 9:45 at night... In the rain.

But stalkers everywhere are deeply indebted to the social networking gods above for Facebook, which apparently, even stupid people are allowed to use these days. Each morning I would log on and me and my latte would eagerly inform ourselves as to which of my friends were eating “THE BEST TOAST EVER!!!”. Now to my mind I don’t really think that vegemite on toast warrants three exclamation points AND capitals but who knows, maybe it really was THAT good.

So I closed the blinds and did the only sensible thing I could think of. I sent him a text message saying that if he didn’t stop stalking me I would call the police and then I would name and shame him in my next column for the student newspaper.

So as I went about my ritual of discovering who was “wiping their arse”, “off to work” or “enjoying a LOVELY glass of wine”, (a bit early in the day but who says it’s for me to judge a lonely housewife for self medicating at 9am). It was a harmless enough way of easing myself into the day and it was a guilty pleasure I savoured. That is until Facebook turned on me and started telling Jeremy that I was “in the cafeteria drinking coffee and reading the paper”. Why did I feel the need to share that with the whole world? As soon I had let 483 of my nearest and dearest know that I was indeed doing the same thing today as I had the day before, Jeremy would barge stupidly into the room and hover over my shoulder just a little too close for it not to be awkward and pepper me with inane questions. The complicated answers to which can readily be found on the placemats in most family friendly restaurants.

Yeah, my next phone call was to the cops.

It really put a hitch in my morning giddyup until one of my cleverer friends who is more well versed than I in all things technical showed me how to block unwanted “friends” from being alerted to my cyber presence. This was my third big mistake. That’s when the angry text messages began to roll in demanding to know WHY I had blocked him on Facebook and was no longer available to do his work for him. The impromptu home visits became a more frequent fixture too.

Because Jeremy didn’t just call anytime, he called all the time. If I didn’t answer the phone you could virtually guarantee that he would spontaneously “pop round” with yet another disastrous essay in need of rescuing. And its funny how fast cute can go to annoying when it calls you at two in the morning with a “quick question” about Ancient Bubbleon. Just to be clear, that’s his spelling...not mine.

Then he started staking out my house in his crappy Holden Camira complete with personalised Jezzmeister number plates (the other students at uni refer to him as the Jizz Master behind his back and sometimes to his face as well and yet he still doesn’t

Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not prejudiced against stupid people, not at all. I only judge the

(Not that I would ever really do that of course!) To which he replied “stalking? How am I stalking you? I was going to knock on the front door but then I saw how happy you all looked through the window and just wanted to watch for a little while!” And I thought, why take the chance that one night in the near future I could be awoken by a cool breeze drifting in through my unexpectedly open bedroom window to find a snapshot of a familiar face greeting me sleepily from my bedside table.

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SULLIVAN MCLEOD

Words by Sonia Tubb

Sullivan McLeod, god what can be said. He’s probably late twenties, definitely funny and questionably sane. Once upon a time he decided to join surfing’s World Qualifying Series (WQS) after meeting a Brazilian eating something from a can in a Margaret River caravan park and months later wrote a book about it. He then went to America to test his life on the backs of numerous bulls and surprisingly came out alive. Below are the written words of a few moments I had the chance to spend with Sully before he left our state yet again.

there’s guys from South America and stuff like that that need to try and make it as surfers because they go back to very poor backgrounds, that’s more of an interesting story than Australian guys, which made me think that that could be...at that particular time when I saw him I thought ok if I can get in with these guys and start travelling with them there could be an interesting story in that. So I still didn’t think I was going to be a writer but I thought oh well, I can travel with this guy and there might be an interesting story that I could write at some point (A man with a legendary moustache who has taught history and what not at Margaret River Senior High School for YEARS walks by (you’re unlucky if he never taught you)) hey Mr Caudle! Sully follows him with his index finger. Oh my goodness! Yeah, he’s a legend ay. Uh anyway, I reckon that was the decision, meeting those guys down in the caravan park.

Was there a turning point in your life when you decided you wanted to write? Uhh, no. I never actually wanted to be a writer; I don’t even consider myself to be a writer really. What do you see yourself as then? A person who wants to experience life and have a good time as I travel. Uh, I don’t think I’m that good a writer, personally, actually I don’t mind the term writer, I hate the term author, and I don’t even like the term writer very much. So no I don’t like being classified as those things and no I don’t think there ever was a time when I decided to write, yeah bit of a falling out subject, that’s the truth.

I read this morning that you were in a sauna in Norway... Yeah, that’s all lies. No, I guess that’s true, just exaggerated. How much of it is exaggerated? Oh that’s the very first line in my book I first decided to be a surfer in a sauna in Norway...yeah that’s the first line of the entire book. Ok, ok so I see what you mean, going from that, that’s why that line’s not quite true, because now that you’ve asked me, and see straight after writing the book, if anyone asked me I would have said oh yeah that was in a sauna in Norway.

Has Western Australia influenced your decision? Though I guess if you don’t like being classified as a writer it’s a bit irrelevant... But has it influenced me in any way as a writer? No not really. What did? Did you just join the WQS and then decide after you’d tell the story? Well I sort of...anything made me do it. Oh wait; let’s go to this question, What made you join the WQS?

What can you tell me about bull riding? Uhh geez man, I dunno, about actual bull riding. You should have said what can you tell me about the people or the culture around bull riding...uh, it’s probably more mental than physical because you’ve got to overcome the fear which you don’t realise at the time but when you overcome the mental thing it is easier to tackle the physical aspect. So some of those guys could overcome that through a form of brainwashing. They brainwash themselves to make them believe it wasn’t that dangerous and I found out after that that’s what the world champion did Tuff Hedemen. It’s an extremely interesting culture, they’re incredibly inclusive, they let you in, but their religion and politics are completely opposite to Margaret River. I mean they’re very right wing, they’re very religious Christians I mean there is ministers behind the bucking shoots giving prayers and stuff. I lived for two months with an actually ordain minister who was a bull riding coach who was trying to change me into Christianity while teaching me bull riding. It was quite interesting, let’s put it that way.

said yeah ok we’ll publish it but then through the editing stage there was actually four women, no men, all women, and none of them had ever surfed before, which was good though, they gave a different perspective but one of the things they did say was you need more emotion in this, so I literally went back through the draft and started putting things in like “at this particular time I broke down” and “this was really sad” and everything which didn’t really happen. It’s just purely them saying that. So that book has a lot of times when I laughed or cried and it completely wasn’t like that. But that’s part of the process. I think as a first time guy you don’t have a say over what will happen with your book. That’s so misleading. Yeah I know, but I’m telling you honestly now. Ehh what was the fate of the tree-house? Don’t know, it’s still at my parents’ property and I don’t live in it, no I’m married now. So things are different. Maybe Connor (younger brother) will live in there. It’s good; it’s a good place to do writing. It’s not that big, that’s quite exaggerated too, the tree-house. It’s more a cubby house, its’ up and there is a tree around it but people would think it’s this amazing thing in the top of a tree, but it’s not like that.

For you, was the WQS an “emotional rollercoaster ride of hope and despair”, as quoted from Tim Baker, Australian Surfing Life Magazine? No, oh he’s a nice guy, he gave a good review my book. Uh, nah not really. What happened with the book is I sent in the first draft, and the publishers

But what’s the truth? The truth is what I just said, the guy.

Photo taken with permission from sullivanmcleod.com

Then why’d you write it was a sauna in Norway? I don’t know, it sounds sort of flippant, sounds interesting, sounds funny. No I WAS in a sauna in Norway, and we were teaching surfing, that is true, we were doing that, and I probably did have the idea, I might have made a joke, but the real reason was when I went down to the caravan park and saw those guys was when I decided to actually, you know, buy a plane ticket and actually do it. Can you tell me about one of your favourite WA memories? Going out on a fishing boat with my dad, eating raw octopus when I was four. It’s good, you’re on a boat, at that age you don’t really care what you’re eating. First memory that came to my head. And that’s Western Australia, he was in Exmouth. Just making a living of a fisherman.

Ok, well I was down in a caravan park in Prevelly, (and Margaret River) there was this guy from Brazil, eating tinned baked beans and he was in the surfing competition which is what you imagine to be a very glamorous thing to be in, which is what everyone loves down here, going along to that surfing competition and you normally associate it with young guys, tanned, sponsors, living it up sort of thing. But there was this Brazilian guy without any money, and he was a really really good surfer, and he was just saving money by eating tinned spaghetti, and he was travelling around the world just making it, because he didn’t have sponsorship. So that guy, I thought was the most interesting because if

NICK GARDNER

Words by Sonia Tubb

Nick is contradictory, controversial and what previously interviewed band Hootenanny would call ‘titsy’, the boy’s got game! He wants to be argued with (he’ll likely win) challenged and taken seriously. He did after all compare Perth to New York…wuh oh!

What do you think about WA music? “It’s amazing, especially Perth! Bands like Empire of the Sun, Tame Impala, Little Birdy, Eskimo Joe, John Butler, there are so many bands that have come out of Perth and gone international. *This is where he compares Perth…to New York.* The thing about bands in New York, there’s like, Darwin Deez who is amazing, The Strokes…I can’t think of any others… there are so many coming out of New York who are amazing, but then there’s other ones coming out of Perth which are just as amazing. The fact that you can even compare Perth to New York on any scale is great!”

When I met him he was wearing a blue sweater, jeans and Docs. He’s got a somewhat playful smile, and curl at the crown of his forehead that is a mix of 1940’s schoolboy and young man sophistication. Nick: “Where to begin….well I’m working at the moment in a little burger shop in North Fremantle, and um I’m going to SAE for School of Audio Engineering soon…that should be good. That’s really the biggest thing for me at the moment” were the words that stumbled out when the recording light began flashing on my phone. “Producing, mixing music, that sort of thing, but it’s mainly audio engineering and the band.” All members of San Cisco are currently undertaking study, Jordi Davieson (guitar, keys, vocals) is in year 12, “he’s pretty bogged down”, Josh Biondillo (guitar, keys, vocals) is studying graphic design at Curtin, and Scarlett Stevens (drums, vocals) studies Arts Management at WAPPA. Jordi’s young age has proven an issue for a band continuously playing local venues “it has it’s toll, because most of the gigs we play are at bars so he has to be accompanied by a guardian or can’t leave the back area. That’s a bit of a let down, mainly for him…we don’t really mind *laughs*. That’s the only thing with age that really has an issue. That and being young people, we say things and people get the wrong idea of what you think of yourself, basically.”

The thing about bands in New York, there’s like, Darwin Deez who is amazing, The Strokes… I can’t think of any others… there are so many coming out of New York who are amazing, but then there’s other ones coming out of Perth which are just as amazing...

Metior: So basically you say something and people take you as arrogant? “Yes…basically.”

Photo: Lisa Businovski

What will you receive and try to achieve with publishing deals? Funds! Travel funds and that for recording music. We’re making another EP, and I think we’ll have an album after that.” San Cisco’s poppy, upbeat, sometimes folky tracks are written by both Jordi and Josh. The style of both is evident when listening to Golden Revolver, and Nick says “Josh was more folky (but isn’t anymore), which meant the songs were written on an acoustic guitar, on a bed at 2 o’clock in the morning, by one person. More recently they have both come to the band with a riff or a couple of words, where it evolves into more of a song with the whole band. The songs are very poppy. The next EP is going to be better, in my opinion. It’ll be more of a San Cisco vibe than a turning point in King George, which is what the first one was.”

Having bought San Cisco’s EP ‘Golden Revolver’ after what I believe was a casual Triple J inspired curiosity, I contacted local yobo….I mean…band manager extraordinaire Philip Stevens for an interview and was surprised by what was delivered. I had no expectations for this interview, to be honest I thought I’d give what Murdoch University’s Media Communications and Culture Dean would call ‘poor journalism’ a try. I was to interview Nick Gardner, bassist of this subtle force to be reckoned with that is San Cisco. Knowing he was young and likely to be enthusiastic about anything, I went without questions (though I had done research) and tried my luck.

Do you think you’re going to get slammed for making that comparison?

to compare Lady Gaga to Madonna.” What is your perspective on comparisons in general? I don’t like them, on a personal perspective we get compared to bands like Vampire Weekend, at any point that someone can compare to…I think sometimes it’s necessary to compare because it gives someone an easy way to assess if they’re going to like you or not.” That’s the problem with it, categorisation because of comparison…. “It’s ridiculous but I think unavoidable, everybody compares, for example the genius tool on iTunes! I think everyone hates being compared but it’s unavoidable…..”

“I don’t mind, I reckon it’s true, I reckon it’s great that Perth has such a great musical background and...bands we have produced are just massive international artists and it’s such an amazing thing, Perth is the most isolated city in the world (statistically), to be able to compare that to New York is just incredible. With the internet you can put a song on and anyone can listen to it.” Don’t you think the instantaneous affects of the internet have allowed it to become flooded with crap? “If you can be bothered sorting through it, it is not an issue. The best example is Justin Bieber, if you play your cards right, and he will, I mean I have no issue with it. He’s been marketed really well, it’s very clever. And Lady Gaga has been compared to Madonna, which is interesting. I don’t know if you can compare the seemingly large range of people who were Madonna fans to the rather narrow amount that are Gaga fans……oh, I don’t know. I find it odd

Do you have any last words? “Hmmm…thank you.” Note: Somewhere toward the beginning of this interview the words below were conversed…… I’m hoping you can ramble and some of it’s kind of helpful. “But rambling is what gets me in trouble…”

FILM REVIEW

FRANK TURNER

Words by Clint Little

Words by Kyle Pauletto

I Love You Phillip Morris Over the course of his career Jim Carrey has taken on crowd pleasing physical comedies like Ace Ventura Pet Detective and Yes Man with occasional dramatic roles like The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind. In I Love You Philip Morris he manages to successfully merge his dramatic and comedic modes to give his best performance in years as he plays Steven Russell, an apparently happily married small businessman, who has a predilection for a bit of man-on-man action on the side. After a bad car accident Steven abandons his suburban pretence and sets about living high on the gay hog, but as he discovers, being really gay can be really expensive. To fund his queer new lifestyle he turns to fraud. When his over fondness for the gay grift lands him in prison he meets and falls in love with Philip Morris (Ewan McGregor) and a tale of star-crossed lovers unfolds. When the pair is separated Carrey puts his not inconsiderable improvisational skills to full use as he proves that he can and will go to any length to be reunited with the man he loves. In a remarkably restrained performance that still retains the brilliance of his comic timing Jim Carrey proves just how good he can be, when he’s not hemmed in by the conventions of his family friendly bread and butter comedies like Liar, Liar or the upcoming Mr Popper’s Penguins. As the object of Carrey’s affection the always dependable Ewan McGregor is sweetly effective as a grounding counter-balance to Carrey’s more outlandish style. Surprisingly heartfelt and at times staggeringly hilarious I love You Philip Morris is the funniest film to be released so far this year.

Sleeping Beauty The words “Jane Campion Presents” that emblazon the promotional material heralding the release of this film hold the promise of a classy intellectual undertaking like The Piano or Portrait of a Lady. This is nothing short of false advertising. Writer / director Julia Leigh has crafted a handsome looking film and has elicited an interesting if not engaging performance from Emily Browning as Lucy, a university student who is drawn into a world of high class prostitution where she is drugged into a slumber while dirty old men pleasure themselves in her bed. Had this film been directed by a male it may never have seen the light of day since the premise alone reeks of misogyny. That it was written directed and produced by women is utterly baffling given that the female lead is so completely passive in a way that is almost a celebration of fragility. While some have praised this film for its braveness the overwhelming audience response after the credits rolled at the screening I attended was one of sheer relief that the whole thing over and done with. What could have been an interesting exploration of a hidden world of seduction and addiction winds up feeling like an over-thought exercise in cinematic art-wank.

Tell me about ‘England Keep My Bones. (Frank chuckles to himself) Where to start, it’s the new record, it’s done, I’m very proud of it and I’m excited about it although of course if I wasn’t saying that I would probably still be in the studio working on it. The last record I did, ‘Poetry Of The Deed’ was a little more of a band record, which was partly an aesthetic choice, and looking at it retrospectively I think I was a little excited about my new toy of having the band in the studio. With this record I wanted to bring things back.

I really feel like there is a very kind of soft leftism within the punk scene that I actually find quite repelling because first of all I don’t necessarily agree with it.

The album’s title ‘England Keep My Bones’ is taken from Shakespeare’s ‘The Life and Death of King John, is that line or that play significant to you in some way? You know what, I’ll put my hands up and confess I haven’t actually read the whole of the play. I was kind of actually struggling for a title, and my friend fired that one over. It just seems to put everything that the record’s about together and it straight away went click.

told me I was an idiot. On the one hand I think its kind of cool because there is a sort of coming of age self examination thing going on in the punk rock world, which is by no means a bad thing, at the same time it is kind of “In Vogue” at the moment which slightly puts my guard up. Is it safe to say you dislike being seen as a political artist? Yeah, you know what I’m a person who has an opinion about politics. But there are a number of reasons why I don’t want to get labelled as a political artist or protesting or whatever, the main thing I have against it though is that in my experience once it gets to that point its when people stop listening to the music you’re making, and more often than not it becomes a stupid game about trying to catch people out. Really I just don’t care enough to spend my entire life being scrutinised and thinking about politics all the time. I really feel like there is a very kind of soft leftism within the punk scene that I actually find quite repelling because first of all I don’t necessarily agree with it. I’m definitely a Libertarian in my politics but it also seems to be the antithesis of what punk rock was supposed to be about, all these people having these very knee-jerk opinions about politics. People would say “Are you into politics?” and they assume that you subscribe to the correct party line about what everyone is “supposed” to think about everything. That to me is just a FUCKING TOTAL antithesis of what punk is supposed to be. So for these reasons and more, I don’t want to be a political singer

Can you shed some light on your obsession with the road, and why you love it so much? (He chuckles again) Well I can try (...and more chuckling) I guess to a degree I’m driven by an awareness of time being short. If I think about all the things I would like to do in my life, there is many more than one lifetime worth of stuff, if you know what I mean. The thing that is important to me is to just get on with it and to pack things into life. I just feel like when I’m on tour experience gets packed in pretty tight and every now and then ill do this thing where I’ll look at my schedule and try and see what I was doing like a week ago and every time I do that I think “No way! That can’t have been one week that felt like it was 6 months ago!” Last time you were here was for the Revival Tour, where you played with Chuck Ragan and a number other acoustic artists formerly from punk bands like yourself. Do you think that the punk turned acoustic artists might become somewhat of a trend? It’s definitely something that has been gathering pace, and I’m going to get a little bit defensive here and say it wasn’t in 2005 (when Frank started), and certainly when I told people I was going to do this an awful lot of people just laughed in my face and

‘England Keep My Bones’ is out now.

Pretentious, tedious and best avoided.

MATT BALDOCK vs. the WQS

Words by Matt Baldock & Sonia Tubb

Photos: Russell Ord

MATT BALDOCK vs. the WQS

My name is Matt Baldock and I hail from Margaret River Western Australia.

land! I am currently in my last on this circuit and am sitting at #20 with one more contest remaining. The highest I have placed overall on this series is #28 so I’m looking to finish well ahead of that this year. However, this does not determine my seeding on the WQS. The next step for my career is to tackle the WQS (World Qualifying Series) which is open to all ages from competitors around the world. Every WQS has different starts meaning different prize money and grades. The lowest start is a 1star and it goes up to a 6star Prime. I am allowed to enter anything up to a 6star, however to enter a 6star Prime I must do well in all the 6stars, get a ranking within the top 100, then I am able to enter the Primes. So next year will be all about getting into the top 100 of the WQS rankings so I am able to enter the Primes to achieve my ultimate goal of qualifying for the WCT (World Championship Tour).

I got my first board at 6, however did not start competing until I was 13 as my dad Pete, a keen surfer, did not feel the need to push me into competitions at such a young age. I came 3rd in my first comp after which Oakley and their team manager Mitch Thorson approached me and my brother for sponsorship, one thing led to another and here I am 7 years down the track! In that first year competing on the W.A Junior series I placed 2nd overall for U/14’s and this led to a string of 4 consecutive Western Australian state team spots from the ages of 14-17. Being a part of the West Australian team I got to travel to locations like Tasmania, South Australia, N.S.W and finally competed in my home town of Prevelly. I placed 5th at the National titles in Prevelly to equal my best ever result in a National final. From here I finished my schooling and TEE and once that was out the way started my full assault on the professional surfing circuit. This started with competing in the ASP Australasia Pro Junior Series for U/21’s. These competitions are around Australia in places such as Bells Beach, Burleigh Heads, North Stradbroke Island, Perth, South Australia and international locations such as Tahiti, Bali and New Zea-

The hardest part of travelling has been living out of a suitcase time and again. Sometimes all you feel like doing is going home to where you know, hanging out and surfing with all your friends, catching up with family and relaxing. You must also adapt to different sleeping arrangements, different time zones and finding the correct food to keep yourself healthy. It also gets very demanding when you are constantly flying from place to place. On a recent

trip to Tahiti last year my travelling partner Jerome Forrest and I had started off with Jerome missing his flight from Perth to Sydney so he had to link a flight through Melbourne. Once arriving in Tahiti we found out that Jerome’s boards didn’t arrive. He thought the lady in Perth at the check in counter said she had checked his boards all the way through to Tahiti, however she actually said he was meant to pick them up on our stop off in New Zealand and re check them in. Jerome didn’t have his boards for at least a week which was half the trip gone!! One week into the trip we came home after surfing and all my clothes which were drying outside had been stolen. I was left with was one t-shirt and one pair of shorts! That same day we both decided to go for an afternoon surf and as we were coming in a wave smashed us both up onto the reef cutting our legs and hands badly. The coral in the pacific is all living therefore infections of the cuts like staph are very common. We got back to the village we were staying in and rubbed lemon and lime on the cuts. The local Tahitians said they had never seen something so funny with Jerome and me jumping around screaming and singing as the lime dripped into the cuts!

We did not surf for the rest of the trip and thought all our woes had gone... though it wasn’t the end yet. We flew out of Tahiti on a stop off in New Zealand. Once getting to New Zealand we discovered that our flight from New Zealand to Sydney was not for 24hrs! It was midnight; we had no money and nowhere to sleep so thought of a genius idea. We walked upstairs and found a deserted cafe, opened up our board bags, unpacked all our surfboards and slept in the bags. It was actually a pretty good sleep however I awoke to the airport security kicking me on the back threatening to throw us both out of the airport for sleeping on private property! Luckily we didn’t get thrown out, made our flight to Perth via Sydney and were so happy to be back after what you could say was a horror trip! Cheeeehooo, Matt Baldock To follow Matt on his ASP Australasia Pro Junior Series and WQS journeys, go to his blog, mattbaldock.tv

CASTLE BRAVO

CARL FOX

Words by Kyle Pauletto

Words by Sonia Tubb

Trying to remember that alternative music wasn’t always about skinny jeans and eyeliner? Castle Bravo is a good place to start. So I sat down with drummer Blake Dickson to talk about Perth, punk and “Geordie Shore” types.

stuff. So not crap and slow like something you might find on a blink 182 album. Generally what is your main theme as far as lyrics go? Well most are more or less about being opposed to hardline nationalism or any nationalism really, songs about injustice wether that be overseas or locally. I mean I wouldn’t go out and be like “hey, we want to be political man because that’s awesome” but I don’t really have anything else I care enough about to write about.

Would you say there’s a good punk scene in WA? Yeah, I like a lot of bands in Perth. I like grim fandango, I like the critics, I use to like pc thug, chilling Winston I don’t mind watching them, back in the day boredom and that were sick. So there’s some good bands around yeah, its always been small but its always been fun.

What’s your take on modern mainstream music? I don’t really go out of my way to listen to it, I really don’t like a lot of the whole poser electronica bullshit that your ‘Geordie Shore’ massive muscle types would listen to in some fucking douchebag club in northbridge. So if that’s modern music then

Do you think its difficult to be in a band with such a small scene for your genre? Is it difficult? No, you just go to rehearsal and jam. Its not that hard. It would be difficult to get big and be like NoFX because your not exposed to as many people as say

I really don’t like a lot of the whole poser Electronica bullshit that your ‘Geordie Shore’ massive muscle types would listen to in some fucking douche-bag club in Northbridge. if you started a band in Los Angeles you would have more people listening to it, but is it difficult, nah.

I grew up in Perth and the first time I became interested in music was when I was in year six. Someone came to our primary school and everyone did a test which kind of determined whether you were musical by nature and the people who scored well were offered positions to learn classical guitar. I got a spot but didn’t apply myself very well and once I got to high school my teacher said “You’ve got a choice, you can either continue with classical music or you can play in a band and do pop songs”, so I thought “See ya, I’m gonna go do some pop music!” During my time at high school we did productions. I guess I learnt there how to play in front of people and a bit after that I started my own out of school band. There were a few until I was happy with what was Good Little Fox (Currently on hold while Carl works on a solo career). I wanted to be energetic and shouty like “Hey! Check this out!” and then we (Good Little Fox) moved into more of a funky sound towards the end. I didn’t transform, while I was adapting I was also playing solo music so I was actually in Bush Court (Murdoch University) a lot! I went on holidays to Europe for three months; I took my acoustic guitar and went busking. I played a gig in Germany and some in Switzerland through friends. While I was there I really got into electronic music by just going to clubs and hanging with friends a lot. I’d been writing a lot of melancholic, ballad acoustic music so I made a conscious movement away from that. It was hard at first because I knew what sounds I wanted to make but didn’t know how to make them. Nowadays if you’re recording electronic it’s all done in a computer so once you have the software and a small audio interface you can pretty much do everything on the computer. I think it’s empowering. Just because one form of music doesn’t come from a down pressure source doesn’t mean it‘s less musical than a keyboard. It’s still an instrument, it’s not like a press one button and a whole song has been made, I find it more challenging. I’m writing a new album, in a few months I’ll start working on that and release it next year, and getting good, getting good at stuff man. Cool.

I fucking hate it. How do you think perth music has changed in the last 10 years? Well I’ve noticed there’s no real old school bands anymore, except maybe the chainsaw hookers. A lot more hardcore bands they were never around back then. Then that emo thing came and went, that really died in the arse. That’s probably the changes iv noticed.

In two separate publications your were given bad reviews in regards to your between song banter, what do you think about that? Hahaha, I think it’s wicked, I’m stoked they wrote it. If they didn’t like it they could have left. I don’t know I don’t take it too seriously, it’s just shit talk I know its crap. Anything coming up for Castle Bravo? We’ve got a demo that we have up on our myspace page, we’ve got a facebook page too. So on there we have a few demo tracks but we will be recording an ep hopefully at the start of next year.

Blake would like to point out some words he likes to say.

Photo: Duncan Wright

Varsity, haberdashery, conglomerate, and yolk. Yolks short but it’s a good one.

For anyone who hasn’t heard Castle Bravo what should they expect? Just punk music, pretty standard fast beat 90’s punk

NIC OWEN Words by Sonia Tubb They’re an eight piece combo of so many genres I can’t even list them, maybe we can all refer to them as a ‘bitser’ band, like the ‘bitser’ dogs, the ones that are so many breeds you can’t nail it to one...though The Brow Horn Orchestra have evolved in size since they began, their sound has remained somewhat the same, if not jam packed with more fun and laughter provoking beats. Their debut EP will be released in September, and though I can’t (or can I?) tell you what it’s like, below Nic Owen, keyboardist and vocalist, gets somewhat hassled and embarrassed...hopefully it’s enough to tire you over until then. Where does ‘The Brow’ come from? Um, nowhere exciting unfortunately, more name association. Karri if you’ve seen him, will always claim he’s an epic chicken lover, he has them in his backyard as pets and it actually gets a bit incestuous, bit of a worry Karri. So he had a chicken called Browns which he loved and They all have names? Yeah, bit of a weird chicken cult...we’d been busking for a while and people would ask ‘What’s your name, do you have cd’s and stuff?” and we’d say no we don’t have a name and we thought shit we’d better get a name and that sort of stuff so we had to work out something to be identified by. We were just doing a word association and I remember years ago when I was about 15 or 16 I wrote a song that was shortlisted in the finals of the WAM Song Of The Year which I got to perform, Was this for Brow? No this was long before for one of my own compositions and they got me to perform at the Fly By Night Club, at the presentation night which I guess was my first gig ever, which was kind of a little bit mind boggling but I remember seeing a band, I don’t know if they were called Brown or were performing a song called Brown but because we were doing the whole word association thing I thought ‘oh wow, Brown’ and Karri being the chicken lover he is was like ‘Oh Browns, let’s call it Browns’! I said something like ‘Uhhh...no! Let’s not name our band after your bloody chicken’ but then just from that it was like “Brow...Brow’ and it was kind of cool with the whole high brow, low brow, eyebrow...*ramblings later* I work as a filmmaker professionally. Have you actually made any films? Uh, a few, I kind of got out of short films because I did the independent stream at Curtin but you don’t really make that much money out of it. I really like combining film and music, I’m trying to do a lot of music videos at the moment...but I don’t have a camera. That’s crucial to the whole filmmaking thing! I know. It’s problematic. I’m kind of more an editor than a filmmaker. You bounced from filmmaker to editor in about 15 seconds...yeah well I use cameras, I just borrow them, I’m thinking it’s the way to go if I want to continue...(a man glides past in a pose that one could mistake for a chimp, he has long hair a flowing beard and cheeks that are sunken in, he stops at the lights to cross the street and then disappears behind a building by the Subiaco train station. Meanwhile Nic is following him with goggled eyes) How good was that guy?! Could you make your stare down any more obvious though? Well, he looks like a classic larrikin. He looks like...I don’t know (my judgemental mind was thinking ‘homeless’? ‘bum?’ ‘nothing better to do?’)...like he has nothing better to do. He’s got an air of something about him, like he would have a good story; I’d like to know that story. Gambled everything away now gets around on a skateboard. Yeah. That’s not a good thing. Yeah, well I don’t know. He’s just a skater guy. Tell me about your perspective of WA music. Um, wonderful I guess. On some tokens I think it’s quite easy to hoo-haa and yell about how awesome you are in some places and because I don’t have any perspective on other scenes it’s hard to make a comparison. I’m not sure if the scenes in Melbourne and Sydney are close and tight knit but we do have something special in a way, that in most cases it’s quite a friendly scene.

...we were doing the whole word association thing I thought ‘oh wow, Brown’ and Karri being the chicken lover he is was like ‘Oh Browns, let’s call it Browns’! I said something like ‘Uhhh...no! Let’s not name our band after your bloody chicken

ZSADAR

Words by Clint Little Styleaid Opulent 2011 For 14 years the WA Aids Council has been hosting the Perth fashion event of the year, Styleaid. The event is designed to raise money and awareness about the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS in the most fabulous way possible. This mix of the serious and the salubrious always makes for a night like no other. Styleaid features runway displays from some of the top designers Australia and the world has to offer. Each year also gives a selection of young up and coming designers the chance to show the world what they can do. Two such promising designers are Shelly Tindale and Shane Newton of Tindale and Zsadar both of whom I had the chance to interview during last minute chaos

TINDALE ‘Forgotten Beauty’ is the name of your debut collection at this year’s STYLEAID event where you seem to draw inspiration from the faded beauty of neglected architectural ruins. Are there particular places that inspired this direction? In this collection I’m endeavouring to portray a range of phases that depict the ageing process associated with architecture. Historically, when a building is first built, it exudes strength and fortified structure. Over time, as it ages, it begins to show signs of deterioration and parts of it start to slowly crumble away.

much did this help get your collection onto the runway? I’m extremely grateful for the grant from the STYLEAID Team. This year I plan to use the funds on a photo shoot after the parade as well as contributing towards manufacturing the collection pieces. After the parade, I’m looking at collaborating with a graphic designer to set up a website in late august where the pieces will be available for purchase.

Photo: Kate Drennan, Hair and makeup: Melissa Jade, Model: Olivia@Chadwicks

I’ve always been fascinated with architecture. I guess on a subconscious level I choose it or it chose me. My parents actually brought an old house in Fremantle and have spent a number of years restoring it, so I was brought up really appreciating the aesthetic qualities of old buildings. Last year they traveled to Italy and came home with a huge number of photos, many of them featured older buildings. I was intrigued and inspired by their timeless qualities. There seems to be a sense of off-kilter construction to your designs, what response do you hope to inspire in the wearer / observer of your clothing? Tindale’s foundation is based on quality and soulful design. Shapes, forms, colours and textures all embody a Tindale garment. The initial concept incorporates the use of natural fibres with textural elements and colours that depict the richness and diversity of architecture. You were selected as the winner of the $5000 Absolut Creative Design Award this year, how

Androgyny is a strong trend in men’s fashion at the moment, how much does what’s trending influence your design direction? I think the androgyny trend has become popular again in the male modelling industry but not necessarily menswear itself. I’m not interested in trends and they have absolutely no influence on my design process. The garments I design are based on a personal aesthetic, so customers know that when they buy something it will never go out of style. The Perth fashion pool is a small one, how does an emerging designer get a chance to present a collection at a prestigious event like STYLEAID? I was invited by the STYLEAID Committee to present the collection after I expressed interest to showcase my first collection. It’s a great honour to participate in an event like STYLEAID which helps reinforce and translate the mood and direction of the label – at the same time raising funds for the WA AIDS Council.

Photo: Romain Duquesne, Models: Frankie Elliss-Galati & Emily Green from Vivien’s Model Management

STYLE AID

Menswear in Australian fashion is traditionally pretty conservative; who do you see wearing your clothes? It’s been interesting to see the range of different customers interested in ZSADAR and it’s difficult to categorise the “typical client”. One constant is that all my customers want something that can’t be purchased off the rack in most retail stores. They’re looking for high quality construction, beautiful fabrics and a garment that has a story. This is difficult to find in Australian menswear. I’ve made this a priority in the development and it’s translated successfully. Most of the reactions have been how soft on the skin the fabrics are and the quality of the craftsmanship. It’s been interesting that women were really interested in the concept as well, which made me use a female model to wear the clothing in the campaign photo shoot. It shows the versatility in the clothing and challenges the idea that garments can only be for men, or only for women. How do you feel about tying in your collection’s debut alongside more established fashion industry players? I’m really excited to be able to showcase my collection amongst some of WA’s top designers. The patternmakers I use have worked with some of the best international fashion houses, the WA manufacturers producing the clothing also make clothes for local designers who export internationally so I’m confident that the quality of ZSADAR is at a standard for the world stage. I’m also looking forward to showcasing the collection at Perth Fashion Festival in September. Do you have big plans for Zsadar and world domination? I’m just taking it one day at a time and focusing on enjoying the journey, rather than worrying about the destination. I’m having such a great time watching my sketches come to life and for other people to enjoy it as well makes me excited for future collections. The collection will be available for purchase online late July at www.zsadar.com Photos courtesy of STYLEAID

ROLLER DERBY

METIOR DISTRIBUTION

Words by Rachel Watts

Where To Find Us

Taking The Hard Knocks I am a derby girl in training. I was bookish and quiet as a child. But at roller derby, the rest of my life does not matter. When I’m skating I have to forget all of that, instead I have to find determination and gritted teeth in myself. I am Medusa Cascade and this is my roller derby diary.

Week 8

Murdoch University Campuses

Moore & Moore Café

Northbridge

South of the Border

Vinnies Retro

South St

Wild Poppy Café

Little Willy’s Café

Peel

Vanilla Bean Café

Outre

Rockingham

Mi Life Shoes

The Moon Café

Fremantle South Fremantle

The Attic Café

The Fox Hunt

Gino’s Café

I walk into Rolloways for my first contact cleared roller derby training session and Taye Q Down greets me with a grin.

The Bead Post Il cibo Café

“I’m going to hit you sooo hard,” she says. Welcome to roller derby.

Photo: Peter Granheim

All the anxiety and desperation to nail the skills required to be contact cleared just morphs into a whole new learning curve. It’s worth mentioning that there’s no real final end point in derby. Everyone’s trying their hardest to skate faster, to hit harder, to think quicker. It is a challenging sport, not just physically. Mentally goading yourself to keep trying, to ignore the tiredness or sore muscles, is part of the marathon of reaching bout ready status. Then you push yourself a little further. In the interests of pushing ourselves and taking the hard knocks, we play Blood and Thunder to initiate the new contact cleared skaters. It is a last woman standing drill, once you’re knocked down or out of bounds you’re out. “You shouldn’t be afraid of being hit,” Taye says. “It’ll happen, you’ll live.” Oh hell. But strangely enough, although I am knocked out pretty quickly, I do indeed survive. Afterwards Karmen Adairya tells me how disappointed she was that she didn’t get to hit me. Honestly, so am I, but probably less than she is. There’s time Karmen. There’s time.

Week 10 Roller derby presents challenges other than physical and none more so than finding a derby name. We never got to choose our birth names; we were given it by people who’d only just met us when we were squawking and naked. I decided my name not long after I started training. I just like it. It reminds me of a Disney villainess. Someone with too much makeup and a loud laugh. That’s me. But it isn’t hard enough, it isn’t clever, it isn’t scary or intimidating. It just isn’t derby. What it is is an anomaly in time and space in the television show Doctor Who. So not derby. But I still like it. I like that Medusa is a classic reference, I like that with Cascade it harks back to a childhood time when I watched a television show that terrified me. Sometimes things that scare you are good. Eventually you wonder why they scared you in the first place. In mid-May, I and a thousand others go to the first double header bout ever held in WA, Perth Roller Derby’s Quads of War bout. Our girls in their brand new All Stars uniforms faced up to the best players in PRD. When our Wards of the Skate took to the rink in a characteristically good humoured entrance, their fans, myself included, cheered like there was no tomorrow. They didn’t win, but they won hearts and minds that night. Which is at least as much as they deserve. I couldn’t love those girls more.

Bentley Curtin University Beaconsfield

Oh Henry! Vintage New Edition Books Exotic Body Piercing Milk and Honey

Ootong and Lincoln Café

Starland Video

The Den

Mt Lawley

Le Papillon Patisserie

X-Wray Café

Noise Pollution Records

Fidel’s Café

Edith Cowan UniversityWAAPA

Billie and Rose

Planet Books

Fi and Co

Red Tiger

Caffissimo Café

New Edition Books

Soto Café

Breaks Café

Billie and Rose

Momentum Skateshop

High’s and Low’s

Subway DC

Nedlands

Luna on SX

UWA

1Up Microcinema

Red Stripe Clothing Joondalup Edith Cowan University