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FREE! 43 DEC 07/JAN 08 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWRVIEW Prague’se s city magazinegazine Where Now? INTRO We’re reaching the end of the year and heading towards (can you believe it) the end of the decade. This December 2007/January 2008 edition of Think Again both concludes and begins things with a sweet array of articles to keep you up to date. You’ll fi nd an interesting interview with the German trio of pixel heads known as eBoy (along with an eBoy poster in the middle of the magazine). There is also a chat with Gregory Finn who is a member of the multimedia project Ghostmother. You’ll, of course, also fi nd plenty of things to think about doing or seeing, including a look at the upcoming Digitalism show, New Year’s parties around Prague and a nice little slice of Japan in the form of an actual karaoke box right around the corner. There are also all the usual reviews of books, including one of an interesting alternative to Prague travel guides, and fi lms and some poker advice just ahead of the biggest poker tournament to grace this graceful city. So dig in and enjoy! Happy Holidays! 14-15 24-25 8-9 16-17 26-27 28-29 34-35 48-49 32-33 44-45 5 Live in 9–14/12 The biggest poker event URBANITE URBANITE Prague ever held in the Czech Republic, the Golden Prague Poker European Poker Tour 5,000 Euro buy in event Hilton Prague Hotel will begin December 9th at the congress hall of Hilton www.goldenpraguepoker.cz Hotel, open from 12:00 pm to 6:00 am. The event should feature some of the biggest names in professional European poker and might even attract a name US player or two. During the even there will also be plenty of cash side games going, with 15 tables available with Hold’em, Stud, and Omaha high and high/low at a variety of betting limits. The European Poker Tour has been going since 2004 and has grown right along with its American cousin in popularity and size. If you’ve Projekt learned anything from our regular poker column 100 you should be ready to rake in the chips! 20/12, 9/01 Roxy The new play Her www.roxy.cz Stepdaughter (Její Pastorkyně) is coming to Švandovo theatre in December. EPT Known to some as Jenufa, the fi rst of Janáček’s Four days this dark December The operas, this drama was written by Gabriela Preissova Prague will be lightened by the presence in audio-visual series (born1862), the woman recognized as perhaps the most Prague of a festival of British live art going by of themed parties Bulva Fabula is signifi cant female Czech playwright. Her Stepdaughter the moniker Live in Prague. The festival will introduce without doubt the best monthly mid-week attempts to display how a bourgeois, mill-owning family 10/1–31/5 British live art personalities in presentations, home theater, session you will fi nd in Prague. And it’s certainly in a narrow-minded Catholic community can get caught performances, and lectures. There will, for instance, be a lecture www.projekt100.cz not because there’s not much else happening in the up in the in a world of sexual betrayal and murder by Lois Keidan talking about how and why live art evolved, and middle of the week in this weekend-centric city. The and then work its way through it all to fi nal Stone the diff erent kinds of practices and approaches the term represents December installment of the “VJ vs. DJ” night—bearing the forgiveness. It may be an older work, but Age in the UK today. In addition there will be a number of shows and name Winter Solstice Edition—features Mimo TV’s audio much of it still resonates today. performances including Kira O ‘Reilly employing performance, video, 3–7/12 project Mythematica, “an audio breeding and cultivation lab English subtitles. and photography as she uses the body to weave and unweave of rock-crystal sounds”. Roll onto January, produced in Alfréd ve Dvoře narrative threads. On the Scent will explore the reasons you cooperation with Světozor and Aero cinemas, the VJ’s ww.alfredvedvore.cz may have been transported to another place and time by an will recontextualize art-house classics including intangible but achingly familiar scent. All this and Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point or Buñuel’s The a lot more make Live in Prague something to Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. spend some time exploring. Been put off recently by poor service at a local hospoda? The The newly opened Stone Age recreation in 14th annual Project the center of Prague at Sokolská 60, Prague 2 will 100 will feature a provocative and have you running back begging for the rude waiters to Stone Age Her diverse selection of fi lms that have been return. At Stone Age they literally don’t know the meaning selected from the vast world of movies out there Sokolská 60, P2 of the word ‘manners’. You’ll be eating with your fi ngers as for exceptional quality, historical signifi cance, and Stepdaughter www.pravek.cz you share the prey ‘caught’ by your somewhat unusual ‘hosts’, to fi ll in those blank spaces that exist in the normal a friendly group that will even include a shaman! Dishes world of fi lm distribution. Some of the movies that include pork, beef, venison, turkey, and shark. Witness the will be traveling together as a part of the project from sacrifi ce of virgins to native gods, ritual ceremonies with January till May across the Czech Republic are You, 15, 17, 19/12 drumming, painting, and all kinds of pre-medieval the Living, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Zabriskie Bulva shenanigans. You’ll remember this evening; Švandovo Theatre Point, Andalusian Dog, The Discreet Charm of we can pretty much guarantee you the Bourgeoisie, Turtles Can Fly, Holy www.svandovodivadlo.cz Fabula that! Mountain, Aguirre: The Wrath of God and more. 6 7 Palác Akropolis 20/12 thedigitalism.com THINK TANK Text by Lucia Udvardyová Unless you have been locked in an attic for the last two years, you’ve probably noticed the onslaught of kids dressed in day-glo colors and bands like the Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco, and, on the other end of the spectrum, Justice and the Ed Banger and Kitsuné label posses. Kistuné artists Digitalism (Jens “Jence” Moelle and İsmail “Isi” Tüfekçi)—who, unexpectedly for a band sporting a sound, come from Germany—are associated with this scene, especially with the French side of it. “Most promoters used to start talking to us in French,” said Jens Moelle in an interview with BBC. This French association is not particularly surprising considering their indebtedness to Daft Punk, as can be heard on tracks like Zdarlight. “But we did used to buy a lot of Crydamoure (Daft Punk’s label) back in the day. We were really into records that didn’t take themselves too seriously and had some kind of punk attitude. These records defi nitely had it, even though it wasn’t punk music.” Digitalism began in 2004 and the boys have already left their mark on pop music, with remixes for the likes of Depeche Mode, White Stripes, Tiga, Klaxons, and Tom Vek; they even delivered a re-edit of The Cure’s Fire in Cairo. Their debut LP Idealism was released to much anticipation in May this year. Currently they have other things to worry about, as is evident from an interview they gave the Resident Advisor where they stated, “We are talking about moustaches quite a bit lately; that is our running joke. I think a moustache will appear in the artwork for our next single. David Guetta is the real moustache guy from the past. Watch out for our moustaches.” 8 GHOSTMOTHER THINK TANK Photo by Martina Šimková Text by Lucia Udvardyová If there’s one Czech band to watch out for in 2008, it could very well be Ghostmother. Established by Gregory Finn (aka Jesus Chrysler) and Klára Nemravová (aka Jane Honda), the band was later joined by Tadeáš Haager (R. Mutt) and Mikoláš Růžička (Prof Shalokim). Their music evokes old times while possessing a thoroughly modern sound composed of bouncy beats and intriguing samples. We chatted with Gregory Finn before their fi rst ever live show at Palác Akropolis on December 22nd. Palác Akropolis Introduce us to Ghostmother. How do you divide your roles scene has been overdosed by modern Ghostmother is a multimedia project in the band? trends and technology. We are 22/12 that encompasses elements of the We divided the roles in the band joining both worlds. early 1900s industrial and hip hop. in such a way that we all don’t go www.myspace.com/ghostmother We’ve been working on it for about crazy, and luckily, we all seem to Ghostmother is a multimedia a year. complement each other. I write the project. How exactly? music and songs most of the time, The music has the same importance How did you all come but each member can infl uence and as the lyrics, costumes, graphics together? change anything they like; Klárka and visuals, dance, as well as the About 13 months ago, Jeroným looks after the web and R. Mutts tricks done by our young magician. Janíček, who wrote a book about has just fi nished the fi rst animated Ghostmother is a musical, visual, and phobias, asked me to do a song music video and also helps Marielle, theatrical experience.

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