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Blitz Advertising: Advertising Artwork 12 days prior to publication. Bookings 20 days prior to publication. Rates and enquiries should be by Rob Gascoigne directed to Charlotte O’Brien Artsweek 2006 5 Phone: 9385 7331 very dear friend once accused me of Email: [email protected] having an iPod where my personality should be. In fairness, I think she Contributions: A was probably right. I love my music. Letters, articles, photos and other printable I probably take it more seriously than any matter are welcome. Please contact the other aspect of my life. Really, when you’ve editor to discuss suitability. spent the formative years of your life trawling through record bins in second hand music Publisher: stores to find the more obscure 45s of Sinead Blitz is published each Monday of session by O’Connor and , it’s expected that UNSW Source. the force of music would be a strong one. The Music in the Digital Age 6 number of those stores (in , at least) The views expressed herein are not seems to be dropping now; nothing’s sacred. necessarily the views of UNSW Source, unless as expressly stated. UNSW Source Next week in the Roundhouse, you have the accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of chance to see the final heats of the Campus any of the opinions or information contained Band Camp. It’s your one chance to see in this issue of Blitz. Any complaints should these bands before they take off, so that you be addressed to the Communications can say you knew them way back when. Manager, PO Box 173, Kingsford 2032 Don’t believe me? Well, consider that a few years ago, The Vines were unheard of and only came to prominence when they won Printing: Campus Tunes 18 their campus band comp. Have a look over Printed by Agency, Seven Hills. Rates and Flick’s interview with Old Kent Road, one of Enquiries should be directed to President’s Report 4 the bands performing in the heats. Even their 8825 8900. band name is bankable. Blitz Team 2006: Snapshot 8 Alex has written a feature this week on Editor: Rob Gascoigne music in the digital age. As he points out, Reporters: Alex Serpo, Flick Strong Have you got Yellow (Shirt) Fever? 9 it’s allowing a range of new bands to get Designer: Justin Theng themselves heard internationally. I must say Cover Design: Justin Theng Puzzles 10 that I do love having this universe of music Voxpops: Hilda Cheng available to us on the internet. Best of all, you A Tongue with Taste 11 can track down some of the most obscure Communications Manager: music videos (fyi, if you want to see an Marina Spurgin, 02 9385 7731 What’s On 12 amazing video some of you young’uns may not have seen, look up ‘Sale of the Century’ Advertising & Sponsorship Coordinator: Comics 15 by Sleeper; it’s on youtube). But I suspect Charlotte O’Brien that this expanded technology is a poisoned 02 9385 7331 chalice. I think we will miss CD’s when we Chinese Debating 16 move completely to less tangible mediums Marketing Manager: for music. Maybe I’m just an old man. Donna Wiemann Happy Birthday Dorothy 17

Keep your eyes peeled for Artsweek stuff. It’s Law Revue 19 coming up in Week Seven and it promises to be a big one. We’ve been able to provide Reviews 20 with a small taste this week. Have a look over it and mark the dates down in your diary. Why Fidelity? 21 Finally, I wanted to repeat a message I sent out late last session. This year we’ve Classifieds 22 received some great contributions from many of our erstwhile Blitz readers. But we Vox Pops 23 want you to send in more. Blitz is a student magazine and we want to hear from you peeps. As an inducement, we’ve introduced a $150 contributors’ prize. So, if you’re interested, send me an email (blitzeditor@ source.unsw.edu.au) , drop by the Blockhouse or give me a call (93857715).

Blitz Magazine  When I finished High School, I took The Source’s Yellow Shirt volunteers have a year off, worked, travelled, did been welcoming new students to UNSW some singing and generally enjoyed since way back in 1990. “Yellow Shirts” not studying for a year (I think a lot was the first comprehensive Orientation of people feel that way after dealing Week program of its kind to hit Australian with the HSC!). Anyway, so when I Universities and, to this day, is proudly started at UNSW I was very energised described as ’s best University to start studying again, but felt fairly Orientation Week program. As any “old shirt” unenthused about getting involved will tell you, O-Week at UNSW is so much with the campus community. I figured I better than what is affectionately referred could just wander into class and leave to as “O -Three days” at USYD or “O -Five straight away without a worry. I decided hours” at UTS. So much so in fact, that it to not attend O Week. is not unheard of for students from other Sydney universities to come to UNSW’s O-Week instead of their own to get socially hat I didn’t think about at the oriented to university life. Seriously! time was the fact that most of my friends weren’t going to Applications for volunteers for Orientation WUNSW! As a result, I spent my Week 2007 open this week. Places in the first few weeks wandering around Uni, feeling Yellow Shirt program are limited, but if you’re pretty lonely and lost. I think most people interested in applying, or finding out more, would agree it’s not so easy trying to make email [email protected], visit the new friends in lecture theatres of hundreds, O Week office in the Blockhouse, or visit the and this campus can be a bit of a maze. O Week stall which will be up at the Library Lawn from Week Six lunchtime and chat to I finally got involved with Uni life through some of the squad leaders and organising a friend who introduced me to clubs and team members from O-Week 2006. All of volunteers and had an absolute ball for the them are experienced Yellow Shirts and will remainder of my first year. So when Yellow be more than happy to answer questions or Shirt applications opened, I applied because tell you some of their O-Week stories. I felt it was really important to help create a welcoming environment for First Years so Kate Bartlett others didn’t have the same not-so-fun start Source President to uni as me.

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runge Goddess Life Drawing Pottery Workshop Comic Book Helen Razer reads selected pieces of Workshop Potter in Residence Tony Orford Workshop with erotic fan fiction at takes you through a simple G Celebrate the beauty of the Leigh Rigozzi the Cougar Club Bar. Ufilm fest method for making your own pot. human form and learn the introduces you to film-makers This is the perfect way to learn Leigh Rigozzi is an award- techniques of life drawing from Ten Canoes and Kanyini to how to use the materials and winning comic book artist and with tutor David Briggs. David discuss their work. The UNSW resources at your disposal at the illustrator. Come along to this runs the life drawing program literary journal unsweetened Source’s Pottery Studio. Once free workshop and make your for Disney’s Sydney studio. and the Lenslife photography you pot you can’t stop. own comic book. In one day! Drawings will be made from competition exhibition will also nude models. Suitable for be launched. Come along and Pottery Studio, Level 2 Tuesday 2-4pm beginners or intermediate. see NSW poetry slam finalists Blockhouse Training Room 4, Blockhouse. Friday 2-4pm Register online, Max 20 in the Roundhouse Beergarden. Training Room 4, Level 1 Register online, Max 15 participants Then, to round it all off, there’s Blockhouse participants the Thursday night Toons and Wednesday 10am-12pm Tunes Party with cartoons, OR 2-4pm, DJ Workshop cocktails, prizes and special Register online, Max 15 Circusoc Acrobatics guests MC Tongue and The participants with Jack Prest Bagraiders. Workshop + Balloon Jack Prest has recently played To let your creativity breed, Jewellery Making Folding/Juggling the Cockatoo Island Festival as attend the FREE Artsweek Workshop part of the Elefanttraks stage workshops! Register online Workshops supporting the likes of TZU, Circusoc are one of the most , Melbournes Muph now to avoid disappointment. Kath Ellis from the Eastern popular and innovative societies and Plutonic. He is widely All workshops are on during Suburbs Community College on campus! Come along to regarded as having captured the Artsweek in Week Seven. will show you how to express these two great introductory art of beatmaking, mixing and yourself through your own workshops and find out why! lyiricism in true hip hop style. custom-made jewellery. Kath Come and learn from one of the will run two introductory courses Tuesday 3–5pm - Acrobatics best. using rosary link and beads and Thursday 3-5pm – Balloon tiger tail and beads. Folding and Juggling Tuesday 12-2pm Marsh Room, Roundhouse Cougar Club Bar Training Room 4, Level 1 Register online, Register online, Max 20 Blockhouse Max 15 participants participants Wednesday Register now at 10am-12pm – Silver www.source.unsw.edu.au Wire and Beads 2-4pm – Tiger Tail and Beads Register online, Max 15 Participants

 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine  Computers and music downloads have changed the music industry. Companies today are scrabbling to get on the pay-to- download internet bandwagon. iTunes is ubiquitous and CD sales are progressively falling. Artists are getting famous by promoting themselves online. Alex Serpo looks at the phenomenon that is music in the digital age.

Napster before the release, they Industry Association of America The decline of CD sales in favour sued Napster. The trial became (RIAA), from 2000 to 2003, the of music downloads has also famous, with thousands of sale of CD’s fell 31% in the US. caused an additional problem usic will university students flocking to In contrast, iTunes, according to for record companies. Charts never be it. The litigation sent Napster BBC, grew 241% in 2005, which based on CD sales are no longer the same bankrupt in 2002. At its peak, meant a staggering 14% of an accurate descriptor of what again. Napster had nearly 30 million internet users use iTunes. Back people are actually listening to. Some in the music industry are users worldwide. in the late nineties, big music Promoters and music companies M companies including Sony BMG, don’t know what’s hot and scared, some are excited, some However where Napster fell, are only just realising how much Warner and Universal saw music what’s not. Small and even many rose up to take its place, things have changed. Music downloads as a fad. They’re unsigned artists can rise rapidly and Napster’s successor, Kazaa, has entered the digital age. File sorry about that now. to fame through the internet. The was even bigger. Kazaa opened sharing programs like Kazaa, success of British rock artists in 2001 and right from the onset What effect this shift has had Napster, and Bit Torrent have Arctic Monkeys is attributed in was beset with legal battles. on actual artists is difficult to made it easy to access free part to the popularity of their Kazaa lost legal battles to both gauge. While record companies music, and music labels aren’t ‘myspace’ site. Myspace allows MGM studios and the Australian are loosing money, it is difficult happy. However along with this users to upload and listen to Record Industry Association, to claim that any but the biggest obvious industry shake-up subtle music as well as participate in (ARIA). Despite having to pay artists are hit hard by the changes have followed. Sites forums and post images. $US115 million in damages, music download phenomenon. used by artists, myspace.com for Kazaa is still running today; a An interesting case study is Arctic Monkeys is not the only example, have become famous, testament to the profitability Radiohead’s 2000 album Kid A. band that has taken advantage and music now travels faster. of peer-to-peer programs. This was an experimental album of this phenomenon. Scottish Audiences listen to single tracks Numerous other peer-to-peer that received little promotion artist Sandi Thom received a rather than whole albums, which programs are available to be and almost no radio play. Kid A great deal of attention for web changes the way artists downloaded including became available for download casting her gigs from a London produce music. Limewire, iMesh, Bit Torrent three months before the album basement. Tickets were sold but Internet music trading and many others. was released and was heavily the basement only had a seating programs are a relatively recent downloaded. Record companies capacity of ‘six’. According to What effect has this had on the phenomenon. The first massive were pessimistic, predicting Reuters, the webcast had an music industry? Firstly, the sale peer-to-peer music sharing a huge impact on sales. In audience of 70,000 at its peak: of CDs has been in a steady program was Napster, which contrast, the album broke much more than could fit in any decline. The decline has been opened in 1999. When the big number one in the charts the conventional concern. in almost perfect step with name metal band Metallica week it was released, beating the rise of music downloads. discovered that their new demo more mainstream artists According to the Recording ‘I Disappear’ was available on like Eminem.

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Internet distribution of music; compilations. Similar to iTunes, be it downloads of mp3s, music Virgin introduced this service videos, myspace or webcasts to Australia in July of this year. has democratised music. Small However, the ability of customers artists can now rise rapidly to to download individual tracks fame while the sales of big artists means that they no longer listen slump. However these changes to whole albums. Artists can no have had some negative effects. longer create a series of songs It has been argued that the into a narrative or follow a theme. instant music phenomenon has It is the age of the single. Artists made fans fickle. Some say can now rise to fame on the that the ‘supergroup’, artists back on one or like U2 with hit after hit album, two successful singles and cannot exist in the digital age. nothing else. Audiences move rapidly to the next big thing, with ‘fad music’ Is the digital age a new - songs with little music quality renaissance for music? that are quirky or funny - rising Perhaps artists are now free rapidly through the charts and of the tyranny of traditional then disappearing. What can you goliath labels and their whims. really say about an audience that Or maybe the internet simply gets so animated about ‘Axel F’ provides a way for people to by the Crazy Frog? rob artists of their royalties, and create a culture where albums Music downloads have also are no longer cool, only the changed the nature of albums last fad tune. The answer does themselves. In 2005, the Virgin not depend on the artist or the Entertainment Group launched music labels, but the global a concept called ‘the music audience and what they kiosk’. This was an interactive choose to do with their new terminal in Virgin stores that found supremacy. allowed customers to buy individual tracks by credit card and have then burnt onto a NODDYS ON KAMPUS CD to make their own original BLOCKHOUSE - LOWER CAMPUS (BESIDE ROUNDHOUSE) NSW UNIVERSITY. ANZAC PDE KENSINGTON 2033 PHONE: 9663 3496 or 9385 7767 HAIR BY N.O.K

 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine  What is Burlesque? What are the advantages of This Tuesday, as part of taking dance classes? the Roundhouse’s How The best way to describe Burlesque would be to say it has elements of Striptease You will learn to feel more comfortable with To… series, students can (without fully stripping) and comical theatre your body and it is a good way of getting to learn all they need to know mixed in. Sometimes, the story will just go know people whom you may not have met about burlesque dancing. with the words of the song that is picked or before. We find that you meet likeminded the dance will be choreographed around souls and people become really good friends Burlesque, as an art form, the theme. It depends on what the dancer from the experience. combines elements of decides to do. The costuming is a big part as well. Costumes can range from a leopard You should feel comfortable. So you can humor, satire and sexual print bikini to a pirate outfit; it is really as big wear what you would wear to the gym with tantalization, and it has been as your imagination. bare feet or ballet slippers but we do try to thrilling audiences since the encourage you to wear heels. Hotpants and sparkles are fun but not essential. Bring a Victorian era. To find out Burlesque is becoming more popular as mat or towel for the floor work. If you have more, Flick Strong sat down a dance style. What is the appeal? a feather boa or any other accessories that with Lisa from Dance Central For some people, the dance style is you wish to wear, go ahead. It makes it more appealing because it teaches you how to feel fun if you dress up! Have fun! who is running the workshop. and dance sexy. It’s a form of exercise and it offers you of becoming a character The Burlesque dancing workshop will that takes you out of your normal mindset. be held this Tuesday from 1-2pm in the But, more than anything, Burlesque is about Roundhouse. For more information on the having fun! Roundhouse’s How To… series check out www.source.unsw.edu.au

I have two left feet. Is this workshop for me? The workshop is aimed at beginners and the routines are not quick-paced as the teacher will most likely have very high heels on! Go girls (oops) and boys.

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 Blitz Magazine Do you remember before session starts to make teamwork, leadership and event you’re interested but still want sure that new students are management that will help you a bit more information, you your O-Week? Maybe ready for life at UNSW. It’s not find a job after you finish at Uni. can email Jeff (the O-Week you turned up without just about finding the buildings Not only that, but you’ll have coordinator) at o.week@source. knowing anyone at – it’s about being able to make an opportunity to make a real unsw.edu.au, or drop by the friends, knowing where to buy difference to first year students. Library Lawn any day next week UNSW, or maybe you food and coffee, and knowing and chat to one of the Squad came with a whole where on campus you can go to To be a Yellow Shirt, you’ll need Leaders or organisers for this chill out for a while. to be available for a number of year’s O-Week. You can pick group of school compulsory dates. Obviously up an application form from friends. But one Applications for Yellow Shirts there’s O-Week itself, where you the Library Lawn stall, from thing’s for sure, 2007 are now open, so if you will be on campus from 7am until CONTACT or from Source want to play a part in this after 10pm, but there are also Reception in the Blockhouse. if you came to O- year’s O-Week, now is the two training days and training Week at UNSW, you time to apply. camp. The first pre-O-Week Volunteering to be a Yellow Shirt compulsory date is January 19 is one of the most rewarding will remember the Volunteering to be a Yellow so, if you’re planning some time things you can do at UNSW, Yellow Shirts. Shirt in the Source’s O-Week away, better check that the dates both for yourself and for your program is hard work, but it’s don’t clash before you apply. community. So, before you one of the best things you can At UNSW, O-Week is organised commit to a summer of drinking do on campus. You’ll meet Applications close next Friday and run by students – the Yellow beer and watching the cricket, heaps of awesome people (September 1), and the written Shirts – who volunteer their time maybe it’s worth considering from across the University, and application forms the first part over summer and the week some time in yellow instead. gain skills in communication, of the Yellow Shirt selections. If

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10 Blitz Magazine With a mind as quick as his tongue is sharp, Sydney MC The Tongue is fast making a name for himself as one of the fiercest competitors on Sydney’s battle scene. Eddie Sharp spoke with The Tongue about Darth Vader Jr and battling in Speedos.

How would you describe your music? opponent is dressed in an ill-fitting pair of different acts, pulled only three people. The It’s the thinking man’s party music, or the speedos (true story) then how do you make promoter lost $600 and couldn’t really explain party man’s thinking music. One of those two. fun of them? I guess the costumes help me the poor turnout. A good learning experience relax and have fun with it. though. Some days you’re the dog and other days you’re the fire hydrant. How do you see Australian hip hop evolving in the next ten years? Who’s your favourite international hip hop act and why? You opened for De La Soul earlier I think it’s constantly evolving in a positive this year. How was that? Did you way. As the scene grows in popularity, it Very tough question. Recorded, I’d have get to meet them? also becomes more commercially viable. to say Redman or Jehst…just for their raw, This means artists can invest in it more and unpredictable style and amazing lyrics. As far The Enmore is a great venue and the crowd thereby improve the quality of their product. A as live acts go, it would be either Sage Francis were really digging it. I had a great time. De La lot of artists are becoming more “professional” or MC Supernatural. Soul put on a pretty tight live show but they and business-like in what they do. Ten years were totally uninterested in talking to anybody that night, they had their own VIP area and no ago there were almost no national tours for Who’s your favourite Aussie one was allowed back there. But that’s cool, Australian hip hop artists. At the moment, hip hop act and why? the , TZU, The Herd and Bliss I’ll just treat them the same way when they’re N Esso are all doing city tours and making Probably either The Herd or Delta. Both have opening for me in 2007…bitches. serious dents in the charts. That’s very a diverse body of work and an amazing live encouraging. show. The Herd are impressive because Tell us what you’re listening to they’re so organic and multi-layered…there’s at the moment. eight of them and they all work together so How do you see it evolving in beautifully. They’re a very unique group. Delta Cody ChestnuTT - The Head-Phone the next thousand? is just the ultimate MC- a battle champion, Masterpiece. Darth Vader Jnr will win an intergalactic internationally respected and great both on Dudley Perkins - Expressions election in controversial circumstances the stage and in the studio. and pass new laws making the surgical Nfa - Cause an Effect attachment of iPods to the brain compulsory What’s the best gig you ever played? for all citizens of earth. This will allow him to Sean Price - Monkey Barz stomp out the rebel force that is underground Probably Park Jam at Luna Park. It was a 12 hour hip hop festival featuring Kool Keith, hip hop music and replace it with the 24-hour- Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir a-day “Dashboard Confessional” mind-control Digital Underground, The Decepitkonz and channel. There is no hope for us. Hermitude to name but a few. It was such a buzz to play in a crazy venue like that in front of one thousand screaming kids. Mental. The Tongue will be You are pretty well known on the Sydney hip hop scene for showing up to MC performing at Artsweek’s battles in embarrassing and ridiculous What was the worst? Thursday Night Party, in costumes. What’s the reason behind this? I played a gig in a few months the Roundhouse from 7pm. The main idea behind an MC battle is back that was really badly promoted and, to humiliate your opponent…but if your despite having a great line-up of over ten Entry is free.

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Week 5 - Monday 21 August - Sunday 27 August Pottery Studio Inductions International Careers Expo Law Revue 2006: Hostile Thurs ay Powers…International Plan for 12:30-1pm 3-7pm 24 Aug d Misery Learn how to use the Source Pottery Open to all students seeking Studio from our Potters in Residence. international opportunities. http:// 7:45pm The studio is Free for student use and www.careers.unsw.edu.au/student/ It’s that time of year again! Come out Bicycle Breakfast is the perfect way to relax between ICE/ for a night of side splitting laughter! classes. The Scientia (The Galleries and foyer) Tix on sale through the week, 12-2pm 8:30am Pottery Studio, Level 2, Blockhouse Free Lib Lawn, Law Building Foyer! or Come to the Library Lawn, from Free book at www.lawrevue.unsw.edu.au 8:30am for a free breakfast, followed by bike maintenance fun. Contact: UNSW Science Theatre Garden Beats; Tues $8/12 Wed-Fri $10/15 Bar Bingo Maurice 0437940265. DJ Adam Bozzetto Library Lawn 1pm Free Unibar, Roundhouse (Sounds, Funktrust) Free More fun then Thoughtful Foods your stereo Food Co-operative Politics of Food workshop 5pm 9am–6pm (Opening Hours) 1-2pm Beergarden, Backyard of the Roundhouse, next to Stick around after ‘theories of Eats@theRound Change’ to understand the ‘politics Roundhouse Free of food’. Free Quad1001 Lipton Business Challenge Free Registrations Close Sydney Morning Herald Trivia Library Lawn Band: The Live 10am-4pm Room Today the trivia….tomorrow, Who The Lipton Business Challenge is wants to be a millionaire. open to all students, but especially 1pm 5pm for those looking to get involved Library Lawn Unibar, Roundhouse with the world of Consumer Goods! Free Free Registration closes today! Visit: www.marksoc.unsw.edu.au for more Education Action Group contact details Happy hour Front of the Library 1pm 5-6pm $10 per team The EAG is a group of student Wed es a $4 Boags St George…enjoy. n d y activists interested in campaigning for 23 Aug Unibar, Roundhouse equitable and accessible education Ping Pong for all students. All welcome. 11am Pub Grub Student Guild Roundhouse Ping Pong Free 5:30pm Free 11am Pub Grub means you a) can have Roundhouse Students of Medical Science BBQ another drink & b) don’t worry about SIFE UNSW AGM cooking Free 1–2pm Clems, Roundhouse 12pm Students of Medical Science (SMS) A global non-profit organisation Thoughtful Foods bbq. Cheap sausage sizzles. All which aims to provide economic Food Co-operative welcome! Ultimate Frisbee opportunities for others. More Eastern Suburbs League library lawn information at www.sifeunsw.org. 10:30am–4:30pm (Opening Hours) Cheap Backyard of the Roundhouse, next to 7-9pm Quad1001 Eats@theRound Come along and give it a go! Free Free used stationery distribution Village Green Free $35 for the session 2-3pm Lunchtime Meditation Thoughtful Foods From the Stationery Reuse Centre, 12:15-12:45pm Food Co-operative; part of the University recycling Law Revue 2006: Hostile A casual yet inspiring practice Training Session scheme. Powers…International session to revitalise your body and Plan for Misery Quad lawn mind. Contact Susan at 0433 946 12-1pm Free Backyard of the Roundhouse, next to 7:45pm 550 or visit www.unibuds.unsw.edu. Eats@theRound Tix on sale, 12-2pm Lib Lawn, Law au for details. Free Thoughtful Foods Food Co- Building Foyer! or book at www. Level 3 Squarehouse operative; Training Session lawrevue.unsw.edu.au Free UNSW Science Theatre Learn the Lingo Coffee Meetings 3-4pm Tues $8/12 Wed-Fri $10/15 Backyard of the Roundhouse, next to Queer Girls 1-2pm Eats@theRound 1–3pm Esme’s, Upper Campus Free Free If you’re a Queer girl come along for some Free food, drink and excellent conversation! Queerspace, Applied Sciences 920 Free

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UNSW Bridge Club UNSW Ultimate Frisbee Club Law Revue 2006: Hostile Powers.. Buddhism Talk in English Training International Plan for Misery 1-2pm 7-9pm Quad G048 4-5:30pm 7:45pm visit www.unibuds.unsw.edu.au for The UNSW Ultimate Frisbee Club Tix on sale through the week, 12-2pm details. UNSW Law Society Speakers runs weekly trainings conducted by Library Lawn, Law Building Foyer! or Room 256 Robert Webster Building Forum accredited coaches. Beginners are book at www.lawrevue.unsw.edu.au Free always welcome. UNSW Science Theatre 1-2pm Village Green Tues $8/12 Wed-Fri $10/15 Super Average Man – Sceptical about Australia’s stance Free for members A New, Aged, Hero on human rights? Have we gone (New College Revue 2006) too far in defending our borders? To Oxfam UNSW Meet and Greet find out more, John von Doussa QC 7pm (President of HREOC) will offer his 4:30-6:30pm Friday New College, Anzac Parade view in an address to the students of Find out how you can get involved 25 Aug $7 student, $9 non-student UNSW. with Oxfam’s activities on campus. LAWG02 Food will be provided along with Law Revue 2006: Hostile Free Fairtrade chocolate tasting! All UNSW Food Co-op crawl Powers…International

Welcome. Plan for Misery 10am-3pm UNSW Bridge Club Cougar Club Bar, Roundhouse Entry is Free. Bring your bike, come ride to all the 7:45pm 1-2pm food co-ops in the land! -including UNSW Science Theatre Quad G048 Alfalfa House, Sydney Uni co-op, Tues $8/12 Wed-Fri $10/15 Happy hour Free then catch a ferry to Manly co-op. 5–6pm Meet at Thoughful Foods at 10am Campus Bible Study Talk-” Unibar, Roundhouse Free Week n Praying about Ministry” 26-27 Aug e d ‘The Nature of Food’-film Ping Pong 1-2pm screening Join us for Bible talk by Warwick de 11am BodhiNite 2006 Jersey on Colossians 1:1-14 6pm Roundhouse CLB 8 The Future of Food. Free Saturday Free Law Building G23 6-10pm Free Pottery Studio Inductions Celebrating UNIBUDS’ 26th

Film screening -Australian anniversary. Theatrical production, 12:30-1pm Atomic Confessions, blowing in Buddhism Talk in Chinese choir performance and inspiring Learn how to use the Source Pottery the wind and Chenobyl heart animations. All Welcome. Info: Wilsen Studio from our Potters in Residence. 6-8pm 0405001333, Susan 0433946550 The studio is Free for student use. 1-3pm Engage yourself in talks on Buddha’s Sir John Clancy Auditorium Pottery Studio, Level 2, Blockhouse Informative film with introduction from teachings. Contact Boon at 0422 866 $10 member, $12 non-member, $15 environmental activist, Holly. 515 or visit www.unibuds.unsw.edu. Free at door CLB 1 au for details. Free Level 3 Squarehouse Jazz Combo Free! Super Average Man – 10am-12pm A New, Aged, Hero Chess Join us for groovy music. All players (New College Revue 2006) Garden Band; The Love Bus 1-4pm (and singers) welcome. Saturday Website: www.unswchess.org 6:45pm Quad 1001 7pm Quad1001 Fresh from their performances at Free New College, Anzac Parade Free for members. $2 for non- Splendour in the Grass and the 2003 $7 student, $9 non-student members East Coast Blues and Roots Festival Friday Arvo Sessions Beergarden with DJ Cadell Taiwanese Student Association Free Learn the Lingo Coffee Meeting AGM 4:30 pm 2-4pm Music makes beer taste Super Average Man – Sunday Come chat with students from better A New, Aged, Hero 9-11am around the globe. Beergarden, (New College Revue 2006) All members are welcome Coffee Republic Roundhouse dance studio – Blockhouse

Week 5 - Monday 21 August - Sunday 27 August 27 - Sunday August 21 5 - Monday Week Free 7pm Free Free A comedy show with skits, songs and UNSW Christian Union Annual dances featuring lots of very average Barista Course General Meeting super-heros New College, Anzac Parade Sunday 2pm $7 student, $9 non-student 10:30am-1:30pm Christian Union Members are A 3 hour course designed to teach encouraged to come and hear about Happiest hour essential skills in making coffee. At S.A.L.S.A. VICIO (cruise) our activities for the year, as well as 5–6pm student prices! select a new executive. 7:30pm–midnight Unibar, Roundhouse Sydney Coffee School, Glebe Pavillions A fantastic night out! Unlimited $100 Free for members alcohol, pizza, live latin music, SpockSoc Screening afterparty. www.guild.unsw.edu. Barista and Coffee Art – MacGuyver Learn the Lingo Coffee Meetings au/salsa Circular Quay 5-11:30pm Sunday 3-4pm $35 for members $5 for a half a pizza and a can of 10:30am-5pm Coffee Republic, Blockhouse drink. Visit http://www.spocksoc. A 6 hour course combining the Free unsw.edu.au for more details. Barista Course described above with Quad G031 a creative hands on course in coffee art. Participants receive a copy of the Free for members, $5 annual book “coffee art” and an accredited membership coffee certificate. Sydney Coffee School, Glebe $195

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14 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine 15 August 22 is a very important date. It is the birthday of my greatest hero. Actually, not just my hero: the love of my life, the light of my days, my sin and my soul. Dorothy Parker is turning 113. by Rob Gascoigne was a licentious alcoholic who When asked about a certain instructions that her body was spent years sitting in corners woman she held in particular to be cremated; however she learly, the dear woman sniping and snarling at those disdain, she replied ‘that woman left no further details. A dispute is dead; long dead. around her (usually behind their speaks 18 languages and she arose over her meager estate Otherwise, she’d be backs), living off the kindness of can’t say ‘no’ in any of them’. and the lawyers got involved. Con like her hundredth friends. She spent her life mired My personal favourite is this: Unsurprisingly, nobody wanted facelift. Still, her genius lingers in depression, attempting suicide on her honeymoon, when a the ashes, so they were placed on. I love her. In fact, I’ve carried three times. But somehow, she furious editor phoned to ask in a filing cabinet (this is true) a copy of The Collected Dorothy managed to haul herself out where that week’s copy was, and stayed there for nearly three Parker with me every time of bed every afternoon and, she replied that she had been decades until somebody went wherever I’ve traveled ever since in between that first drink and ‘too fucking busy… or vice through, cleaning out the files. I was 17. Even in a mountaintop waking up with a stranger the versa’. She had the power to I think she would have found temple in the middle of Thailand, next day, she managed spit the most concentrated something to smile about in that. she’s brilliant. to worm her way into the venom and, though bitter and At any rate, it’s precisely the kind world’s affections. pessimistic, she still managed to of birthday present she would Mrs Parker was not what you see the absurd comedy in have expected. might call a ‘good’ human It was her sense of humour that the worst tragedy. being. In fact, to use her words, gave her longevity. Her poems she was a monumental shit. are some of the funniest things That’s why I think Dorothy Parker Officially, she was a writer, poet you’ll ever read, but she was would have found her death and journalist. Unofficially, she most famous for being a wit. hilarious. When she died, she left Now at Zippys Mathews

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www.source.unsw.edu.au for opening hours With globalization, Mandarin is becoming the second most important world language in economic, political and cultural activities. Through interaction with teams from other Asia- Pacific Universities, our team has obtained abundant experience in debating skills and training, and also received offers from some universities to further regional cooperation in promoting Mandarin debate and other cultural events. rom June 23 to July 2, The two seed teams the second Intervarsity representing Australia were the Lastly, Khai Hein Tang would Chinese Debate Mandarin debate teams from like to send a thank you to the FTournament, Asia UNSW and the University of Graduation and Gift shop that Pacific Open 2006 was held in Melbourne. UNSW’s team was provided school badges and Nanyang Technology University a self-sponsored contingent convince the audience and Shu Wang who helped allocate in Singapore. from the Mandarin Debating judges. Critical thinking, public resources for the tournament. and Chinese Culture Society. speaking, a sense of humour, The objectives of this Unfortunately, UNSW lost and brainstorming are developed The Mandarin Debate and competition are to promote the game against the Jinan through debating.’ Chinese Culture Society will Chinese language and culture University from China mainland. follow up this tournament by around the world. There The other Australian team, from Lucas, one of the debaters providing UNSW students with were 16 teams from different the University of Melbourne, also representing the society, found more opportunities to improve countries and regions in the dropped out at the preliminary it an honour to be part of the their debating skills and open a competition, including Russia, stage. biggest Mandarin debate new portal to Chinese culture China Mainland, Hong Kong, competition in the world. with various on-campus events. Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, The team walked away with ‘Though we lost the game, For those who are interested Singapore and Australia. After 12 new found skills. As Khai Hein we’ve done well strategically in Mandarin debating please rounds of heated competitions, Tang, the President of the and learned a lot through email the following address: debaters from National Mandarin Debating Society, says the preparation phase. This unswmand_debatesoc@yahoo. University of Singapore won the ‘a debating tournament isn’t has indeed been a precious com. We are looking forward to Championship. just about competing; it is an experience and [I] hope our team having you on the team. intellectual discussion in which can go further next time, all the the pros and cons are presented way to championship.’ in a coherent argument to How to... Aug BURLESQUE DANCING 1-2pm Put the Environment in your career 22 ...pole dancing was like sooo 2005 Give your career a headstart, add new skills and experience or Aug STREET FUNK DANCING 1-2pm simply follow your heart and make a difference. 24 ...save the last dance & i’ll bring it on Green Steps is a special program aimed to give students experience and opportunities in modern environmental practice. Aug MAKE UP DO’s & DONT’S 1-2pm The Program offers: 29 • A respected certificate in Environmental Change Management • Fee-free study Aug MAKE UP DO’s & DONT’S • Understanding of current environmental issues in the workplace 1-2pm 31 • Paid work experience • Environmental auditing, strategy evaluation, and other skills Aug 1-2pm WELLBEING * Open to all university students in the Sydney region 31 Mick Fendley: [email protected] Sep BOLLYWOOD DANCING or for full details visit http://www.mei.monash.edu.au/GS_training.html 1-2pm 19 ...like hollywood dancing...but in India To apply (apps. close 22/8/06), go to: http://www.mei.monash.edu.au/GS_applications.html Sep R&B DANCING 1-2pm In partnership in Sydney with Green Capital at 21 ...like a Fiddy cent clip...but not really Total Environment Centre.

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Blitz Magazine 17 This week, the Roundhouse plays host to the UNSW final of the 2006 National Campus Band Competition. Winners of the competition progress to state finals and then the nationals. Success in the Campus Band Comp can mean great things; past winners include: , Eskimo Joe, George and The Vines. One band that has progressed to the UNSW finals is Old Kent Road. Flick Strong caught up with drummer Hamish to find out his thoughts on potential fame, fortune and Monopoly.

Why the name Old Kent Road? If you could be in any band September this year. I would love Where to from band which one would it be? comp finals? Isaac (singer/guitarist) got it off to play with Against Me! – the the monopoly board; it’s the I think Devo would be pretty best live act I’ve ever seen, and We are aiming at recording and cheapest property that is snug in terrific. I would get to wear one just about the only one to come releasing our debut EP within the between ‘GO’ and Whitechapel of those nifty helmets and be all the way from America and next two to three months which Road. It also took on more forever immortalised in the ‘whip only charge $18 for a ticket to will have four studio tracks and a significance when Australia it’ video. There are dozens of their show. For now though, I’m very special live track. Between was given the Old Kent Road bands I love but essentially, I more than happy with playing now and the EP launch later in position on the 2006 World Cup wouldn’t want to bastardise with local acts at a number of the year, we will probably just Monopoly edition. We could one that would have me as a pubs and clubs across Sydney. be getting out and playing lots insert something here about member. of shows and writing lots of new how it reflects the working class What’s unique about music. Oh yeah, and we want to values we convey through our make some merchandise ‘cos What attracted you to Old Kent Road? music but we would just be that’s what good bands do! being in a band? lying. We just ripped it straight Recently, we’ve started off Monopoly. Please don’t tell Isaac dreams of sampling chips challenging our audiences to You can hear more from Old Parker Brothers! and gravy from every pub and get involved in Old Kent Road. Kent Road at their myspace eatery along Australia’s east Most shows I play a recorder page (www.myspace.com/ coast. If we ever do an east solo in a song called “Johhny oldkentroad). Who are your major Cerebellum”. It’s a very simple The UNSW Finals of the National musical influences? coast tour we are pretty positive he will just leave the band melody but catchy as all hell Campus Band Comp will be Everyone in the band has completely fulfilled. I was quite so we’ve asked our audience held Thursday of Week Six in the different influences. Isaac is the fond of the idea of channelling to learn the solo, get up on Roundhouse from 6pm. Come world’s biggest Against Me! my creativity into something fun stage and play along with us on see the big acts of the future. fan which is why we always and sweaty; playing music was anything from a harmonica to the cover one of their songs at each about my only option. bagpipes. We want to see what show. Izzy (guitar) likes the rock crazy instruments people can classics like Bowie, Blondie and come up with. Apart from that What is your fantasy gig? The Clash whilst Max (bass) I guess you could say we are a uniquely handsome band? actually plays a lot of jazz (and I think it would be great to play at Frenzal Rhomb). I personally CBGB’s, New York. The venue is listen to a lot of Lagwagon and synonymous with the punk, new The Bronx, but also New Order, wave and hardcore movement and other bands that might be of the 70’s and 80’s, has hosted considered ‘indie’. dozens of influential bands, and is due to close indefinitely

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Researchers at Monash Engineering are using the largest wind tunnel in the southern hemisphere to model flow around the blade of a wind turbine in order to predict power generation and blade optimisation. The Faculty of Engineering at Monash University invites talented undergraduate students to explore the challenge of research via this and many other three-month summer projects. Benefits include $400pw (tax exempt). Further details and a list of research projects available online at: http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/research/summer-scholarships/ Contact Liz Kemp, ph: (03) 9905 4635, email: [email protected] Closing date 22 September 2006. Law Revue 2006 things about Revue is the cast experience; it’s known as the has arrived! We ultimate University experience, are celebrating the because of the lasting bonds you thirtieth anniversary make with fellow cast members. Cast members are able to of the UNSW Law develop their skills in singing, Revue with a bang! dancing or acting in a fun and relaxed environment as well as This year’s show has enjoy the rush of performing something to appeal on stage in front of a potential to all audiences. crowd of 800 people! Come and celebrate the wonder of humour and support your fellow he revue uses the events students! Buy your tickets today! that have captivated the nation as fodder for The show opens on Tuesday T humorous sketches and August 22 (that’s this week) and sidesplitting musical numbers. runs until Friday August 25. The We promise to provide more curtain goes up at 7:45pm, and political incorrectness than is staged in the UNSW Science you can poke a stick at and Theatre. Arrive at 7pm to enjoy a host of characters to keep the free pre-show Carnivale to you entertained. Have you ever celebrate Law Revue’s Birthday, wondered what happened with guest performances from to those five Planeteers from UNSW clubs and societies Captain Planet, or why people each night, as well as live don’t know how to behave music and other fun activities! appropriately on the bus on Tickets for the show are $8/12 the way to Uni? Well, Law on Tuesday night and $10/15 Revue will provide answers to from Wednesday to Friday all those quandaries! Nothing night. Purchase them from the escapes violation in our satirical Library Lawn or Law Building search for the “truth”. So if you Foyer from 12-2pm everyday! want to spend a night poking Group bookings are available! fun at society, and celebrating Alternatively you can book online the ridiculousness of world at www.lawrevue.unsw.edu.au. leaders, come and be part of our Don’t miss the show or you’ll be audience. outa the loop!

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18 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine 19 Film: CD: The Sleepy Miami Vice Jackson – Personality: ichael Mann has One Was a always been the most cerebral of Spider. One M‘action’ film directors. Heat, for example, is an excellent Was a Bird. study of criminal obsession, on both sides of the law. Each film shows a great personal struggle white supremacists put into erth’s The Sleepy and it is in this way that Mann Jackson may have just Personality comes on like a consistently gets the most from the mix. I can’t tell you how Broadway musical, as each track they mesh. created a twenty-first his actors. Russell Crowe is century answer to the boasts an impressive array of yet to do anything that even P versatile melodies and dazzling Farrell and Foxx are just going Beach Boys Pet Sounds. A shadows his brilliance in The accompaniments. There are the through the motions here. They symphonic masterpiece that Insider. Thrills-esque vocal harmonies have no chemistry and it’s literally bursts with youthful exuberance, Personality on Work Alone, juxtaposed with I mention all this because Miami impossible to feel any kind of is the collection of films in the grinding disco of Play a Little Vice breaks the mould. It is a empathy for their characters. frontman Luke Steele’s head Bit. The fact that Steele has truly sub par film. Overly long, We know Crockett and Tubbs which explode into glorious replaced his band three times at 134 minutes, the storyline is are the best but why? How can musical technicolour. It’s a perhaps accounts for some of a mix of tedium and confusion, they be partners if they don’t mad, yet similarly breathtaking the more self-indulgent lyrics occasionally broken by even look at each other? All of experiment; one which echoes ‘Lately… I like alone. I don’t get moments of extreme violence. the basic elements of character the lofty heights of ’s you on my mind’. But there’s no In many ways, the shortcomings development are left out. tour de force, Diorama. Like denying that he has the talent to of this film are made worse by It’s not really the actors’ fault; , Steele is blessed support his ego, as the virtuosic the fact that it came from such a the script doesn’t really stand by a cacophony of musical arrangements showcase his visionary writer/director. up. It plays like a mediocre demons, which also make him angelic falsetto and satanic episode in a long-running series: a contender for the Australia’s guitar skills. While it may not The plot, so far as I could grasp, appeal to all people, this record concerns Detectives Sonny the audience is just meant to run Most Brilliantly Gifted Headcase. with it. In the past, Mann This dualism extends throughout has ‘Genius’ stamped all over it. Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Listen and be inspired. Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) has always had so much to the album, as his love for offer. This is a staggering sweeping string sections and going undercover as couriers to Associate Reporter decline in form. classic rock combine in move drugs from South America Jonathan Seidler into Miami. Somehow, there are unlikely partnerships. Rob Gascoigne.

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t’s a simple deal really; you and iCangetitforfreeelsewhere, icon, Jeff Buckley or maybe I frantically try to act casual by have one chance to prove it’s not often that I find the need Björk… but then that raises looking at the loyalty program yourself to the person behind to shop at commercial CD the question about why I don’t pamphlet (Did I know they were Ithe counter. In the world stores these days. Yet here I am, already own it, so I’d have to go the leading retailer for Australian of music retail, first standing at the counter looking for one of their more obscure music?). I then glance at the impressions last. at a pile of DVD scratch repair CDs… though I don’t want to “Now Playing” stand, and try to kits. come across as pretentious and look interested and disgusted I’ve done my time working at a elitist. So perhaps a better bet at the same time to cover all commercial CD store. I know Our eyes lock for a moment. would be a more recent album possible reactions, just in case how it feels and what you think. Silently, we agree that she’s by a classic cult artist, like a green woman is watching me Each customer that comes up just going to find me the disc. solo escapade from a band like through a hole in the wall. gives you a small flat box and, My eyes pierce the back of her Radiohead… though will that while you’re out the back looking skull, and I hope she can feel make it look like I’m a newcomer I’m literally shaking now. I look for the matching disc, you me reading the thoughts going to a classic band? I don’t want like I’m hit by a freak earthquake contemplate what kind of person through her brain, something to look like a novice… But I’m confined entirely to the floor is buying this particular plastic along the lines of ‘what a jerk’. running out of time. panel I’m standing on. My case over all the other ones in vision goes blurry, and I try to the store. And then you upsell a I try to justify my existence in The gorgeous green haired stabilise myself on a nearby DVD scratch repair kit as if they my own mind. woman swirls around on her stand of music accessories were French fries at a family fast heels and apologises to me. She which collapses under my weight food restaurant. I’m buying it because the cover can’t find the CD, but she knows and crashes into a panel of gift looked good… there’s a copy in the storeroom. boxes. The noise brings the girl Surely she respects the fact that Suddenly, I’m left alone at the back, holding my CD, politely I’m here in person and not online, I heard it had good reviews… counter, stressing and seeping helping me to my feet. She asks looking for the latest YouTube of sweat from my hairline. if I’m alright. two fat guys singing the theme I’m trying something new… song from M.A.S.H (I’m sure it’s She’s gone off to show everyone I reply “I don’t want your damn It doesn’t matter what excuse I available. And if you’re looking (co-workers, managers, DVD scratch repair kits!!!” before come up with; all she knows is for it right now, it’s not that I international guests) what I’m running out of the store. what I give her. She thinks this don’t respect you – you’re just buying, and how funny it is that is my entire personality summed really easy to make fun of.) I happen to be buying the same iTunes wins again. up in one compact 45 minute album they were all talking about album. Maybe I should buy Normally I wouldn’t be thinking the other day, and how all the something else to even it out. I’ll like this, and I wouldn’t give a people who buy it are desperate, grab something classic that can’t damn about what the person boring people destined to go wrong. The Beatles or Led behind the counter thinks. Let’s become serial killers after years Zeppelin are too obvious though; face it, in a world of iTunes, iPods of social rejection. I’d be better off going for a cult

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