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what youthink. young artists.Thingskeeprightonchangingandit’suptoyouup!Enjoyletusknow , anentirelynew 5X5section,andanewmonthlyselfintroductionbypromisinglocal the workofCanadianwriter/photographer/fi each andeverywordasyoureadabouttheMezipatragaylesbianfi versions, anall-Englisheditionandall-Czech.So,allyouEnglishspeakerswillbeabletoenjoy favorite PragueMagazineaddictionwillnolongerbebi-lingual,choosinginsteadtosplitintotwo This monthmarksabitofchange-overforThinkAgain.StartingNovemberthisyear, your The MoreThingsChange… 24-25 14-15 8-9 lmmaker BruceLaBruce,anexclusiveinterviewwith 26-27 20-21 10-11 lm festival,apieceexamining 22-23 32-33 12-13

5 INTRO Bollywood Famufest URBANITE

Keep a Breast

Roxy, the clothing brand, presents a unique traveling exhibition called Keep a Breast to increase breast cancer awareness by having artists create plaster forms of the female torso that are then auctioned off . This event, appearing for the fi rst time ever in the Czech or Slovak Republics, features an exhibition of This year Famu festival is apparently reaching plaster casts of a variety of famous female artist and celebrities outside of its close-knit community to create a including DJ Ladida, singer Tonya Graves, photographer Sára show that goes beyond their usual fare. Famufest Saudková, singer Dara Rolinc, yachting champion Lenka Šmídová, traditionally presents the works of students and others. Their casts are decorated by local artists and studying at the Film Academy and brings together designers such as Jan Bačkovský, Krištof Kintera, Jan Saudek, not only local cinemaphiles, but all sorts of Vladimír Franz, among others and then auctioned at the event local creative for a fun-fi lled get-together. This December 7th at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Proceeds go year, Archa Theatre will turn into an epicenter of to the Association of Mammodiagnostic and Mammahelp. An audio-visual menagerie packed with dope concerts, online auction has been set up at www.galerie-vltavin.cz so that workshops and installations. The Pitchfork darlings everyone can take part. Moreover, you can participate in a contest Deerhunter will headline alongside hip hop tinged by building your own plaster of a bust (girlfriend, wife, babička, Al-Haca and Strapo, plus Noel and Please the Trees. chick you meet at Mecca, etc.) and sending its photo in. The best There will be a wide array of intriguing seminars, busts received through the contest will also be auctioned. For including a feature about a new breed of “analogue” more ino, a manual on working with plaster, or to donate to music videos, animated visuals on the internet, fi lm a very good cause, visit www.roxy.com/czech. posters, and lots more.

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Czech and Slovak shopping centers Archa Theatre www.roxy.com/czech www.famufest.cz

6 nights Fringe Comedy an experimentalopera show Josef Daberningand others.What’smore,therewillalso beadiscussiononhowtorunDIY labelinCentralEuropeand Milanese, laptoppopprincessTujiko Noriko,GermanBodiBill’sexperimentaltechnopop,andfi fi one giginNovember, itshouldbefortheannualNew New! Festival which aimstopresentcuttingedgeelectronicmusicand It’s easytoforgetthatthere’sawhole worldouttherewhenyouliveinPrague.IfweretoditchyourPrague-centrism for New New!Festival2007 that isfarandawaythebestofitskindtohitPragueyet. be dedicatedtoHongKong’s takeonthehorrorfi fi cinematography. Overthefourdaysoffestival,Filmasia willshowthirtyHongKong fi Aero andSvětozorcinemaswillhostthethirdannualAsianfi Filmasia www.fringe.cz the 4thofDecember. Enjoy. Irish DavidO’DohertymakinghisPraguedebuton on the18thofDecember. Otherstolookforinclude favorites Topping andButchbackforthesixthtime team (Nov. 27th),andtheleathercladFringe Capurro (Nov. 20th),StephenFrostandhisimprov acts wellworthawatch.BitchygaycomicScott best showswillbereappearingaswellsomenew Fringe ComedyNightsthiswinter. SomeofMay’s bit ofhotcomedyifyoumakeyourwayovertothe Cold winternightsmighteasilybewarmedwitha lms ofJohnnieTo, oneofthemostsuccessfuldirectorsinHongKong fi lm overthecourseoffourdays.Thisyear’shighlights includeshowsbyelectronicsmasterMurcof, the darkdubstep-grimeact . lm. FilmophilesshouldnotmissthisintriguinglookatHong Kong fi lm festivalFilmasia.Thisyear, thefestivalfocusesonHongKong Meet Factory Europe andtheworld.” international cooperationtothecontemporaryartsscenein of theMeetFactory culturalcenteristoconnectPraguethrough dedicated toarts,fi upstairs andhasthreelargeroomsdownstairs,eachofwhichis 29/11–2/12/07 lm industry for the last 18 years. Saturday night will lm industryforthelast18years.Saturdaynightwill 15–18/11/07 lm, music,danceandtheatre.“Themission Černý, incorporatesartiststudios Meet Factory, brainchildofartistDavid to thecity. Amulti-purposevenue, nádraží isawelcomeaddition meter warehousenearSmíchovské thus theopeningof5,000square decent spaceforartandmusicshows; Without questionPraguehaslacked www.meetfactory.cz lms, including Friday’s dedication to the lms, includingFriday’sdedicationtothe lms byMichaelaGrill,

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7 URBANITE DEERHUNTER THINK TANK Text by Lucia Udvardyová

The fact that Deerhunter, one of the most captivating bands to emerge from the US indie scene, is coming to Prague was reason enough to have a chat with the band’s charismatic lead singer about music, fl esh, and memories.

When did you start making music? things that surround you, your fl esh, more on musical delivery than the types of When I was about eleven or twelve on consumer electronics, credit cards, things I was doing that were perceived as cheap tape recorders. anything we apply meaning to. shocking. Some people who were looking for a freak show might be let down. You had quite a tumultuous time Your latest EP is recording your debut LP Turn It Up, a description used for the color of What was the best live show that Faggot. In retrospect, what does it a dead boy’s fl esh. What relevance you have played so far mean to you now? What memories does the body and fl esh have in and why? does it conjure? your work? That’s a tough question. There have There was a lot of chaos. I look back on I think at times I am attracted to visceral been many that I really enjoyed. I liked those times and see that we were really images. That song was just a sad way playing at the Seaport festival in NYC trying to turn a big mess into something of reminding myself that no matter because the wind was blowing in our worthwhile. It makes me miss my friend how beautiful someone is to me or faces. Justin. It also makes me realize how how obsessed I get with them, they diff erent I was then in some ways and eventually will rot and decay. You seem to elicit fairly extreme how, alternately, I haven’t changed at all. reactions from your fans – both Whirlyball 7”, your EP, was only during your live shows and after. What were the major diff erences available in a Georgia record shop How important is the feedback from between recording your fi rst LP and and it was also a ticket to your live your audience for you? the second one, Cryptograms? show. Why did you decide to make I elicit fairly extreme reactions from The addition of my best friend from this step? people just by going to the grocery high school, Lockett Pundt, was the We didn’t. We had very little to do store. I was sitting perched on a stoop in defi ning change. His guitar playing and with that whole thing. It was Henry’s Harlem yesterday and this old man came other experimental tendencies had a (Chunklet Magazine Founders) operation up to me and asked I was from space. lot to with it. Also the rhythm section all along. I don’t care about any of it anymore. I just of Moses and Josh became tighter and want to make songs that help people. more fl uid. Deerhunter is renowned for its live shows. How important are Your sound oscillates between What does “Cryptograms” stand live shows for you and how do you ambient and more song-based stuff , for? prepare for them? where do you see Deerhunter going Cryptograms had a lot to do with the I think my main point of concentration in future? idea that life is kind of encrypted in the now is putting on a show that depends Back to the 50s. 8 Deerhunter Famufest 8/11, Archa Theatre www.famufest.cz

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Deerhunter was formed in 2001 by singer Bradford Cox and drummer/keyboardist Moses Archuleta; the band was later joined by guitarists Colin Mee and Lockett Pundt and bassist Josh Fauver though the set-up of the band has changed several times throughout its existence and was also hit by the death of a band member. The band’s debut album, which was released without a title, but became known under Turn It Up Fagot, appeared in 2005, followed by the sophomore LP Cryptograms, which came out on the respected record label, same as the latest EP, Fluorescent Grey. Deerhunter is renowned for eff ervescent live shows that in the words of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s are akin to a „religious experience“.

9 10 SUBCULTURE Ulrike Ottinger. exceptional queerfi is Rebellionandwillfocusontheworkoftwo The themeofthisyear’sMezipatraFestival Mezipatra 2007 Prague TurnsPink: life.” of themarketeconomyand monogamous into thenormsof‘respectable’ society experimenters andeveryone whodoesn’tfi punks, anarchists,genderand sexual is, however, too limitedasitexcludes rights andinstitutions.Suchanimage mainstream societyandlongforthesame as respectablecitizenswholivelikethe promoting theimageofgaysandlesbians years thelocalcommunityhasbeen Says Rumpel,“Werealizedthatformany of civilunionsintheCzechRepublic. had alottodowithlastyear’slegalization for selectingsuchanidiosyncratictheme director, recentlyexplainedthatthereason Aleš Rumpel,thequeerfi fi As such,theworkof Ottingerinparticularseemsto t inwell withthisidea. Ottingercameof age inthe lm festival’s lmmakers, JohnGreysonand t Fassbinder’s awesomepowers had clearlybegun to wane. the throesofaddiction duringthemakingoffi something ofafl on thenovelbyJean Genet,Querelleisnotoriousas fi fi The Rebellionthemewillberounded outbyatwenty- well knownLiliesandZeroPatience. present someofhismostimportant fi in 1988.GreysonwillbePragueforthefestivalto native Canada.Hisfi branching outintovideoandperformanceartinhis John Greysonbeganhiscareerasajournalist,before duration ofthefestival. Orlando. Ottingerherselfwillbepresentthroughoutthe the Popular Press,Johannad’ArcofMongolia,andFreak including suchgemstonesasDorianGrayintheMirrorof feature anoverviewofherfi more experimentalandhyper-stylized.Mezipatrawill counterparts, however, Ottinger’sworkwasdecidedly New QueerCinemaofthe1960s;unlikeherGerman nal fi fth anniversaryscreeningofRainerWernerFassbinder’s lm (andhisonlyfi awed masterpiece.Ashewas deep in rst featurefi lm inEnglish),Querelle.Based lmic oeuvreoftheyears, lm, Urinal,wasreleased Text byTravis Jeppesen lms, includingthe

lm, Still, the fi lm is undoubtedly a classic of highly stylized (straight) mental retards who want to lose their virginity queer cinema and is thus worth catching on the big to one another, qualifi es as a “queer fi lm,” unless the screen. festival organizers are inferring that homosexuality is a form of mental retardation—a position to which many This year’s festival also includes a special section called cynical gays would likely concede. “Passing the Test,” which is meant to evaluate the More promising is …a bude hůř (It’s Gonna Get Worse), representation of homosexuality in Czech cinema of a new fi lm by director Petr Nikolaev (Kousek nebe). the past eighteen years. This is something of a dismal The fi lm takes a look at a group of young people prospect, considering the fact that the subject has only living in Czechoslovakia under communism who have rarely been explored in Czech fi lm, and where it has, purposefully built a lifestyle that completely rejects all it is often done in a desultory manner. In this fashion, of the instituted norms of Normalization. This rejection Mezipatra has chosen to screen Šeptej (Whispers), a includes long hair, group sex among both genders, David Ondříček vehicle that was notable in the mid-90s and a refusal to work. for focusing on gay life in Prague during that decade. Towards the end of the fi lm, the main character fi gures Why not? Rebellion might be extreme, but it can also out that he is not gay after all, and seemingly goes be quite sexy. Let’s leave it to the punks at Mezipatra to on to live a healthy, normal life, while his abandoned show us how it’s done. lover spirals into a binge of self-destruction and insanity – certainly not the most sympathetic portrayal MEZIPATRA of homosexuality to be seen at this year’s festival, but – 8th Czech Gay and Lesbian Film Festival perhaps typical of how gays in the Czech Republic are 5 – 11/11/07 viewed by the mainstream. And I still don’t understand www.mezipatra.cz how Nuda v Brně (Boredom in Brno), a fi lm about two

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Orgasmatron Read the directions before you try and use this gizmo or you might get seriously hurt. The Orgasmatron features eight copper arms that work a kind of magic on the scalp and neck creating an awesome tingly feeling of pleasure and relaxation. It’s not exactly an orgasm, but close enough to satisfy. www.fi rebox.com

Samsung / Bang & Olufsen Serenata The Serenata might appear to be simply an extremely high priced upside down iPod, but that’s where you’d be, well, mostly right, but not entirely. You see, it’s also a mobile phone. The MP3 player aspect features great sound, all kinds of storage capacity, and great sound quality. The phone gets by on the bling factor alone. www.bang-olufsen.com

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Serious snowboarders didn’t know they need it, but here it is anyway—a telescopic pole that measures snow conditions, temperature, bearing, altitude and so on. It also has an emergency whistle that’s more useful for using right next to the ears of really annoying skiers.

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14 Lasonic T3 Boomboxes appeared to be things of the past as iPods have taken to ruling the streets, but with the Lasonic Ghetto Blaster iPod Dock, a cool merger has taken place that brings a groovy new look to MP3 players. You’ll be the Man as you cruise through the hood with this monster on your shoulder belting out your fave Carpenter tunes! www.lasonic.com

LED Invaders Door Mat If being a recluse is the name of your game, this doormat should be right outside your Loit Eagle audio system door. It not only fl ashes space invaders to warn The Russian Lebedev Art Studio has designed another piece others that there’s a geek to beware of inside, of serious art that also functions nicely in the home. The new but the green invaders light the way to the Loit Eagle Audio System is a high-end CD player that sits atop proper doorstep when you’ve had twelve too a sweet looking amplifi er. This is the kind of item that sets the many. It might ruin your dating life, but then serious players apart from the mere posers. that’s what being a recluse’s all about, right? www.artlebedev.com www.thinkgeek.com

SaY Mobile Phone

It’s fun, small, minimalist, fully functional, and made of rubber. The SaY mobile phone will quickly set you apart from the hordes of Nokia and Sony users out there without having to spend a bundle. A nice quirky addition to the nonconformist collection.

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17 5X5 The Serious Business TRENDS of Shopping Text by Laura Baranik

it out of my sight. Well, since I’m already trying one thing on, I might as well try a couple more, I decide. The sales assistant promptly performs the same disappearing act with every item I pick up. When I enter the fi tting room, there they all are, hanging expectantly on the rack, just begging to be bought. If I’m trying on so many, I should buy at least one, right? And so it goes. On Saks Fifth Avenue’s newly opened shoe fl oor (which is apparently large enough to have been granted its own zip code, 10022, by the United States Post Off ice), a sales rep compliments me on my bracelet and asks what I’d purchased earlier that day. At DKNY, they give me a cold bottle of water to drink while I’m browsing. After years of enduring cold shoulders at boutiques in Prague, the undue attention feels both wonderful and nauseating. I know that each time the salesperson asks my name or does me a favor; I’m going to feel that much more obligated to buy something. I know that these are sales tactics, and that these people work on commission and can lose their jobs if they don’t sell enough. By walking into their stores, we agree to play their game, to participate I’ve spent the past week in New York City, the unoff icial capital of in a make-believe world where the salesperson really is interested all things excessive. My trip so far has fl own by in a blur of social in how you’re doing today and where we, the consumers, have engagements, gargantuan portions, hour-long subway rides, and unlimited funds to spend on clothing we don’t need. chance encounters with some of the strangest strangers on earth. As I went from store to store in Soho and Midtown looking for my Also featuring prominently on my activities list is a good deal of winter coat and sweaters, I discovered a community of women who time spent shopping – or trying to shop, as it’s turned out. seemed to be experts at playing the shopping game. In fact, they In the grand scheme of international shopping destinations, New approach shopping as seriously as someone else would approach a York teeters maddeningly between shopper’s heaven and retail hell. job. I’ve watched them march into boutiques armed with shopping Quirky boutiques, fl agship designer shops, and huge department bags, demanding the Prada Mordoré bootie in gunmetal grey in an stores abound; with enough time and money, you can fi nd just eight and a half please. If said bootie is sold out, drama happens: about anything. The current weak state of the dollar makes the customer grimaces menacingly, and the sales clerk runs to shopping here relatively pain-free for foreign visitors, particularly telephone other branches. He returns triumphant. during sale season, when prices are slashed more dramatically than “They have ONE pair left in an eight and a half at the Fifth Avenue in most European countries. store,” he discloses. “They’ve put it on hold for you until six o’clock.” I came to New York intending to purchase the following: a laptop, a “Thank you,” the woman says earnestly, as if the clerk had just winter coat, a sweater or two, and a few yet-to-be-determined items rescued her newborn baby from the path of an oncoming train. She that would catch my eye as I browsed around. As soon as I walked strides off , leaving a cloud of Chanel #5 behind her. into Bloomingdale’s, I knew there was going to be a problem. The I can only assume that this woman has at least fi fty pairs of shoes yet-to-be-determined items were everywhere. All of a sudden, I in her closet. Did the additional pair make her a little happier needed a new pair of jeans, some winter boots, a pashmina, a fall than she was before? It’s hard to say. I found my winter coat, and jacket. my sweaters, and my laptop, and my now-determined yet-to-be- “Let me start a fi tting room for you,” a perky sales assistant says, determined items. I’m not happier, exactly, but I am most defi nitely grabbing the t-shirt I’d been looking at from my hand and whisking relieved.

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Trash Fashion is part of the British nu rave somewhere between dance, rock, rave, emo, bandwagon that’s been inadvertently kick hardcore, and hair metal—a statement that started by the Klaxons and propelled by becomes all the more evident during their Myspace self-promotion. Their debut EP live performances. “Convincingly menacing “Mom & Daddy” was only released this and cute, Trash Fashion are Motley Crue October, but Trash Fashion is already inciting meets The Muppet Show with a splash of a media furor all over Blighty. Trash Fashion’s Beastie Boys chucked in the mix,” is the way “Guntronic Disco Warehouse Rock” fi ts the nu rave bible Super Super put it.

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I had just returned from a few hours of only drag its back legs behind itself, then something very real about it, it was not hunting mushrooms in the forest (and it collapsed again, breathing in deep gasps a McDonald’s experience, it was not the man were there plenty) when I heard the as it stared at me. I could do nothing but act of shopping and purchasing packaged dogs get into some kind of uproar outside. talk to him gently so that his death might and prepared food from the supermarket. They were not fi ghting with each other, seem more calm; I told him I was sorry he For many thousands of years, we took our yet it was some kind of battle, and this of had met such a violent and sudden end, food from the land. Only very recently course caught my attention. I looked out that he was a noble and beautiful creature did we create giant slaughterhouses and the window and saw they had surrounded with those strange puff y paws, his sleek, supermarkets. a large “nutrie” which I just learned is furry body and long thick tail; his beautiful “nutria” in English. I always thought these pale blue eyes steadily gazed at me, then We have specialized and diversifi ed to the semi-aquatic mammals were “muskrats” in watered, and I imagined how it must be for point that something has gone wrong, and English, but no, muskrats are smaller and him, dying and staring at the world through this is what I understood as I gently pulled look diff erent than nutria. I read that nutria those pale, watery blue eyes, leaving the that Nutria’s spleen out from between its were brought up from South America to world behind in a liquid blur of light. I liver, that men were in many ways much Louisiana for the fur farming industry, but watched him go. happier living connected to nature. Millions then they got loose and have lived in the of people came from the countryside to coastal wetlands of America ever since. I Nutria have very healthy meat to eat, and work in the big city, and they generally do not know their story here in the Czech I must admit I hunted and ate a few from made big-city wages, bought their fancy Republic. Perhaps there has long been a those ponds, though I considered this cars and big houses in the suburbs, yet even European variety of nutria. the same way the Native Americans do. this is largely over for those masses in the Several years ago, I found a few orphaned Whenever an American Indian kills a deer, big cities all over the world—and just the baby nutria at a nearby lake; I raised them he talks to it, and tells the animal, “I am same it is an artifi cial world that has slowly for a few months and then relocated sorry my brother, I did not wish to kill you, robbed us of our happiness. Americans them to a couple of secret ponds in the but I must feed my family, and I love you watch their TV wars, and the world suff ers. back fi eld. They had grown, after several even though I have killed you. Forgive me We were all much better off when the mass generations, into a population of about brother-in-the-big-spirit, I will join you media still seemed like the fake world, and thirty, and you could always see a few soon.” It felt like that nutria understood me we directly worked for our livelihoods in swimming to and fro or entering the as I gently talked him into his death. But, the real world, a world of nature. Possibly I tunnels they dug on the banks beneath since he was dead, I proceeded to chop his am not a real writer because I would cease the tree roots, a network of caves that held head off , skin him, and otherwise prepare pecking on this keyboard if I could spend their entire tribe. But then some of the him for the oven. Yes, it was sad to see the all my time earning my living off the land. villagers found out I had a gang of nutria death of such a beautiful creature, but I would love to disappear in this paradise thriving there, and they came and hunted since it was too late to help him, I decided I forever, for I have nothing to prove to them all clear into extinction. I had checked may as well eat him. the rest of humankind, cannot stop this repeatedly over the past several months I have spent this day, up to now, gathering artifi cial world from overheating the real and never saw one at either pond—yet here up the food I will eat. I love to fi nd a small one, and I believe even these words help lay a big one, dying at my feet. spot in the forest where there is a cluster others very little, and so prefer to speak of large healthy mushrooms, and even soft words of beauty to an unfortunate I made the dogs get away from it; the though skinning and cleaning that nutria nutria who hears my gentle and assuring nutria tried to get up and walk, but could was unpleasant, I realized that there was tone while he calmly leaves this world.

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27 28 CINEMA it shouldnotbe. a fi the viewerwithallkindsofreasonstobecomeevermoreinvolvedinstory. Thisis excellent jobofalternatingbetweentheplayfulanddeadlyseriouswhileproviding Australian outback.DirectorMichaelJamesRowland,inhisfi human foiblesofeachitscharacterswhileprovidingbeautifulshotsthestunning Indonesian peoplesmugglers,andAustralianreservists—LuckyMilesexaminesthevery fi Lucky MilesisanothersolidcontributiontoanalreadyimpressivecollectionofAussie Lucky Miles Biography/Crime/Western, 160min,USA watching, butifyou needpopcorn,getitmidwaythrough. also excellent.Unfortunately, gettingthereisabitofchore. Alltold,thefi their originalgang,mostofwhomarenow deadorinprison.Theending,Jesse’sdeath,is band, includingRobertFord, theJamesbrothershaveassembledtotakeplace of at theendofhisillustrioustrainrobbing daysalongwithhisbrotherandthemakeshift Director AndrewDominikdeliversanexcellent beginninginwhichwemeetJesseJames though seriouslyfl The AssassinationofJesseJamesbytheCowardRobertFord isareasonablycompelling by theCowardRobertFord The AssassinationofJesseJames Documentary, 123min,USA troubling pictureMoorepaints,butonethatallAmericansandmostothersshould heed. even thoughhebarelytouchesonthemillionsofAmericanswhoareuninsured.It’sa for-profi times humorous,comparisonofcountriesthathavesocializedsystemsandAmerica’s much lesstimeonhimselfandstunts,deliveringinsteadaserious,thoughat a verysickpatientindeed.SickomaywellbeMoore’sfi partisan lookatAmerica’shealthinsuranceindustry;unsurprisingly, hefi feature lengthdocumentary, Mooretakeshistypicalleftwardleaning,no-bones-about-it Sicko isMichaelMoore’smostrecentjabatthepowersthatbe.InSicko,hisfourth Sicko Adventure/Comedy/Drama, 105min,Australia lms. Acomedycomprisedofunlikely parts—aCambodianandanIraqirefugee, lm thatmighteasilybeoverlookedamidalltheheavilyhypedHollywoodfare; t system.Moore’sportraitoftheAmericansystemisdamning,andthistrue awed lookatthetwocharactersmentionedin theunwieldytitle. nest piecetodate—hespends rst featurefi nds ittobe lm, doesan lm isworth THEATRE Trains The Mandrake

Trains is a multimedia composition of live music, Švandovo Theatre recently opened the sexy sounds, fi lm recordings, and projected photographs and subversive Machiavelli play, The Mandrake collected in and around railways over the last year. (Mandragora). A comedy, The Mandrake takes place Trains attempts to bring the viewer into the unique over the span of twenty-four hours, telling the story ambiance of trains, railway workers, passengers, of Callimaco; a young Florentine who has lived in ticket agents, and the like by exploring the sounds, Paris for 20 years and one day overhears a fellow solidity, passage of time, grittiness, and nearly lyrical Florentine talking about a woman of extraordinary movement that comprise this singular world. It is beauty back in Tuscany. Compelled to see her for interesting to be led out of our age of information himself, Callimaco returns to his native land and, and technology into a world that thrived on the overwhelmed by her beauty, determines he must brute muscle of iron and coal and continues to some have her. Unfortunately, Lucrezia is married and extent to do so today. Whether or not it is successful determinedly virtuous. Undeterred, Callimaco enlists is diff icult to say, but it is defi nitely an unusual and the help of Ligurio, a weasel of a marriage broker, dynamic composition that should be checked out and and plots to have his way with Lucrezia. Machiavelli’s thought about. genius for both verse and observation of human nature are evident in this sometimes shocking sometimes hilarious play. Better by far than most of the cinema fare out there.

When: November 29 – December 1 When: November 3, 12, 14, 22 Where: Alfréd ve Dvoře Where: Švandovo Theatre, Štefánikova 57, P5 www.alfredvedvore.cz www.svandovodivadlo.cz

29 30 ART AWARD Jindřich Chalupecký from mykaleidoscopiclife.Igravitatetothe particular localesof my timespentinPakistan andIndonesia,aswellothervignettes work ismainlybasedonmemoriesfrommychildhoodinKenya, modern world.Armstrongsaysofhimself, “Mycurrentpainting Present intheartist’sworkisthemeofinequalities on abundleofstrings,possiblyalludingtomemoryandthemind. media approachwithsmallblacksilhouettesofclearplasticsuspended and dreamlike.Theboxesareparticularlyinteresting,usingamixed imagery andcolorinhispaintingssmallvignetteboxesissurreal entitled “Painting andBoxes”untilthe23rdofNovember. His useof This monththeMuddumgalleryfeaturesConradArmstrong’sexhibit Text byEricaCarlino Conrad Armstrong with video-projections,installations,drawingsandtext;themuch are inthefi de-la-creme ofthelocalartsscene.Thisyear, thefollowingartists and artistsJiříKolář andTheodorPištěk,aimstoselectthecreme- of theTurnerprize.Theaward,establishedin1990byVáclavHavel could bedescribedasthe(slightlylessglamorous)Czechequivalent The JindřichChalupeckýawardtoyoung,up-and-comingartists nal: themulti-mediaartistZbyňekBaladránwhoworks Text byLuciaUdvardyová www.jchalupecky.cz When: 26/10–2/12/07 Gallery Entrance,etc. Where: NoD,Galleryetc,Jelení www.muddum.cz When: tillNovember23rd Where: Muddumgallery, Kostelní 24,P7 and canbelookedatforquitesometime. mediums. Eachindividualworkresonateslikeamemoryordream complexity ofhisideaswovenintoengagingimagesindiff As awhole,Armstrong’sworkisbeautifullyillustrated,withthe that IseeastheunderlyinginspirationformanyofthesePictures.” infrastructure ofathoroughlyunequalworld,anditisthisinequality repeatedly foundtheirwayintomywork.Iseetheseelementsasthe cars beingcheckedforbombs,streetscenes,andenclosureshaveall ‘modern’ world.Representationsofwalls,gates,childrenplaying, hold aparticularresonanceandrevealthecontradictionsofour realities ofanunequalworldcanbeveryclearlyseen;andassuch Kenya, Indonesia, andPakistan asIseethemplaceswherethe several PraguegalleriesuntilDecember2. judge foryourself, asallthenominatedartistshave exhibitionsin be revealedataceremonyinRoxyonthe14thofNovember;youcan and Pavla Scerankováwhoworkswithsculptures.Thewinnerwill performance; JanNálevkawhosubvertscorporategraphictechniques whose multi-facettedoeuvreencompassesdrawings,sculpturesand hyped painterJakubHošek;ArtsAcademystudentEvaKoťátková erent

Sirius Smart SHOP

Text by Lucia Udvardyová Sounds Photo by Standa Merhout

The newly opened Sirius Smart Sounds store, a Playhouse through Planet Mu to Ed Banger are on display, and you can branch of the Dutch Sirius party universe, brings listen to on the state-of-the-art sound system.

together the two inherently connected elements of Sirius is also one of the leading Dutch producers of herbal stimulants, clubbing—great music and (smart) stimulants. and the Prague store has a wide selection of all kinds of energizing herbal goodies catering to varied tastes—all safe and legal. Located in the heart of central Prague, in the narrow street off Národní Thanks to a passionate attitude towards music and club culture, Sirius is a Třída heading towards National Theatre, Sirius helps you rediscover the bright light in Prague’s nighttime cosmos. beauty of the physical, an antidote to the impersonal world of online shopping. Sirius Smart Sounds

The minimalist design of the store, courtesy of the Dutch designer Maurice V Jirchářích 1285/12, P1 Mentjens, overwhelms one with serene white walls arching above a fi ne Tel.: 222 520 902 selection of vinyl and CDs. Open: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 20:00 Disposing of the arguably fi nest selection of vinyl you will fi nd in Prague Saturday 12:00 – 20:00 with the current Berlin house and minimal, Detroit techno, electro, hip www.siriussmartsounds.cz, www.myspace.com/siriuspraha hop, soul, jazz, breaks, dubstep, drum’n’bass, and electronica. Labels like

33 34 SOUNDS Tony Ozuna 8/10 all teary, speedtrip. emotional, thoughnotat in goodlowdosesforthis the beat,sothatitworks it issubmergedenoughin there islotsofthat,but computer beeps,etc.So with theeff pots” meaningplaying German for“fi what is“Frickel”?It music-performance.” But Elektroniko-vinyl-tinned- as “House-Jazz-Frickel- band describesitself and smartlyrics.The with popsensibilities is atoned-downhouse infl at afastpace--thehouse “Speed Emotions”runs Germany. all fromThuringia, Antje Seifarth(vocals), (producing, mixing),and mixing), RobertKrause Aue (producing,DJing, consisting ofMarcel Marbert Rocelisatrio Compost Records Speed Emotions Marbert Rocel uence isclear, butit ects, making ngering the this onhandatallcosts. is reasonenoughtohave “Movin” by400Blows the BrassConstruction’s else, theclosingremixof anthem, andifanything soaring 70sdisco-club The End”soundslikea Invisible Session’s“Till Another exclusive,the in anupbeatjazzsuit. revival ofDetroittechno Drumlesson Mix”isa A—Christian Prommer’s Koop’s “DrumRhythm London, andfollowedby jazz producerJoash,from from brokenbeats-nu which isanexclusive the opener, “Salome” jazz attitude—especially techno beatswithadisco- with moreunstoppable Compost Records,returns by MichaelReinbothof FSOJ vol.11,compiled Compost Records Various Artists Jazz vol.11 Future Soundsof Tony Ozuna 8/10 sublime “JupiterJazz.” Galaxy To Galaxy’s Maurizio’s “M4”and “Neurotic Behavior”, Judy”, Psyche’s legendary like DanielBell’s“Baby Detroit sonics,withgems one, isajourneythrough as brilliantthefi second CD,whichisjust Boys” byVisage.The Lagos” and“Pleasure Sakamoto’s “Riotin “Magic’s Wand”,Ryuchi “This IsMe”,Whodini’s tracks likeChris&Cosey’s a littlemorevariedwith Playgroup’s selectionis Playgroup andAlterEgo. mixed byGermanprojects with anelectrooff funk editions,continues featured ahiphopand series, whichpreviously The “Kingsof…” Rapster Records Kings ofElectro Playgroup/Alter Ego Lucia Udvardyová 8/10 ering rst Lucia Udvardyová 8/10 Henrik Schwarz hit “WhereWeAt.” Dixon onthemassiveclub collaboration withAme& a Man’sWorld”andhis of JamesBrown’s“It’s a stellarrefashioning “Lullaby forRealville”, of SunRa’sjazzhymn highlights areremixes jazz andfunk.Amongthe incorporating hislovefor infused techno-houseand Chicago andDetroit- trademark soundofdeep Schwarz bearinghis or co-producedbyMr. all produced,remixed a selectionof16tracks Tokyo toIstanbul.Liveis all overtheworld,from live setswhichheplayed with recordingsoff Henrik Schwarz,returns the newGermansound, prominent proponentsof One ofthemost K7 Live his SOUNDS

Fany & Nasty Murcof Cobblestone Jazz Oh No & Jaro Cossiga Cosmos 23 Seconds Dr. No’s Beat Apetit Leaf Wagon Repair Oxperiment Beam Label Stones Throw

The Canadian trio is Beat Apetit has to be Murcof creates By using samples one of the few real the fi rst beatbox album monumental music from psychedelic live-bands in the techno in the Czech Republic. that begs to be used rock originating from world. They are not It was produced by Jaro as a fi lm score to a South-East Europe and just showing up with Cossiga with the help slightly macabre movie the Middle East, this a laptop, but actually of beatboxing meisters and with Cosmos, his record is an interesting with real equipment, Fany & Nasty and an latest album, he only “tool” to work with. The leaving plenty of space array of guests. Beat prove this. Cinematic 5-year-younger brother for improvisation. Apetit stands out mainly soundscapes spread of the famous sample- By using computers because of Cossiga’s over six tracks with the wizard Madlib delivers as well as analogue production skills. The shortest lasting seven and twenty-eight stunning equipment, they succeed record follows in an a half minutes and the tracks on an album, with in combining many experimental hip hop longest reaching nearly a maximum track-length infl uences. The fusion of vein, but there’s also thirteen minutes. Now of one and half minute. minimal, techno, trance, a reggae track and a that’s what I call an epic Expect an album with deephouse, electro, all few downbeat numbers track. With Cosmos, he some serious tunes that with a topping of jazz surprisingly infl uenced delves deeper into a dark contains unusual samples has made sure, that they by IDM – “Česká Daska electronic stratosphere, and some unpolished have fans in all kinds feat. Mc Lady & Lu-Ting accentuating his beats by Oh No; a bit of genres. This album is & Mbk”, for instance, infatuation with modern like Madlib’s “Conducta delicious for listening, contains Black Dog- classical music and series”. No stereotype Hip but also suited for the tinged sections—and combining it with the odd Hop, but nonetheless raw. dancefl oor. The double is interspersed with minimal beat. The tracks Nice as background for CD presents new tracks various samples with slowly build up and let the livingroom! together with material the addition of six live the listener fl oat by previously only available beatbox instrumentals. A freely in Murcof’s sublime on vinyl. CD2 contains noteworthy album. acoustic cosmos. live-versions.

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35 36 SCENE Lucerna musicbar,www.myspace.com/robotsindisguise 22/11 Corner fromIAMX. Their upcomingLP, theaptlyentitled,We’reinMusicBiz,wasproducedbyChris by GetRID!withthesingleTurnItUpthatwasfeaturedinseriesUglyBetty. Their self-titleddebutLPappearedin2004ontheFrenchlabelRecall,followed with theirretroindie-electro-rock-dancesetssincemeetingataLeTigreconcert. Robots inDisguise,akaDeePlumandSueDenim,havebeencriss-crossingtheworld bound tomakeitbiginthemusicbiz.Itdoesn’tcomeasasurprisethen,that A bandmadeoftwocutegirlssportingfancydressesandfashionablehair-cutsare Robots inDisguise Bordo, www.myspace.com/recyclit 5/11 visual menagerievisibleontheirrecord covers,photoshoots,andatlivegigs. art, managedtoutilizethebestof artandmusicscenes,resultinginanaudio- their ownelectrolabel,ErsatzAudio. MillerandKuperus,whobothhavedegreesin electro-heads everywhere.Apartfrom releasingrecordsandremixes,theyalsorun concocted withanaloguesynthscombined withKuperus’dead-panvocalsenchanted it washijackedandprocessedbyEuropean trendies.Themachine-drivenbeats Detroit producerswhoemergedinthemid-nineties.Adultmadeelectroway before Detroit nativesAdamLeeMillerandNicolaKuperusarepartofthesecond waveof Adult Palác Akropolis,www.palacakropolis.cz 18/11 for fi hits. SharpKnives&LoadedGunsistheirlatestalbum.Inittheyprofesslove breakthrough LP, “ASpecialAlbum,”appearedin2002andspawnedanumberof that drawsfromawiderangeofinfl garnered asizeablefan-baseintheCzechRepublicwiththeircatchydowntempo events kicksoff should transplantthenorthernsoundintoPrague’sPalác Akropolis.Theseriesof Norway isahotbedforelectronicpopmusic,andtheMidnightSunseriesofgigs Midnight Sun lm scores,pop,andfunk. withaconcertbytheRalphMyerz&TheJackHerrenBandwhohave uences includingdub,Kiss,andKraftwerk.Their Gentleman SCENE If you fancy a bit of groovy vibes and dope beats, which might come handy in the gloomy November days, pop by the RealBeat festival warm up gig featuring the German reggae star who, without any stylistic hindrances, merges reggae, dancehall, and hip hop. Gentleman is currently jet-setting the world with his Far East Band in support of his fourth album Another Intensity. “…the fi rst encounter mi did get wid Reggae music is when mi was 13….and when me did 17 mi go a Jamaica di fi rst time and a deh so it really start and mi realise well, a my music this and mi want to do it,” he said in his own unique way.

21/11 Lucerna, www.realbeat.net

Andy Fletcher DJ Set

Are DJ’s rock stars or are rock stars DJs? You can judge for yourself how Andy Fletcher, better known under his DJ nom de plume DJ Fletch, fares behind the wheels of steel. It’s clear Andy has big time rock star credentials as he is one of the founding members of the rather well known group Depeche Mode and the owner of Toasted Hawaii record label. In his DJ sets, he incorporates old-skool electro records and mixes them with his latest fi nds, and the odd Depeche Mode track thrown in for a good measure.

22/11 Abaton, www.depechemode.com

Gogol Bordello

The sounds of inane Ukrainian Roma Eugene Hutz have become notorious for their crazy concerts. Their unbridled ethos has in the meantime become so renowned that the trend-hopping Madonna can’t keep away. Gogol Bordello’s sound is a chaotic mix of speed, metal, gypsy music, and rock’n’roll from fl amenco to perestroika punk. GB is currently promoting their new album Super Taranta! According to Mr. Hutz: “With this album, we are recharging the world. Everything is on an even higher level than before: more direct, more abstract, more centered, with more black humor. The dub parts are deeper; the fast parts are even faster; it’s pure orgasm.”

24/11 Archa Theatre, www.archatheatre.cz

37 38 FLASH MISCHMASCH: Loutka, Dejw MECCA: Lucas Hulan CHATEAU ROUGE: The Kaos Boys DAYLONG: Backdraft, Kapsak, Tofa CROSS CLUB: Trafi Kontrafakt, Nironic,Wich,DJsMike ABATON: 3. 11.Saturday/Sobota MISCHMASCH: Special Night!:DJsMasterJ.C.,Kaz D CHATEAU ROUGE: DAYLONG: Mystif, Kyanid, Ark ABATON: 2. 11.Friday/Pátek C., Peter Kay DAYLONG: Stanzim, Medis,Anus CROSS CLUB: Angst, Sunshine Love Gangsters,CobraKiller, Lola Papalescu &TheNihilists,Magnetik, ABATON: Strapo, DJsRobot ARCHA: 9. 11.Friday/Pátek ZERO: Krátké Vlny, DJsFunfreak XT3: U MALÉHOGLENA: ROXY: Big J,Rico,12play RADOST FX: V., MilanKroužil Kristo, Lillou ZERO: Fusion-Jazz Q U MALÉHOGLENA: ROXY: Petr K.,Horn,Ricardo RADOST FX: PALÁC AKROPOLIS: Brian, Eagle k, Orion,Rawal FunkyHotSaturday:LiveVelmi ClubUncut:DJsTuko,Swordz SurgeWattage:DJsScarcoke, Vortex: DJsHumanBlue RóisínMurphy Famufest: liveAl-Haca, Classicsfrom90s:DjsTráva, HipHopAllstars:Live CzechPoint 5:DJsReverb, SázavaFest: Moimir FTVParty: DJsJayDee, Candy:DJsSkála,Richie Ultimate Orange:DJsJay DJsDuttyP, DTone, Falling Beats:DJsTrafi DobrejkVečer: ImperialisticNight: MixxMaxx:DJsJakub DJsJakubV., Boogie:DJs Blackmania Saxtime RomanPokorný liveU-Prag k, DJs ChrisSadler, Dita ZERO: XT3: Libor ŠmoldasTrio U MALÉHOGLENA: Martin Frank ROXY: The Voracious Franz &Shape,Dolby-Anol,DJsTvyks, ROCK CAFÉ: DJs Lumiere,Vilém RADOST FX: PALÁC AKROPOLIS: Eagle MISCHMASCH Antra MECCA: Sound, DeltaKwadrant, DWC MATRIX: KLUB 007: DJs JanDrahota,LukášMička CHATEAU ROUGE: DJs Tommy Rogers,Peet DUPLEX: PHOTO BY LUCIAEGGENHOFFER BOOM BANGBABY PHOTO BY JOHANAPOŠOVÁ BOHEMIAN LIKEYOU bday!: TheFakes DJs ZERO: U MALÉHOGLENA: ROXY: Rico, 12play RADOST FX: V., MilanKroužil MISCHMASCH: DJs A.L.I.,BabylonRocker CHATEAU ROUGE: Walk, E-Lite DAYLONG: Brooks, Chris,Morph,Tomas, Kel CROSS CLUB: Slots, AirFare Prostitutes, Priessnitz,Rybičky48,The ABATON: Sporto, Undo,Audiofenky, TheModels ARCHA: 10. 11.Saturday/Sobota FitipaldiisDead DeepSpaceninenite: CartoonClashnight/Andys Elektra:DjsAirto,Bontrip, Zen:DJBlakeJarrell Famufest: LiveMidiLidi, MindfuckParty: DJsUrna Rehab: DJsNesquik,Sly MoscowStyle:DVJBazuka, SázavaFest: The DJsDianad´Rouze,Pete Adambomb,Vibrathörr BoomBangBaby!:Live LollypopRedRibbon: DJsRikardo,LP, BigJ, Moooveit!:Dave : DJsJakubV., Brian, MixxMaxx:DJsJakub GrandeNoche: Showstaarzzz:

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39 FLASH 40 FLASH MISCHMASCH: Yaroush MECCA: Chica, Hellium,Frock MATRIX: Stolen lives KLUB 007: Mulfunktion, Airto CHATEAU ROUGE: MC PrinceOsito CROSS CLUB: Birch ABATON: 23. 11.Friday/Pátek MISCHMASCH: Yannick, Elektrom,Adelight CHATEAU ROUGE: Andrea Fiorino DUPLEX: Finix, Jerry DAYLONG: Fatal NoiseGang CROSS CLUB: 17. 11.Saturday/Sobota PHOTO BY DAN KAFKA DIESEL -FUELFORLIFE Slim Buddah ZERO: U MALÉHOGLENA: Marcello RADOST FX: Eagle ZERO: Band U MALÉHOGLENA: Olav Basoski,ChrisSadler ROXY: Jackpot akaDee,beatbox:Fany, Nasty RETRO: Nathan, Fingarz,BigJ,12Play RADOST FX: V., MilanKroužil Afrodropsnite:DJsPat Heart, In40s!:DJsDetong,Deff Climax9thAnniversary!:DJs BattleNight5:LiveL.Ú.Z.A., OperaHouse:DJsLafayette, Rhino’sBassmania:DJs DISCOvery!:DJsNeo, StereoMCs:DJRob“B” KickdaNight:DJsBon Dreamscometrue, RememberHouse:DJs RicoBdayJumpOff Drumstation:DJFran, Fuse:TheCymbollive, DJsJakubV., Brian, MixxMaxx:DJsJakub Digi:DJs Breakpoint:DJs FrantišekKop Q FilipGondolán

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44 VENUES in Žižkov, thetrekisworthmeal. A bitfarfromthecenterofcity, nestledonasidestreetofSeifertova you needconnectiontotheworldthereis alsofreeWiFi. Visit CaféPavlač onSaturdays wherelivemusicissometimesplayedandif of artfromvariousnationalandinternationalartists. In thebackofrestaurant,gallery35Mhasamonthlyrotatingdisplay and whitefacepaintprevalent. in diff and blues,awomanlordsoverdozensmilingfacesofchildren,dressed version ofthefamilyportrait.Brightlycoloredwithhuespinks,greens highlight ofalltheworksthathanginrestaurant,isacontemporary from paintingtophotographorsilkscreenprint.Thelargestpiece,alsothe space showcasesmodernart.Eachwalladiff In additiontoservinggoodfoodanddrink,CaféPavlač’s simplerestaurant options areavailable. with cottagecheeseandberriesorchocolatebananas;althoughmany and agoodvalue.For peoplewithasweet tooth,therearecrepesfi cheese andtoppedwithcrushednutsParmesan, thecrepeisdelicious is theCheeseandNutSaltycrepe,fi types ofcrepes,dividedbyfl In homagetoFrenchcaféinfl a typeoflightherbsauce. tomatoes, orachoiceofchickensalmonsteakbothdressedin of pastaswithhighlightitemsfettuccineprawnsandsundried to thecouscousthatisuncommon.Heavierdishesincludeavariety are freshandcrisptheblendofpearcranberryaddsatartfl with bluecheeseandpeartoppedcranberrydressing.Thevegetables sandwiches withburgundyhamandDutchvegetablesoracouscoussalad Lunch anddinneroff the variedmenuthathasoff rest alongthewallsandprovidecomfortableseatingforagoodmealfrom rum wasnotoverpowering.Aroundthebarwoodentablesandbenches rum warmedmeupnicelyandwasjusttherightmixture;fl Apple orHotPear withrum.Onthis nightinparticular, theHotPear with served happilyalongsideatwistonthewidelypopularPragueGrog,Hot variety ofwines.Traditional Czechfavorite,PilsnerandGambrinusare of drinksthatvaryfromaperitifstococktailsandlongawide is notcommonamongCzecheateries.Themetalbarservesavariety walls andasimplewoodenfl presented muchthesameasatypicalgalleryspace,fourwhitewashed of therestaurant’sspace,whichservesasfocalpoint.Thecaféis Hip andmodern,thediningroomhasalargebar, locatedinthecenter and agoodatmosphere. adjoining beergarden,thespotisagreatplacetodinewithfreshmenu a smallrestaurantwithbigstyle.Acombinationcaféandartgallery A neighborhoodhangoutintheouterdistrictofŽižkov, CaféPavlač is Café Pavlač www.cafepavlac.cz Tel: 222721 731 Víta Nejedlého23, Prague3 Café Pavlač erent garb,andaclowncrouchesinthefrontofgroup,red-nose er thestrongestitemswithmenudishessuchas avor intosaltyandsweet.Oneofmyfavorites erings forbreakfast,lunchanddinner. oor butitallowsforanairyfeelingthat uence, CaféPavlač alsolistseightdiff lled withthreediff

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