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. . . I don’t want to alarm anyone but it’s Week 11. I know, WTF? Before you flip out though, just remember that in one week’s time Oktoberfest will be hitting the Roundhouse! And Blitz has the golden tickets, so to speak. We’ll be giving away highly coveted double passes, so don’t go forking out $200 for scalped tickets – that’s just dumb. Head to www.facebook. com/blitzmag, post a pic proving your worthiness and you could be living it up at UNSW’s biggest party. If that’s not enough to pacify you, we’ve got all the tips and tricks you’ll need to tame your monkey mind and Ellie Clay keep the crazy at bay during assessment time (page 8) Blitz Editor plus advice and apps to relax (page 17). We also check [email protected] out Aussie indie rock band The Panics’ new album on page 15, which is ironically very calming, and there 7 15 are plenty of distractions from study on campus this 8 week, like the epic MedShow and the enlivening We 5 Bitz & Pieces Animation Festival (page 11). And what’s a healthy mind without a healthy body? Feed your soul with 7 Blitz Hits On… Guitarist John Patterson Sydney Crave Food Festival (page 14) or chow down on One half of pop outfit, The Grates something closer to home with VeggieSoc (page 18). If all else fails: keep calm and carry on! 8 Tame Your Monkey Mind Tips and tricks to keep the crazy at bay

10 Foreign Film Affairs They may be that person sitting next to Japan’s Norwegian Wood you in your 9am tute, a family member, or your next-door neighbour – we all 11 What’s On UNSW know someone who is suffering from MedShow + We Animation Festival mental health issues. 14 What’s On Sydney As exams loom around the corner, stress levels get Crave Food Fest + Tibetan Lama Talk higher, and stress + copious amounts of caffeine + . sleep deprivation = a cocktail for disaster. One of 15 Calming The Panics . . Their latest indie rock creation Ellie Clay the tricks I’ve learnt over the years to deal with the Blitz Editor stress over this period is to set aside a couple of 17 Top 5: Sneaky Exercises [email protected] hours a day for relaxation time. Take a walk, see a Anxiety Uncle movie, grab a bite to eat with a friend – these things Technophile: Apps to Relax Natalie Karam can help you feel balanced. Chair @ Arc Arc Board has recently added student support as 18 Go Clubbing: VeggieSoc [email protected] an element of its mission statement. As part of our commitment to improving the wellness of students, 19 Jobs & Ops we have one of our own interns currently writing a Fashion Campus mental health and wellness policy, which will be passed WAS HERE 20 Critique by Board soon. We also have a Student Support WAS HERE WAS HEREKickArts Manager, David Loonam ([email protected]), who is a pretty good guy to talk to if you ever need some 22 Giveaways [email protected] advice around this time of year. Free [email protected] for Arc membersBITE US! [email protected] BITE US! facebook.com/ Remember: uni has lots of support networks available BITE US! blitzmag – you just need to know where to look for them (inside 23 Vox Pops For freebies + Blitz for a start!). a chance to win WIN Oktoberfest VIP WantWIN free stuff? prize pack Keep a look out for this logo to win

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RB_Ads_AUS_Oct_2011_Blitz.indd 1 19/09/2011 15:15 We’re in the move into territory of trying to build exciting times on the legacies of bands we Live on campus at UNSW Village and enjoy an love... That’s exciting, convenient university experience! much more UNSW Village offers a range of stylish, modern apartments exciting than and state-of-the-art facilities. With over a thousand potential carving out friends and access to our unique Live, Learn and Grow JOHN PATTERSON a niche resident life program, there’s never an excuse to be bored! Guitarist for The Grates Café E-library & study centre Honorary New Yorker Convenience store High-speed internet DIY Merchandise Designer Three-level student lounge Communal kitchen Having won a devoted fanbase with their sharp, jagged tunes and manic indie energy, Brisbane two-piece The Grates (now minus their drummer) holed up in New York over winter to record their third album, Secret Rituals. Blitz caught up with one half of the band, John Patterson, to talk about how the Big Apple gnawed at their sound, their upcoming ‘Summer’s Breath’ tour and, umm… socks.

Secret Rituals was released in June; how You took a year off to record the album in You’re renowned for being a really have you been finding the reaction? New York; what impact did that have on energetic band onstage, is this similar in It’s been really nice, I think that people are your sound? the studio? still discovering it but it’s also growing on We toured [in the US] for about six No, not really with this record, because them. It’s nowhere near as immediate as months and then bunkered down over we didn’t have anything driving us: no loud our last records but it also doesn’t get as winter, spending a lot of time in the band drums or anything pushing us forward. It visit unswvillage.com.au phone 02 9662 2500 boring as quickly. room trying to discover what kind of was much more insular and introspective, record we wanted to make. It was way which I found a fun way to write. more intimate, in-your-face and stripped- back. It definitely feels like New York is our How does the dynamic work between you second home; I love that there’s always and Patience [Hodgson, the lead singer]? something great to do. She writes the bulk of the lyrics on the spot, and I write the bulk of the music on the spot – we just try and do it all at the same time, so there’s no pressure that way of having to come up with something good. What are you looking forward to most about your upcoming ‘Summer’s Breath’ tour? It’s fun just to get in the swing of playing shows and travelling. We’ll be playing four SRC VOTING INFORMATION or five shows a week, and when you’re doing it every night it’s easier and much Polling stations will be held on the more fun than a gig once a week. following dates and times for the SRC Elections (Kensington Campus): You’ve toured with some pretty high- profile acts like the Artic Monkeys, and appeared at Splendour this year; what’s a recent tour highlight? I think touring with The Hives in July: they’re like a cartoon of a rock band, but WAS HERE it’s not cheesy at all. TUES WED THURS WAS HERE WAS HERE A cool thing about The Grates is your DIY 4th OCTOBER 5th OCTOBER 6th OCTOBER aesthetic; who are you influenced by these [email protected] days, or are you trying to carve out your 8.30am - 10.30am 8.30am - 10.30am 8.30am - 10.30am [email protected] BITE US! own niche? [email protected] BITE US! Law Building Main Walkway Main Walkway BITE US! We’re in the territory of trying really hard to (near Anzac Pde) (near Anzac Pde) build on the legacies of bands we love – the 11.30am - 2.30pm Breeders, old Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse and 11.30am - 2.30pm 11.30am - 1.30pm WIN the Pixies. That’s much more exciting than Quad WIN aWIN copy of Secret Rituals. carving out a niche for me. Library Walkway Library Walkway Email [email protected] 4.30pm - 6.00pm Most importantly, you design your own merch – how are the socks going? 4.30pm - 6.00pm 3.30pm - 4.30pm [email protected] Main Walkway There’s still a few socks left on our The [email protected] are playing theSHOW US (near Anzac Pde) [email protected] SHOW US website, but we’re not making them Robert Webster Main Walkway Metro Theatre on SaturdayTHE SHOW US THE anymore. We are doing a friendship (near Red Centre) November 12 with The Last THE bracelet though, and a hat that says The .edu.au Dinosaurs; tickets are $30.70sw for u. n .ed au .u Grates in Japanese. sw c du.a studentsn from ticketek.com.aur email .e u u a w . FOR CANDIDATES’ PICTURES, s c @ LEGAL n r

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hat with essays, exams, tutes, part time work, family commitments and some semblance Wof a social life, it’s a wonder any of us have time to breathe. Uni is a balancing act and to stop it all crashing down we have to tame the howling, hyperactive ‘monkey inside.’

You know the one; it can send you into a screeching tantrum the night before an exam, or uses all available limbs, simian style, to simultaneously write an essay while skulling energy drinks in the dead of night. In Buddhism ‘monkey mind’ is a term meaning “unsettled, restless, inconstant and uncontrollable”. These are familiar scenarios to the average uni student, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Read on to learn how to rectify the most primate-esque of your ways and tame your restless, crazy monkey mind.

EASY DOES IT – QUICK FIX RELAXATION TIPS Take the dog for a walk SNACK ATTACK Fresh air and exercise are CATCH SOME ZZZs effective and, better yet, free. During the hecticness of semester sleep In study periods, it’s perfectly normal to Your pooch will love it too, plus becomes a commodity as precious as gold, as want to grab a handful of nibblies and pets owners are said to be more far-off and unreachable as a life-saving rope munch while you study (monkeys like to relaxed. Don’t have a dog? Borrow on the other side of a pool of quicksand. graze). But, like gremlins, feed them the a neighbour’s (but ask first...). wrong thing and they’ll go ape-shit. The way to make the most out of your ZZZs Turn on, tune in, drop out • Remember the old saying about the is to make sure your sleep patterns are Put on your favourite album, turn apple and the doctor? It can keep fairly constant – this is called your body’s up the volume and bliss out. circadian rhythm, and it’s not a good idea away the sandman too – apples are to mess with. Sleep deprivation can affect better for waking you up than coffee Make the call digestion, hormones, your immune system or energy drinks, so there’s no excuse Have a chat to someone you - even your vision. Without a good night’s for endangering your heart by throwing haven’t talked to in a while, even sleep your mind will be wilder than a chimp back these liquids. if it’s your Mum! It’s a quick with ADD. • Small portions of food are most distraction and a welcome break from the hermit-like state study • Aim to get to bed around the same time convenient for grabbing and popping in can induce. every night and you’ll feel a lot more your mouth while in the depths of a deep rested during the day. depression long assignment. Consider blueberries or nuts. Both are high in Slow down • Each sleep cycle is on average 90 minutes antioxidants and texturally marvellous. Anything that moves slowly and long, so to avoid waking up in a deep- rhythmically acts to calm the mind; sleep period set your alarm for 6 or 7½ • Procrastination sometimes takes form in think lava lamps, crashing waves or hours after you go to bed. the sudden desire to cook, even if you’ve fish in an aquarium – Koi Pond is a never diced an onion in your life – study best-selling app for a reason! • There are also various ‘Sleep Cycle’ apps can do that to a person. Go for a fish that track your sleep and wake you up dish, it’s a rich source of Omega 3, which Just breathe fresh as a daisy. boosts energy and memory power, that Sure, you’re probably going to • If you must burn the midnight oil into the night at the Roundhouse is all coming be doing this anyway, but be early hours of morning, try and grab at back to me now... conscious of it. Focusing on least three hours slumber. • Tea has a bazillion relaxation benefits; the breath is a super-simple even the ritual of making a pot can meditation technique, and just be soothing. Opt for herbals such as five minutes will give your mind the peppermint or chamomile, or green tea, space it needs to think clearly. which is rich in antioxidants. NEED MORE HELP? TIPS & The Counselling Centre can assist with everything from exam stress to managing emotions. Make an TRICKS TO KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON... appointment or drop in at 9am for same-day service STUDYING (conditions apply go to counselling.unsw.edu.au or KEEP THE So semester has come to a close, and you’ve got one, maybe two weeks of phone 9385 5418) grace before exams cement themselves over you. The SRC’s Welfare Collective is there to help give Without a good CRAZY • Plan your study time and don’t be afraid to schedule in a little ’me’ time students an accessible and affordable uni experience, between sessions – not doing so will mean procrastination will creep in and regardless of socio-economic status. Check out you’ll wonder where all that spare time went. their free brekkies every Monday, 9am outside the night’s sleep AT BAY library; chill in a safe space at the Welfare Room, L1 • When you settle down to tackle that subject, be focused and make it Blockhouse, or email them with any pressing questions your mind will count, taking comfort in the fact that you know you need to get work at [email protected] >> ANDREW BLACKIE done now. It’s remarkable how much more gets done under the slight be wilder than a pinch of pressure. More into Mindfulness Meditation? Try a free guided meditation workshop run by UNSW’s Counselling chimp with ADD • Blitz is not advocating you leave studying to the last minute! It’s all about service, every Monday 12-1pm, Rm 2008 at the Quad. balance people. Register at www.surveymonkey.com/s/858LL5Z

Blitz S2W11 8 9 BETTER THAN STUDYING: WHAT’S ON UNSW After scoring an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film and winning two top prizes at the Cannes film festival, Tran Anh Hung has continued his winning streak and done the seemingly impossible in his latest film, Norwegian Wood. An adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s best- selling novel, the story was long thought unfilmable. Ahead of its release, Blitz caught up with the French-Vietnamese director to talk about the challenges of making a Japanese-language film named after a Scandinavian country – if ever there were a truly foreign film, this is it. WHAT’S ON UNSW foreignfilmaffairs 3rd-9th october Japan’s Norwegian Wood UNIBAR SPECIAL The Ward of the Rings MedShow 2011 $ Another uni revue? Are they kidding? Think again; MedShow is not a revue - and you certainly don’t have to be a med student to see it.

Was it intimidating filming a novel as The way that location and cinematography Think Lord of the Rings, with a Now in its 11th year, and with widely-loved as Norwegian Wood? is used in Norwegian Wood is stunningly hilarious cocktail of drugs and over 120 cast and crew members, comedy. There will be a medical twist MedShow is as altruistic as it is When: No, because when I read it, it appeared vivid – what emotional role do you see this playing in the film? to it - that’s a given – but thankfully, hilarious, supporting CANTEEN, a Wed-Fri Oct 5-7 to me very clearly that it could be a good the producers have strayed away charity organisation for children and movie. The question of ‘not adaptable’ has It’s very important, because I have to from technical medical humour to teens living with cancer. “The Sydney Where: no meaning for me. find the right landscape and locations to make it more accessible to those of Children’s Hospital in Randwick is express their emotions in a very lyrical You don’t speak Japanese – was the fact us who didn’t have the brains to pass one of our local teaching hospitals Science Theatre that Norwegian Wood is set in Japan and way. It’s an abstract feeling, but very the UMAT. and we encounter many kids and precise. All of the emotions inside us are “MedShow separates itself from teenagers with cancer,” says Tim. Price: entirely in Japanese much of an obstacle? “We are proud to support CANTEEN It’s just a problem that you have to solve. very primitive, because we have all these MedRevue and other faculty revues $10 Arc people before us who experienced [them]. by focusing on a single, ongoing plot, this year and to know that all of our When you see a movie in a language that hard work is going to a good cause.” So I needed the landscape to be very rather than individual sketches,” members, $12 you don’t speak, you can see immediately if says Tim Nguen, MedShow So gather your fellowship of friends, it’s good or not. primitive – it looks like the beginning of for others from humanity. promotions executive. “The premise support a good cause and be www.medshow.org.au It’s the same for me [as a director] – we of the show will be similar to the prepared to fall into fits of laughter – spent hours, weeks, months working Do you see this as giving a voice to LOTR trilogy, revolving around Frodo it is the best medicine after all. the characters? meeting up with the fellowship to on the dialogue. I wrote it in French, Yes, it is like giving wings to the emotions; destroy the ring.” > Mary Azzi we translated it into English, and then > the landscapes work like the interior of translated it into Japanese. the characters. The real challenge is to make a good movie You were born in Vietnam but have lived with a language that can touch people in a most of your life in France. You’ve crossed mysterious way. Especially for this story, cultures a lot in your life; is this reflected because it is very dark and sad; it deals in your films? with love and loss of love, [so] you need to I think so, because you cannot avoid it. But give [it] a language that is really enjoyable it’s not only that; I live in Paris, and the to watch. world is so small that you can eat all kinds The story has a deep sense of melancholy of food in Paris, you can see all kinds of - the main characters deal with the suicide movies: for $10 you can buy a masterpiece of their friend – is that something you’re from anywhere. I have the feeling that we drawn to? have to reconsider [our] nationalities; by We ♥ Animation Festival When: Not at all, it is unique to the movie and to making movies I feel that I belong more to Murakami. It’s amazing how his books are the cinema nation than to a country. Until Oct 7 sad and still people love [them], because he We’ve all got a soft spot for Saturday Connection, interaction and Where: deals with something that is very deeply >> ANDREW BLACKIE morning cartoons (remember intimacy are the running themes buried inside of us. Level 3, Robert the days when we’d get up before throughout the works, highlighting 10am?), but now a group of UNSW the importance of the handmade and Webster students and grads are taking their heartfelt. Screenings will be running Norwegian Wood is released Need more convincing? Building love for animation to the next level in the Robert Webster Building this Sunday October 9 in select Check out our review on p20 with a free festival encompassing until Friday October 7; times vary all forms of animation, interactive but check their Facebook page for cinemas. p20 for the full critique. Price: media and sound installation. details: Free www.facebook.com/WeHeartAnimation Blitz S2W11 10 save the date

WEEK 12 PGC Voting Commences We Animation Festival Kudos Exhibition: The Rugby World Cup Roundhouse Arc Store Happy Hour – Stationery The White House Tues Oct 11 Until Friday Oct 7 Jack Stahel’s Organism Until Oct 23 @ Roundhouse Happy Hour 10% Off Re-Use Centre Happy Hour @ Level 3, Robert Webster Until Oct 8 @ Kudos Gallery, COFA Don’t miss a second of the action! The Roundhouse 5-6pm 4-5pm @ Arc Stores 10am-4pm @ Quad, 4-5pm @ White House Ride to Work Day/Uni Building is channelling its inner-sports bar, screening Driven compulsively by his process, @ Roundhouse East Wing, RM 1001A Icy cold bottled beers for $4 and classy cocktails for Wed Oct 12 A free festival encompassing all forms matches live on the big screen with $10 jugs during Stahel’s practice is a continuous and $8 will have What with the spring sunshine, of animation, interactive media and game time. It’s enough to make you want to skip Double the happiness obsessive exploration of the you smiling – that’s why they call it Happy Hour! sound installation. your tute (not that Blitz would ever suggest a thing on Wednesdays, now’s the perfect time to whip out human mind. like that…). 5-7pm! your bike and start riding to work, uni, anywhere really! all week unsw - There’s always something good going down

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On the side facing the gym. SRC Voting 12.15-1.30pm 5-7pm @ Roundhouse @ Physics Lawn Latin Band Comp a 4.30-6.30pm @ Quad @ Roundhouse On the side facing the gym. Cost: $15 SUN OCT 9 Sat Oct 15 Fairtrade Fair @ Main Walkway Come along and talk to counsellors Drinks at the BeerGarden with the @ Roundhouse CAPS Workshop: EXCLUSIVE 11am from UNSW Counselling and European Society – all welcome! SRC Voting Malaysia Festival 2011: www.clavecontraclave.com @ Roundhouse BeerGarden Pool Comp Psychological Services and ask any 11.30am-1.30pm Managing Your Time A Taste of Cultural Heaven EXCLUSIVE 6pm questions you have about mental COFA Wednesday Social @ Library Walkway 12-1pm 10am-6pm EXCLUSIVE @ Roundhouse health issues and stress reduction. 4-7pm @ Rm 2008, Quad @ Tumbalong Park, WEEK 13 SRC Voting Beware the pool sharks. 11.30am-2.30pm Plus snags some freebies like free @ COFA Common Room Innovators Brown Bag Lunches A must for students juggling Darling Harbour, Sydney @ Quad fruit! Pizza, cider and bingo to get you in the 12-1.30pm assignment deadlines and exam 15 of Malaysia’s best restaurants COFA Happy Hour socialising mood. preparation over the last month of face off in the 21st Malaysia Festival, 5.30-6.30pm @ ASB Boardroom, Level 6 Pottery Studio Induction Cost: Free for Arc members; donation for semester. dedicated to bringing the country’s COFA Soccer Club Training @ COFA, E Block, Ground Floor others Cost: Free, register at mouth-watering flavours and vibrant 12-1pm 12.30pm Hillsong Campus Service www.surveymonkey.com/s/858LL5Z Drinks and nibbles before COFA Talks culture to Sydney. @ Moore Park start at 6.30pm. @ L2 Blockhouse Falun Dafa Free Meditation Class 12-1pm Come along and learn the ropes (or 4-6pm @ Quad G053 Professorial Lecture, Apologising in COFA Talks: Design and Art of wheels) of pottery. @ Squarehouse, Rm 217 personal injury litigation: Sincerity, UNSW Bike Club Workshop Cost: Free for Arc members 12-2pm Australia Online with Dr Anita Pottery Studio Induction Insincerity and Tort Reform @ Quad Lawn Callaway and Professor SRC Voting 12.30pm With Professor Prue Vines Bring your bike and learn bike Ping Pong 4.30-6pm @ L2 Blockhouse 1-2pm Ross Gibson 1pm COST: Free for Arc members maintenance or volunteer and get 6.30pm @ Robert Webster Building @ G02, Law Building your hands dirty! All welcome. @ Roundhouse Cost: Free, registration required at @ COFA, EG02 law.unsw.edu.au

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Dud party? Promote your event Fairtrade Fair We Animation Exhibition: Bodies & Interfaces Kpopsoc Dance Workshop CAPS Workshop: Thai Style BBQ Lunch for Charity The Culture Club Screening: with What’s On! From 11am 7.30-9.30pm 3.30-5pm Reducing Exam Anxiety 11am-3pm A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Go to arc.unsw.edu.au @ Roundhouse BeerGarden @ Io Myers Studio @ Dance Studio, Blockhouse 3.30-5pm @ Physics Lawn 3pm Deadline @ Rm 2008, Quad Get down to the BeerGarden this Tuesday to show your In conjunction with EMPA’s Animation Festival is this Cost: $4 for Arc members; $5 others Cost: $15 @ The White House 12 days before Mon of Cost: Free relevant week support for a Fairtrade Campus. Macquarie, practical demonstration of wearable interactive design Kpop your dancing cherry with Kpopsoc’s workshop Enjoy tasty Thai food as well as games Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in La Trobe, Monash and RMIT have already made the experiments by UNSW media students. Peer into the - all are welcome and (luckily for some) no dancing Do you break into a cold sweat just at the and activities, with the chance to win up with her sister in New Orleans and is switch, so don’t let UNSW fall behind. Have your future as these prototype interfaces explore and thought of doing an exam? Come to this tormented by her brutish brother-in-law, experience is required. to $350 in prizes. All proceeds go to the Give Blitz the thumbs up questions answers and try some Fair Trade coffee and re-imagine the relationship between the human body workshop and get some tips on how to Ted Noffs Foundation, helping young while her reality crumbles around her. chocolate – equality tastes sweetest! and the computer. manage your exam angst more effectively. people with drug and alcohol problems. facebook.com/blitzmag AROUND TOWN: WHAT’S ON SYDNEY It’s been four years, an ARIA win and a soul-searching journey since The Panics’ last album. The Perth-born calming rockers’ latest record, Rain on the Humming Wire, is a global affair, penned in England and recorded in New York, yet evocative images of THE PANICS bushfires, cracked paint and scorching How travel brought them home Australian summers are deeply rooted in frontman Jae Laffer’s lyrics.

After the success of Cruel Is it ironic, perhaps, that his The ultimate dream, he says, Guards in 2008, the five band references to the Australian would be releasing an album You can’t sit members jet set overseas, landscape were written while in France or Germany – or around in the where they took time to travel travelling? “That’s only because, anywhere overseas – and and tour before writing fresh sometimes, when things are having it played on the radio. same suburb melodies. After settling near close up in front of your face, “You have to stay close to because you Woodstock in the US to record they don’t look as beautiful or those goals and those places Nom on noodle at the Night Markets CHEAP A$$ SYDNEY the final compilation, the band interesting as when you’ve had to keep the opportunities lose sight have seemingly channelled the some time to take stock with present,” he explains. “The of what it EAT 60s-era vibe of Bob Dylan, them,” he explains. most important part [is] Leonard Cohen and Bruce getting out of your tiny dark is that you Pop Up Night Markets Springsteen, while retaining Laffer admits that living on room, meeting people and Delicious Crave Food Festival Thu Oct 6, 5-9pm an overarching sentiment of the road is living the dream. having fun.” really want @ Taylor Square, Oxford St COST: FREE homesickness and dislocation. An ARIA award for ‘Best >> Mary Azzi to do Desire Part of Sydney’s Crave Food Festival, this pop-up Contemporary Album’ for smorgasbord brings country markets to town. This sentiment best resonates Cruel Guards and airplay of Includes live entertainment. in ‘Not Quite a Home’, with its tracks on Underbelly and Sydney’s foodie festival has a month of excellent reasons to When: comforting images, drawn Ugly Betty saw The Panics throw away the canned tuna and indulge in some real food. Oct 1 - 31 PARTY from a lonely distance of a not shoot to mainstream success. triple j Unearthed Launch Party so comfortable summer at Now, being on the road has Night Noodle Markets Beresford Italian Film Nights Where: Wed Oct 5, 7pm @ Metro Theatre home: “I thought I never would motivated the band to reach Cost: Free belong/ So I look back where for higher goals. Red If you’re the type of student who lives Want to combine your love of cinema Sydney-wide To launch the all new, all-Australian digital station, Riders triple j Unearthed, the JJJ will be throwing six parties I was born/ Where the paint off two-minute noodles (we’ve all and pasta? This event is cheaper than is always peeling and the fires “The Cruel Guards phase was 25% been there), you deserve something a regular movie ticket – and there’s in six cities to celebrate. Catch presenter Nina Las The Sleepy Vegas and artists New Navy, Nantes, Rufus and left sweeping…” nice because it justified and Jackson a little more ‘gourmet’. The Night more than popcorn involved. Watch Elizabeth Rose for free at the Metro. Noodle Markets run for two weeks an Italian art-house flick while being Laffer (center, below) says validated a lot of the time 50% Boy & Bear (Mon-Fri, Oct 10-21) in Hyde Park served Italian dishes that are themed the constant travelling has we spent working on it,” he 15% WATCH explains. “We became more and with over 125, 000 food lovers to reflect each film. Bellissimo! Every been spiritually and musically Art of dropping by last year, you know Monday in October, 7.30 - 9.30pm at empowering: “It helps keep excited about what we could Fighting it’s going to be good. If you’re not a The Beresford Hotel. Book at Almost Live: The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ I’m With You you going; even the small do in the next 10 years – it 10% noodle fan, spoil yourself with other www.merivale.com/foodfestival was nice to feel that we had Asian delicacies from Peking duck Tue Oct 4 and Wed Oct 5, 7pm successes re-energise you and @ Event Cinemas, George St keep your eye on the larger something and we could make pancakes to super-sweet desserts. >> Mary Azzi COST: $17.50 it work.” Streamed from an auditorium somewhere in the picture,” he explains. “You can’t world, the Chili Peppers run through their new album sit around in the same suburb and revisit some of the old hits, in this killer concert because you lose sight of what film event. it is that you really want to do.” A Buddhist Perspective Antenna International Documentary Film Festival Love Free with Senior Tibetan Lama, Wed Oct 6-Sun Oct 9 His Eminence the 7th @ Chauvel Cinema, Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rd COST: $13 per film From Doubt Dzogchen Rinpoche Ticking off another in the long line of film festivals passing through Sydney this year, Antenna showcases a line-up of Australian and international Senior Tibetan Lama, His Eminence documentaries. the 7th Dzogchen Rinpoche, will When: answer this question by sharing Rugby World Cup Quarter Finals October 10, 7pm his Buddhist wisdom on love and Sat Oct 8 and Sun Oct 9, 6pm & 8.30pm @ Helm Bar & Bistro, Aquarium Wharf, relationships. Many of us often find Darling Harbour ourselves in relationships where we Where: COST: FREE put our own needs above others; Looking to get into that rugby spirit but don’t know Redfern Town true love, he will argue, can only where to start? Catch the quarter finals free at Helm Hall exist when we place other people’s Bar, with the bonus of a convivial atmosphere. happiness before our own. Cost: The notion of “true love” is considered a cliché by many; we’re “Often we enter into a relationship LISTEN Free - for more brought up to believe that we can because we hope someone else will The Dead Leaves Tour information “live happily ever after…” (thanks make us happy, but this motivation Disney), but when we grow up reality Wed Oct 5, 8.30pm head to www. will only lead to more suffering,” @ Beach Rd Hotel, 71 Beach Rd, Bondi Beach sets in. A cynic will maintain it can he says. “However, if we put our COST: FREE dzogchen.org.in never exist while an optimist will partners, friends and family first patiently wait for their saviour on a in our thoughts and actions, our white horse to sweep them off their > Mary Azzi relationships will bring genuine > feet. In today’s society can true love fulfilment - that is love in its truest really exist? form.” Now that’s a love story we can believe in.

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ory behind your… VeggieSoc Tell us the st THE BIG V 3 Reasons To Go Vego Dora Art History/Arts • Thinking about going vego? You’ll be joining the likes of Chili ALL IN THE FAMILY Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis, Jessica Whether you’re borrowing Biel, Natalie Portman and a myriad from your mum, siblings or of sexy celebs. even your Dad (like Dora), families and flatmates can • Vegetarians are supposedly double your wardrobe. smarter than their meat-eating peers. British research has shown Blitz it in 2012! that a child’s IQ predicts his or her Applications are now open for Blitz positions likelihood of becoming a vegetarian. Jacket in 2012; interview red carpet stars, see your The smarter the child, the more My dad’s! likely they’ll opt for the veggies. designs published every week or shape the campus mag read by over 10, 000 students. • Join VeggieSoc and get sweet discounts from restaurants all 2 x Reporters (12 hours p/week) T-shirt over the city, from Newtown to Designer (30 hours p/week) Nutrious AND delicious VeggieSoc lunches Cotton On (another North Sydney – head to Editor (30 hours p/week) student who’s veggiesoc.com for all the details, Shorts cottoned on!) Applications close Friday Oct 7 or find them on Facebook. They’re from Healthy bodies equal healthy minds, and what’s healthier than a big For full position descriptions head to Sportsgirl. serve of veggies? VeggieSoc is turning vegetarianism mainstream; jobs.arc.unsw.edu.au or email long gone are the myths that our meat-shunning friends are pale, [email protected] with any queries. anaemic tree-huggers. Everyone appears to be getting in on the VeggieSoc action – even brawny, carnivorous construction workers. Volunteer Coordinator Blitz spoke to what we prefer to call the ‘Tasty Food Society’ to find out why they took the honour of Arc Club of the Year for 2010. & Student Development Officer Positions Nail Polish Morning Glory – Why should students support VeggieSoc? What are the top stereotypes about Want to work on campus in a fun, friendly, a super cheap Korean store. There is absolutely no reason why they vegetarians you would like to dispel? flexible environment? If you’re involved in need to; we’re here to support students. That all they eat are fruit and leaves. student life with excellent organizational skills and an aptitude for leadership, Arc wants you! There aren’t many places to get good Vegetarian food can be pretty tasty; our Perfectly vegetarian and vegan food at uni; that’s caterers at Hare Krishna Catering are Miss Global Australia & UNSW student, There are 10 positions available so hours vary, Polished why we’re here. living proof. head to jobs.arc.unsw.edu.au for all the deets. Aley Greenblo digs vegetarianism. We’re loving Dora’s funky Is VeggieSoc strictly for vegetarians? How many members do you have? Check her out in last week’s ed, find it nail polish – bright shades online at www.arc.unsw.edu.au are just the thing to welcome Not by a long shot. We do get a lot of Around 400 or so from all different Dream job alert in the warmer weather. non-vegetarians coming in every week, faculties, societies and cultures – free Membership Relations Officer: 10hr+ p/week > mary azzi & andrew blackie and believe it or not, there are a fair memberships for Arc members really spent organising fun activities and freebies for > few enthusiastic volunteers that aren’t helps. We even get random construction students. Implement your creative ideas as you vegetarian at all. They just like helping workers coming in from time to time. coordinate the Arc Street Team program, gain Dinner Dating with www.jesslovesfred.com out because they love the prices, the experience recognised on your transcript AND community [and] the concept. >> Mary Azzi Good food, get paid. 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This is an intensely introverted, sweeping meditation on doomed romance - It’s as close to a masterpiece as any film I’ve seen this yeaR arty-farty fun for everyone -Norwegian Wood The Culinary Arts

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Shoot the Chef Chifley Plaza, CBD Oct 5-28 In conjunction with Sydney’s Crave Food Festival comes this delectable exhibition showcasing 22 professional and amateur photographers and their interpretations of “shooting the chef”. From sumptuous banquets to perfectly crafted cakes, this collection of photos will surely have you salivating and seriously contemplating the term “food porn”. Cost: Free

New In Town Norwegian Wood Hard Rock Café Junk of the Heart Submarine Directed by Tran Anh Hung Sydney The Kooks Directed by Richard Ayoade Starring Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Starring Noah Taylor, Craig Roberts, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara Darling Harbour Sally Hawkins Food: 6.5/10 8/10 Ambience: 6/10 6.5/10 7.5/10 Service: 5/10 Don’t let the book snobs tell you otherwise Those scheming Americans don’t miss a The third album from English rockers, Richard Ayoade, best known for his role as Moss in The It Crowd, Chalk Urban Art Festival – this is a lavish, highly emotional and beat. If you’re a student like me, waiting 30 The Kooks, is a bit of a mixed bag; the makes his feature-film directorial debut with Submarine, revealing Church Street, Parramatta profoundly moving film, adapted from a minutes for your table at the bar is thirsty band seem to be trying to expand their that his real strength is in creating memorable characters. Oct 6-9 novel and directed with a sweeping vision work when you’re saving your $$$’s to fork repertoire and move in a new direction but This film’s star, precocious teen Oliver (Craig Roberts), has a When you decorate a public wall it’s graffiti, but when you and fluidity by Tran Anh Hung. In 1960s out for a $24 burger. it feels as though at some point during foppish fringe, dark eyes and a ‘thook’ Welsh accent: from his own decorate the ground somehow it’s more acceptable. Chalk Japan, teen Watanabe’s best friend Despite the staff making an extra effort recording they became nervous and halted voiceover, we learn he likes to read the dictionary, sees himself Urban Art Festival will be bringing Parramatta’s pavements commits suicide, leaving his long-term to lay on the sleazy… I mean cheesy US midway. Don’t get me wrong, Junk of the as superior to his boring parents and thinks he has the world to life with portraits, designs and immersive scenes all girlfriend Naoko behind. The two, at first, greetings, the place doesn’t quite live up- Heart is a good album, it just feels as figured out. He is attracted to a girl very like him at school – also drawn in the versatile, yet temporary, medium of chalk. It’s don’t realise how deep this wound between to the all American dream. I’ll call it soft though something is missing. dark and unknowable – and what follows is essentially his awkward not child’s play either, artists are competing for a $10, 000 them goes: through the rest of the film, rock at best - all the sophistication of a In a number of the tracks the intricate courtship of her. cash prize – let’s just hope it doesn’t rain. this is to be slowly, devastatingly revealed. Darling Harbour residence served with a guitar work has been replaced with Ayoade makes use of off-kilter and witty techniques – his use of Cost: Free Things only become more complex when side order of fries. uncoordinated synths; it is clear this sound, for example – and there’s an ambiguity in the story that Watanabe meets the gorgeous Midori, I will be honest: I expected more; I wanted isn’t their strength and lets a number of separates this from the feel-good coming-of-age yarn, which with whom his sexual tension flies off the Also On Show Queen to sing me the menu, and then for the songs down. Thankfully, the lyrics are has been done to death anyway. Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor are screen – Kiko Mizuhara is perfectly cast in Ozzy Osbourne to bite the head off a cow what one would expect from singer Luke fantastic as Oliver’s parents – particularly Taylor, whose geeky this role. and say “dinner is served”. Instead I got Pritchard, crooning away about girls in his understatedness and mannerisms have never served him better. What Tran has accomplished with a good-ish burger, served with good-ish typical offbeat yet tuneful fashion. The Oliver, meanwhile, is an imperfect character you’ll recognise Norwegian Wood is an adaptation that fries, from a waitress with ear spacers fault of the album perhaps comes down to yourself in, despite not wanting to at certain times. Sharp- captures the essence of its notoriously so big I could probably have put my dinner the instrumentals then; the band should tongued and yet tender, Submarine has all the ingredients of a cerebral source material, while bringing his plate through them. Rock ‘n’ roll right? spend more time honing what makes them great British film. own distinctive style to it. The landscapes great, or at least spend more time in What’s in a face? Note to self: don’t start your bikini diet here. > ANDREW BLACKIE in the film are totally attuned to the rehearsals to perfect their new sound. > Art Gallery of NSW, The Domain emotions of the characters, thanks to >> Leanne Warburton The standout tracks, such as ‘Eskimo Kiss’, Until Feb 5, 2012 Ping Lin Bee’s virtuosic cinematography. are classic Kooks, perhaps they should Portraits are arguably the most enduring and accessible This is an intensely introverted, sweeping have spent more time on songs such as I expected more. I wanted art form, when we peer into a face we see history, meditation on doomed romance and trying this. Overall, a fine album, but nothing like Queen to sing me the personality, emotion and connection. The AGNSW has to come to terms with someone who has the music that made them great. menu, and then for Ozzy brought together over 45 photographs from its collection, gone. It’s as close to a masterpiece as any including works by Max Dupain and Man Ray, to explore the >> Simon Anicich film I’ve seen this year. Osbourne to bite the head how we depict and interpret faces, from the 19th century >> ANDREW BLACKIE Check out our interview with off a cow and say right up to today. director Tron Anh Hung on Cost: Free p10 page 10 ‘dinner is served’ -Hard Rock Café Sydney

Blitz S2W11 20 21 Mat Sasha Liz Science Media/Journalism Science/Law What keeps you cool headed Describe the last dream you had. What keeps you cool headed during exams and assessments? The ones involving public nudity are during exams and assessments? I like to structure myself with usually the only ones I remember. Listen to music. I love The Horrors at timetabling and spread sheets, Best item in your fridge? the moment. which is sort of boring. I also like to find some form of release, normally Vine leaves and strawberries. What’s your most cherished item through videogame violence. How do you keep your cool in the fridge at the moment? Up and Gos. Would you pay more for during exams? Fairtrade coffee? I don’t think I really do keep cool Describe the last dream Yes, I think Fairtrade is important during exams! Play really bad music you have? because it gets money out to and annoy my house mates? I went to a Prince concert but he farmers where it’s actually needed. If didn’t play ‘When Doves Cry’ and I was I have to pay a little more for that to really upset. happen, I’m OK with it. Thanks to Universal Pictures WIN 1 OF 10 Double Passes to The Thing True, it’s Joseph of Cupertino Cupertino of Joseph it’s True,

In 1982 John Carpenter made a chilling horror sci-fi flick, The Thing. Nearly 30 years 5. later, mysteries surrounding the “the thing’s” origins are elucidated in this prequel of the same name. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has travelled to Antarctica for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extra-terrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago, but it is about to wake up... o print Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin Gagarin Yuri cosmonaut, Russian not fit t To score a double pass to this spine-chilling prequel, just tell us one of the actors in the original 1982 film. 4. voice of the peeps Go to Email your answer and Arc member no. to [email protected] with the subject line ‘The Thing’. facebook.com/blitzmagops for more Vox P IN CINEMAS OCTOBER 13

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