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Break Running

Here's that No Age video I was talking about a few posts back. The more I watch it the more I like it.

And a scathing review of the video:

Amazing.

The Lana Show

'The Lana Show' is finally up. It's an internet TV show where Lana Kim interviews bands in the storeroom at the Director's Bureau.

Check it out here:

Here's a preview:

Mister Lonely Q & A

If you missed this at the cinefamily while back, this is the q&a with harmony korine after the premiere:

Tonight 8pm

Watch MTV tonight at 8pm to see the debut of the new No Age music video directed Andy Bruntel. If you haven't seen any of Andy's videos I highly suggest you go here now to watch them (youtube doesn't do them justice). His video for Bonnie Prince Billy's Cursed Sleep is one of my favourite videos of all time. Truly moving.

Anyway, a bunch of us went to the the taping:

The light show was actually pretty awesome. Boom!

The proud director, Andy Bruntel

Rhianna was awesome too.

Look at Randy's joy when No Age were brought out on stage.

Dreams do come true.

See if you can spot an ecstatic Nate Harrington in the bleachers.

Thanks Lana Kim for the photos!

And in unrelated news, check out all this stuff that just arrived:
*Four brand new ALAKAZAM shirts! Featuring WILL SWEENEY and SUSUMU MUKAI. Each shirt inspired by a grindhouse film!
*New, full colour SHARY BOYLE art book, Otherwold Uprising, with an intro by SHEILA HETI
*New DVD box set of WILLIAM KLEIN films - The Delirious Fictions!
*Debut HOT AND COLD Zine featuring art by HISHAM BHAROOCHA, COLTER JACOBSEN, and JEREMY AND CLAIRE WEISS
*HAMBURGER EYES 012! Feauring photos by DEANNA AND ED TEMPLETON, RAY POTES, BOOGIE, TOBIN YELLAND, and more!
*DAN MCCARTHY monograph! Published by The Journal Mag and Anton Kern Gallery.
*New LUCKY DRAGONS record: Dream Island!
*MCSWEENEY'S 27! With artwork by ART SPIEGELMAN, DAVE EGGERS, LEONARD COHEN, DAVID SHRIGLEY, RAYMOND PETTIBON, SAUL STEINBERG, ROYAL ART LODGE, DAVID BERMAN and new short story by JIM SHEPARD
*Thick new NIEVES books by DAVID CHIEPPO, and WARJA LAVATER
*COSMIC WONDER # 2 Featuring writing by MIKE MILLS and YOSHIMI!
*New, very handsome collection of the grandfather of underground Japanese comics, YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI!
*The Americans by ROBERT FRANK, finally back in print!
*The Magnificent Excess of Snoop Dogg by KATHERINE BERNHARDT, art book published by Picturebox
*Really cool embroidered tea towel by LUKE BEST
*Brand new music by MATTHEW THURBER as Wormhole/Anti Matter. Tape only!
*Lady Luck catalogue by ANDREW WEKUA
*Book of creative tips, advice, exercises, in collage form by LYNDA BARRY, What It Is!
*Another book of dogs by WILLIAM WEGMAN, Dogs On Rocks!
*Rat's Cocoon, a silkscreened split comic by CARLOS GONAZALES, and ANYA DAVIDSON

Art

For the Children

Sam Mcpheeters & Jessica Hopper

On Thursday, June 26th at 7:30 pm these two will be doing dramatic readings of their writings at the Hope Gallery. 1547 Echo Park Ave., FREE, and certain to be exciting.

Double Literary Event!

Sunday, June 29!

At 4:30 McSweeney's and 826LA present:

Launch of the new issue of Re-Active Zine - A zine put together by high school students in collaboration with Echo Park's 826LA.

Read an article about the project:
Re:Active

Followed at 7pm by:

Launch of Triple Canopy Magazine- Issue 2!

Triple Canopy is a new online literary magazine featuring many writers that appear on Family's shelves. Roberto Bolano, Rivka Galchen, Ed Park, Jon Kessler, Wayne Koestenbaum, and more.

On the night:
Gil Blank presents remote photography  
Andrew Maxwell reads literary product trials
 Laura Steenberge shows slides of words

Trible Canopy Site

And on Friday is another Triple Canopy party you may like to attend at SiteLA:

New Lucky Dragons Record!

This is the one!

Here's a review from 'Friction':

Lucky Dragons remind me of a West Coast version of Brooklyn’s High Places on their new album Dream Island Laughing Language. The Los Angeles duo of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara (and the occasional collaborators) has been making music since 2000 and has seven albums and something like 18 releases under their belts, so maybe the comparison should be the other way around.

Dream Island marks one of the unusual instances in the group’s discography where the band made the decision to craft and album consisting of “conventional” songs. I use “conventional” lightly, Dream Island as compared to their free-form past, stacks up more as a traditional album. It may be a step in the conventional sense for Lucky Dragons that the record’s twenty-two tracks are built on the frenzied elements of pop, but for the listener, it’s like stepping into a trippy dream set on a deserted island in the southern Pacific. Handmade meets digital as primitive sounds from instruments including rocks, poppies, hands, necklaces, and bowls, along with basic sounds of mbiras, bongos, flutes, bells, and jagged electronic interruptions are cut and pasted into delicately woven experimental pop songs.

With their handmade aesthetic, Lucky Dragons knit themes of ecstatic language, folk melodies, messages of unrest,and AM radio rave-ups into this genre transcending record. The live incarnation of Lucky Dragons breaks down the barrier between audience and band where audience members may find themselves physically interacting by complimenting each other or generating sounds via skin to skin contact, causing those of us squeamish about audience participation to duck for cover.

And Luke and Sarah dropped off all this stuff: