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:


An engraved 5"!


A very craftily designed zine of pencil drawings called 'Greyscale Gardens'!


And 'Show Them To Me in the Sunlight' - With a centrefold and dustjacket!

Hamburger Eyes Video Of LA Trip

A spellbinding foray.

Stan Winston.

Bummer.

Mystical Unionists Review - Becky Stark Interview

Check it out at Future Shipwreck

No Regrets

Come to the lovely Aviva Yael's book launch on Wednesday night at the Cha Cha!



"Aviva Yael and P. M. Chen spent a year going to tattoo conventions and tattoo studios all over the country, chasing, stalking, e-mailing, calling, interviewing, ambushing, and hunting down whomever they could in order to find the most insane tattoos out there. What started out as a joke in a bar became a year-long tattoo safari that's presented here in all its full color, balls-to-the-wall, train-wreck/beauty-pageant glory."

we got the shary boyle book in the shop sammy posted about a two months ago, plus some more books about no wave.

The Mystical Unionists: Enter The Cartoon Utopia

Becky Stark and Ron Regé, Jr are The Mystical Unionists
Saturday, June 7, 8:30pm
Hope Gallery
1547 Echo Park Ave 90026

The Mystical Unionists will perform on opening night at 9pm!

For one month the The Mystical Unionists will turn The Hope Gallery into an ultra-optimistic projection of the future, via constant in-house drawing, musical performances, and puppet theatre. 'Enter the Cartoon Utopia' aims to inspire viewers towards positive imaginings for their surroundings, and the empowerment for their realisation.

Utililising his distinctive cartoon line-drawing style, Rege envisions a future utopia, drawing largely from the Los Angeles cityscape, and the short-lived genre of 60s utopian sci-fi novels. Stark's installation consists of multiple miniature stages for future-utopian puppet shows, as well as musical performances and dance, featuring Stark and friends.