Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong

[thatguy]

Dengue Fever is one of the bands in the Outside Lands 2009 lineup. I was reading the band bio on the Outside Lands site and they mentioned this documentary from last year:

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If you have satellite you should check it out. They play "Ethiopium" live which was the song of theirs included on the Broken Flowers soundtrack (actually it's a Mulatu Astatke song they covered). It was the song that got me into them in the first place. They didn't play it when I saw them live at Bimbo's.

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-tg

[thatguy]

I'm marking my calendar:

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The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23–May 7) announces one of the most highly anticipated special events of each year's Festival, the annual pairing of live music with an iconic silent film. The genre-busting pop band Dengue Fever will perform the world premiere of their newly composed original score for the first cinematic adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure yarn The Lost World at the historic Castro Theatre on Tuesday, May 5 at 8:00 pm. A journal points to the existence of dinosaurs in current times. An expedition is formed to find these lost creatures. Harry Hoyt's adaptation of The Lost World (1925), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric reptiles still roam, stars Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery and Lloyd Hughes. Willis O'Brien's pioneering stop-motion special effects of prehistoric beasts encountered by the scientific expedition are a precursor to his remarkable animation achievements for 1933's King Kong. The Lost World was entered into the National Film Registry in 1998. The George Eastman House is providing a restored print with simulated tinting. “The Lost World is a classic exploration of mankind's fascination with its own prehistory. It contains amazing animated sequences and inventive costumes and sets depicting a land that time forgot,” said Film Society Programmer Sean Uyehara. “Today, audiences can also read the film as a campy depiction of how we once imagined the age of dinosaurs. It is also full of anachronistic cultural stereotypes regarding science, marriage and race. Like the territory depicted in the film, Dengue Fever's music evokes a time and place of memory. The band, which hails from Los Angeles, plays 1960s-style psychedelic Cambodian pop. Both the band and film both conjure up a nostalgia for a time and place that may never have existed.”
Ticket Price: $15 - $20
Show Time:8:00pm
Ages:All Ages
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--tg

[El Dingo]

Crap. I'll be in Vegas but that sounds really cool.

I saw Phillip Glass conduct an orchestra for the original 'Beauty and the Beast'.

Live music + movies = awesome.