Diagonals at Beauty Bar

My band Diagonals and Big Black Smoke will be playing at Beauty Bar, 10PM
(Friday, June 1st.)

Quasar Hernandez at Rooftop Films

Dave and Nathan's short Quasar Hernandez will be playing at the first Rooftop Films outdoor show of the year, on the lawn of Fort Greene Park.

Quasar Hernandez (Nathan & David Zellner | Austin, TX | 10:00)
In this sweet, realist narrative, an intergalactic space warrior and his big brother sit on a playground swing and talk about the future, before bidding each other a fond “Quasar Hernandez.”

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The gravy, I pass.

Beach House - Master of None

Other Minds, Other Worlds: Global Sci-Fi Cinema | Austin Film Society

Chale Nafus, programmer for the Austin Film Society very graciously allowed me and several other Austin film buffs to help program a few slots in the upcoming Summer Science Fiction series. I'm incredibly excited to see the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Fantastic Planet, two films from the recent touring Russian SF series and Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira play- some of the films should be showing at the new Alamo Ritz location when it opens (looks like the first few will be downtown and the rest will be at South Lamar).
It should be a great summer!
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - NIGHT WARNING - Susan Tyrrell Live!

June 27th marks the last Weird Wednesday screening at the original Alamo Drafthouse location, and it's going to be a tremendous note to go out on- Night Warning (A Butcher, A Baker, A Nightmare Maker) with the incomparable Susan Tyrrell in attendance!

If we have to go, you know we're going to go out in style. The first ten years of the Alamo have been absolutely amazing for all of us involved, and we can only hope that they've been at least half that great for all of you. There are so many people who have so many memories wrapped up inside this building that June 27th is sure to be an emotional night for us all. But before we get all weepy about it, we're going to throw one last party and when all's said and done, we'll even let you take your seat home with you so you can have a piece of Alamo history with you forever and ever. Tickets for "Last Night at the Alamo" go on sale on May 27.

Midnite: NIGHT WARNING - with SUSAN TYRRELL LIVE!

For our very last show we will spotlight a style of film and a style of filmgoer that is close to our heart. This is the last Weird Wednesday--the last movie--in fact, at the Original Alamo, and you'd better believe we put a lot of thought into this one. And we feel pretty confident that this movie is about as good as it can ever possibly get. Seriously. This is a completely stunning ensemble cast horror film that delivers with non-PC attitudes, shocking violence, a well sketched small-town milieu and one of the great performances in the history of the genre from Susan Tyrrell. She goes from seductive to clinging to terrifyingly murderous and back again at light speed. She's the Ferrari of actresses. It's the kind of performance that would be highly acclaimed in a mainstream movie but as it's in a disreputable horror movie the only people likely to see it are the kinds of twisted degenerates who stay up all night on a weeknight watching sick movies at the Alamo. Maybe that's fair. With Bo Svenson as a brutal, homophobic cop and Jimmy McNichol as the kid caught in the middle. Intense, terrifying and wrong. This is what it's all about. And if you don't agree, then fuck you. (Lars)

Pecha Kucha Night

Austin Pecha Kucha Night
Co-sponsored by Austin Film Society
Thursday May 10

At the studio of fd2s (500 Chicon, between 5th and 6th)
Doors open at 7:30pm
Show begins at 20:20 (8:20pm)

The Pecha Kucha virus has spread to the Third Coast. Started in Tokyo, Pecha Kucha, a Japanese term meaning chit-chat, is a controlled creative convergence of designers, architects and other artists.

Presenters are invited to show their work in a very tight format - 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. And then the next one is up. It's like speed dating but more fun. An evening will feature 10 or so presenters in an informal environment, watched by an energetic and imbibing crowd. Austin is joining a host of cities to celebrate, support and enjoy the work of local designers.

Klein Dytham architecture started this concept in Tokyo in 2003. It has spread to over 40 cities world wide, including several in the US: LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, and New York.

Austin is now on the list. A group of architects, designers and others have gathered to stage Pecha Kucha Night here. Staying true to its Tokyo roots, the Austin edition will be grounded in architecture and design, with other media included. Visual arts, electronic media, photography, architecture - anything that can be represented in a series of slides over the course of 6 minutes and 40 seconds will be in play.

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Bedazzled!: "Diabolik" Film Stills

If you don't know this movie, I suggest you get off your ass and get it. Everybody else enjoy these stills.Danger: Diabolik Film Stills

The Professor Brothers - Future Thoughts

Be in my video art project this summer

This summer I am finally setting up to start recording my Video Vocabulary of folks- content for a video installation I'm going to do at Mass Gallery and then hopefully in new and changing configurations in as many weird spaces as I can stick it. I'm not going to go into a whole lot of detail about the project right here and now, but suffice to say it's built largely out of people and words. I'm going to video tape you for exaclty one minute, and you're going to write a word of your choosing in the air. it can be any word, from "The" to "Toxoplasmosis". Swear words are fine, but there needs to be little boring words once in a while too.
If you are going to be available to be videotaped in Austin sometime between June and August, please send me a picture of yourself, preferably head and shoulders straight on, and in the title of your email write, "Vocabulary, *your name here* *your word here".
Send it to weevil at wileywiggins dot com. I'm going to be using a lot of my friends, but I'd like to spread out and get some new faces as well.

Diagonals at Alamo's Music Monday, May 7th

This monday we'll be playing before the movie "We Were Never here: A Film About Mutter " at the Alamo Drafthouse downtown. The movie starts at 9:45, so we'll probably be going on around nine. This will be one of our last few shows for a while as we're losing our guitarist Michael to some rinky-dink art school in New York called "Columbia University". I guess he must have drawn one of those turtles or pirates on the back of a book of matches really well.

Music Monday: We Were Never Here Showing at the Downtown Drafthouse on Monday May 7th at 9.45pm

WITH DIAGONALS PLAYING LIVE BEFORE THE MOVIE!

US PREMIERE!

The German avant-rock band MUTTER is virtually unknown in the US, and may in fact only spark recognition in those familiar with the transgressive horror films of Jorg Buttgereit (NEKROMANTIK), whose 1993 film SCHRAMM involved the collaboration of MUTTER frontman Max Muller as composer and drummer Florian Koerner Von Gustorf as the title character (a delusional serial killer who hallucinates and has sex with a blow-up female torso). Made up of longtime vets from the German art-rock scene, most notably from bands like HONKAS and CAMPING SEX, MUTTER's often slow, heavy, brutish sound is undercut and refracted by self-mockery and humour - the latter of which makes them unique among their contemporaries. Mixing tour footage, interviews, and private super 8 films, the documentary takes us back to the Berlin of the 80s and early 90s.

Can culture dictate the way we see? - being-human - 04 May 2007 - New Scientist

Researchers found that the brains of older East Asian people respond less strongly to changes in the foreground of images than those of their Western counterparts. They suggest this difference is due to an increased emphasis on the background, or context, of images in some Asian cultures.

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