Thursday, May 19, 2011

VAPOUR TRAIL THIS SUNDAY MAY 22 2011

sunday may 22 / 9 pm
the living room bar / 1355 e olive way / seattle
always no cover

sonic galaxies explored
audiovisual feedback to the future

Edited to include playlist:

Guitar - Sign Waves
Astrobrite - Crasher
Loop - Vapour
m83 - In The Cold I'm Standing
The Verve - This Is Music
Voyager One - Little Ruin
/ / / /
The Field Mice - White
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Coast To Coast [Peel Session]
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Pistacchioplaces
The Boo Radleys - Tortoiseshell
Chapterhouse - More Than I Can Take [demo]
Morpheme - Infection
The House of Love - Scratched Inside
Highspire - Chipping Campden
/ / / /
SPC ECO - For All Time
Mahogany - Synchromie No. 1
Maribel - Euphoric Licks
Exit Calm - With Angels
Medicine - Lime 6 [live]
Slowdive - Slowdive
Auburn Lull - Broken Heroes
Spacemen 3 - When Tomorrow Hits
Ride - Nowhere
Tamaryn - Love Fade
Morpheme - Stratosphere
Moose - Last Of The Good Old Days
LSD and the Search For God - This Time

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Vapour Trail / 2011/05/08 / Zerkalo playlist



This was a last-minute appearance on my part that turned into MEGAMIX to the extreme, as I busted out cut after cut.

Medicine / Time Baby 3
LSD and the Search for God / I Don't Care
Mogwai / Rano Pano
Exit Calm / You've Got It All Wrong
Airiel / This Is Why I Can't Sleep
14 Iced Bears / Rise
Slowdive / Sinewaves
Rafael Anton Irisarri / Blue Tomorrows
Mahogany / Soleil Radieux
The Boo Radleys / The Finest Kiss
Adorable / Obsessively Yours
Auburn Lull / Arc Of An Outsider
Starflyer 59 / Next Time Around
Southpacific / Alamo
Broken Little Sister / Blue
* * *
Astrobrite / Sweettart
Catherine Wheel / Strange Fruit
Ringo Deathstarr / Kaleidoscope
Ulrich Schnauss / Medusa (edit)
The Fauns / Fragile
Ride / Sennen
Moose / First Balloon To Nice
Curve / Die Like A Dog
Tears Run Rings / Forgotten
Pacific UV / Ljiv
* * *
She, Sir / Prairie Burn
My Bloody Valentine / Emptiness Inside
Film School / Sick Hipster Nursed By Suicide Girl
Monster Movie / Run To The Heart of the Sunrise
Northern Picture Library / Dear Faraway Friend

Sunday, May 8, 2011

SIFF (WWIFF??): The World's Weakest International Film Festival! 2011!

Yes! Here we go!

Waiting months and months and months for these and more:

Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo, S. Korea, 2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2010)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece, 2010)
I Wish I Knew (Jia ZhangKe, China, 2010)
The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, France, 2010)
The Erotic Man (Jorgen Leth, Denmark, 2010)
The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, 2010)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica, Romania, 2010)

Instead, at least, and only as a consolation, at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival, we get:













The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran, 2009)
Jun 2 / 7p / Egyptian
Jun 8 / 4:30p / Neptune












Norwegian Wood
(Tran Anh Hung, Japan, 2010)
Jun 11 / 6p / Egyptian
Jun 12 /330p / Egyptian












Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia, 2010)
May 21 / 1:30p / Harvard Exit
May 25 / 7p / Pacific Place 11












A Screaming Man
(Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad, 2010)
May 25 / 6:30p / Admiral
May 29 /10a / Pacific Place 11












Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes, UK, 2010)
May 24 / 7p / SIFF Cinema
May 27 / 4:30p / SIFF Cinema












The Hunter (Rafi Pitts, Iran, 2010)
Jun 1 / 6:30p / Admiral
Jun 3 / 6p / Egyptian












Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, Portugal, 2010)
May 28 / 1p / Egyptian












Outrage (Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 2010)
May 20 / 9:30p /Egyptian
May 22 / 9p / Neptune












Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, UK, 2011)
May 21 / 10p / SIFF Cinema
May 25 / 4:30p / Neptune


Beyond that, we're left with "what the hell are these, maybe they are ok" which is always a sad place to be, when there are so many things that were overlooked. Ok, so some of these things are a bit familiar, but the tentative nature of any exploration is the key.













Another Earth (Mike Cahill, USA, 2011)
May 21 / 6:30p / Egyptian
May 23 / 4:30p / Neptune












Bi, Don't Be Afraid! (Phan Dang Di, Vietnam, 2010)
May 22 / 9:30 / Pacific Place 11
May 25 / 4:30p / Pacific Place 11












Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark, China, 2010)
Jun 1 / 7p / Neptune
Jun 6 / 9:30 / Egyptian












Ex (Heiward Mak, Hong Kong, 2010)
May 20 / 1:30p / Pacific Place 11
May 22 / 9:15p / SIFF Cinema
May 23 / 9:30p / SIFF Cinema












Submarine (Richard Ayoade, UK, 2010)
May 20 / 7p / Egyptian
May 22 / 11a / Neptune












Three (Tom Tykwer, Germany, 2010)
May 20 / 7pm / Neptune
May 21 / 1:30p / Neptune












Trollhunter (André Øvredal, Norway, 2010)
May 20 / 11:59p / Egyptian
May 24 / 9:30p / Neptune

Finally, the ultimate midnight movie.














Karate-Robo Zaborgar (Noboru Iguchi, Japan, 2011)
May 27 / 11:59p / Egyptian
May 30 / 8:30 / Admiral
Jun 1 / 9:30p / Neptune


Yeah, seems like a lot, but there's so much that was missed, this is just grasping at straws and settling for what's available, at least in my case.


Late addition:


Eternity (Sivaroj Kongsakul, Thailand, 2010)
Jun 6 / 9:30p / Pacific Place
Jun 8 / 4:30p / Pacific Place

SSIFF: See Some Interesting Films First.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Vapour Trail / 2011/05/01 / Zerkalo playlist


The Ghost Orchid - Referring to Me
Maribel - Ecstatic
Ringo Deathstarr - Two Girls
Catherine Wheel - Kill Rhythm
Film School - Two Kinds
Starflyer 59 - When You Feel Miserable
/ break /
The Ghost Orchid - He'll Be Ready To Be A Hero
Chapterhouse - Losing Touch With My Mind
Curve - Galaxy
Moose - Rubdown
Northern Picture Library - Untitled #3
My Bloody Valentine - I Believe
She, Sir - Monarch
Simon Scott - An Avalanche
Swirlies - Sunn
Tears Run Rings - Distance
Voyager One - Satellite Eye
Ride - Vapour Trail
Auburn Lull - Axis Nears
Monster Movie - Falling Into The Sun
Southpacific - Round (Forget What You Feel)
Airiel - Airtight Angels
Astrobrite - Sucker


The next iteration of Vapour Trail is in one week:
Sunday May 8 2011 / 9pm
The Living Room Bar
1355 E Olive Way / Seattle

I will be exploring the edges of sonic frequencies next on:
Sunday May 22 2011 / 9pm

Always no cover