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This is a must see. A stark and minimal vampire “coming of age” classic. In fact, I don’t think I’ve seen a better vampire film, and even without regard for genre it would rank in my top 20 movies of all time. The horror is subtle, Japanese style. Much is left to the imagination. But there are two scenes in particular that put it on par with films as visually creative as The Exorcist. A+ and favorite film of 2008. It’s playing at the Plaza in the ATL now.

A recent comment spam I thought I should share. I confess to being very intrigued.

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You’ve all probably seen these by now, but I’ve been in the studio the last two weekends, which makes them all the more punishingly funny. The most surreal and artfully decomposed mock-ups of all time perhaps. This is the Maiden one, the Metallica is also curl up on the floor funny. Wired put them up because Youtube took them down. This almost erases the pain of un-super Tuesday.

Well, that’d be cool wouldn’t it? If I was heading off on some intergalactic adventure. Fantasies aside, I’m headed to Europe, with Magnapop, for a couple of weeks. If you’re nearby…yo- check it!

Tuesday August 7
HAMBURG, DE
Molotow club

Wednesday August 8
JOURE, NL
Café de Stam club
Free show !

Thursday August 9
ZICHEM, BE
Den Hemel club

Friday August 10
LOKEREN, BE
Fonnefeesten festival

Saturday, August 11th
WATERINGEN, NL
Waterpop festival

AND…

ANTWERPEN, BE
Petrol ‘Summer Night City’

Sunday, August 12
ELL, NL
Ell Nino festival

Here’s a really funny documentary short I saw last night as part of the AFF done by David Moore of Eyekiss films. Check it out, you will laugh, and if you don’t, it’s definitely your problem. Music by The Georgia Fireflies.

The Agrifolk Art Movement:

Then continue with part 2 and part 3.

Yo, check it. Atlanta Film Festival starts today.

Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and Valentino Achak Deng, Sudanese refugee and subject of Egger’s new quasi-fictional biography What is the What?, spoke tonight at the Margaret Mitchell house. It was one of those typical writerly events, free cheese with $10 admission, annoying introductions (what for?), no drum solos, minor technical difficulties. Dave didn’t speak much about his writing as most of the time was spent interviewing the affable Valentino who spoke about the tragedy and fortune that led him to the US. Interestingly enough, the aspect that moved me the most wasn’t so much the genocide tragedy (which, like all of them, are so awful they are difficult to even process) but Valentino’s emphasis on the fact that he did not suffer, that he escaped the suffering, and that those who didn’t escape are the ones who suffered. Now that, is fucking human. Survivor guilt was palpable, paralleled with the first-world status guilt of the audience, most of whom were not refugees, and whose lives nowhere approached this level of tragedy. Whose most taxing dilemmas stem from having too many choices to contemplate. How we labor over freedom, if we have the luxury.

Someone is screaming sell-out, by defacing street art in NY. But is it cool? Is it art when you destroy art? Hmmm…I’m thinking of a brigade of nihilist dadas…interesting.

In recent years, some of these young artists have been embraced by galleries, museums and collectors, and there are those who fear that the practice might become perceived primarily as an avenue to greater recognition.

The pasted screeds that appeared with the splatters seem to stem from such concerns. They are headlined “Avant-Garde: Advance Scouts for Capital” or “Art: The Excrement of Action.” Statements at the bottom of the pages warn that the paste used to affix them has been mixed with shards of glass.

I like the manifesto aspect of it, that much I’ll admit. Because manifestos and secret messages are cool. I don’t know about raining on someone’s parade though…isn’t that what cops do? My guess is that this art vandal is a embittered cop who always dreamed of being an artist, but never had the chops to make it.

An alternative to destroying art would be to simply poop near it. Duh.