Mission Mission

You love these guys, right? Here’s exactly what’s going down at their Disposal Film Festival appearance this Saturday at CELLspace:

The band will lead a VideoSong Workshop at 8, followed by a live performance. Learn the methods, tips, and tricks for documenting your work and making your own VideoSongs.

Bring your own camera and learn the methods, tips, and tricks for documenting your work and making your own VideoSongs. We’ll be featuring the resulting disposable films in the coming weeks!

Fun! Here’s the official poster:

View a complete event listing here.

Watch more Pomplamoose here.

Yeah, I’m definitely coming back to this place on Sunday after the hubbub’s died down. Get my game on. (Seriously, I brought my paddle, the one I won by trouncing that “World Champion” they brought in for the McSweeney’s ping pong book launch.)

I guess it’s Sofia Coppola Week here on Mission Mission. Today, our buddy Therese shares a note she got from a friend of hers who happens to be a crazy Frenchman. Therese was tickled by his broken English:

Therese I love Sofia Coppola. The Virgin Suicide made me CREAM INSide my paints. Ah what a blissful moment. It’s the best movie I have watched in a few. Well this year I loved the Life of Others but it was different. Less american probably. Excellent movie btw.

I guess I was also really happy to see why you liked it. I also thought it was very balanced. Very well finished and complex in a way. Finally some density on my f**king screen, I was deinflating over here, if you see what i mean.

Oh, I see. Read on for his take on the soundtrack by “the world widely acclaimed FRENCH band Air.”

[Photo by Albert Domasin]

Previously:

‘Somewhere’, the new Sofia Coppola movie you forgot to see a couple months back, now playing at the Roxie

This trailer is so good, I know it’s hard to imagine the movie itself living up to it. And, really, the picture quality on this little YouTube box is in many ways preferable to the fuzzy, not-bright-enough projection at the Roxie. BUT, I saw this movie there last night and had a wonderful time.

So if you’re like me and you like oddly paced movies with very little dialogue and a pretty bare-boned story, check it out. At the very least, you’ll have a good time arguing about it with your buddy that hated it over drinks after.

Elephant 6, the collective made up of Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Apples in Stereo and many other indie rock favorites, have been working on this feature film Major Organ and the Adding Machine for a while, and on Sunday, they’re screening it at the Roxie. AND playing some songs. Their show at the Independent the night before is sold out, so if you don’t have tickets to that, you might want to hurry up and buy tickets to this.

OR, you could try to win tickets by entering our contest. Leave a comment below relating a personal anecdote about any Elephant 6 project or any instance of a group of musicians making a foray into the realm of cinema, and we’ll pick two winners based on merit. Each winner will get a pair of passes. Contest ends at 8pm on Thursday.

Even James Joyce needed to start somewhere.  In case you didn’t know, there’s a unique little preschool here in the Mission whose mission is to prepare children to always respect and exude creativity through art, music, and other non-traditional methods (like constructing forts and giant robots).  If you’re a little confused, fear not, since they will be hosting a documentary at Brava Theater demonstrating exactly what makes the Buen Dia Family School and its methods so special.   Check out all the details here.

All I know is that I wish I had the chance to construct giant robots in preschool!

[Photo by Kozy Shack]

Last Tuvan throat singing post of the weekend, I promise.

In case you missed last night’s Tuvan throat singing extravaganza at Kaleidoscope, Genghis Blues: the movie which made it all possible, is screening tonight at the Roxie at 7:15pm. Best of all, after the movie Kongar-ol Ondar will be performing!

The Genghis Blues Review last night was totally packed, but it was an awesome time. Kongar-ol Ondar did some traditional songs, but also took us back Tuva future with this folk-rock inspired number:

He also invited local singer and vocal teacher Karina Denike up to, uh, feel his diaphragm.

Late Saturday night I got a text from somebody (pictured) lucky enough to attend John Waters’ pricey benefit show at (and for) our favorite (and only) neighborhood movie theater:

John Waters just promised to start the Abortion Film Festival at the Roxie.

Oh, good! Can’t wait!

[Photo by Frank Chan]

In a new interview with the director of Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, First Things blows the lid off Stillman’s floor drugs habit:

Little details often interest Stillman. He spent a couple of minutes during one interview collecting tiny white balls off the floor. He thought they were pills but lost interest when he discovered they were your typical over-the-counter breath mints.

What a scoop! Read on if you like Whit Stillman and/or want to hear about his forthcoming film and where he’s been at for the last 12 years.

Floor drugs!

[via whitstillman.org] [Photo by Damien Basile]

Previously:

Floor Drugs

Yeah, they’re making Tintin.

[Photo by A Personal Inventory]

Previously:

Microsoft Street Art