Saturday, March 15, 2008

Three Times Dystopians WWA

Made it through another week.
Ike Yard signed agreement with LTM to have a track on their upcoming Crepsecule 'auteur label' release.
Two excellent rehearsal full length THX1138 movie run throughs and prepared for Monkeytown notice of Dystopians 4/5 shows ,
and narrowed DCC dates to LA and SF for May.
Dealt with ASCAP about an IY song left off previous round of registration ,
downloaded more music from eggcityradio and mutant sounds.
Paid attention to Tibet , the Buddhists protest then riots and Chinese police overreaction there.
Rd up on Bjork's new video - but missed the premiere on L I City.
Among other stuff.

A highlight was breakfast with Chinese artist Wei Wei Ai @ Maritime Hotel Thurdays morning.
Took the most crowded L train ever West to 8th Ave. , some stiff's elbow at my back most the way.
But to see Wei Wei smile when he looked up from morning paper was worth it.
http://blog.sina.com.cn/aiweiwei
Walking in warm sun through the W Village together with Wei Wei and his wife , artist Lu Qing
felt like the old Village used to feel.
It's been a good while since we've strolled those streets, haven't had any reason to do so really ...

And today catching Hsiao -hsien Hou's Three Times' 1911 and 2005 sequences on IFC was pretty great.
It's easy to watch Qi Shu , nice mood and music in the sequence with her singing in the club.
Ravishing cinematography and pace