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Literary/I Want My DVDs - Interim Edition

Since we forewent book reviews in the Gangs Issue and the Appalachia Issue is all poor/coal-related (read: downers), we figured it'd be a charitable departure for us to mention a few of the regular things we've been into lately, such as ...

London - Gumball 3000

Win tickets to see the global premiere of 3000 Miles, a documentary about this year’s London to Los Angeles Gumball rally. The film follows the action, high speed antics, sabotage and revenge of MTV Jackass stars Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Tony Hawk, Mike Vallely and Rooftop Escamilla. The premiere will be followed by a huge party featuring live bands, artists and DJs. To win tickets to this event, just email us.

Melbourne – Semi-automatic Rampage

George Gittoes is that Australian guy who made the incredible Soundtrack To War documentary a few years ago about what American soldiers were listening to while they were taking out the enemy in Iraq. While filming there, George met a rapper who told him that his hometown in Miami made Baghdad look like Disneyland and invited George to visit after he had served his term. Rampage is basically the story of the rapper and his family who live in a near-deserted ghetto in Miami called Browns Sub. It’s completely amazing and fucked up and it makes you realise just how bad for people guns are. Everyone there owns a gun and kids play with guns and guess what? Tonnes of people die. Crazy...

Los Angeles - Siamese Twin Film Screening

We're hosting an advance screening of the new IFC film 'Brothers of the Head'. It's about these conjoined twins who form a punk band in the UK sometime in the 1970s. The directors and the twins will be there to answer questions after the film too. If you'd like to check it out, RSVP to: Brothersoftheheadla@viceland.com

Tuesday, August 1st, 7pm @ The Los Feliz 3 – 1822 Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

Check the trailer here.

There's an afterparty with some bands and djs at Safari Sam's - 5214 Sunset Blvd. It will be a good time as long as the twins get as drunk as they did at the NYC afterparty.

SLITHER

We saw this DVD box in China for A History of Violence where they accidentally wrote “This is a great movie for an hour” on the front. They wrote that because they don’t know English so good but the review applies perfectly to The Devil and Daniel Johsnton. It starts out as a great movie thanks to obsessive documenting by Johnston (kind of like Tarnation if Jonathan Caouette was worth caring about) but after Daniel gets fat so does the movie. We kept looking over at each other the whole last half hour rolling our hands like referees and going, “Okay guys, wrap it up.”
Don’t these filmmakers show their movies to anybody first? Dude, we loved watching a young Daniel Johnston lose his mind. We loved hearing about the story behind Hello How Are You and Yip Jump Music but do we really have to hear about a friend of his marrying some girl he dated once, and then see pictures of them on the beach, and then see a drawing of a picture of them on the beach, and then a tape recording of Daniel saying his pal has “A lucky soul?” Yawn.

NEW YORK - AWESOME! BEASTIE BOYS STILL FUCKING UP.

Last night the Beastie Boys premiered their concert film "Awesome I Fuckin' Shot That" in New York. The concept was kind of novel, and given that these guys used to be great (all the way until to '94), we went to check it out.  BIG Mistake.

What the fuck went wrong with these dudes? For 12 years it's the same deal: they have a great idea (give 60 fans video cameras at their Madison Square Garden show and then make a movie out of the footage), and then butcher the fuck out of it, because Yauch or whomever can't get over his giant ego and the idea that anything they've done since the "Sabotage" video has  mattered. Aren't you a buddhist or something, there, Cochese?

NEW YORK - 3-D

Wait, you’re in New York this weekend and you’re not going to get stoned and go to the IMAX to see Deep Sea 3-D? You’re kidding right? What, you hate being underwater and watching giant jellyfish eat each other right in your face? Oh, that’s boring? Sorry, I didn’t know you were God.
Everyone else has to go to the Loews Lincoln Square IMAX Theatre at 1998 Broadway & 68th St. (212-336-5000) and see if they can not blurt out, “Holy Shit!”

NEW YORK – NYUFF

Anthology Film Archives Dukes of Masturb Saturday March 11th / 7:00 Upstairs Monday March 13th / 5:45 Upstairs If Saturday night was at all representative of this year’s New York Underground Film Festival they ought to change their name to the Shit York Stupidground Boring Festival. What a fiasco! ... MORE

LONDON - KIDULTHOOD

VICE is hosting the premiere afterparty. UK hip-hop ambassadors Roots Manuva, Skinnyman, and Blak Twang will battle on the mic, while the kidults get drunk on the free booze.
Competition: Send us a your review of Kidulthood and get a copy of the movie soundtrack. Least worst wins.