true stories

Nate Wey of the Portland-based music projects Souvenir Driver and Happy Prescriptions, organized a bi-coastal screening of David Byrne's True Stories between Brooklyn and Portland.  Adding to the awesomeness of this film, Nate organized a live score to all of the Talking Heads songs played throughout to be broadcasted between Portland and Brooklyn.  Basically, bands from both cities alternated playing while a live video projection on the wall opposite to the film showed the bands from either city to each other.  After the film, the event turned into a dance party/dance-off between Brooklyn and Portland.  Fun times.
For those who have not seen this film, True Stories is a fictional documentary of the lives of Midwestern Americans residing in an industrial Texas town.  I call this film a fictional documentary because Byrne depicts the lives and events of seemingly typical Midwesterners in a seemingly Midwestern town, but this typicality serves as an obvious veil to the magic operating within everything and everyone.  True Stories is a commentary on the technological movement in the 1980s, and takes on a child-like curiosity towards its growing influence.  Overall, the mood is a commingling of nostalgia, absurdity, sadness, comedy, and hope.  Also, John Goodman in his younger years...
Now for some videos.  I went a little youtube crazy, but they're all so good! The first two are a sample from the event, and the rest are some of the musical scenes from the film.  Sorry for the potential spoiler.

This event was hosted by Dysjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center, a non-profit org focused on the contemporary arts.

The bands that played were:
Portland
Alan Singley (http://myspace.com/alansingley)
Soft Paws (http://myspace.com/softpawsband)
The Woolen Men (http://myspace.com/thewoolenmen)
Souvenir Driver (http://souvenirdriver.com/)
Highway (http://myspace.com/highwaybob)
Dj Ashley Gowith

Brooklyn
Serica Ux (http://sericaux.bandcamp.com/)
The White Kittens (http://myspace.com/thegoldenkittens)
David Aaron Hurwitz (http://davidaaronhurwitz.bandcamp.com/)
Minerva Lions (http://minervalions.bandcamp.com/)
DJ Ambassador Falafel
 
Contact info:
Nate Wey - http://natewey.com/
Disjecta - http://disjecta.org/main.php