Holiday Mix Tape Swap Playlist

did my holiday mix tape for tonite's holiday mix tape swap for Only For the Open Minded... it's a hodgepodge of craziness... like my weird mood right now. hope you like at least some of it Jenny (my secret santa assigned swap victim)... whoever you are. - v

01. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
02. Traps PS - Better Friend
03. Little Dragon - Swimming
04. No Age - Eraser
05. The Damned - Neat Neat Neat
06. Le Tigre - Eau d' Bedroom Dancing
07. Deerhoof - Fresh Born
08. Buddy Holly - Everyday
09. Abe Vigoda - Bear Face
10. Gal Costa - Sebastiana
11. The Sea And Cake - Shoulder Length
12. Hanne Hukkelberg - Do Not As I Do
13. Milosh - You Fill Me
14. Maps And Atlases - Big Bopper Anthems
15. Art Damaged - Love Birds (How to Make Kids Cry)
16. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over

December Show - 12/12/09

we're playing in Hollywood for a daytime swap meet/ craft fair. so vampires beware!

12/12/2009
12:00 PM at Blue Monkey Lounge & Relax Bar
5521 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, California 90028
Cost: $3 w/ Flyer, $5 w/o
The Good, The Bad and The Lovely: a music and swap meet between Noon - 6pm with live performances by Very Be Careful, The Guppies, Subcollect, and The Miles Approach in Relax Bar.

DEaf

tonight, vivian and louie play as DEaf at tribal cafe at 12:30. come if you want to rock it while getting your juice on.

DEaf: www.myspace.com/deafbandla

$ free $
11/7/2009 7:00 PM at Tribal Cafe
1651 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, California 90026
with bands: Images, Swing Hailey, Mira La Luz, AGP

show show show

with:

dirt dress
traps ps
hello my name is red

9:30 miles approach
10:20 hello my name is red
11:10 dirt dress
12:00 traps ps

227 n avenue 55
Highland Park, California

Cost:$5
please do not bring your own booze to this one . . . you will get that sweet nectar confiscated . . . besides, drinks inside are the cheapest in town!

and we're giving away free cd's and buttons!

Tonight! Live Film Scoring at Downtown Independent

Join us for a truly special evening of live audio + visual exploration
and exclusive screening of fresh international cinema.
Live and direct from the Philippines to Los Angeles!
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SQUATTER RIGHTS: LIVE REWORKS of Philippine Nu Wave Films
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Featuring selected films by KHAVN, RAYA MARTIN, JOHN TORRES, DADA DOCOT (Philippines)
Accompanied by THE MILES APPROACH, RANI D, RED KEY EXPERIMENT (Los Angeles)

doors at 8:30pm, screens at 9pm
Downtown Independent
251 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://www.downtownindependent.com/

Rooftop Reception post-screening.
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FEATURED FILMS:

PERFORMING NATURALNESS (2008) 3 min
A Filipina living in Japan secretly confronts Japanese immigration police
at a Shinagawa train station armed only with a concept and a roll of 8mm film.

Director, Dada Docot
Visual artist and film maker emerges into the international scene
with a deeply personal and subtly defiant style.

*accompanied by Vivian Chow and Joel Quizon
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TRACK PROJECTIONS (2006) 4 min
Another video wants to be a film, as a filmmaker
travels across the world in search of another filmmaker.

Director, Raya Martin
Fresh from two features shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
and inclusion of his latest feature Independencia at the New York Film Festival.

*accompanied by Rani de Leon
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ANDREA’T (2008) 5 min
A visual intermission containing distance, face, skin,
and the pursuit of the familiar far from where the beloved sits.

Director, John Torres
Award winning and a regular of the international film festival circuit,
Torres makes idiosynchratic films that leave indelible impressions on the viewer.

*accompanied by Joel Quizon
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SQUATTERPUNK (2007) 79 min
A visual explosion of a day in the life of squatter kids
living in the urban margins of Philippines.

Director, Khavn
Musician and filmmaker, he is one of the true renegades
of the Philippine Independent Film movement.

*accompanied by The Miles Approach, Red Key Experiment
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The Miles Approach
http://www.myspace.com/themilesapproach
Inventive Los Angeles Indie trio featuring Louie Mendoza, Vivian Chow and Drew de Ramos.

Rani de Leon
http://www.myspace.com/djranid
soulful global atmospherics for the discerned dancefloor.

Red Key Experiment
http://www.myspace.com/redkeyexperiment
Drew de Ramos and Joel Quizon. Sound collage on four turntables and eclectic vinyl selections.
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Curated by Philippines filmmaker, Ruelo Lozendo
and presented by LA filmmakers Maya Santos & Joel Quizon
with support from Visual Communications (http://www.vconline.org) and the 2009 Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture (http://www.filmamarts.org), Sept. 12-13!

photo by Buccino de Ocampo.
flyer by Light Friends.
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DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT THEATER
http://www.downtownindependent.com/

Live Performance Score to "Squatterpunk"

9/11/2009 8:00 PM at Downtown Independent Theater
251 South Main St (Between 2nd and 3rd Streets), Los Angeles, California

The Miles Approach plays alongside Red Key Experiment as a live performance score to a great Black & White film from the Philippines entitled "Squatterpunk".

SQUATTER RIGHTS: Philippine Nu Wave Films REWORKED @ Downtown Independent.

Films by Khavn, Raya Martin, John Torres, Dada Docot / Music by Rani D, The Miles Approach, Red Key Experiment

flyer for the old town pub show

The Miles Approach plays first at 9-ish!
7/22/2009 9:00 PM at Old Town Pub
66 N Fair Oaks, Pasadena, California 91103
www.myspace.com/themilesapproach

Illustration by comic artist, Paul Pope

Another new show!

The Miles Approach just got another show in July!

7/22/2009 9:00 PM at Old Town Pub
66 N Fair Oaks, Pasadena, California 91103
with Clark 8... more tba

and we just found out that our friends, The Hard To Get, will be playing at the July 5th show at The Airliner too!

R.I.P. Michael Jackson

they just don't make music videos like this anymore...




these costumes are freaking fantastic! "I Want You Back"

Video Flyer for July 5th show @ The Airliner

Update: we just found out that our friends, The Hard To Get, will be playing at the July 5th show at The Airliner too!