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Every
Tuesday in May
For the next 10 weeks, through the end of June,
Monkey Town will host a slew of film and video screenings, with
a special focus on live concert footage, original music videos,
and behind-the-scene documentaries of the emerging music scene
in Bangkok. All of this is a small PR push to help you beat a
path to the Lincoln
Center Festival for their staging of Ramakien:
A Rak Opera (July 28, 29, and 30), directed
by Rirkrit Tiravanija with contributions from
Sek Loso, Modern Dog, Pru,
Palmy and many others.
Tuesday,
May 2
8pm Very Common of Modern Dog,
FREE
Bangkok's Radiohead goes unplugged. A concert video. And we quote...
"modern
dog is bangkok's radiohead/rem. a couple of years ago,
they
enlisted german filmmaker Zoran Bih_______ (Eisturzend Neubauten/Rammstein
videos) and Japanese architect Jiro Endo and rapper Fugging Hero
to collaborate on an un-plugged concert. The Very Common of Modern
Dog is the result . The non-proper English is their knowing wink
to Thaiglish. An English dictionary translated acoustic folk as
"very common" so they went with it."
10pm Last
Life in the Universe, FREE
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's death and love story. And we quote...
"the new wave of thai film's 2004 coming out party with an
international (japanese, korean and thai) cast, cinematography
by Hong Kong auteur Christopher Doyle, a script by award winning
novelist Prabda Yoon and a score by The Photo Sticker Machine.
Death and love are so intrusive, when all you want to do is commit
suicide. Asano Tadanobu won the best actor award at the Venice
Film Festival."
Tuesday,
May 9
8pm Bakery
Music 10th Anniversary, FREE
Pru, Joey Boy, and the Bakery Dancing Girls
"Bakery Music is the Motown and Sub-Pop of Bangkok. This
concert is a
celebration by and of the artists that made a difference and created
a sensation. Pru is the spiders from mars with lemon grass; Joey
boy,
our ladies love kool eminem from the B to the K to the K; and
the girls of Bakery give j-pop a lesson in cute as a weapon."
10pm 6ixtyNin9,
FREE
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's mistaken identity thriller
"a black (magic) comedy from the nineties: when pen-ek
hit his stride; more twists than Memento and more laughs
than Reservoir Dogs."
Tuesday,
May 16
8pm Sek
Loso, FREE
Thailand's rock hero filmed live, up-close, and personal
From his MySpace page:
BANG KOK ROCK
"LoSo is the biggest band in Thailand. However rather than
thinking of LoSo purely as a Thai band, think of them as a band
with a lead singer who just happens to be Thai. When he was 14,
Sek Loso (ie LowSociety), the son of itinerant rice farmers, moved
to Thailand to child labor in a jewelry sweat shop. He saved up
enough to buy a guitar, mastered it and talked his way on to the
stage at the best live pub (Austin Pub). Within a year he was
leading the house band, playing covers of Thai rock, indie and
pop, as well as Greenday, Nirvana, the Stones and Hendrix. Within
a couple years, he had written ten songs. He recorded them in
a night and sent the tape to Assinee (the biggest rock star at
the time in Thailand). Assinee released the tape as was on his
indy imprint through Grammy (Thailand's biggest label). It sold
one and a half million copies. Over the next eight years, loso
released 8 more albums. Each sold at least a million. A couple
of them sold three million (in a third world country of 60 million
people where 2/3s live in the sticks). Two years ago, Sek read
the Jimi Hendrix biography and was inspired to follow the Hendrix
gameplan. He moved to England last year, and enrolled in English
as a second language school, for 6 months intensive; he now speaks
near perfect English with a posh accent!..."
10pm Ong-Bak,
FREE
Tony Jaa is the new Jet Li
Tuesday,
May 23
8pm Modern Dog 10th Anniversary, FREE
"the full electric retrospective concert by the Bangkok art-noise
kings with a staging as complicated as a choreographed Korean
stadium show."
10pm Tropical
Malady, FREE
"in the jungles of Northern Thailand the trees glow at night
with the
phosphorescence of millions of glow worms and fire flies. that
much is true. all the rest is open to interpretation."
Tuesday,
May 30
8pm Palmy
Concert Film, FREE
"Siamese Cocteau Twin? Fiona Mango? Indochinead O'Connor?"
Student Weekly: If you had to dress sexy like
some other pop stars, which style would you choose, Christina
Aguilera or Britney Spears?
Palmy: I can't imagine myself dressing sexy.
And if I did, I would never look as beautiful as these two girls.
Student Weekly: If you had to do a duet with
another singer, which singer would you sing with?
Palmy: P'Ome (Chatri Khongsuwan).
Student Weekly: What is your favorite Karaoke
song?
Palmy: I like to sing "Torn" by Natalie
Embruglia.
10pm Suriyothai,
FREE
Francis Ford Coppola edit where Ben Hur beats Braveheart
on the set of the original King and I
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