The dude abides in McCarren Park tonight as Summerscreen presents The Big Lebowski. The movie starts at sundown, music before the film starts after the doors open at 6pm. Tonight’s music: Kleenex Girl Wonder, Tanks Amigo (members Crystal Stilts + Cause Co-Motion! + My Teenage Stride), presented by Showpaper/Trans-Pecos.

Food by Handsome Hanks, PizzaMoto, Coolhaus, Between the Buns, V Spot, La Crepe C’est Si Bon, and Landhaus. Beer and cider are available from Sixpoint and the Rekorderlig Cider Lounge. Here’s a tip: check out the demonstration of “Active Park Assist” by Lincoln (the car), and get a voucher for $20 to use at any of the food vendors!

McCarren Park, No. 12th St. between Bedford Ave. and Berry St.
Doors open at 6pm, with food vendors and live music. Films at sundown, free!
byob is ok + there’s a bar // food trux // kid friendly

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Buy Bear in Heaven’s new album, Time Is Over One Day Old at Rough Trade NYC starting at 11am August 4 to get two wristbands for entry to the evening event.

If you buy the album from Rough Trade on Monday you’ll get a wristband guaranteeing entry to to the show at 6:30pm. Otherwise entry is first come, first served, and capacity is limited, so get there early.

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James and Jas of Simian Mobile Disco, though quite different in personality, are both modest fellows. In conversation each of them, more than once, puts the success of SMD down to sheer luck – however, this is not really true. Yes, they were in the right place at the right time in some senses, but it takes an awful lot more than that to bring an album as sonically glorious and ambitious as Unpatterns to as broad an audience as they are managing to reach.

In April, Simian Mobile Disco trekked out to the Southern California desert, taking with them just two modular synths, two sequencers, and a mixer. Over a period of three days, they jammed and rehearsed in the desert, culminating in a one off sold out show at Pappy & Harriet’s, Pioneertown, allowing 900 fans to witness part of the recording process. Those sessions, taped under the desert sky, became the basis for their brand new album “Whorl”. Now, after completing mixing and mastering, they are pleased to announce that the final studio album will be released through Anti Records (Tom Waits, Kate Bush) on September the 8th.

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Pasolini’s Outline of a Screenplay for a Film about Saint Paul (in the Form of Notes for a Production Director)

Light Industry hosts a reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unrealized screenplay for a film about St. Paul, which is being published this summer in its first-ever English translation. Written relatively late in his career, between the time of his work on Teorema and Salò, it is less a traditional scenario than an evocative treatment, broken down into 112 brief, poetic descriptions of shots and sequences. As with Pasolini’s earlier Gospel According to St. Matthew, the piece reclaims a key episode of the New Testament and reveals the revolutionary political potential of its message.

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