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Jens Lekman 2012 Autumn Tour Dates:

Europe

09/11 – Aarhus, DK @ Train

09/12 – Kopenhamn, DK @ Vega

09/13 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller

09/14 – Malmo, SE @ KB

09/15 – Goteberg, SE @ Pustervik

09/17 – Stockholm, SE @ Dramaten

09/19 – Manchester, UK @ Ruby Lounge

09/20 – London, UK @ Hackney Empire

09/21 – Brighton, UK @ The Haunt

09/23 – Paris, FR @ Gaite Lyrique

09/24 – Strasbourg, FR @ La Laterie

09/25 – Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli de Helling

09/26 – Berlin, DE @ Postbahnhof

North America

10/01 – Bloomington, IN @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater *

10/02 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *

10/04 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre *

10/05 – Montreal, QC @ Le National *

10/06 – Boston, MA @ Royale Nightclub *

10/08 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5 *

10/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *

10/12 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *

10/13 – Richmond, VA @ The National *

10/15 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *

10/16 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *

11/01 – Seattle , WA @ Neptune *

11/02 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom *

11/03 – Portland, OR – Alladin Theater *

11/05 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Auditorium*

11/06 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre*

11/08 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern*

11/09 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom*

11/12 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater

11/13 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk*

11/14 - Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's*

* = w/ Taken By Trees 


For updates:
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heart's on fire

Happy Billy Ray Valentine's Day!

nba wwf

The other night I went to see the New Jersey Nets play the Chicago Bulls. Total blow out. The Nets killed it. Obviously, that is a joke. Speaking of joking, I wish Will Ferrell introduced *our* game:

maurizio cattelan at play

Maurizio Cattelan's retrospective was terrific. A totally playful, refreshing, and invigorating use of the actual museum space, and a welcome visual upset of the idea of a traditional retrospective, as such. I often feel flustered and crowded trying to negotiate other exhibits at the Guggenheim. The grotto-like galleries and hanging space along the walls are dimly lit, too contained, and the ramps too prone to traffic jams. Just the idea of going to a standard fare show there makes me drowsy, unenthusiastic, and mentally immediately heading to the cafe for dessert instead.

The giant mobile as the centerpiece of the building shifted the entire focus of the space to the bright, airy, atrium core of the building—an about-face that energized the space, transforming it into a bright, buzzing hive around a curatorial crescendo of the artist's work, with the pieces and installation as a whole conveying more dark, darkly humored, and weighty messaging steeped in inertia, limbo, death, rebellion, revolution, anarchy, persecution, dystopia, the apocalypse....etc.

The presentation alone looked at once like an actual capturing of imagination, a career hanging from the gallows, a sculptural birdcage (there were fake pigeons roosting on many of the cross beams!), an absurdist play on a Baroque Ceiling fresco, wildest dreams come true, a sculptural symphony with cartoonish Picasso as the commanding conductor...and so on. I really enjoyed winding around, rediscovering each work around every turn of curated chaos. Here are some snapshots:

god jul

Season's greetings!

just testa

The verdict is in: I would like an antelope chauffeur.