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DAZED AND CONFUSED VIRTUAL REUNION TABLE READ / THIS IS SPINAL TAP: A VIRTUAL REUNION

The cast of Dazed and Confused is reuniting for benefit live script reading

DAZED AND CONFUSED LIVE SCRIPT READING
Sunday, October 11, minimum donation, 7:30
marchforscience.org
votolatino.org

Alright, alright, alright! Virtual reunions have been all the rage during the pandemic lockdown, from Josh Gad’s “Reunited Apart” YouTube series, which has brought back the casts of such films as Back to the Future, Splash, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, to Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley’s daily Stars in the House get-togethers with the casts of Mean Girls, Fun Home, One Day at a Time, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, and many others in addition to live reunion readings of plays, all free but with donations encouraged.

Sean Penn recently raised money for CORE, which promotes Covid-19 testing and other community programs, with a celebrity script reading of Fast Times at Ridgmont High with superstars who were not in the movie (Jennifer Aniston, Dane Cook, Morgan Freeman, Jimmy Kimmel, Shia LaBeouf, John Legend, Ray Liotta, Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts, as well as Penn not as Spicoli). With the election approaching, script readings and reunions have reached a new level as they seek to help flip red states to blue, including a terrific live virtual reading of The Princess Bride (with Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, director Rob Reiner, and others) for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, followed by a Veep reunion, headed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

On October 11 at 7:30, the original cast of Richard Linklater’s classic 1993 film, Dazed and Confused, will reunite to support the Voto Latino Foundation and the March for Science. The live reading will feature all your favorites: Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson, Ben Affleck as O’Bannion, Parker Posey as Darla, Jason London as Pink, Joey Lauren Adams as Simone, Adam Goldberg as Mike, Anthony Rapp as Tony, Rory Cochrane as Slater, Marissa Ribisi as Cynthia, Cole Hauser as Benny, Deena Martin as Shavonne, Esteban Powell as Carl, Christine Harnos as Kaye, Wiley Wiggins as Mitch, Michelle Burke as Jodi, Mark Vandermeulen as Tommy, Sasha Jenson as Don, Jeremy Fox as Hirschfelder, Christin Hinojosa as Sabrina, Catherine Morris as Julie, and Nicky Katt as Clint. The film has always been a quote lover’s dream, but several of them will take on a new meaning given the state of the country today. Cynthia: “Maybe the ’80s will be, like, radical or something. I figure we’ll be in our twenties and it can’t get worse.” Simone: “You act like you’re so oppressed. You guys are kings of the school. What are you bitching about?” Mike: “I feel like I’m being stalked by a Nazi.” Tony: “Neo-McCarthyism, I like that.” And Ms. Stroud: “Okay, guys, one more thing. This summer when you’re being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic white males didn’t want to pay their taxes.” Patton Oswalt, who hosted the Princess Bride reunion and moderated the postshow Q&A, will perform the same duties here.

THIS IS SPINAL TAP: A VIRTUAL REUNION
Wednesday, October 14, minimum donation, 9:00
www.padems.com

On October 14 at 9:00, another too-cool reunion will be taking place, raising money for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party as it tries to switch the state, which voted for Trump in 2016, to Biden this time around. And once again it will be a quote-laden classic directed by Reiner, the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, with Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls), Reiner (who also played Marty DiBergi), and host and moderator Oswalt. “Democratic enthusiasm in Pennsylvania is already turned up to eleven,” Pennsylvania Democratic Party executive director Jason Henry said in a statement.

Although this one is not a table read, Spinal Tap also still has a relevant take on the U.S. of A. after all these years. St. Hubbins explains, “I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn’t believe anything.” Speaking about a new album cover, St. Hubbins says, “Well, I think it looks like death. It looks like mourning,” to which their manager, Ian Faith (Tony Hendra), responds, “Death sells.” And then there’s this exchange: St. Hubbins: “It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh . . .” Tufnel: “Clever.” St. Hubbins: “Yeah, and clever.” Tickets for the Dazed and Confused and Spinal Tap reunions are pay-what-you-wish; as we approach the end of the campaign (and maybe the end of our nation), don’t forget these key words from St. Hubbins: “Well, I don’t really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It’s like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how — what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what’s stopping it, and what’s behind what’s stopping it? So, what’s the end, you know, is my question to you.”

NYFF51 20th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING: DAZED AND CONFUSED

NYFF51 will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of DAZED AND CONFUSED on Thursday

DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater, 1993)
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway at 65th St.
Thursday, October 10, $25, 9:00
212-875-5050
www.filmlinc.com

“You guys know anything about a party?” It should be one crazy party on October 10, when the fifty-first New York Film Festival celebrates the twentieth anniversary of one of the greatest high school movies of them all, Richard Linklater’s 1993 indie classic, Dazed and Confused. Alice Tully Hall will turn into 1976 Austin, Texas, as Linklater and various cast members will be on hand for the screening and a Q&A. Like Cynthia (Marissa Ribisi) says, “If we are all gonna die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like, right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.” Of course, Randall “Pink” Floyd (Jason London) intones, “All I’m saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.” There’ll be no need to do that as you watch Linklater’s splendid look at high school, which deals with hazing, burgeoning sexuality, sports, drug use, friendship, cliques, and a kick-ass party to end one chapter and begin another, for everyone except the older Wooderson (a career-making performance by Matthew McConaughey), who famously proclaims, “That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.” The cast also includes Adam Goldberg, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Joey Lauren Adams, Rory Cochrane, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, and Austin native Wiley Wiggins as Mitch, with an epic soundtrack featuring all the right songs by Foghat, Alice Cooper, Nazareth, Rick Derringer, Sweet, War, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kiss, and Peter Frampton. So for a “good ol’ worthwhile visceral experience,” head on out to Lincoln Center and relive all those glorious moments of your misspent youth.

RECORD STORE DAY

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Multiple locations
Saturday, April 20
www.recordstoreday.com

Once upon a time, teenage boys and girls, and those a little older, collected small and larger black discs that would spin around and make sounds when a needle was dropped into its grooves. The bigger discs came in packages that sometimes would fold out and serve as an exceptional surface on which to clean out the seeds from a bag of marijuana. Among the favorites for this important project were the Beatles’ White Album and Frampton Comes Alive! Those two elements — music and weed — will interact this Saturday for the annual Record Store Day promotion, which this year falls on April 20, when many around the world celebrate the consumption of cannabis. In New York City, you can find special one-day-only limited-edition releases, limited-run regional focus releases, and first-day releases at such stores as Rock and Soul Records, Academy Records & CDs, Second Hand Rose Music, Big City Records, Rockit Scientist Records, Kim’s Video & Music, turntable lab, Permanent Records, Disc-o-Rama, Good Records NYC, Other Music, In Living Stereo, Downtown Music Gallery, Record Runner, Generation Records, rebel rebel, Bleecker Street Records, Cake Shop, Deadly Dragon Sound, Sound Fix, earwax, normans sound and vision, and others. Not all records are available at all locations, so you might want to check in advance to see if your coveted disc will be in stock there. Below are some of the hundreds of singles, EPs, LPs, colored vinyl, picture discs, and even cassette singles that will be on sale, including the soundtrack to Dazed and Confused, which comes in a very appropriate weed-green vinyl disc.

Ani DiFranco, Buffalo (Official Bootleg)
Ben Harper, By My Side
Best Coast, “Fear of My Identity” bw/ “Who Have I Become”
Big Dipper, “Joke Outfit
Big Mama Thornton, Jail
Big Star, Nothing Can Hurt Me (Special Pressing)
Billy Bragg, “No One Knows Nothing Anymore” b/w “Song of the Iceberg”
Black Lips/Icky Blossoms, “Cowboy Knights” (colored vinyl)
Bob Dylan, “Wigwam”
Brian Jonestown Massacre, “Fist Full of Bees” b/w “Food for Clouds”
Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane
Built to Spill, Live
CAKE, “Sheep Go to Heaven” b/w “Jesus Wrote a Blank Check”
Calexico, Spiritoso
Captain Beefheart, Frank Freeman’s Dance Club (purple vinyl)
Cheech & Chong featuring Alice Bowie, “Earache My Eye” b/w “Turn That Thing Down” (Green Vinyl/Picture Sleeve)
Dan Deacon, “Konono Ripoff No. 1”
Dave Brubeck Trio, Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals (Fantasy 3-2) (red vinyl)
David Bowie, “Drive-In Saturday Night” b/w “Drive-In Saturday Night” (Russell Harty Plus Pop Version)
dB’s, Revolution of the Mind (orange vinyl)
Dutch Uncles, “Slave to the Atypical Rhythm”
Emerson Lake and Palmer, The First Five: A Picture Disc Collection
Fela Kuti, “Sorrow Tears and Blood” b/w “Perambulator”
Flaming Lips, Zaireeka 45 RPM box set
Free Energy, “Wild Life”
Garbage, “Because the Night” (Coke bottle clear vinyl)
Grateful Dead, Rare Cuts & Oddities 1966
Hold Steady, “Criminal Fingers”
Husker Du, “Amusement”
Jimmy Eat World, “Damage”
Joy Formidable, “A Minute’s Silence”
Justin Townes Earle, “Yuma” (colored vinyl)
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Rattlin Bones
Marshall Crenshaw, “Stranger And Stranger”
MGMT, “Alien Days” cassette single
Mike Watt & the Black Gang, “Rebel Girl” b/w “30 Days in the Hole”
Moby and Mark Lanegan, “The Lonely Night”

Mumford & Sons, Live at Bull Moose
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “Animal X” (picture disc)
Nicolas Jaar Remix, Brian Eno’s “LUX” and Grizzly Bear’s “Sleeping Ute”
Oval, Systemisch and 94diskont
Paul McCartney & Wings, “Maybe I’m Amazed”
Phish, Lawn Boy Deluxe
Phoenix, “Entertainment”
Pink Floyd, “See Emily Play” b/w “Scarecrow”
Porno for Pyros, Porno for Pyros (swirl vinyl)
Public Enemy, Public Enemy: Planet Earth — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Greatest Rap Hits (picture disc)
Public Image Ltd., “Public Image” b/w “The Cowboy Song”
Pussy Galore, “Groovy Hate Fuck”
Richard Thompson, “Salford Sunday”
Rob Zombie, “Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown” b/w “Teenage Nosferatu Pussy” (explicit only)
Robyn Hitchcock, There Goes the Ice
Roky Erickson, “Mine Mine Mind” b/w “Bloody Hammer”
Sharon Van Etten, “We Are Fine” b/w “Hotel 2 Tango”
Shearwater and Sharon Van Etten, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” b/w “A Wake for the Minotaur”
Soundgarden, King Animal demos
Soundtrack, Dazed and Confused (weed green vinyl)
Stephen Malkmus and Friends, Can’s Ege Bamyasi
Superchunk, “Void” b/w “Faith”
South Park, “San Diego” b/w “Gay Fish”
Tegan and Sara, Closer Remixed
Tift Merritt, Markings
Thurston Moore & Loren Connors, The Only Way to Go
Trey Anastasio, Blue Ash and Other Suburbs (EP picture disc)
White Stripes, Elephant (10th Anniversary colored vinyl)
Willie Nelson, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die”

PARTY AT THE MOON TOWER: DAZED AND CONFUSED

You can party like it’s 1976 at DAZED AND CONFUSED celebration this weekend

BBQ Films
Windmill Studios NYC
287 Kent Ave.
June 22-23, $22 (includes film screening, one pint of Sixpoint craft ale, and munchies), 8:00
bbqfilms.com/events

“You guys know anything about a party?” It’s graduation time, and there’s only one place to be this weekend to celebrate. The calendar might say June 22-23, 2012, in New York City, but it’ll actually be May 28, 1976, in Austin for the Party at the Moon Tower. BBQ Films will be presenting Richard Linklater’s 1993 indie classic, Dazed and Confused, at Windmill Studios in Williamsburg, where you can mingle with people dressed as their favorite characters from the film while downing pints of Sixpoint craft ale served from the trunks of movie-inspired cars and filling that high with popcorn and other munchies. Like Cynthia (Marissa Ribisi) says, “If we are all gonna die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like, right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.” Of course, Randall “Pink” Floyd (Jason London) intones, “All I’m saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.” There’ll be no need to do that as you watch Linklater’s splendid look at high school, which deals with hazing, burgeoning sexuality, sports, drug use, friendship, cliques, and a kick-ass party to end one chapter and begin another, for everyone except the older Wooderson (a career-making performance by Matthew McConaughey), who famously proclaims, “That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.” The cast also includes Adam Goldberg, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Joey Lauren Adams, Rory Cochrane, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, and Austin native Wiley Wiggins as Mitch, with an epic soundtrack featuring all the right songs by Foghat, Alice Cooper, Nazareth, Rick Derringer, Sweet, War, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kiss, and Peter Frampton. So for a “good ol’ worthwhile visceral experience,” head on out to Williamsburg and relive all those glorious moments of your misspent youth.