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This one is for an old friend with an odd name…a Seal amongst Men. A Brit, neither Spanish, nor French, wandering through the night with a German…

Nocturnal dissonance swirls into a fine point of clarity. Sure enough, you’re on the set of your own paper mache talk show. Psychedelic tendencies of abstract imagery abound. Give me something from a dream whence I breathe. Wander into sealish dives, backing away from the avatar, away from unconditional unconscious dreamscapes. Bring IT on.

We ponder the French because…well…someone has to, and it’s been a while since we’ve wandered away from the American shores of self-examination in this third season of Hidden Flick. Indeed, we also gaze upon the dreams of a young man with a wild imagination who can not focus his creativity into any form of daytime productivity.

We all dance along the precipice of daydreams, and some of us fall over the edge, the precipice which divides reality and fantasy, cross that bridge, but not getting burned, you may not know what you are going through, but time is the space which implodes…a prayer for the dreaming…life carries on with this week’s Hidden Flick, La Science des rêves, literally The Science of Dreams, or as marketed in the west, The Science of Sleep.

READ ON for more on this week’s Hidden Flick…

My favorite set from Jam Cruise came from The Motet plays The Talking Heads featuring all-star musicians Dave Watts, Fuzz and Carrie, Kyle Hollingsworth, Joey Porter, Liza Oxnard and Paul

The RAQ/Breakfast Supergroup Kung Fu continues their residency at Stella Blue’s in New Haven this evening. Kung Fu features Tim Palmieri (The Breakfast/guitar), Todd Stoops (RAQ/keys), Kris Jensen (sax), David

Our friends at Consequence of Sound really have this “breaking stories about who’s headlining festivals” thing down as they continue to provide the scoop on 2010 festival headliners. Today, the

Welcome to the first 2010 edition of Tour Diary – a column written by an artist about life on the road. Today, we’ve got Jared Rabin, guitarist for aggressive prog-rockers The Hue, to tell us about their early January tour with the incredible Zappa tribute band Project/Object.

I’m a fan of “Zappamusic.” Maybe not the biggest connoisseur freak out there, but I have always been a fan. I’ve also heard plenty of people play Zappamusic, ranging from really well to really badly. I’d seen Ray White play with Umphrey’s back in 2005 and knew his story and had read up on Ike Willis, so I had an idea that this would be cool heading into it.

Getting our dense, challenging music in front of the older prog crowd has long been an important goal for us, as their ears would hopefully be receptive to what is too much for some people to handle. With that in mind, we set out to open 3 shows for André Cholmondeley’s amazing Project/Object which this run featured Ray and Ike’s first tour together since 1984!

READ ON for more from Jared about playing with Project/Object…

According to @CelebrateBklyn, one of our favorite New Yorkers – David Byrne –  will wax poetic at The Bell House in the Gowanus area of Park Slope starting at 8PM.