# Dan Deacon Reissues; Appears Tonight at Comic-Con with Francis Ford Coppola for TWIXT

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2011/07/dan-deacon-reissues-appear-at-comic-con-with-francis-ford-coppola-for-film-twixt/
- Published: 2011-07-23T13:47:41-04:00
- Author: EarsToTheGround

[[For the past year or so, **Dan Deacon** has been working closely with director**
Francis Ford Coppola** on the score & soundtrack for the new film _TWIXT_, and now
the public is going to finally going to get its first taste of the film this Saturday
at **Comic-Con** where Coppola and Deacon will appear together to present the trailer
to the film and to unveil other unique aspects of how the film will be presented.

Coppola will be presenting portions of his upcoming film TWIXT at a panel discussion
on Saturday, July 23 at Comic-Con at Hall H. TWIXT stars Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern,
Elle Fanning, and Ben Chaplin. Coppola describes the film as, “one part Gothic romance,
one part personal film, and one part the kind of horror film that began my career.”

STREAM: [“My Own Face Is F Word” from Meetle Mice”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/dan-deacon-my-own-face-is-f)–**
Dan Deacon**

Coppola and Deacon have developed a unique new approach to the presentation of the
film that will incorporate live music by acclaimed independent performance artist
Dan Deacon. Deacon will attend Comic-Con with Coppola to help demonstrate the interactive
experience of the film. The film incorporates both 2-D and 3-D elements.

This week Deacon is also preparing to dig into the vaults and reissue two of his
early LPs, _Meetle Mice and Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat_, on double LP via **Carpark
Records** on Sept. 13. Also, limited cassette versions of _Meetle, Silly_ as well
as _Spiderman of the Rings_ and _Bromst_ will be issued and made available at shows
and on the Carpark online shop. In October, Carpark will also reissue _Spiderman
of the Rings_ on LP.

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_Notes by Dan Deacon __on the Reissues_:

The music contained on these two albums (_Meetle Mice & Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat)_
I wrote while in college (and a few while in high school) when I was just discovering
computer music. I wrote them for fun, never planning on doing anything with them
at that the time or expecting them to be heard outside of my circle of friends. 
When I was asked to play a show on campus I thought it might be a good idea to burn
some CD-Rs and try to sell them at the show.

Going through my files, I found the pieces that I liked the most, grouped them into
two different collections and gave them the most appropriate/absurd titles I could
think of. The organization of the songs was somewhat thoughtout but mostly chaotic:
make sure the granular synth pieces are far from each other; keep the songs with
beats spread out; sound collages placed amongst sine wave drone pieces. They were
more like compilations of my experiments than albums of compositions.

I made only 8 CD-R copies of each in photocopied sleeves with contact paper on the
discs. I sold all but 1 of each for $7 or two for $10. Explosions were going off
in my head, dollar signs appearing in my eyes. Making $70 from selling CD-Rs was
blowing my mind. I started selling them at every show, even though the music contained
on them didn’t represent what I ever performed live, since the music on Meetle Mice
and Silly Hat was never meant to be performed live (except for the acoustic ensemble
pieces).

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The CD-Rs and artwork are riddled with mistakes. There’s digital clipping on many
of the tracks; ‘Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat’ was meant to be ‘Silly Hat vs. Eagle Hat’;“
copy write” should have been ‘copyright’, etc., but I thought the typos were funny
and kept it with each batch of the CD-Rs. Since I was only selling them on campus
or a few shows in NYC it didn’t really matter.

I hated stuff that took itself too seriously so keeping my spelling mistakes glaring
was important to me. And considering the music was made in a vacuum with no intention
of it ever seeing the light of day, it made sense to keep all the errors in their
original state (true of this reissue as well the artwork for this reissue was scanned
from the original run of 8.)

I was a very different musician back then trying to figure out how to interact with
sound, what could be done with it, where it could go, learning music software for
the first time. Since then my aesthetic has shifted, my absurdist mindset subdued.
At times I feel like these albums are skeletons in my musical closet. Many of the
song titles are absurd or toy with the idea of what is offensive and what is not,
many of them created as a commentary on the super politically correct atmosphere
that was Purchase College in the early 2000s.

These albums are like seeds. They sound, look and feel very different from the fruit
that they’ve grown but they are still of the same tree.

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STREAM: “Spring” – Dan Deacon from _Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat _