{"id":5895,"date":"2008-08-07T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/5895\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T18:56:05","slug":"neung-phak-cafe-du-nord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5895","title":{"rendered":"Neung Phak @ Cafe du Nord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I saw NEUNG PHAK at Cafe du Nord &#8212; a bunch of white dudes from Oakland ( who play &#8220;classic&#8221; Southeast Asian pop music (like from the late 1960s and early 1970s).  One of these guys was in Negativland.  They were great, as always.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Thai Molam Band&#8221; from the Berkeley Thai Community Center was there playing a bunch of unidentifiable instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Also playing was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sublimefrequencies.com\/item.asp?Item_id=43&#038;t=Sumatran-Folk-Cinema-\">Sumatran Folk Cinema<\/a>, a short movie focussing on pop music in Sumatra.  Pretty cool.\t<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/weI9CNhihTU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/weI9CNhihTU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There was also a short film called &#8220;The Golden Voice&#8221; which was about the final years of Cambodian pop star Ros Serey Sothea, who was killed by the Khmer Rouge.  Kinda depressing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I saw NEUNG PHAK at Cafe du Nord &#8212; a bunch of white dudes from Oakland ( who play &#8220;classic&#8221; Southeast Asian pop music (like from the late 1960s and early 1970s). One of these guys was in Negativland. They were great, as always. The &#8220;Thai Molam Band&#8221; from the Berkeley Thai Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}