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Manipulated, neon-colored versions of clips from Arnold Schwarzenegger movies set to Nintendo-game-style music: What else could it be but a Dan Deacon DVD?

The Ultimate Reality DVD, out this winter on Carpark, consists of a Deacon collaborative performance with fellow Wham City collective member Jimmy Joe Roche [above left] and two live drummers, one from Ponytail and one from Deacon's frequent tourmates Video Hippos.

The performance pairs a 40-minute Deacon composition with Roche's "psychedelic montage of Arnold Schwarzenegger films that is projected at a monumental scale," according to a press release. It premiered at last summer's Whartscape Festival in Baltimore, and has since appeared in various other galleries and museums on the East Coast.

Two clips from the DVD are linked below.

Deacon continues his live madness tonight, August 10, with his appearance in Manchester, England, and he has added a few more tour dates as well.

By its varied, manic, and haphazard nature, one of those shows is a perfect match for Deacon himself: a September 2 performance at the end of New York magazine's Labor Day weekend scavenger hunt.

More info about the event, including the mention of the $1000 prize for the winning team, is in the flier after the jump.

Dates:

08-10 Manchester, England - Barge party
08-11 Bristol, England - Thekla
08-14 Norwich, England - Norwich Arts Centre
08-14 Paris, France - Fleche d'Or
08-16 London, England - Barden's Boudoir
08-17 Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
08-18 Cork, Ireland - Liquid Lounge
08-19 Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
08-22 Tampere, Finland - Klubi
08-23 Helsinki, Finland - Redrum
08-24 London, England - MacBeth
08-25 Nottingham, England - Stealth
08-27 Edinburgh, Scotland - Cabaret Voltaire (T on the Fringe)
08-28 London, England - Corsica Studios
08-31 Baltimore, MD - A Magic Cloud Place
09-02 New York, NY - New York magazine scavenger hunt party
09-06 Seattle, WA - The Vera Project (Musicfest NW)
09-07 Portland, OR - Holocene
09-08 Chicago, IL - The Hideout Block Party
09-08 Chicago, IL - AV-aerie
09-12 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix *#
09-13 Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe *#
09-14 Boston, MA - Avalon Ballroom *#^
09-15 New York, NY - Webster Hall *#
09-16 Brooklyn, NY - TBA (Todd P show)
09-17 Philadelphia, PA - Starlite Ballroom *#
09-18 Baltimore, MD - 2640 Space *#
09-19 Washington, DC - Black Cat *#
09-20 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom *#
09-21 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *#
09-22 Atlanta, GA - MJQ Concourse *#
09-23 Hattiesburg, MS - Thirsty Hippo
09-24 Houston, TX - Walter's on Washington
09-25 Austin, TX - The Mohawk
09-27 San Diego, CA - Epicentre *#
09-28 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *#
09-29 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Auditorium *#
10-04 Oberlin, OH - Dionysus Disco
10-05 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
10-06 Iowa City, IA - The Picador *$
10-11 St. Louis, MO - The Billiken Club
10-12 Grinnell, IA - Gardner Lounge (Grinnell College)!
10-19 Bennington, VT - Bennington College Student Center
10-20 Alfred, NY - Knight Club (Alfred University)

* with Girl Talk
# with White Williams
^ with Simian Mobile Disco
$ with Old Time Relijun
! with These Are Powers