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Photo by Marla Aufmuth

Ah, film school. 'Tis a storied time in the life of every young undergrad, the left-field urge to cast off the shackles of biomechanical engineering and make that angsty semi-autobiographical black-and-white feature that's been kicking around in the back pages of your calculus notebook for years now. Of course, dreams of film school are fleeting, and the reality-- as your local middle-aged burger-flipper can tell you-- can be a little limp.

Not so for the songcraftin' Scorseses of Film School, who've got themselves lined up with a number of screenings of their recent Hideout, which dropped this week on Beggars Banquet. Following a couple dates in their native California, they'll head out on location for a few wide shots of their tuneful shoegazing antics. Sounds more like a Wim Wenders thing, actually. For quite a few dates they've casted Land of Talk to co-star.

Film School:

09-16 San Francisco, CA - Treasure Island Fest
09-20 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records
10-07 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
10-10 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
10-11 Portland, OR - Dante's
10-12 Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp
10-16 Austin, TX - Emo's
10-17 Dallas, TX - Cavern Club
10-19 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
10-20 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
10-21 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel
10-22 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
10-23 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
10-24 Cambridge, MA - T.T. the Bear's Place *
10-25 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
10-26 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's *
10-28 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom *
10-29 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo *
10-30 Pontiac, MI - Pike Room *
10-31 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
11-01 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
11-02 Madison, WI - The Annex *
11-03 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar *
11-05 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
11-08 San Diego, CA - Beauty Bar
11-15 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex

# with Ulrich Schnauss
* with Land of Talk