CONFESSIONS OF A RUM-ADDLED MIND, vol. 6
(Summer rants)

1. It's an oven in my employer's '94 accord...Jeezus, it's worse outside man!
I don't want to go home :-<

2. Something about a quiet movie night evolving into a Takashi film festival over at my place in
eagle ridge...numbers...I never said I wanted to keep numbers down! If 30 show, great! I'm just
in the process of re-organizing an apartment to maximize on actual living area and numbers could
have some bearing on furniture arrangement, that's all...Don't forget swim trunks...don't worry
about tennis rackets...I have 2 pro, 2 kiddie and brooms after that. See #5 for movies.

3. Night Markets Rule!
a) Chinatown Nightmarket (pender, between main and gore) opened Friday, May 30th and runs
from 7:00pm to Midnight every Fri/Sat/Sun until September.
b) Richmond Nightmarket (NEW venue: Bridgepoint mall at north end of no. 3, 8811 River Rd.)
opens this Friday, June 6th and runs from 7:00pm to Midnight every Fri/Sat/Sun until September.
NOTE: Parking is limited. There is a free shuttle that picks up at Cambie and Garden City if you
prefer...or park at costco. The market is at the new site for GC Casino, behind the construction.

We're planning a big trip there for Friday June 13th, hopefully before the authorities raid and take
all the good reprint dvds and games for themselves. I want my Stperbit Bruce Almighty.

4. Have you checked out "www.cinemuerte.com"? Horror Films rock! Maybe Udo Kier will actually
show up this year...

5. Takashi films for Saturday night:
- Audition: A widower stages a phony casting call to recruit a young, beautiful wife. It backfires and
a sequence that no man can comfortably watch ensues.
- Dead or Alive: The epic battle between Riki and Sho...which spans an entire trilogy. Interesting that
each movie has no concept of continuity, other than the fact that these two keep tearing Japan
apart. This one deals with a modern-day tokyo underworld that is being overrun by triads. Riki
seeks to destroy them all and take everything...Sho plays a hard-boiled detective.
- Happiness of the Katakuris: A light-hearted musical about a family who run a bed and breakfast out
in the country, unfortunately their guests keep mysteriously dying. This is classed under "Horror",
"Family" and "Musical"...EQUALLY. Includes "The Death Song".
- Fudoh - The new generation: A gang of students seeks revenge against a family of yakuza
assassins including a pair of elementary school kids and a stripper with an interesting arsenal.
- Visitor Q (Bizita Q): A failed TV reporter who has relations with his daughter makes a documentary
about violence and sex among youths...centered around an extremely dysfunctional family. This one
is apparently traumatic...

-Duke