Sorry for the late notice

Here it is, your December D.o.S. schedule:

Wednesday December 1 -- The News is F**ked

7pm: How's Your News [1999] -- Documentary which chronicles the cross country journey of a unique group of journalists, all with disabilities ranging from spastic Cerebral Palsy to Downs syndrome; as they perform "man on the street" interviews with a test pool of Americans.

9pm: Network [1976] -- Although made in the late '70's, this Oscar winning film is eerily relevant today. Also, Faye Dunaway is mega hot in it.

Saturday December 18 -- 2nd Annual D.o.S. Xmas Massacre

7pm: Whole lot of surprises and treats, just like last year. Remember to bring a small, wrapped mystery gift for the Greedy Secret Santa ($5 & under... make something, recycle something you got last year that you hate... whatever). Refreshments and knoshables to be provided, additional donations of all of the above greatly appreciated.

As usual please RSVP (especially for the Xmas Party) and we will be getting a hold of you soon regarding the first D.o.S. movie, Undead, shooting later this month.

Check This Out

Holy Crap guys, I'm an answer on a quiz (sort of).

See, I used to live in this house near UBC that we called "The Fletcher House" and we all had a Fletcher name and identity. We even recorded a single (covering The Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale").

Please take this quiz and let me know which Fletcher you are most like and see if you can guess which Fletcher I am.

More Movies, More Changes

Hey All,

Here's the new schedule for this week.

Wednesday November 24, 2004

7pm: Beautiful Girl Hunter [1979] -- Based on a comic by Masaaki Sato, this is one of the better art-shock films out of Japan.

9pm: Convent of the Sacred Beast [1974] -- Described by Sinister Sam as "Female Convict Scorpion with Nuns", this is a classic of nun-sploitation.


Oddly enough, both films were directed by Norifumi Suzuki who was also responsible for the Sonny Chiba classic "Shogun's Ninja".

Let me know if you can make it or not (pleeeease). Pop fund is in effect and we'd like to start closer to on time this week, so the closer to 7pm you can get here the better.

~meeko

Crazy-Ass Video Store

Anyone heard of this place, it seems pretty awesome. Some really messed up videos. Ideal torture-garden stuff (and in fact has the L'Histoire of Melody Nelson which those in the know saw at the last torture garden.) Awesome stuff.

EDIT: HAHA I'm an idiot. Thanks meeko.

Paul may not be getting Sex....

But at least he's not one of these kids...


He's still got his cock (presumably).

"Results may be more vibrant on lighter hair"

More vibrant? This isn't more vibrant so much as it is a result that bears no resemblance to the color it was supposed to be at all!

But it's neat. Looks more pink and less orange in person.

I wonder what my boss'll think? She ok'd purple...

Moving Day, Part 2

Hey Everybody,

Just thought I'd update y'all with the scoop on my whereabouts for this month and also mention the "real" moving day. I stayed at my friend Chris' place in surrey for the first week of November, Gareth & Sophie's last week and am currently rooming at my co-worker's farm in aldergrove (well, technically abbotsford, though being on zero ave I seem to be on T-mobile, so I may not answer my cell some evenings...)

In between classes last night, I made a quick call and was informed that the developers working on my new apartment building weren't allowing any furniture into the suites until the occupancy inspection was completed on November 25th. This puts me at the 27th for a move-in day and I'll have a 2-3 hour time slot for access to the elevator (others will be moving in that weekend too).

So once again, anyone who might be available that day to help move furniture from the accountant's boardroom, down 2 floors on the elevator, across the indoor bridge, up 3 floors in another elevator and directly into the suite opposite, please let me know. The timeframe will likely fall somewhere in the 10:00am to 6:00pm range. I'm thinking a donair run, some snacks and maybe a pre-housewarming might be in order...that will likely be the first night I can actually crash there.

Grae and Cor can provide my email or cell number...which, incidently, is corinne's old phone number before it became grae's and was temporarily Clem's.

Duke

p.s. There'll be underwater photos here eventually, as I plan to start documenting the forthcoming journey into the depths of Indian Arm!

just because paul can't see it in africa...

bananaphone: son of badgers

Geez, I take forever to get shit done.

But here are the Hallowe'en pictures Andrew took:

Xian's brains

Xian and Miyuki

The burning of the gaunch

The afterimage, not just burned onto our retinas, but onto the very cement!

Little red and the wolf

Gir!

Facehugger luvin'

Paul the pedophile priest

The woman of mystery

The scoutmaster

The john

Group shot

Special D.o.S. Screening this Wednesday

Ok, you asked for it. And in that case attendance had better be good, or I'll be pissed.

Wednesday, November 17

7pm: Orca: The Killer Whale [1977] -- Think "Jaws", but with a whale, and stupid.

9pm: Grizzly (a.k.a. Killer Grizzly) [1976] -- Think "Jaws", but with a bear, and really stupid.

RSVP please (!), pop fund in effect (email me if you want something other than Pepsi).

~meeko

party idea

we have got to try this at some point... looks like a wicked awesome 'speriment.

for science!

holy shiznit...

ODB died. two days before his 36th birthday, in a recording studio... and he wasn't even shot.

weird.

wtf?

five days and no posts?

in other news, I may be dying. I was awoken from my usual deep sleep at 4am by a pounding headache. I think I have an aneurysm. hypochondria is fun.

I'm also pissed that I got all excited for both finding neverland and kinsey opening tomorrow. neither open here until next week. no idea why I thought they were playing this weekend. wait, yes there is. stupid fecking fandango lied to me.

That Didn't Take Long

Compassion for democrats from Canadians!

About Africa...

Madness reigned in my final days in Canada. The chaos of the trip was compounded by my attempts to finish grad school applications at the same time. Fear not, I've been blogging, but I haven't had reliable Web access here. Now I'm slogging through the morass of Botswanan dial-up to build a new spot for my ramblings, the joyously-named and Kim-inspired Eaten by Elephants. The format is VERY basic, a symptom of atrociously limited bandwidth... nothing to be done about that until I can find broadband, which just doesn't really exist here. Which is strange, because some of Botswana's far poorer neighbours have far better ISPs. In any event, comments are EXPECTED! This will be one of my key lifelines to my own world. I'm gonig to be VERY out of the loop on politics, movies, and pretty damn much everything, so I'm counting on y'all to at least chat with me about animals with large teeth.

One minor caveat... my grandparents and other sweet'n'innocent folks will be reading the new blog, so let's keep the assrape references to a bare minimum. You know who I'm talking to.

It Boggles the Mind.

Christian had the same Halloween costume as Avril.

Hey all,

Hope you've all recovered from Halloween etc...

Now, here's your official reminder about the next movie night, Wednesday Nov 10 and some changes

Wednesday Nov 10: SEX!!

7pm: The Lickerish Quartet [1970] -- I've been waiting a long time to program something by Radley Metzger and this seemed like as good a time as any. Boobies and a mind-fuck all swirled together in one mod-Eurotrash package. A real treat for all who attend.

9pm: Valerie [1969] -- The film that invented "Maple Syrup Porno". A Catholic girl in Quebec embarks on a journey of self discovery. Also of note for it's swinging Franco-pop soundtrack.

**Changes** Wednesday Nov 17: Animals Attack

Because apparently people were looking forward to Orca, I decided to make an extra screening just to get it in.

7pm: Orca: The Killer Whale [1977] -- Produced quick on the heels of "Jaws", this features whale on whale love and sopping wet Charlottle Rampling & Bo Derek.


9pm: Grizzly [1976] -- Imagine if "Jaws" had been made with a giant bear instead of a giant shark. Now add Christopher George and Andrew Prine

Wednesday November 24: MORE SEX!!!!

7pm: Ecstasy of the Angels [1972] -- From IMDB: "Imagine seeing a hysterical comedy about idealistic terrorists betrayed by their leaders as written by Jean-Luc Godard, produced by David Lynch and directed by Gregg Araki: that gets you somewhere in the neighbourhood of what this picture is like." Also, there are naked Japanese girls.

9pm: Beautiful Girl Hunter [1979] -- This one is courtesy of Sinister Sam so you know it's gonna be good. Another one not for the faint of heart it mixes, sex, sadism and philosophy in the way that only the Japanese can.


Now mark your calendars and I'll see you on Wednesday.

~meeko

We all need a few more...

*HUGS* TOTAL!
give CorinneBean more *HUGS*

Get hugs of your own

I was robbed...

Well, for those that could not make it out to the Sonar on Hallowe'en, I did not win. I didn't even get top three. Another Edward Scissorhands won first place. A skinnier, lamer version. Sure, I may not have the body type to begin with, but his looked like it was thrown together in a day. His hands were electrical taped for god's sake! At any rate, I'll post pics when possible. For confirmation, ask Kestrel whose costume was better.

All tomorrow's parties...

Woot! The big day is almost upon us, and the Pic Pub seems to be the place to congregate and witness either the disintegration of American democracy, or its wheezing, half-assed clinging to life.
If I may make a proclamation beyond any power I actually hold, NO ONE is permitted to stay home, or even at work, and fail to give the incoming results their full and undivided attention. Everyone is expected to be at the Pic slavishly following the returns from Ohio and Florida, and hopefully Jon Stewart will oblige us with much ongoing commentary, not just the one puny hour I've heard of so far.

For my part, I've managed to weasel my way into the US Consul-General's election night shindiggy at the Westin Bayshore, and I sure hope he's a Kerry supporter, 'cuz it'll be hard to feign disappointment when Kerry takes Ohio. That whole thing will wrap up by 9, or I may leave earlier if I can't get Comedy Central, so I'll head over to the Pic asap following my free dinner. Let's see a record turnout, people. Anytime after 6 PM or so is probably a good time to show up.

Bruised, Blistered and Bleeding...

Well, it was a hurrendous move...mainly due to the fact that only one person showed up to help me move the entire contents of an 850sf apartment. I called my boss who was pretty much my personal saviour this weekend, between the assistance on saturday and temporary storage on sunday. Strangely enough, the 3/4T cargo van was double booked and we somehow managed to get a 1T cube. Anything less would have contributed further to the disaster with a 2am completion time (which would have been impossible as the new manager HAD to be there for the security and elevators). Sunday involved solely my own efforts of piling up drawer/closet contents into big piles, tying them in bedsheets and throwing them into the car to get the apartment vacant and spotless with a noon deadline on getting into the new place. All this plus carpet cleaners arriving at 2:30pm and new tenants at 3:30pm. I don't know how I'm still standing.

Unfortunately, the move isn't finished. The apartment that I chose (best $/sf plus oversize balcony) has not been finished, hence the contents of my apartment are currently occupying the boardroom of an ex-accountant's office in the same complex. Once my suite is complete in a few weeks, I need to move everything over and finally take occupancy on the 1st of December. So I'm putting out another SOS with three weeks notice that I NEED ASSISTANCE on the 20th of November. This will involve moving furniture, boxes and bags out the boardroom, down the elevator across an indoor bridge, up another elevator and directly into the first suite across from the elevator. In the meantime, I need to go back, repair and dejunk a little more.

This halloween, I went as a homeless Elvis (In The Ghetto Elvis?)...so I'm staying with Chris this week, Gareth and Sophie next week and at a co-worker's farm the following week with no definitive plans for the last week of November (as I may be able to gain early occupancy). I can be reached on my cell...Grae and Cor have the number. Everyone'll like the new highrise...between the incomplete state and the security cards instead of keys it feels like wandering around Nakatomi Plaza or something...

Duke