B&B Presents: Wack History Month

This Sunday we present an alternative to the innane speeches of the Oscars.

7:00 pm


C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004 / 2006 ) (- it took a while to be distributed and was eventually picked up by Spike Lee)

What if the South had won the War?
Directed by Kevin Willmott in the voice of a BBC documentary film crew, this mockumentary is a must for the historically or politically inclined. The hilarious, yet chilling, version of history posits what the last 150 years would have been had the Confederates won the American Civil War. The most frightening aspects are the ties to actual events both past and present in American policy and culture, replete with commercials.


9:00 pm


Wild In the Streets (1968)
Max Frost, a 24 year old charismatic rocker, has just successfully lowered the voting age to 14 (Something I’ve been in support of for years), and he’s now rolling the wave of popularity from a babyboom majority right to the American Presidency. Following the 60s edict of “Never trust anyone over thirty”, his first presidential edict turns the new hippie state to a totalitarian hell for anyone over thirty by requiring them to live in retirement homes where they are force fed LSD.
This psychedelic exploitation flick riled a generation and it has Richard Prior in it as a character named Stanley X.
I wanted to show some Blaxploitation Flicks focussed on the Black Nationalist movement to match up with the CSA, but instead Wild in the Streets seemed to be a much better fit with the themes of CSA. If I can't get wild in the streets, fear not... I will book it with My first choice. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) about a Black CIA agent who works throught the system to set up the Nationalist cause behind the backs of his own agency.

My New Fav Website and Blog

www.ted.com


I like the whole concept of this site (Technology, Entertainment and Design) but the people they have giving thirty minute talks are so awesome I cannot believe the site is free (Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, Eve Ensler, Rick Warren and of course Bono and Al Gore).

If you already know about this why didn't you tell me and if you didn't I can't wait to share it with you.

So I'm talking about the Ted Talks tab on the main page but there's a blog too. sigh.. ya.. smile.. I like good stuff..


Oh, PS. I'm fat and happy in the Peg. I have three part time jobs, a 19 year old boyfriend, a computer that I can watch TV on while I play minesweeper and a cheap room in an all female boarding house right downtown. I'm near all the buses and my house is also one and one half of a block from the University of Winnipeg and their library. I have a queen sized waterbed in my room. I'm also in a good mood because the Sunday Service Boys are here for the Winnipeg Improv Fest and I plan to see them on closing night this Saturday doing a cool new video thing. As always I love love love love winter and it snowed again today.. I'm doing 8 out of 10 well.. I send my love bumps... (like goose bumps on puppies' paws.. )

Writing Club is on!

tomorrow

Can't Get a Date to the Prom?

Or, tickets, for that matter?

Well, there is an alternative activity happening on Valentines Day (this Wednesday) that also sounds super fun. Lee & I will be there, probably around 8pm. Feel free to call or email or post if you're interested and we can try to work out a meeting place.

Address: Ukranian Cultural Center
805 East Pender (at Hawks, right by Bob's house)

I know some of you might be puzzled by the fact that I am daring to socialize on a weeknight. The short answer is that I now get to work normal hours, so you should be seeing a lot more of me in the future.

~meeko

B&B Presents: Samouraï Noir

February 11, 2007
This Sunday night we present two films about non-Japanese hitmen obsessed with the Samurai Code of Bushido.

7:30 pm

Le Samouraï (1967) France
Jef Costello is a perfectionist hitman who never gets caught. After a hit gone wrong with surviving witnesses and an ever elusive alibi, Jef is backed into a corner. His code of solitary honour predisposes him to complete his task, yet under an air of the inevitability of death. Jean-Pierre Melville’s use and deconstruction of the American Noir Genre in this picture has heavily influenced other film makers. John Woo noted that everything about Le Samouraï is perfect, and was a central inspiration for The Killer (1989).

9:30 pm

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) USA

Acclaimed writer and director Jim Jarmusch was also heavily influenced by Le Samouraï in the development of Ghost Dog. The story follows an African American hitman, played by Forest Whitaker, who is self-retained within the local New York mob and strictly follows the Bushido code of Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai. When he becomes expendable can Ghost Dog maintain his code of honour and still confront his mob superiors? Jarmusch’s films often capture and are based around moments, yet his slow direction style in this picture is balanced by a beat heavy soundtrack compiled and composed by Wu Tang Clan’s the RZA. This is one of my favourite films, even though I haven’t seen it since it came out. I’m exited to see it through new eyes along with its French inspiration.

Favourite photographs of...

You!

I would really appreciate it if you could g-mail me 1-3 pictures of yourself or other clubhousers that you really like (the pictures, not necessarily the clubhousers). 3 megapixels or higher please--they are being printed professionally and added to a collage.

deadline: Friday February 9 Saturday February 10

Writing Club is on tomorrow night

If you come you with your homework done (It doesn't even have to be an entire page) you will get fresh baked cookies.

Vet's Club gone private

ADDENDUM: I spoke with Ron earlier today and he mentioned that the turnout last night (I couldn't make it) was very good, in fact the dance floor was packed towards the end of the night. One thing I should mention is that the membership dues are enforced by the veteran's board (on behalf of other clubs that don't draw the same kind of business), not the management. Anyhow, the liquor control board talks to the veteran's club board and they talk to management, coupled with the pressures of fire code regulations and bad behaviour on certain nights...the membership makes sense. I definitely think that they deserve our support...many veteran's clubs around the lower mainland are closing after being consistently in the red (the entertainment and atmosphere at #298 are keeping it alive). Not to mention that a vet's club membership gets you into any local across North America or in England.

Membership is $26 anually and each member can sponsor 3 guests.

The B&B Presents: Christian Scare Films

Just in case anyone questioned my fears of religion... This Sunday, I will be presenting two recent flicks about when Evangelism thinks too much of itself and goes too far.

7:00 pm

Jesus Camp (2006) USA
"Onward Christian Soldiers!" A documentary on the not so innocent side of Evangelist Summer camps. The Trailer proved terrifying.


9:00 pm
1950s Christian Scare Films
As a treat, and only if there is time, I will show some Christian Documentary Shorts from the 50s. I hope these documentaries prove to be edifying, if not hilarious.

9:30 pm

Saved (2004) USA
"They without sin cast the first stone." When a girl in an Evangelical Christian highschool winds up pregnant she finds herself becoming ostrasized and demonized, by her classmates and former friends. Maculay Culkin shows up as a Blastphemous Parapalegic. I am told this one's very funny.

Let me know if you're gonna make it out.