addy is the same, just apartment #209 instead of #206. if you're wondering why, see below:
why I don't like bleu cheese
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
My house is soooo cold please help me warm it.
So, for those that have not heard, I have moved. To commemorate this auspicious occasion I am inviting you, my friends, to my new home this Saturday March 31st 2007 at 7:30PM. The new home is conveniently located close to Nanaimo Station. For the exact address please call, e-mail or check the forum.
PS My new landlord room-mate is not in favor of drugs in his house, so please leave them at home or discreetly go to the park a block away.
PS My new landlord room-mate is not in favor of drugs in his house, so please leave them at home or discreetly go to the park a block away.
Blaxploitation Rarities II - This Friday (March 30)
Hey Kids!
Just a reminder that Blaxpolitation Rarities II is happening this Friday, March 30th.
Doors open at 7pm, get there on time to get a good seat.
7:30pm - Black Shampoo [1976]: John Daniels (Candy Tangerine Man) plays Mr. Jonathan, a hairdresser as loved by the ladies as he is feared by the mob. When his new receptionist starts getting hassled by some mobsters, he takes matters into his own hands. With a chainsaw! Funny, fast & outrageous.
9:15pm - Savage! [1973]: Who cares what it's about, there's a big black dude named "Savage" with an all girl gang. And machine guns! Machine guns!
Admission: $5 - $10 (sliding scale)
And if you can't make it this month, here's what's in store for April & May:
April: Psych-Out!
BJ Lang Presents (The Manipulator): Mickey Rooney freaks out and kidnaps a woman so he can subject her to his "acting".
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness: Writer-Director Anthony Newly also stars as Hieronymus Merkin, a Hollywood director having a massive midlife crisis who decides to make a film about his life and all the mistakes he's made. Self absorbed? You be the judge.
May: Shatner: The Early Years
Incubus [1965]: Satanic cult? Check. Shatner? Check. In Esperanto?! Check.
The Intruder [1962]: A young and sexy Shatner plays a charismatic racist in this Roger Corman pic.
Hope to see you there!
~meeko
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
BIRTHDAY WEEKEND!
PARTY WITH DUKE 2 NIGHTS!
FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd
The Slack Shack (Mark White) is hosting a house party on Friday night (March 23rd) starting at around 7:30pm (karaoke + sound system pending, but we're working on it). The address is in the forum if you don't recall, accessible from Holdom Skytrain or #9/N9.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24th
7:00pm - Clubhouse Restaurant (255 West 2nd (at Alberta), 879-8998)
9:00pm - The Pic Pub for TWIH $7 (620 West Pender St.)
11:00pm - The Bourbon (50 West Cordova St.)
RSVP via email or comment if you can, thanks!
FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd
The Slack Shack (Mark White) is hosting a house party on Friday night (March 23rd) starting at around 7:30pm (karaoke + sound system pending, but we're working on it). The address is in the forum if you don't recall, accessible from Holdom Skytrain or #9/N9.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24th
7:00pm - Clubhouse Restaurant (255 West 2nd (at Alberta), 879-8998)
9:00pm - The Pic Pub for TWIH $7 (620 West Pender St.)
11:00pm - The Bourbon (50 West Cordova St.)
RSVP via email or comment if you can, thanks!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Hopefully, more popular on Sundays!
This Sunday March 25
11am - noon/1pm: Pirates! A Collectable Card Game
After lunch hour: Many other games: Robo Rally, Apples to Apples (now with expansion!), others!
3 tables for 3 games!
11am - noon/1pm: Pirates! A Collectable Card Game
After lunch hour: Many other games: Robo Rally, Apples to Apples (now with expansion!), others!
3 tables for 3 games!
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Board/Card Games
Thursday March 15
I'm having a few people over, 7pmish, to play some games like Apples to Apples and... uh... other games?
I'll probably get the first game going at 7:15pm, and then start subsequent games.
I'm having a few people over, 7pmish, to play some games like Apples to Apples and... uh... other games?
I'll probably get the first game going at 7:15pm, and then start subsequent games.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
BAD F*****' DUDES RIDING PUBLIC TRANSIT!!
SUNDAY MAR. 11th
7pm
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3
A group of armed men take a subway train full of people hostage and declare that they'll kill a hostage a minute if their demands aren't met. The transit cop there to deal with the hostages and the beauratic red tape is Walter Mathau, who we love simply for being being Walter Mathau, and it's always grand to be loved for just simply who you are. Leading the hostage takers is Robert FUCKING Shaw. Now there are not many actors you can refer to and and honestly throw a 'fucking' in their name without cheapening it, the icon status has to be tough as nails. Even James Cagney, one of the toughest, meanest little bastard of the gangster golden age, made queer little movies like Yankee Doodle Dandy (writer's confession: have never seen Yanke Doodle Dandy, but it's a musical, musicals are for sissies, like Ewan McGregor, a sissy with a big schlong). John Wayne was too much of the protector. No it's rare actor that qualifies to have their name interrupted by a cuss (common though cussing is now, but hell it's been constant throughout my living history, so...), they have to be tough as nails and capable of doing anything. Any one of these actors could play a phenomenal Punisher, and I'll tell you it ain't Thomas Fuckin' Jane. To tell the truth I don't think there's a living working actor right now who'd deserve it. I got a short list of all time here:
LEE FUCKING MARVIN
CHARLES FUCKING BRONSON
HENRY FUCKING SILVA.
And Robert FUCKING Shaw. I haven't seen that many Shaw films, hell only two. He was the heavy/mark in The Sting and he was motherfucking QUINT in JAWS. If he only made one movie and it was Jaws, he'd still be Robert FUCKING Shaw, maybe with a purer 'fuck'. And Mathau, he doesn't need a cuss in his name, his very presence gives you, at least, the slight inclination to rent Hanging Up, even though you know you'll hate it.
9pm
Bullet Train
It's Speed, but on a subway! Some nefarious no-gooder has planted a bomb on a high-speed train which will explode if it goes below 80km/h. And SONNY FUCKING CHIBA is in it.
7pm
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3
A group of armed men take a subway train full of people hostage and declare that they'll kill a hostage a minute if their demands aren't met. The transit cop there to deal with the hostages and the beauratic red tape is Walter Mathau, who we love simply for being being Walter Mathau, and it's always grand to be loved for just simply who you are. Leading the hostage takers is Robert FUCKING Shaw. Now there are not many actors you can refer to and and honestly throw a 'fucking' in their name without cheapening it, the icon status has to be tough as nails. Even James Cagney, one of the toughest, meanest little bastard of the gangster golden age, made queer little movies like Yankee Doodle Dandy (writer's confession: have never seen Yanke Doodle Dandy, but it's a musical, musicals are for sissies, like Ewan McGregor, a sissy with a big schlong). John Wayne was too much of the protector. No it's rare actor that qualifies to have their name interrupted by a cuss (common though cussing is now, but hell it's been constant throughout my living history, so...), they have to be tough as nails and capable of doing anything. Any one of these actors could play a phenomenal Punisher, and I'll tell you it ain't Thomas Fuckin' Jane. To tell the truth I don't think there's a living working actor right now who'd deserve it. I got a short list of all time here:
LEE FUCKING MARVIN
CHARLES FUCKING BRONSON
HENRY FUCKING SILVA.
And Robert FUCKING Shaw. I haven't seen that many Shaw films, hell only two. He was the heavy/mark in The Sting and he was motherfucking QUINT in JAWS. If he only made one movie and it was Jaws, he'd still be Robert FUCKING Shaw, maybe with a purer 'fuck'. And Mathau, he doesn't need a cuss in his name, his very presence gives you, at least, the slight inclination to rent Hanging Up, even though you know you'll hate it.
9pm
Bullet Train
It's Speed, but on a subway! Some nefarious no-gooder has planted a bomb on a high-speed train which will explode if it goes below 80km/h. And SONNY FUCKING CHIBA is in it.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
THREE-PEAT (or Green Party)
Celebrate your lack of heritage by co-opting the Irish, at a party at the Clubhouse!
Green Beer, Hideous Decorations, and Great Fun!
This will be the Third Month in a row with a Clubhouse party! Yay!
When: Saturday the 17th of March. 8-9 starting time. Indeterminate ending time!
Where: The Clubhouse, in the hood, yo!
What: Mayhem, Mayhem, Mayhem.
Bring your own libations, and extra friends! I will provide mood and green stuff!
(Maybe saying I will provide green stuff might be taken poorly.....)
Come one come all!
Green Beer, Hideous Decorations, and Great Fun!
This will be the Third Month in a row with a Clubhouse party! Yay!
When: Saturday the 17th of March. 8-9 starting time. Indeterminate ending time!
Where: The Clubhouse, in the hood, yo!
What: Mayhem, Mayhem, Mayhem.
Bring your own libations, and extra friends! I will provide mood and green stuff!
(Maybe saying I will provide green stuff might be taken poorly.....)
Come one come all!
Monday, March 05, 2007
Threadless $10 tee sale
Use the link on the top right column to give me credit. Or use Alex's link, because I owe that man some t-karma back.
Friday, March 02, 2007
B&B Presents: Ecological Apocalypse II: Nature’s Revenge
I had so much fun the last time around, I have decided to do a second round of Man Vs. Ecology Pictures.
Again, it is going to be a documentary saddled up next to a Cheesy B-movie.
7:00 pm
Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Canada
I usually do not do this, but I will use the text out of the studio’s promotion to give you an Idea. It is just that eloquent.
“Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as stunning or beautiful, and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.”
To give you a further idea of the quality of this Doc., when I was in T.O. during the Toronto International Film Festival in September I was in an elevator with a bunch of film makers who were raving about how visually astounding this film was. When I checked it had been sold out almost right away.
9:00 pm
Gojira tai Hedorah AKA Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971) Japan
For a bit of fun at the end of the evening I want to show this classic and campy Kaiju monster battle. It had not been released yet during the last Ecological Apocalypse night.
The Gojira series, especially the original, is one of the best for popularizing concern over threats to the Earths Balance. Lost in the 1950s American Version is that Godzilla started out as an anti nuclear testing statement, especially due to the activity in the pacific during the Cold War. This 1971 version directed by Yoshimitsu Banno was more intended for children and the ecological statement is fairly weak. Keep in mind that weak usually lends to more laughter. In this version: Gojira, defender of the Earth, has become a national phenomenon, akin to the Loch Ness Monster, especially for children. The monster has been ingrained into the Japanese consciousness. However, the Japanese citizens and industrialists still do not realize that destroying the balance of the Earth will summon the millennia-old protector. The story follows a young boy who finds a creature, which thrives on toxic waste, naming it Hedorah, a pun on the Japanese word for sludge, hedoro. This monster sucks on smokestacks, oozes at the screaming populace, and belches poisonous fumes. In his dreams, the boy wishes for Gojira to defeat Hedorah and for people be persuaded to stop polluting the earth. Gojira, as the great protector of the planet’s balance, fights the monster in a rage against humanity’s destruction of his ecology.
If Manufactured Landscapes is unavailable, I will alternate with:
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) USA a blockbuster disaster flick about climate change.
Again, it is going to be a documentary saddled up next to a Cheesy B-movie.
7:00 pm
Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Canada
I usually do not do this, but I will use the text out of the studio’s promotion to give you an Idea. It is just that eloquent.
“Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as stunning or beautiful, and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.”
To give you a further idea of the quality of this Doc., when I was in T.O. during the Toronto International Film Festival in September I was in an elevator with a bunch of film makers who were raving about how visually astounding this film was. When I checked it had been sold out almost right away.
9:00 pm
Gojira tai Hedorah AKA Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1971) Japan
For a bit of fun at the end of the evening I want to show this classic and campy Kaiju monster battle. It had not been released yet during the last Ecological Apocalypse night.
The Gojira series, especially the original, is one of the best for popularizing concern over threats to the Earths Balance. Lost in the 1950s American Version is that Godzilla started out as an anti nuclear testing statement, especially due to the activity in the pacific during the Cold War. This 1971 version directed by Yoshimitsu Banno was more intended for children and the ecological statement is fairly weak. Keep in mind that weak usually lends to more laughter. In this version: Gojira, defender of the Earth, has become a national phenomenon, akin to the Loch Ness Monster, especially for children. The monster has been ingrained into the Japanese consciousness. However, the Japanese citizens and industrialists still do not realize that destroying the balance of the Earth will summon the millennia-old protector. The story follows a young boy who finds a creature, which thrives on toxic waste, naming it Hedorah, a pun on the Japanese word for sludge, hedoro. This monster sucks on smokestacks, oozes at the screaming populace, and belches poisonous fumes. In his dreams, the boy wishes for Gojira to defeat Hedorah and for people be persuaded to stop polluting the earth. Gojira, as the great protector of the planet’s balance, fights the monster in a rage against humanity’s destruction of his ecology.
If Manufactured Landscapes is unavailable, I will alternate with:
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) USA a blockbuster disaster flick about climate change.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
HELP!!!!!!
Hi All,
As many of you do not know, I am moving this Sunday! Not having siding for three years and the whole ceiling collapse fiasco is just too much. Also we are getting a new door -- in the floor of the bedroom. The locals were nice enough to remove a couple of stained glass windows from the back patio for us too. This brings me to my request, my dear loving friends (and the rest of you).... I need one volunteer to help move fragile items such as guitars this Saturday at 10am. So, either reply to this post or give me a call.
Bob
As many of you do not know, I am moving this Sunday! Not having siding for three years and the whole ceiling collapse fiasco is just too much. Also we are getting a new door -- in the floor of the bedroom. The locals were nice enough to remove a couple of stained glass windows from the back patio for us too. This brings me to my request, my dear loving friends (and the rest of you).... I need one volunteer to help move fragile items such as guitars this Saturday at 10am. So, either reply to this post or give me a call.
Bob
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