Body Worlds

I am going to order tickets tomorrow for Body World 3 at Science World for Saturday,

If you are interested, Be prepared to attend at 4am on the morning of Saturday, but I'll aim for an evening spot. There are only 125 spots available for each time slot, so I am looking for solid responses by tomorrow 9am to ensure a respectable hour. If you are interested in going during any hour on the Saturday, post in the comments.

Rates are $20 for adults, $17 for students, with a $2/ticket surcharge for "convenience".

I'll post the time on here as soon as the tickets are ordered, for people who are waffling and would rather buy tickets on their own.

B&B Presents: Let's keep this Soul Train running.

Wow a post only a few hours before we're supposed to start. Coincidently complementing last Friday's Evil Film School (s'true I've been putting off this night since August) is a couple of essential Blaxploitation films.

Sun. Oct.1





Sadly I won't be there due to a certain Korean Monster movie. Why you guys didn't rush to get tickets is beyond me. Anyways hopefully I'll see ya on the tail end of the night

Now that's what I call culture: Movie night and so much more

Now before I get into this sunday's goodness I just want to remind people JACKASS NUMBER TWO opens today! I totally forgot about til I opened up the Straight. I'm thinking the 9:50pm show at the Paramount, and hey we'll probably get to watch drunk frat boys try to copy the stunts after the movie. Who's down?

B&B Presents: RollerMADNESS!

Sun. Sep.24/06



7pmRoll Bounce (2005): Well you have a typical coming of age story set against a roller skating competition in the 70s (so great music) and CHARLIE MURPHY! Don't forget Nick Cannon, he's hilarious.



9pm Kansas City Bomber (1972): When the fuck is the Vancouver Roller Derby league gonna start up! Last I heard they were having trouble getting insurance for their players. BOOOO! Anyways roller derby, Raquel Welch wearing tight shirts, that just may show a bit of cleavage, beating the shit out of other girls while wearing rollerskates. My head swoons with delight.

and possibly an AFTERHOURS showing of Miike's episode of Masters of Horror, IMPRINT. For those who haven't downloaded it months. Like myself.

Next week: Blaxploitation classics.

AND NOW UPCOMING SHOWS

Ok I have tickets to LADYTRON on Oct. 14 (where I'll dance like a middle aged gay man at the Pet Shop Boys farewell concert) and DETROIT COBRAS on the following Monday and I want to spend those times with you. Regarding the Cobras, I've just found out how musically ignorant I am, since finding out they're a cover band. Albeit a cover band with their own great rockin' sound. So if anyone is interested in doing the Cha-cha twist with me come along. Also note, the near pleading tone comes from the fact that the only person I know going is someone I have a huge crush on and she has a boyfriend. Help me not flip out. Oh yes SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS is coming to town on Nov.16. One of the funnest live acts still around that I have yet to see (and I've hardly seen any, so that's a whole lot of potential funness).

Ugh sleep sentence construction difficult. Work soon. blahhhh.

VIFF schedule up NOW!

GO HERE FOR LISTINGS

So far most looking forward to THE HOST. Same director (Joon-ho Bong) and some of the cast (including fave Kang-ho Song) as Memories of Murder and it's a monster movie. A river monster movie. Life is sweet. A huge blockbuster in South Korea and Japan. There's talk it's going to be South Korea's submission to Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars. A monster movie. A river monster movie. Wait a mutant river monster movie.



Here's the Japanese trailer. Myself, I'm doing a blackout on the movie til I see it. It's been picked up by Magnolia pictures (which Alliance-Atlantis occasionally does releases for) so it might play here after the fest.

I'm going to the Oct. 1st 9:45pm showing. Tickets on sale now.

Will be back with more info on fest titles as time permits.

btw I have a pass to Science Of Sleep this wednesday but have no date. Any takers?

My Birthday Bash!

As Paul has informed me of his plans for Friday the 18th (my b-day), I will be having my party time on Saturday the 19th. Wink is hosting a night of various humour based performers and you can buy tickets for this night there. They cost $8. I know I keep saying this but it really may be your last chance to see my beautious visage before the east claims me for their own. As of today my flight is on the 21st.

Ok
So,
Wink
Sat 19th
Buy your $8 tickets
My Birthday Party!

decemberists 11.18

anyone up for a decemberists show in november? it's saturday, 11.18 at the commodore, and tix go on sale august 1. I'm looking at you, bean.

if people are wanting to go and will be picking up tickets, I would gladly you pay you tuesday for two tickets today...

Clerks II -- The Plan

So, Clerks 2 opens tomorrow & it's one of the few movies I've deemed worthy of opening night attendance. Shows at the Paramount are at 7:40pm and 10:30pm. I'm planning on going to the 7:40pm show. Because I now work downtown, I will be picking up tickets on my lunch break. If you would like me to pick you up a ticket, email me or post in the comments before noon tomorrow. If I do not hear from you by then, you won't be getting a ticket. Alternately you can call me on my cell phone and leave a message, but again, you've gotta do it before noon. After that, plan is to line-up around 6:30pm. I'll be going for drinks with work in the afternoon, but I'll co-ordinate by cellphone with anyone I've picked-up a ticket for (assuming you'd all have cellphones).

Hope to see you there,

~meeko

In the meantime you can watch Kevin Smith dance like a 14 year old girl & Rosario Dawson scream the word "vagina" by going here.

The Red Elvises

I completly forgot to post here earlier, sorry guys!

If any of you are free tonight, come by the Railway Club @ 8pm for The Red Elvises!

Tickets are $10 at the door.

Friday July the 14th and what you're doing!

Hello Everyone!

In a mass celebration of many birthdays in the first two weeks of July (including my own) join me and my new band This Week In History at The Pic (W. Pender @ Granville) on Friday July the 14th for the party to end all multi birthday parties.





If you'd like tickets comment here or contact me via other means if you have them. I'm mobile and am available to drop tickets off, they are $7 each in advance. Hope to see you all there!

This Week In History @ The Pic

Aidan asked me to help out on the promotions for an upcoming gig for his band, This Week In History. You might remember them from such gigs as "The Buffalo Club" (DVD available) and 8 Seconds (opening for Darkest o/t hillside thickets, Hanson bros). Anyhow, they have another gig that almost coincides with Aidan's quarter century birthday blowout:



TWIH (w/ 3 guests)
Friday, July 14th
The Pic Pub
622 W. Pender Street
Doors 8:00pm
Tickets: $7.00 (through me, so RSVP)

This works out well, I most certainly would not have even dreamed of trying to steal any burlesque thunder.

TWIH myspace page is here.

Whitecaps Sunday June 25

4pm - Ladies' game
7pm - Men's game

I have three tickets for you people to attend free! I'll be going, but I got extras from work.

Call dibs now!

Movie Night: Japanese Noir

Brendan thought Noir might be swell this week. I kinda shrugged thinking about all the classic films that've been programmed that you all ignored due to slow pacing. Then Brendan said, "How about Japanese Noir". Well if you guys have to read subtitles you're more likely to pay attention so I said, "Sure".

Mon. Jun. 19th

7pm Stray Dog (1949): Toshiro Mifune is a young detective who on a hot summer day in a crowded bus has his gun stolen by a pickpocket. Rather than report the missing weapon he sets out to find it himself. On his search he discovers an entire criminal underworld. A tense Post-War noir in Akira Kurosawa's and Mifune's third collaboration.

Driest write-up by me ever.

9pm The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994): Both sending up and honouring western noir conventions in this, the first part Mike Hama Private Investigator trilogy. Hama is suave, macho, and cold. Unlike his American counterpart, Hama is a total klutz. Hama works out of a projection booth in a Yokohama movie house. Before his clients can see him, the theater owners make them buy tickets. During his first on-screen case poor Hama must protect a Taiwanese waiter from an irate customer in a mah-jong parlor. Of course he finds himself embroiled in the middle of a gang war.

If you haven't check the calendar lately...

The Clubhouse Purchasing Power Department is looking to feature summer cheese movies.

First up is Too Fast Too Furious: Tokyo Drift. For those who have not snickered, laughed, or giggled at the first two, this might just be the one to have you in stiches. Opening night is Kevin's adios-muchachos party, so it's going to have to be a Saturday night. This may be a double feature night finishing with Nacho Libre (reason for order of movies is that kids are going to be drawn to Nacho Libre and are less likely to be at the late show; crazy car fanatics are night owls and will likely want to go to the later screening of 2F2F3).

The second scheduled (but there will be more screenings before this one) will be Snakes on a Plane on August 18th. This is a pre-order event and you know it. The calendar comment section will be the place to reserve tickets. This movie will fall nothing short of terrible. WOO HOO!

Other Brainless Blockbuster suggestions can go here or at the calendar. And remember, if you don't have an account to access it, let me know ASAP. This is the premier location for Clubhouse events and activities and you should be posting events there as well as here.

Dialogue of Cities

JP and I are going to a series of evening lectures June 1-3rd on the Museum in the city and the city as museum. I know Brendan would be interested but maybe the rest of you have some urban geek inside you wanting to come out.

Details in the Clubhouse Calendar

You can buy tickets individually ~$15 each or a three ticket pack for ~$30.

www.festivalboxoffice.com

Website Blurb:

There are two key questions we are asking our global experts to consider as they discuss their own home cities: ?What is Vancouver?s place in the world of cities, and how can we learn from the successes and failures of other metropolises?? and ?If the city is itself a kind of museum of the peoples and ideas that shaped it, what is the role of new and expanded museums in the contemporary metropolis??

FORMAT and SCOPE: The event consists of a concentrated three-day public program just prior to the main WUF event. June 1 and 2 will feature illustrated slide lectures at two venues downtown (SFU and Robson Square) by seven of the world?s leading architects and critics, focusing on current urban issues and museum-building in some of the world?s most interesting cities. The event will conclude with a June 3 session at Arthur Erickson?s Museum of Anthropology at UBC, where our guest commentators will offer their opinions and suggestions for Vancouver, and then open up a dialogue with the community. All invited guests are design writers and urbanists from all continents, public intellectuals whose writings have been published in many of the world?s leading newspapers, magazines, and design journals.

Paintball Sunday @ 9am

Gareth and I (and some others from my work) are going paintballing at Tsawassen Paintball Games near the ferry terminal on Sunday the 21st. We will be leaving Metrotown @ about 9am, and arriving at the field for 945 or 10am. I have cheap entry tickets, which can be purchased from me on the day of (two people get in for the cost of one - but it must be used by two people). I no longer have seats available, but if you have your own vehicle or are willing to transit, you're welcome to join us.

Birthday plans

I'm going to a Midsummer Night's Dream at Bard on the Beach. Festival seating, so buy tickets, and we'll see each other there.

It's a Wednesday, so most of you will be going to karaoke, but for those who want an alternative, feel free to join me.

Waiting for Godot

$23 (I think) for students with ID (that's almost all of you), 7:30pm this Thursday night, Stanley Theatre. Meet up at my place at 6:30pm to head over and buy a block of tickets?

RSVP and I might just buy tickets on my way home from work to save time and possible separation of friends!

Faith of the Hanson Brothers in the Hillside Thickets

While I strongly encourage you to check out Destroyer tomorrow (which I sadly will be unable to attend), there is a pretty sweet show in Langley on Thursday night as well. Langley? Where's that? I don't know, but if you were to meet me at a surrey skytrain station, I'm sure we could find it by car.

VENUE: 8 Seconds (formerly China Beach)

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY 9PM
You've met these guys at my last karaoke gig - Aidan, Jesse et al.
They'll be mainly covering Faith No More, angel dust era I'd imagine.

THE HANSON BROTHERS 10PM
Two members of NoMeansNo, Victoria punk legends. Hockey meets punk.

DARKEST OF THE HILLSIDE THICKETS 11PM
Local legendary valley rockers with an HP Lovecraft theme.

So there you go, an evening of Angel Dust, Hockey and Cthulu.

Tickets, I'm guessing $10?

DESTROYER

Wednesday at Richards on Richards. This show is going to be super sweet, you should come if you like music that is good.



Tickets $14 at Zulu, Scratch, Red Cat.

SLITHER and JESUS IS MAGIC

Hey hey.

Seeing a couple of movies this week. First up Owen and myself are heading to the 7:20 show of SLITHER at Granville 7 downtown. Looks pretty hilarious and the browncoats should show up for Mr Nathan Fillion playing a completely out of his depth sheriff.

Second up the Jewish Film Festival added another showing of Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic at midnight this Saturday. You can order tickets over the phone (604-488-4300) or online. Hope to see a few of you there.

Adios.