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maxcelcatI've been very slack at updating this here blog (as usual.) I do seem to spend too much of my time living my life to be documenting it.
Anyway, a couple of Monday's ago, I went along to the Splodge film night at the Empress Hotel. I used to be a regular there back in the day before I joined a toastmasters club which meets on the same night. So I hadn't been in about 18 months. Irving, who runs the thing, remembered me well, and was suitably disparaging about my long absence.
Splodge (is that even in the dictionary?) plays, well, weird shit. All in 16mm. Projected onto a sheet. In a bar of a hotel. Some of their classics included "Psychic Parrot" about a parrot which predicts the end of the world. And "The Way the Eagle Shits", a satirical political tirade from a left-wing american journalist.
Anyway, this time around, Irving showed a funny old early animation, an animation of "Where the Wild Things Are" and a bizarre episode of "Journey to the Center of the Earth". What's up with the pet duck??? And the el-cheapo animation?
But the highlight was "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", a low budget made for TV movie from the 1950's. The whole thing was in rhyming couplets - not just the songs! It was very surreal! The best part, as far as Iriving was concerned, is that it's in the public domain. No royalties. I recommend it - very fucking weird...
Ok, so, this was a bit over a week ago. I still haven't touched on the weekend before that. Egad. Too much life.
Anyway, a couple of Monday's ago, I went along to the Splodge film night at the Empress Hotel. I used to be a regular there back in the day before I joined a toastmasters club which meets on the same night. So I hadn't been in about 18 months. Irving, who runs the thing, remembered me well, and was suitably disparaging about my long absence.
Splodge (is that even in the dictionary?) plays, well, weird shit. All in 16mm. Projected onto a sheet. In a bar of a hotel. Some of their classics included "Psychic Parrot" about a parrot which predicts the end of the world. And "The Way the Eagle Shits", a satirical political tirade from a left-wing american journalist.
Anyway, this time around, Irving showed a funny old early animation, an animation of "Where the Wild Things Are" and a bizarre episode of "Journey to the Center of the Earth". What's up with the pet duck??? And the el-cheapo animation?
But the highlight was "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", a low budget made for TV movie from the 1950's. The whole thing was in rhyming couplets - not just the songs! It was very surreal! The best part, as far as Iriving was concerned, is that it's in the public domain. No royalties. I recommend it - very fucking weird...
Ok, so, this was a bit over a week ago. I still haven't touched on the weekend before that. Egad. Too much life.
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Date: 2006-08-15 12:39 pm (UTC)Not to mention...
Date: 2006-08-16 03:30 am (UTC)Re: Not to mention...
Date: 2006-08-16 08:41 am (UTC)