support your local sheriff! I mean, film rustler!

Tonight was my last night with Jim Reed's Wednesday night features at one of Savannah's local coffeehouses.
Well, for this year, I mean.
I do hope his Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah will continue to bring to the table the lost films of yesterday, those which never made it to video in this country, or those which have been tied up in legal battles or other obscurity.
After all, we hunger for fare different from the buffets served at the commercial cineplexes. Not that their offerings don't, or cannot, sustain us, but the nutritional value is... well, mostly lacking.
You know I'm right.

Earlier this year, I had purchased advance tickets for the Wednesday screenings.
Doesn't he tend to choose horror films, which you do not consume, more times than not?
I do admit that he does lean in that direction, but he also brings comedies, action, film noir, and suspense (which he sometimes mislabels as horror). Oh, and musicals!
But wait! Don't you work on Wednesday evenings?
Well, yes, I do. Most Wednesdays, in fact, except in the summer.
Then why would you purchase a bunch of advance tickets for events you know you will not be attending?
Let me tell you why.
If he doesn't have the funds to procure the rights to show the films, then those films remain unseen. The good films, the bad films, and the ugly films - they could never be brought to town without the aid of advance funding.
Sure, the weekly tickey sales help keep the venture afloat, for the most part. But that revenue source is fairly slight some weeks and cannot be relied upon.
So, I gladly support PFS by purchasing advance tickets.
Even when it turns out that I have a few left over at year's end.

spider baby singing in my email

Well, I haven't received the poster yet, but I'm sure it'll be in the mail soon. After all, I was just contacted via email by one of the cast members! Sadly, not a big hunk of man, but a chick, man.
(Smile.)
So, here's the email:
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:03:31 PM
Subject: Thank you for your donation to Spider Baby the Musical

Hello, fliss,

Thank you for your Kickstarter donation to Spider Baby the Musical. Your donation reward includes the following:
Shout out on Epiphany Theatre's Facebook Page
1 Signed Poster Signed by Spider Baby Cast
A personal email thank you from a cast member
A cast hug at the show
Spider Baby the Musical is opening this week. Performances are located at Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont, Portland, OR on March 15 - March 24. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8pm.
If you are able to attend, please let us know what night you will be attendng and we will have your signed poster ready for you to pick up at the show. If you are unable to attend please let us know what address you would like us to mail the poster to you.

A shout out on the Epiphany Theatre Facebook page and a personal email thank you from a cast member will be sent out within the week. Please let us know your full name and correct spelling as you would like it to appear for the shout out on Facebook.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks again & have a pleasant day!
Nicole "Cindy" Crawford
Epiphany Theatre Company

So, there's still a chance that an email hug will arrive in just a few days, with that alluring scent of man all over it. And maybe even a uniquely nerdy tone to it.
Meanwhile, break a leg, y'all, on this very first play you've done!!!

spider baby, the musical

Two things you should know about my reason for backing this kickstarter project. First, of course, is this: it's a musical. Actually, that one point would most likely have been enough, but there's something about the title, too. You see, I've actually seen the movie, "Spider Baby", billed as "The Maddest Story Ever Told." I even possess the soundtrack for it, all thanks to the Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah and Jim Reed's Wednesday night screenings at the Sentient Bean, a local coffeehouse.
Apparently, the Epiphany Theatre Co. in Oregon likes its stories off-center, too. Their goal is to bring "uniquely nerdy theatre experiences" to those who enter their spaces. This show promises to be a doozy!
"Spider Baby, the Musical" is based on the work of Jack Hill (the man who brought us the film in 1968) and Enrique Acostas, the musical madman, who published the score in 2010. Why musical madman? Click the link and you can have a free download of the songs - all of them.
So... if I can get the music for free and have no shot of going to see the play performed, why am I pushing money in their direction? And, if they have not only made goal, but surpassed it, then why add my funds to their haul?
Simple: I'll get bragging rights to tell Jim I was part of this because of him. As much as the man gives pleasure to so many so often, I know he will be pleased that he had an impact here, too.
Also, I'l get an email hug from one of the cast members.
That's got to be worth a few bucks, right?
You bet!

art house cinema 502

Not very likely that I'll ever go to Ogden, Utah, home of this kickstarter project.
But I do like T-shirts from odd places.
So, I ventured a double-sawbuck, westerly, toward the Art House Cinema 502.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?
I'm backing them pretty early on, too. Mostly, I'm doing this with a nod to our locally-grown art house film group, the Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah. Partly, I am also supporting this project in honor of The Cinematique, my favorite film venue in Daytona Beach. Neither of them have the following of this place in Utah (hint: its capacity is given in its name), but those of us who attend the offerings of these smaller purveyors of indie, foreign, and otherwise odd films are quite devoted to them.
I think this is going to make for a fine story to my fellow film-loving friends.