I’m leaving for Rochester around 4-4:30pm today. It’s about a 6 hour trip, so I’ll be looking for Nick Tahou’s Steve T’s around 10-11pm. I’ll post to twitter when i’m getting close with a better ETA, so look there if you’re interested in meeting me there.
rochester
Phew
This has been a pretty intense movie marathon for me. Since Wednesday, I’ve seen 14 movies, with only one left to catch tonight at the Coolidge. By Sunday night I started to feel all that sitting in my back and eyes; I felt like my eyes were going to melt when I went to bed that night. I’ve seen some great films, though, and have only really been disappointed by one of them. My goal is to write a review for all 15 of the films over the next few days.
FUMN is this weekend, and I have to say that the back-to-back movie marathons might prove to be a bit much for my sanity. As long as people enjoy themselves it will be worth it. Hopefully people in CSH actually are still interested in FUMN and aren’t just humoring an old man. :)
Crispin Glover Could Be at Your House Right Now
Rochestarians and FUMN-philes, please note:
Crispin Glover will be at the Eastman House screening his film What Is It? and giving his Big Slide Show on March 2nd and 3rd. This is a film I’ve wanted to see for some time (which Crispin is self-distributing and isn’t available on video), and is part of a trilogy, the second part of which was recently screened at Sundance.
Beeeeeeeeewwww
Friday after work,
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, and I left for Rochester… We hit the road around 6:45pm and expected to arrive some time near Midnight.. Unfortunately, as soon as we were ready to leave, it started snowing.. Apparently in Boston it quickly turned to rain, but we had white-out conditions until the Mass border, delaying us like crazy… We were planning on driving directly to Nick’s, but had to bail just because we arrived so late. But we just revised the plans to hit Dinosaur for lunch on Saturday and grab some Nick’s for dinner just before FUMN started…
We hit up Dinosaur with some folks as planned, and then headed over to CSH to hang out on floor for awhile… Unfortunately, almost everyone was at some stupid RIT function that ResLife leaned on the house to attend… I was pretty much set to go to Nick’s before FUMN, but I got guilted into attending
‘s birthday celebration.. It was a great time, but I really wanted Nick’s…
FUMN seemed to be a great success.. The committee picked a fine selection of flicks this year:
The films seemed to be pretty well received, although each flick had it’s detractors, but that’s to be expected.. We might have shown another film, but we got a late start as it was (after 10pm) and finished things up around 4am… As it was I was contemplating dropping Oldboy and going out to Nick’s, but I decided to make that sacrifice…. :)
Sunday we swung by DiBella’s on our way out of town, which was as delicious as always. We had a really nice drive back though… The TomTom did us right, guiding us directly to Garrett’s for his Super Bowl party.. We watched the boredom of the Super Bowl and hung out with friends I hadn’t seen in awhile.. Finally rolled into Boston at 11pm, and crashed pretty quickly…
See, I told you FUMN was Scholarly!
I did a vanity search today for the phrase “fucked up movie night”, and was astonished to find that FUMN was cited in an academic article!
“Besides video and DVD rentals and purchases, the film is still being shown in theatres around the world. Indeed, in January 2001, the Royal Cinema in Toronto played an Ilsa double feature, presenting Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS at 9:15, and Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks at its 11:30 PM show. Paradise Cinema in Toronto also showed the double feature. It has also been shown on college campuses. For instance, Associated Students of UC Davis advertised it ironically as “the heart-warming, inspirational World War II epic” for a free-screening, Lewis and Clark College played it during its “alternative movie night,” and Rochester Institute of Technology showed it for “fucked up movie night.””
— Rapaport, Lynn – “Holocaust Pornography: Profaning the Sacred in ‘Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS,'” in Shofar, 22, Fall 2003
I’m not sure what pleases me more, the fact that showing “Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S.” was enough to get us into a scholarly journal, or that the credit (blame?) for showing the film was given to RIT as opposed to “The Committee”. =)
On that subject, tomorrow is FUMN #16 at 9:45pm in the conference room below Kate Gleason Hall. We’ll be landing in Rochester tonight around midnight, and will likely go directly to Nick’s. Be there or be somewhere else.
Nick’s on Unwrapped
I’ve recently talked to a few current and former victims of Rochester who never had the chance to see the feature Unwrapped did on Nick Tahou’s and the Garbage Plate. If you are interested, I’ve put it up for your viewing pleasure.
Warranty Fortune Smiles Upon Me
I had a great time in Rochester for the CSH Welcome Back Party, but I think I might be skipping future Welcome Back parties… More and more of my friends are leaving Rochester, and I know fewer and fewer people who live at CSH. I think this realization comes to all alumni, but I guess I finally hit the sweet spot. It seems that each year I spend more time in Rochester catching up with my friends who are visiting from out of town, and less time doing anything with the house. It occured to us that if all we are going to do is hang out with each other, we can pick a place that’s a bit more fun than Rochester… :P This decision doesn’t effect Fucked Up Movie Night, however, so I still plan on being at CSH once or twice a year.. Of course, it’s very possible that next September I will change my mind and end up in Rochester anyway, so this could all be bullshit.
I have had great warranty luck lately… First off, Apple recalled both of the batteries I have for my Powerbook. This worked out fantastically, because I was just getting annoyed by the diminished capacity of the two recalled batteries. Around the same time, I got an email from Sirius saying that due to supply shortages, my warranty exchange on my Starmate Replay (for a scratchy 1/8″ audio jack) was being upgraded to a brand new Sportster 4, which is a much nicer radio. I got that in the mail the other day, the only sucky thing is that I have to send back all of the original equipment for the Starmate, so I had to rip out the old antenna and install the new. I had the Antenna wire hid very nicely through the trunk, and under the molding on the passenger side of the car, so I had to reproduce all of that again. Also, the Starmate ran on 12V DC so lopped off the lighter adaptor that came with it and hardwired it into the cars power inside the dash. I can’t exactly return that, and the new radio runs on 5V DC, so I will take some kind of hit on that..
Welcome Back
I reserved a room at the Henrietta Microtel for the CSH Welcome Back party in September… Room was $50/night, which is a pretty good deal, so hopefully the room doesn’t suck.
Rochester is still Rochester
In case you were wondering, Rochester in the winter still sucks.. :) Actually, while cold and windy, it is pretty nice out today… You can actually see blue… IN THE SKY!
We’ve just been meeting up with people here yesterday and today… Went to a party last night that was fun, although I was pretty tired from waking up at 6:30am.. :P Today met up with most of the same people and more at DiBellas and then walked around campus checking it out.
FUMN the Fifteenth
This weekend was a grand ol’ time…
Anyway, after Nick’s I went back to the hotel to sleep, and Saturday was predictably filled with DiBella’s, DinoBBQ, and FUMN. There was also an Alumni Storytelling thing at 2pm on floor… I am not so into them, but organizing them was always a pain in the ass when I was House History director, so I decided to attend just to support my old committee. It turned out to be a fun time… FUMN was a rousing success, I presented 4 films this time, and one of them was rather short (at 45 minutes), so we ended the night “early” at 2am. To be honest, this was probably a good thing, because we still had a really large crowd at 2am, and normally by the end of the night we are down to stragglers, so perhaps I will aim for 2am as the “sweet spot”, but who knows… Anyway, the lineup was: