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Friday |
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 Dennis
Gray's Queen Anne apartment rooftop
proved perfect venue for first 15 Minutes of Fame Home Movie Party where
guests were invited to bring 15 minutes or less of their favorite VHS footage--
preferably something they themselves filmed although there were exceptions,
most notably the first U.S. big screen showing of two short works ("The Magic
Bell" and "Bloody Hugo") by Czech filmmaker Aurel Klimt. A tiny grill
miraculously fed the masses in a loaves and fishes kind of way, and previously
threatening clouds yielded to indigo skies as Space Needle sparked to life
and we fired up the LCD projector Dennis borrowed from work. The setlist:
Let's Think and Be Safe educational film, lip syncing skate punks ("nobody
likes me, not even Jesus"), imperfected cat tricks, Taiwanese mask-making
workshops, Chicago morning news henna demo starring Andi, and a trio of music
videos, the soundtrack for one of which was
KCMU simulcast which provided an eerily
appropriate complement, calling to mind William Burroughs' famous question:
How random is random? If you were there, please
sign the
guestbook. |
