NYistas: Anyone interested in checking out Buster Keaton's
The General
in Prospect Park tonight at 7:30pm, drop me a line. Complete details are below. Profile addy is good.
The renowned ALLOY ORCHESTRA performs its newest original score to THE GENERAL (1927), a wild train chase/love story starring Buster Keaton set during Civil War that is one of the great accomplishments of the silent era (1hr19min @ 8:40). Come early to catch INVERT, a maverick Brooklyn based string quartet that confounds expectations by folding jazz, rock, and world music flourishes into its new music repertoire.
Through various sundry methods and illicit schemes, we have settled on a genre-busting book to kick off the action.
The first selection for The Buffista Book Club will be:
The Intuitionist,
by Whitehead, Colson.
Discussion begins August 15, 2004.
Job posting:
My company is in the market to hire one Java developer.
If you're a Java developer in the Boston area (we're based on the North Shore, about 25 miles up the coast from Boston), and you think you might be interested drop me a line at my profile address (add 'Buffistas:' to the subject line to avoid my harsh spam-filtering).
A little ways up thread I posted that Amber Benson's
Chance
will be the feature presentation at this year's Trinoc*coN speculative fiction con in Durham, NC. I just learned the times and thought I'd post em': 1AM Saturday, 1AM and 1:30PM Sunday. Original post: Tam "Sunnydale Press" Jun 30, 2004 1:41:44 pm PDT
I've just realized that I was over-efficient in setting up my spam filter, and that anything sent to my profile address has been getting reduced to its constituent electrons, for oh, months now.
So if you were trying to reach me, I wasn't ignoring you! I was just really, really dumb.
I'm helping to organize (and my band is playing in) a great fundraising event happening Friday, July 30th in Baltimore.
WHAT--Estrofest, an all-ages, estrogen-fueled night of rock and roll to benefit House of Ruth.
WHEN--July 30, 8PM-2AM (FREE BEER at the downstairs bar from 8-9)
WHERE--The Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard Street, Baltimore
HOW MUCH--$7/$8 (for the under 21s)
WHO--Vestal Vermin, Secret Crush Society, Egyptian Sun Belly Dancers
The Sirens (Northern Virginia, punk), Dawn of Man (DC, New New Wave)
WHY--House of Ruth provides thousands of battered women and their children with a safe haven and gives them needed resources to escape from domestic violence situations. In addition to offering emergency shelter, House of Ruth Maryland offers such programs as job training and legal counseling to help women end the cycle of domestic violence.
WHAT ELSE--A $2 a ticket raffle featuring prizes from Atomic Books, A Cleansing Touch (day spa), In Watermelon Sugar, Oh! Said Rose/Ma Petite Shoe, Fat Elvis, Trixie's Palace, Stickky Fingers, the Children's Bookstore, and the Baltimore Tattoo Museum.
It's really really real!
I'm purchasing Nilly's North American Tour ticket, today. For those who contributed, I'll be sending an accounting and Nilly's tour dates, so you can come and visit with our Nilly in one of the cities she'll be visiting.
There's more info in the F2F thread.
Many thanks to all who contributed!
The new High Hat, she is online. Watch for our own Lyra Jane in the Labor Day supplement.
DCistas! They Might Be Giants and Fountains of Wayne are playing tomorrow night in front of the National Gallery. Check out liveonpenn.com for the specifics, and e me at my profile addy if you're going.
I am, as the Empress calls it, devideoing myself.
Does anyone want any of these VHS tapes, for the price of postage:
Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh version)
Sense and Sensibility (Thompson/Grant version)
My Best Friend's wedding
Pleasantville
The Playboys
The Philadelphia Story
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Cousins
Dangerous Liasons
Four Weddings and a funeral
Evita
Impromptu
Hairspray
Grease
Lawrence of Arabia
Labyrinth
Jurassic Park
Shakespeare in Love
The Commitments
What's Love got to do with it
West Side Story
The Many adventures of Winne the Pooh
Profile address is good
