Thanks to my friend Brian who uploaded this video:
I directed this video for Thor four years ago as part of payment for him being in my short film "Graveyard". The budget was only $100 and $75 of that went to the rental of the space. The other $25 was spent on tapes and timbits for the crew.
Thor never used the video because he was bummed that I'd cut him and his band.
Some of the folks in the video:
•I'm the dude with the jean jacket vest, sweats and glasses. •Brian is the dude who plays 2 guitars at once. •The dude with the puppet is Robin Bougie (NSFW). •The lady on the accordian is Anna Bon Bon. A great musician and friend from my college days. Also, probably the NICEST person in the world. •The dude right at the start of the video is Alexis Mazurin, a CBC Radio 3 host who, sadly, passed away in 2005. •The guy in the fuzzy blue suit is Darkest of the Hillside Thickets frontman Toren Atkinson. •The short girl with the axe and frizzy red hair is Shera from Blood Meridian. •The blonde girl in black (with the whip) used to work at the same bookshop as me. On the set, Thor asked her out on a date. They got married a couple years later.
One of the main reasons I moved to Vancouver was to get into film. I used to volunteer on student and indie productions, before moving on an making a couple shorts of my own (with much, much less funding).
The first indie film that I worked on was Hitler Meets Christ, back in 1999. It stars and was written by Michael Moriarty, who I had a boner for because of the films he'd made with Larry Cohen in the late 70s and 80s. It was my first celebrity encounter. Moriarty is much taller than you would expect (about 6'4") and was always in the bag by about 10am (for the few days that I was on set, anyway).
Anyhow, the film was shot over a couple weeks and has been in limbo for about 7 years. It's finally being released, making it's debut at the 17th annual Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose on Friday, March 2.
The description reads:"A surreal tragicomedy based on the Emmy Award winning actor's controversial New York play. Two men meet in a train station. One believes he's Hitler, the other, Christ. Their unusual pairing brings together two of the most controversial figures in human history. Hitler Meets Christ is a feature length release starring Michael Moriarty and Wyatt Page."
All this talk about the whole Mooninites scandal in Boston got me all reminiscing about a similar prank gone awry in Kelowna back in 1994.
A bunch of students from the college I was at distributed 1500 stale buns around Kelowna city park the night before an easter egg hunt. I wish that I still had the newspaper from back then, which screamed "COPS HUNT BUN WHACKO!" and featured a picture of one of the buns split open, spilling forth nails and screws and pins (a photo staged by the paper). It really was priceless. Luckily, the dude who organized the whole thing has recently posted the news reports on YouTube. Maybe not as crazy as the whole "Post 911/Mooninites" thing, but still fun.
Noah, who is featured in the video, was one of the people involved in placing the buns (if I remember correctly). Also, and this is hard to pick up on without seeing the newspaper, I still really enjoy the subtle way in which the news report seems to accuse the local paper of lying when they printed the picture of the nail riddled bun.
After work, I take a bus, a train and another bus to get home. For all the shit people talk about it, the Vancouver transit system is actually pretty decent. Sure, it may not be without its flaws, but it's still ok. I get around.
Anyhow, after getting off the train and waiting in line for the bus, I got stuck beside one of these dudes whose sole conversation topic is how shitty the transit system here is. (I've sat through far to many of these hour long rants on the train.) While waiting for the bus, he said to me, "It's like we live in a goddamned 3rd world country. The transit needs to pull its head out of its ass. There is no goddamned reason that we need to be standing around here for 10 or 15 minutes for a friggin' bus."
Whatever. Waiting 10 minutes for the bus is no big deal. I mean, it sure as fuck isn't like starving to death in Ethiopia. Hell, I'm not sure how it's even equatable.
The best part was that when the bus finally did come and sweep us away, dude got off after the second stop. A walk that MIGHT'VE taken 10-15 minutes. Can you imagine what might've happened if the bus didn't come? Sweet fuck, it'd be a major cannibal holocaust down at the Port Haney West Coast Express station.
"Hate Song Minicomic, Fred Grisolm. $3, 24 pgs, www.hatesong.com
Vile, just absolutely vile. Yet I couldn’t help but laugh my ass off through the three issues of this web comic collection. Hate Song pokes fun at white trash types in a manner similar to Trailer Park Boys or Fubar, coupled with surreal absurdity that often takes it into more disturbing realms. Witness tales of mail order child brides, psychic blowjobs, bowel movement obsessed “scientists”, scat porn, Goth snipers and creepy weirdoes galore. It’s certainly not comics as literature or art, and it may offend a fair amount of people, but into everybody’s life a little bit of nasty humour shall fall.
Check out new strips at the website where you can order the books as well as potential products of the issue, which are 1” pins made to look like main character Orest’s diminutive nipples. Wear them with pride and live the rock. (Matthew Daley)"
Found out about this only by chance - I was checking their site to see when the next issue was out and saw "Hate Song" all up on the front page.
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