HUNKA JUNK 5- HITS CLEVELAND, OHIO!

FINALLY! It's here, the United States premiere of HUNKA JUNK 5!

I'm so looking forward to going to the Cleveland to show and tell with my hodge-podge of film and seeing so many friends that I haven't seen for ages. Back in the day, I would mail my friends hodge-podge videotapes of mixed montages of films or during booze binges hanging with friends in Kent, we would watch some crappity-crap tape I bought at the local K-Mart. Some things change, but some things stay the same!

THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS
"HUNKA JUNK 5"

AMERICAN PREMIERE!
FIRST CLEVELAND SHOWING! ONE SHOW ONLY! (INCLUDES INTRODUCTION BY DION CONFLICT)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, AT 9:15 PM
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CINEMATHEQUE
11141 EAST BLVD IN UNIVERSITY CIRCLE
TEL. (216) 421-7450 * FREE PARKING * WWW.CIA.EDU
ADMISSION $8, CINEMATHEQUE MEMBERS $6

Dion Conflict is a Canadian film collector who maintains the Conflict Archive. At least he calls it an archive; the rest of us might regard it as more of a junk pile. Conflict's collection consists of old, campy 16mm short films - instructional movies, commercials, animation, music performances, and other celluloid cast-offs. For a number of years now he has gathered his most-prized oddites into full-length programs that he presents to large, often cellout crouds in his native Canada , and more recently, Finland. HUNKA JUNK 5, his latest compilation is the first to play Cleveland. Among the show's 20 films are YOU'RE THE SALESMAN, which teaches service station workers how to sell kitschy items to unsuspecting motorists; LIGHT UNTO ALL, a strange film about mobsters, politicians, and religious visions from the master of bizarro social-guidance films Sid Davis; psychedelic Australian ice cream commercials; and advice on how to look prettier for your boss. But the crap won't just be on screen... prizes and giveaways supplement the screening! 16mm - Approx. 120 min

Thanks to the Cleveland Cinematheque for this awesome description from their current calendar. I couldn't say it better myself!

VIDEOCLIPE OF THE WEEK - Fettes Brot's "Jein"

The weekend is finally here and I'm slowly preparing for HUNKA JUNK 5 - CLEVELAND. Ohio has always held a million stories after a visit, and I know this will be the same. Ohio and Finland have both been kind of these personal "oasis" places for myself. Plus, it is the home state of Nick Lachey, Traci Lords, John Holmes AND Devo!

It looks like either this week or next week, I'll be shooting a DVD documentary supplement so I'm trying to prepare for that, and still get out of my burnout state. My work has a ban on vacations JUST after I leave for Cleveland, which sucks because of dealing with a million other things lately, I was hoping to fly to Kosova for a week to visit some friends. This might have to happen in April as I'm not booked up anywhere that I know of... YET.

But hey, here's my VIDEOCLIPE of the week of my fav song by one of my old Fav German hip-hop groups, FETTES BROT. Many times I've spun this and people have said, "Whoa, what's that? It's great". Well dayum, I hate giving away ALL my secrets, but sharing FETTES BROT and this spagetti western inspired video makes me say "Einfach gesagt fettes brot is die beste rap band der welt!!!"