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The exact time is on Saturday May 16th. Approximately now.
The location will be the new player location: MatrixHub
Throw me some RSVPs if you think you might make it. We usually get about 2x our RSVP list coming out.
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Synopsis for Reservoir Dogs: A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Synopsis for Samsara: Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
Common theme:
What common theme do they have? The best I can come up with is that in Reservoir Dogs the heist is doomed from the start. This vaguely relates to the Buddist concept that within Samsara we are subject to inevitable suffering and death. Oh, geez, that's a downer. But at least the movie night will be fun because we have a good crowd.
Movie poll for the next movie night. Let's try to break up ties.
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Theme poll if we ever decide to change themes.
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Last is movie order. Folks who have a restricted schedule may have an opinion here.
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Let's poll for the order because I know people have schedules. Which should start first? We typically have more people showing up for the second movie.
Posters:
There was a point around '21-22 when due to the nature of the situations, I would watch Baraka, Samsara, Koyaanisqatsi, over and over and over.
Mesmerizing.
(Not "satisfying". I hate it when YouTube videos say "satisfying" when they really mean mesmerizing.)
In the early+mid 90s we used to watch and/or sample Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Baraka for our raves/acid parties. All great (except Naqoyqatsi), Baraka is the best to introduce folks with, ever so marginally better than Samsara, IMO.
I can't think of a worse pairing of great movies. If it were a triple feature, The Artist (2011) may be a good buffer between them (most important thing is to see the end of The Artist for the brilliant concept payoff to an excellent movie). IMO, the mellower Samsara would be the best/chillest way to conclude the evening, allowing folks to peacefully zenfully bow out to sleep - and would not be a good way to kick off a movie night. The Qatsi and Frick non-narrated documentaries are meditative, not for all folks, and not for all moods.
Feel free to add to this list...
Reservoir Dogs and Samsara together is like:
Continuing from here.
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I suppose it's worth finding out if more folks will cluster around the event rarity. Besides being fair weather, earlier at 7pm, Saturdays, and/or working/busy this season, I wonder how definitive these bi-weekly numbers are.
Wondering if subtitles can be implemented on the movie? There are some exceptional movies that require them, unless you speak French, etc.
Perhaps we could still do unofficial casual movies on off-weeks? It's a big list. IMO, it might be worth gathering folks in chat, reaching a consensus, and then watching those choices - rather than have longer-term polls where folks vote weeks/months in advance, forget, and/or don't even show up. Some good movies got downvoated by folks who aren't even around or don't even know what it's about. A live chat could have people state their case for or against movies and a compel more participation. Of course there may be a delay to torrent then upload, but IMO that's better than enduring a movie you don't really care to see yet again, even if good.
Or documentaries. There are a lot of great documentaries I know I haven't seen lately. Plandemic 3 and another from Mikki after that, are 2 that immediately come to mind. I know there are so many more. Truthstream Media did a 13-part? series a couple years ago that I haven't seen. Even Corbett Report has good docu stuff I've not seen as he was off YouTube for a few years.
I think critically actionable content (prepping, organizing, resistance, and solutions) is worth focusing on. We have a couple of months before the oil shit hits the fan with a few years of famine and global enslavement by the technocracy coming in fast.
In other news, The Lions' Den, studio and meeting space is close to ready, but I keep getting fix-up projects, raw resources and bricolage to manage, and other stuff that has kept the studio in a perpetual workshop state of organized clutter. I now have a bike, am building cargo capacity for it, but wish my workshop and studio were closer. Once the curtains are hung, everything will change dramatically. I've also been setting up another studio for a friend with a very different space, different vibe, but similar goals - and top end gear (even though he nor I know how to effectively operate any of it, at present).
Tomorrow another monthly social freedom meeting and birthday soirée. Hoping to bootstrap up a committee to restart weekly Wednesday meetings with a focus on Action and Communications - not socializing (everyone has war stories). For part of that I'll try to lure them to the SubMatrix - even if I have to go on Facebook to perpetually point to SubMatrix. Soon seems so far away.