Next weekend in the ATL: MondoHomo 2009!
I love this! MondoHomo, a five-day festival of awesome, is entering its third year, and it’s all organized by local activist Kiki Carr (you might recall Rusty and I interviewed her back in February 2007) who just blows me away with her talent and devotion. Does she never sleep? Maybe I’ll learn her secret because after MondoHomo, she and I are going to be collaborating on a new project for Atlanta; but stay tuned for that.
Here are all the details about MondoHomo; yeah, it’s a lot, this is five days of stuff, people! Rusty and I will definitely be there Saturday night for a the Film Love portion (hosted by Andy Ditzler, whom we also interviewed… fancy that); the rest is still up in the air for us. But if you are on the fence about whether you want to go, take the time to read below (detailed info after the jump) because there truly is something for everyone.
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I learned a lot last night
Last night, Rusty and I went to see A/V Geeks Greatest Hits at Eyedrum. It was hilarious and awesome. I hadn’t laughed that hard in quite a while.
Skip Elsheimer’s collection of old educational filmstrips is mind-boggling. He has about 18,000 (yes, that’s the right number of zeroes) filmstrips dating from the 1930s to the 1980s. The ones he showed last night all featured particularly catchy and/or annoying music. And it’s fairly evident that the people responsible for some of them were under the influence of some pretty serious psychedelic drugs.
Some of the films are available on YouTube, including one of the creepiest ones from last night: Telezonia, which is all about how to use the telephone (and includes some painfully obvious metaphors about racial and gender equality). Rusty and I now know what we’re going to be for Dragon*Con and/or Halloween, assuming we can pull it off. I’ve never been good at making stuff, so if anyone has any ideas as to how to recreate the question mark costume, let me know. (Rusty gets to be “Telly;” now, where will we find a shirt with a big Ma Bell logo in the center?)
A/V Geeks Greatest Hits was part of the Film Love series; we’ll be going back to Eyedrum in two weeks for Summer of Love: Sex, Drugs, Rock, Art and Protest in the Counterculture circa 1967. And we’ll be interviewing Andy Ditzler on a podcast soon, so stay tuned.