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-- Sure, often the expression is often proclaimed as an insult of sorts, but the fact remains that the old straight and narrow can grow predictable and even boring. One supposes no such thing of the people who brought Vancouver Team Makeout's marathon crypto-public makeout sessions; having honed their skills producing the Spartacus Books arson-recovery "Burning Down the House" dance party fundraiser (to say nothing of the annual, er, "naked party"), are turning their eyes to a more regular opportunity for wholly debauched revelry in the launching of a new monthly dance party series targeted to "queers of all kinds"... ground you might already think well covered by Anything That Moves (2nd Fridays at Lick), but now we get to go out dancing twice as often! Now that Alternative Worlds is on hiatus in the Butchershop shuffle, it sure is nice to have something... stimulating to look forward to on the third Thursday of every month.
Not just the name of a great play (with a great film adaptation), Bent promises retro-pop, rock and electro all night long (9 pm - 2 am) at the ANZA Club (3 E. 8th Ave.) courtesy of DJs Partybangs and Artflick; cover is a mere $3 ($2 before 10 pm) and what's more, they promise generally "cheap beverages", vaguely "bizarre entertainment", and tres specifically "the reinvention of go-go dancing!" (I hope it involves robots -- like something out of the video for Herbie Hancock's RockIt.) I don't know if the e-mail address we.are.bent@gemail.com will get you on the guest list as billed, but chances are good that it'll get you on their mailing list.
-- I don't know where to recommend a bite to eat (the area is tripping over itself with hip 'n tasty bistros and holes in the wall -- swing a dead cat and see what makes its whiskers prick up) but you have the option of concluding the sacred dating triumvirate of dinner, dancing and a movie tonight all within a radius of a few blocks -- and no, I'm not talking about the Fox Cinema... but programming hopefully not too removed from the Criminal Cinema festival that once screened Street Trash, Meet the Feebles and the Holy Mountain at that location.
Tonight one "Chelsea Chainsaw" invites all comers to the Video In Studios (1965 Main street) for an inaugural night of, well, things you've never seen on film and perhaps hoped to keep that way at Thee Freak Sinema: "gore! whores! sleaze! tasteless! needless! WHY????? like to get sick? think you're pretty sick? come on out, we'll make you sick!" Trailers, shorts and clips from 7:30 to 9 pm, followed by a feature (rumoured to be 1971's La Venganza del Sexo aka The Curious Dr. Humpp). Out by 11 pm and you still have time to shake it down the block and around the corner at Bent. I smell a double feature... no wait, that's just me. Prizes and give-aways can be yours on top of the visual delights for a mere four dollars -- in any case, consider coming on out and helping to support either (or both) of these inaugural efforts to help make Vancouver a little more interesting a place to get your freak on and to get your freak out(... or just to freak.)
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