coming up things:

Okay, first off, I need to tell you about this show I’m doing Friday night at Roboto: It’s at 7 (probably more like 8), and features three bands: Potboiler (from New Paltz, NY), Tin Armour (from Columbus), and Lucas Sloppy’s Flying Organ (from Beaver County). It’ll be $5, and a good time — it can be that thingy in between when you eat dinner and when you do Friday night things, like parties and bar shows and raves and whatever.

Now, slightly further off: next Thursday, the 18th, Colin MacCabe is giving a lecture in 1228 Cathedral of Learning at 5:30pm. It’s called: “Dead Mothers: Patrick McCabe, Neil Jordan and Mother Ireland.” I don’t know much about Patrick McCabe, but it sounds interesting, as Colin MacCabe is a smarty and Irish things are interesting to me.

It’s part of a series of lectures by Pitt film studies folks that seems to be leading up to this conference in March: The Virtues of Fidelity: Film Adaptation as Literary Truth. Details seem to be a little sketch, but Laura Mulvey is speaking, so I’m amped.

And while I’m acting like Horbal, let me refer you to his synopsis of a free film series that’s part of a grad seminar in the German Department: Experimental, Underground, Revolutionary: Avant-garde Films from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

It’s every Wednesday night this semester; I missed the first two but I’m going to try to hit as many as possible. Big ups to Professor Halle for making it happen.