Saturday morning I went to volunteer for Planned Parenthood at a Community and Health Expo at Second Baptist Church on Red Oak, near my former residence on the Old West Side of Ann Arbor. It was a rather bizarre experience, as prayers opened the event and we were treated to a stunning religious vocal performance by an area music major. It made me think about how foreign I now find organized religion. While I'm sure everyone at the event had different ideas on religion and spirituality, everyone also made strides towards coming together for a better community, something of which I'd certainly like to see more. Weirder still was that I'd brought a Bible with me; I'd recently seen Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1966) and was checking the events against the movie. The Sermon on the Mount gets me every time--thrilling stuff. Yet another reason I'm sometimes proud to be human.
The WRAP library will be up and running by April 9, the tenth anniversary of the organization's existence in Ann Arbor. Anyone interested should come check it out afterward in Braun Court, next to Kerrytown and right across from the /aut/ bar.
Arbor Update has an excellent summary of today's Treetown Scab Rag article (particularly excellent as it saves one the trouble of actually buying the Treetown Scab Rag or even fighting for it over at the library) on the greenway brouhaha to be voted on tomorrow night. I received a very pleasant email back from my councilwoman, Joan Lowenstein, who will be voting against the proposal, and who also thinks public transportation's great (yay!).
The Cinema Guild showing today was Mario Bava's Kill, Baby, Kill! (1966). It might be my favorite Bava so far, as the exteriors were beautifully shot in a sort of grainy texture enhancing the horrific nature of the film's events. The plot was more interesting than usual, with a ghost causing people to kill themselves, a pair of rival sorceresses, and a characteristically stiff male lead who looks a little like John Carradine. It could have used some more stringent editing towards the beginning, but still a fun time. Not as many people showed up this time as they did for Planet of the Vampires, but I surmised it was because the movie didn't have "planet" or "vampires" in the title. "Kill, Baby, Kill!"'s pretty cool, though, right? Maybe antes need to be upped. So next week it'll be Dimension of Amnesiac, Barely Legal Psycho Vixen Groupies in Go-Go Boots, one of Ken Loach's lesser-known offerings.
Posted by Charles J. Microphone
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Updated: 20 March 2005 4:02 PM EST
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