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HP Lovecraft Film Festival 2009

Dave — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:24:10 +0000

Having a great time at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival here in cloudy Portland, OR. This year’s short films were pretty good overall.

Some stand out films this year were “Noirville”, “Tinglewood”, “Seance” and “Dirt Dauber.”

I’m looking forward to a showing of “The Mist” later tonight, which is a faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s story of the same name.

Hope I survive…

- Dave

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Dave — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:32:29 +0000

I took these photos and video last night at Tony Starlights in Portland. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets played to a packed house for the HP Lovecraft Film Festival. The show was fantastic. Justine and I were singing along to all the crazy Thickets’ songs. A good time was had by all. Here’s a video of the Thickets playing “Marine Biologist” last night.

HP Lovecraft Filmfest 2008

Dave — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:45:19 +0000

It’s that time of year again, folks! Justine and I mysteriously woke up in Portland, Oregon yesterday standing in front of the Hollywood Theater. It’s rainy. It’s cold. It’s dark.

In other words…it’s perfect.

We watchd the introduction by Robert Price and Brian Lumely. I also met Mike Mignola and chatted about Hellboy a little bit. We’re looking forward to seing the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets tonight at Tony Starlights Supper Club. The Thickets plays rock-n-roll enspired by the tales of H.P. Lovecraft. In costume.

So far we’ve seen two seperate blocks of short films that were very good. Some stand shorts were:

Eel Girl – An amatuer film from New Zealand about a female fish creature captured by scientists. Creepy, thoughtful and funny all at the same time.

AM:1200 – A film about a man struggling with greed who finds himself in a very unusual radio station.

The Casting Call of Cthulhu – A funny short film about making a short film about Cthulhu. Good stuff.

I’ll post some more photos and updates this weekend.

- Dave

It’s Official: I No Longer Hate Portland

Justine — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:19:50 +0000

Justine here. Been awhile.

Since I completely dissed P-town last year, I feel the need to make reparation to my loyal readers who may have held a divergent opinion.

I hate Portland no longer now that I’m able to accept it for what it is, rather than seeing it as a safe haven away from the fulminating and venal consumerism of Houston. It’s just a poky Pacific Northwest glorfied college town with some really killer coffee shops and counterculture subculture culture. Still a tad DIY for my tastes but I think I tolerated it better this time b/c I now know how to knit.

That’s it. I’m a knitter and therefore cool and better able to accept the whole “Dude I so just want to sit on my 20 year old couch and do apple bong hits while I knit this tam for my dreads. Dude.”

Yeah, that must be it.

HP Lovecraft Film Festival 2006 – Day one

Dave — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:17:11 +0000

After the introduction to the festival from founder, Andrew Migliore and a brief chat with author, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Price gave the Lovecraftian blessing while wearing a yellow mitre adorned with strange symbols while he sported an ear-to-ear, fully-bearded grin.

We all opted to catch both block one and block two of the short films. According to the schedule there are several more blocks to come. There are a few stand-out films in the shorts I’ve seen so far, however, I will review them in a future post.

It’s after midnight, pacific time, which means it feels like after 2am to me. Time for bed.

Ia Ia…bed-bugs ftaghn.

-Dave

P.S. – we went to Cannon Beach today and saw Haystack Rock. Just as beautiful as last year. I’ll have some pictures to post to out Flickr account sometime tomorrow.

I’d like to order a drastic change of weather please…

Dave — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:07:15 +0000

It will be 92F in Houston tomorrow (and that’s not including the heat index, so we’re probably talking around 95-96). When we land in Portland tomorrow at around 11AM it will be around 71F.

This is a 20F degree gift from God I will be receiving tomorrow.

You have no idea how happy this makes me.

-Dave

HPL Festival scheduled posted

Dave — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:24:09 +0000

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival website has been updated with some additional information on the features, timeslots, events and shorts for the weekend of insanity.

The schedule can be found here.

Two weeks to go.

-Dave

HPL: 2007

Dave — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:50:42 +0000

It’s that time again.

We’ve booked our trip to Portland, Oregon for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

Some friends are in tow this time around, so I’m hoping it’s even more fun than it was last year.

- Dave

P.S. – I stumbled on a site called TripHub that I used to log some trip info. If you’re interested in going, send me an email and I can forward you an invitation.