Compass helped spawn Chicago's premiere improv venue, The Second City, preceding it by half a decade, as well as Saturday Night Live, which first aired 20 years after the Hyde Park group's first performance. Studio 207 has been making a documentary for 5 years about the birth of improv. watch the trailer.
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So, I ask underground movie director John Michael McCarthy, what is Cigarette Girl? “It's post-vintage futurism, with a side order of dystopianism,” he says. The project, which stars Cori Dials as a scantily clad, nicotine deprived antiheroine, may be McCarthy's most mainstream effort to date, CIGARETTE GIRL is having it’s world premiere at REVELATION, in Perth Australia on 7/10. trailer forCigarette Girl
Social networking or social disease? the live show In Your Facebook takes a voyeuristic look at the walls of four Chicago solo performers as they obsessively define their existence by the likes of Facebook. atProp Theater in chicago.
Flower Diamond has created the memoirs of BikiniKat, a 7 foot tall pink cat with a Smart Sassy Stylish philosophy that protects her from Negative Vibes, Mean People, Funny Smells and Karate Chops. check outBikiniKat or
BikiniKat Myspace
this site shows what the internet can be. poingnant random pieces of human reality found in the street. it seems low key at first. i passed it up, too stupid to figure it it out. click 1,2,3,or 4 on the left, or 'directions for use'. it's like a mystery grab bag of toys at the thrift store, or a trunk in an old basement. open it up. strange treasures wait inside.
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this publishing house releases unpretensious intrigueing novels and nonfiction. and they're books are often quite funny. currently they're working on the 3rd edition of
'Chindogu; 101 unuseless inventions'.
check out the review of their 1st novel.
Operation Patriotic Toilet Seat other books and ebooks will soon be available.
go toenlightened-pyramid.com
It takes an obsessive compulsiveness to do this DIY media stuff, and blood and guts and spit and polish.
