Killing Spree! 10/10/13

Well, it seems it’s October already!

That’s October 2013!

Over a full year since I last posted! … meep.

Well, let’s remedy that, shall we my dears?

Killing Spree!

Not to be repetitive but

IT’S OCTOBER!

There are few people who love this month more than I do. I have no proof of this, but I have no disproof either. Ergo, I am right. And given that I am now the official #1 Fan of October, it is my duty to sprinkle spooky dust on all the little children across the land and bring a little slaughter laughter slaughter to everyone’s day.

With all of the horrifying hack-tivities taking place, it’s a good thing you’re already prepared not to sleep anytime soon…

TODAY

(Thursday, October 10, 2013)

 Comedy Club

What better way to spend a delightfully rainy Thursday evening in October than at a comedy club?

Normally, the answer would be, “Any other way.” But right now I am serious when I say I can think of nothing creepier (in the best kind of way) than checking out Comedy Club’s opening reception tonight. 

Apparently, the audience is peppered with an audience of thirty (that’s THREE-ZERO)… baby dolls… that laugh and coo at the jokes.  The website does not mention anything about what happens if you bomb, though, so don’t make any quips about dummies.

Read more about it here: http://www.chashama.org/event/comedy_club

Comedy Club

By Jo Firestone

October 10th -26th

OPENING RECEPTION TONIGHT 6 PM - 9 PM

Address: 
266 W 27th Street (Between 7^th and 8^th Avenue)
New York, NY

Ongoing times:
Wednesdays : 12-6pm
Thursdays & Fridays : 12-9pm
Saturdays : 12-4pm
Sundays* & Mondays : 12-6pm
*(except October 13 : 12-4pm)


Singularity & Co’s First Ever Trivia Night!

If your performance anxiety (hey – get your mind out of the gutter, you cad!) hasn't been dispelled by thirty giggling figurines, why not mosey on over to Singularity & Co. in DUMBO for their First Ever Trivia Night! This one’s bound to be a blast as it’s in honor of New York Comic Con and specifically tailored tonight to quiz connoisseurs of the following:  sci-fi and fantasy film and TV, gaming, graphic novels, manga (yes - they're part of the NYCC family now), cosplay, and good old fashioned COMICS!




As per the event page: $5 at the door gets you a night of fun and 2 pourings of adult refreshment - OR - flash your NYCC entry badge and get in FREE. Come in full costume and you also get in FREE.

Time: 7 PM – 10 PM

Address: 

18 Bridge St. 1G

Brooklyn, New York 11201

(Take the F to the York St. stop – walk from there)

More details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/518952594856501/

Hitchcock-tober

Ok. So maybe public interactions aren’t quite your thing. Maybe the idea of standing up in room full of strangers, with all of their eyes boring into you, seeing through the façade of calmness you have built around yourself to protect your fragile psyche from occasions such as this one, feeling their thoughts of mockery and rejection and disappointment spear your sense of self-worth, as you try to utter the words that are quickly escaping from your tongue and becoming pure nonsense, as you want nothing more than to hide yourself in a black pit of despair, away from any recognition by another being, away from…

Sorry. Got off track there for a moment.

Anyway, Village East Cinema is playing Hitchcock movies through October. Tonight is “The Man Who Knew Too Much”. Check the website for the full schedule of films from the original horror master.

There’s also a movie called “The Dirties” that looks intriguing.

Check them out.

I promise I won’t be in the back row staring at you the whole time.

Website: http://www.villageeastcinema.com/angelika_index.asp?hiD=166

Address:

181-189 2^nd Avenue (off 12^th Street)

New York, NY 10012

The Man Who Knew Too Much @ 8 PM

Tickets: $10 at the box office & online

The Dirties @ Midnight (only tonight!)

Tickets: $14

The Beast with Five Fingers

No, that’s not my nickname. It’s a film. Shut up. I hate you.

“Robert Florey, master of expressionist horror, helms this creepy, crawly classic chiller in which a dead pianist’s severed hand comes back to terrorize his resentful secretary (Lorre). Impressive special effects (including a disembodied hand tickling the ivories) and stylish camerawork lend loads of Gothic atmosphere, while Lorre, scheming and squirming throughout, is at his schizoid, bug-eyed best.”

Here’s a trailer. Seriously, shut up.

More info: http://www.bam.org/film/2013/beast-with-five-fingers

Showtimes: 4:30PM (get a time machine, sorry), 7PM (move your ass!), 9:30PM (whatevs)

LOCATION:

Peter Jay Sharp Building

BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(Take the 2/3/4/5/B/Q to Atlantic Avenue, or the G to Fulton St.)
RUN TIME: 88 minutes

RATED: NR

FORMAT: 35mm

GENERAL ADMISSION: $13

BAM CINEMA CLUB: $8 (Free for members at the Movie Buff II level and above. RSVP required.)

The Pumpkin Pie Show

This picture has nothing to do with the show. I just put it here because PUMPKIN PIE.

I learned about this from The Skint. From the website:

"Clay McLeod Chapman’s The Pumpkin Pie Show returns with a fresh slice of brand new campfire tale telling. In true Halloween spirit(s), this year’s show tackles a whole bevy of everyday horrors, including a case of post-partum depression that quickly descends into Edgar Allan Poe-style madness, possessed hair extensions, haunted vinyl, masturbating in the middle of a Broadway matinee of Phantom of the Opera, and much, much more literary depravity."

You had me at “Pumpkin Pie.”

The show opens tonight and continues to October 26.

Time: 8 PM

Run time: 1.5 hours

Tickets: $15 - $18

Address:

UNDER St. Mark’s

94 St. Marks Pl. (b/n 1^st Avenue & Avenue A)

New York, NY 10009

Website: http://horsetrade.info/Show/408

Buy tickets here.

There’s tons more… there’s too much more… it’s overwhelming and I don’t have the money for it all, so I’m selling my soul to the devil (he’s got box seats to all of them… ALL OF THEM).

I want to post this, so more later on upcoming/ongoing events. I promise dreads deads dears!