[Newspoetry] Yowza! Re: VIDEO SCREENING THIS WEEKEND?

[William Gillespie]

How about I come to HTML class (Sunday 1-3: Special Topics - Ripping on State
Representative Tim Johnson on the Internet and getting away with it) and then
we plug stuff into stuff and shoot for 5:00 to roll everything. BH: I'm buying
you a sandwich on behalf of Newspoets everywhere. Now, yer Aunt Barb has
requested evening, which for me starts at 5:00 PM, but I don't know when, in
her personal Sunday the 24th of October, afternoon ends and gives way to
evening. However the video is long and HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART it's all
good. Let me explain:

Now when we got to Sweet Betsy's the camera that we had been rehearsin' with
froze up. Or maybe that was me. Anyway, it wouldn't go, and it kept displaying
in the viewfinder a blinking icon of an eject button. So I stood and stared at
it and sweated and thought about what a bummer it would be for me personally
if the camera didn't work.

So Kord shows up and heroically surveys the scene and rides off like hell on
fire on his bike to get his other camera. Now, this other camera, he says to
me, is out of alignment, so if you ...

Anyway so we watched it later after endless fruitless plugging stuff into
stuff but...

and parts of it didn't work but...

Well nevermind about that. Ah, anyway, tonight after studying the controls of
the thing for half an hour I figured out how to take the power cord out of one
camera and stick it into the other camera and - this was the breakthrough - I
mastered the EJECT button. !!! (this button is very important in the succesful
operation of this device) Thus I was able to stick the tape that was in one
machine into the other and press play and ... the gist of what I'm rapping is:

IT LOOKS GREAT! IT'S FUN TO WATCH! (and I've only seen the first hour)

W

PS do you guys have a microwave? or a stove?

bhagy at onthejob.net wrote:

> this weekend would be great.  there's classes here on both saturday and
> sunday from 1-3, and then good vibes are here on saturday from around
> 11ish till perhaps the midnight hour(ish) and on sunday from 4:15 until
> approx. 4:16, and commerce (well, i ain't never seen one yet, so if
> someone sees what one looks like, let me know).  popcorn and sergei
> finally, together at last again! can we get it with cheap imitation
> chemical additives, instead of the expensive real chemical additives?
>
> oh, i'm available after class (sunday is html...perhaps you'd like to sit
> in on it and remember all the great memories of the once great and
> powerful Club HTML?), but i'd prefer not to go too late.
>
> brian
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, William Gillespie wrote:
>
> > Hey Newspoets,
> >
> > Last weekend was so much fun that I'm only now recovering. Kudos and
> > gracias all around. Enough people have expressed interest in seeing the
> > video that I propose we have a screening of it this weekend. We can eat
> > popcorn and watch ourselves watching ourselves.
> >
> > Is there time this weekend that we could do this at OJC and watch the
> > video (with minidisc accompaniment) on Sergei's lavish monitor, without
> > disrupting the flow of education and commerce and good vibes?
> >
> > The parts of the video I have seen have been of inconsistent quality.
> > The parts that are good are really quite good. I suspect that portions
> > of it are unuseable, although still kind of watchable, but we'll be in a
> > better position to address that when we've assembled our minds before a
> > bank of humming machines with both camcorders at hand.
> >
> > What'd'ya'll thank?
> > Willy G.
> >