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It is Second Saturday Silent Cinema day! The best Saturday!
The Music Box, the little indy cinema near my place, does silent films every second Saturday of the month, with live organ accompaniment. I'm not well-versed in early cinema, particularly, but of course the best way to learn is to do, and so I go. It's a good time, everyone there is a dork like me, and I get popcorn with fake butter, which I love.
Someone the other day, when I wrote about Going On Adventurs, suggested I should make a book out of Adventuring, sort of an Introvert's Guide To Getting Out More, and I think it's kind of a good idea. But there's no reason I can't be instructional on the blog, as well.
Most independent cinemas survive through grants and special events, because attendance at independent films is not really always all that great. Music Box does a lot of events; Second Saturday Silent Cinema is just one of them. One very easy way to Get Out More, if such is your desire (there's nothing wrong with Mostly Staying In) is to go to movies at independent cinemas, because there's a much higher ratio of people-going-alone to people-going-with-family/friends/partner
Plus you're supporting independent small business, and independent filmmaking, which is sometimes pretentious but often less strangled by convention than studio films. So check your local independent movie house, and see what's playing!
And with that, I'm off to the picture show. Be good while I'm gone. No throwing Milk Duds.
The Music Box, the little indy cinema near my place, does silent films every second Saturday of the month, with live organ accompaniment. I'm not well-versed in early cinema, particularly, but of course the best way to learn is to do, and so I go. It's a good time, everyone there is a dork like me, and I get popcorn with fake butter, which I love.
Someone the other day, when I wrote about Going On Adventurs, suggested I should make a book out of Adventuring, sort of an Introvert's Guide To Getting Out More, and I think it's kind of a good idea. But there's no reason I can't be instructional on the blog, as well.
Most independent cinemas survive through grants and special events, because attendance at independent films is not really always all that great. Music Box does a lot of events; Second Saturday Silent Cinema is just one of them. One very easy way to Get Out More, if such is your desire (there's nothing wrong with Mostly Staying In) is to go to movies at independent cinemas, because there's a much higher ratio of people-going-alone to people-going-with-family/friends/partner
Plus you're supporting independent small business, and independent filmmaking, which is sometimes pretentious but often less strangled by convention than studio films. So check your local independent movie house, and see what's playing!
And with that, I'm off to the picture show. Be good while I'm gone. No throwing Milk Duds.
