Best. CUBlog. Posts. EVER. Pt.2
The link-a-thon continues! For the next five weeks, we will post weekly groupings of five key posts from the first five years of C-U Blogfidential’s existence and tell you a little bit about why we chose the ones we did. Feel free to click away and read what has gone before; leave Comments below about those stories or your own favorite CUBlog entries. Dig!
~ Jason Pankoke
Select C-U Blogfidential Stories, 2006-2011
Part 2 of 6
“IOW: When We Were Freaky,” 11/12/10 – Just about any local film festival can be right around the corner and it will trigger a flashback to this seminal odyssey in C-U cinema weirdness, the epitome of what we look for in such things: fun, friends, and film! We shout out to Grace Giorgio and Eric Fisher for cooking it up as well as all the fans, volunteers, and filmmakers who made it sizzle from 1997 to 2000.
“From back lots to Big Lots,” 12/12/09 – Living in transient Champaign-Urbana, some favorite neighbors will inevitably escape to other parts of the world. If their life choices or activities somehow fall under the CUBlog umbrella, why not include those stories as well? We shout out to Danielle Cloutier for being a cool young lady and doggedly pursuing her dream to be a professional screen actor.
“Coming Soon: Nov-Dec 2008,” 11/11/08 – Speaking of flashbacks, have you ever been reading a calendar listing only to be abruptly displaced by shifts in time and space that briefly deposit you amongst the brews, views, and fearless freaks of yore? If the answer is “no,” try on this C-U film event round-up for size. We shout out to Seth Fein and The Canopy Club for indirectly inspiring this convergence.
“Sal Martirano lives on in LsGA, SAL,” 11/15/07 – Many fragments of C-U cinema culture lie shrouded in the past. We rarely get an opportunity to piece together this sketchy history and present it accurately on CUBlog, let alone experience it first-hand in a modern light. We shout out to the late Salvatore Martirano’s family and peers for believing the music/film/performance piece L’s. G.A. (1968) was worth a reprieve.
“Princess Theatre article,” 8/26/07 – For a while, one of our quick-and-easy tactics for generating posts on CUBlog involved linking to outside editorial and commenting briefly about it. When particular editorial got under our skin, though, brevity went out the window. We shout out to everybody dealing with the money issues of former Castle Theater operator and sometimes poet Ben Slotky during this time period.