{"id":288,"date":"2008-09-22T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:58:57","slug":"wolves-bugs-infest-c-u-sept-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Wolves, bugs infest C-U Sept. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">Once again, <strong>Jason Butler<\/strong> will whip out some\u00a0older <strong>Brainsmart Productions<\/strong> later tonight, <strong>Monday, September 22, 9 p.m.<\/strong>, at <strong>Mike n&#8217; Molly&#8217;s, 105 N. Market St., Champaign<\/strong>, in order to stir up interest in <strong>WEREWOLF CEMETERY: Issue 4<\/strong>, which he is currently shooting about town. Following a reprise of\u00a0<strong>WC 1<\/strong>\u00a0will be everyone&#8217;s favorite hum-ant movie musical, <strong>THORAXX II: THE BREEDING<\/strong> (<strong>10 p.m.<\/strong>), and the rip-roaring <strong>WC 2<\/strong> (<strong>12 a.m.<\/strong>) which introduces everyone from\u00a0ExtermoCorp to Agents Sparrow and Mantis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_werewolf04_show.jpg\" alt=\"WEREWOLF + THORAXX show @ Mike n' Molly's, 9\/22\/08. (Courtesy Jason Butler\/Brainsmart Productions)\" width=\"450\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">This show will be free admission but <em>please<\/em> help JB take advantage of\u00a0the pledge by bar owner <strong>Mike Murphy<\/strong> to match every dollar placed in the\u00a0Brainsmart Tip Jar\u00a0throughout the evening. What is the money for, you ask? Make-up, costumes, props, and blank tapes\u00a0don&#8217;t grow on trees, hoss,\u00a0so it&#8217;s simply time to help a filmmaking brother out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">As proof in the blood red pudding, we offer up another exclusive set photo from <strong>WC 4<\/strong> as JB explains to <strong>The Living Blue<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Steve Ucherek<\/strong> an intense scene between his character, Ichabob, and the ancient warlord, the Thane. We&#8217;re still not sure why exactly werewolf <strong>Kelley Wegeng-Shimmin<\/strong> was staring down Ucherek&#8217;s eardrum, but we obviously digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_werewolf04_kelly.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Butler shows Steve Ucherek his lines on the set of WEREWOLF CEMETERY: Issue 4. (Photo by JaPan)\" width=\"450\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">Elsewhere, my equivalent to the music scene in <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong>, closet <strong>WC<\/strong>\u00a0groupie\u00a0<strong>Todd J. Hunter<\/strong>, managed to creatively plug the series on-line.\u00a0It seems that Hunter won a sharp looking T-shirt from <strong>The Horrors of It All<\/strong>, a Weblog showcasing non-<strong>EC<\/strong> horror comics from the Fifties, and a THOIA\u00a0editor invited\u00a0our man\u00a0to send in a photograph of himself wearing the shirt. <a title=\"Todd Hunter and his little werewolf friend @ The Horrors of It All\" href=\"http:\/\/thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/taxi-driver.html\" target=\"_blank\">Right here you will find<\/a> that THOIA not only posted two snaps of\u00a0Hunter\u00a0being gnawed by a <strong>Mark Peaslee<\/strong> original but also doctored one of them to reveal our man&#8217;s true nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">JB still needs extras for upcoming scenes, by the way. Contact him at <strong>(971) 645-9098<\/strong> or <strong>brainsmartproductions [at] yahoo [dot] com<\/strong> if you&#8217;re ready for your close-up. We know you are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">Finally, adding extra value to Mike n&#8217; Molly&#8217;s evening of cultural outpouring\u00a0will be <strong><a title=\"The Abe Froman Project :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sausageisfunny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Abe Froman Project<\/a><\/strong>, a local improv quintet who will perform upstars beginning at <strong>9 p.m.<\/strong> up until <strong>THORAXX II<\/strong> time. Froman is\u00a0comprised of <strong>Matt Fear, Nate Jones, Mike Prosise<\/strong>, the too-cute <strong>Katie Baldwin<\/strong>, and the irresistably hot <strong>Mikel Matthews, Jr.<\/strong> I can&#8217;t believe I just typed that last part but, since he&#8217;s a movie-maker too, it <em>must<\/em> be true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help the crew of Brainsmart Productions scrape up even more cash to dump into WEREWOLF CEMETERY: Issue 4, currently filming in an abandoned movie theater near you, by attending the Brainsmart show at Mike n\u2019 Molly\u2019s in downtown Champaign on Monday, September 22, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-updates","category-public-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}