{"id":6392,"date":"2013-06-25T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:48:31","slug":"pestflix-now-infesting-p-o-o-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6392","title":{"rendered":"ROACH, THORAXX II infest Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe us, dearest readers, we love<\/em> to spend quality time enjoying people, places, and things not necessarily having to do with the movies of Champaign, Urbana<\/strong>, and the cities beyond. However, we have an innate talent for connecting one with the other without even working up a sweat, so, here goes!<\/p>\n

Case in point is our visit last week Monday, June 17<\/strong>, to downtown Champaign\u2019s Mike \u2018n Molly\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> for their cheeky pageant\/fundraiser \u201cMr. Mustache<\/strong>,\u201d an annual townie competition wherein game young men (and occasionally women) display newly-groomed facial hair and wacky disguises as part of their comedic strategy to nab the Mr. Mustache title while entertaining a beer garden full of Pi Omega Omega<\/strong> frat sisters and brothers. (We\u2019ll have to explain that<\/em> one at another juncture.) By now, those hip to the hype know loyal Pi Omegan \u201cHoss<\/strong>,\u201d a.k.a. Trevor Dowdy<\/strong>, earned the crown handily. Organizers will donate admission moneys to the Kathy Murphy Endowment Fund<\/strong>, set up in honor of the late Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company<\/strong><\/a> co-founder \u201cto support college and post graduate studies by area students who have participated in theatre [sic] in their school and communities\u201d per this Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Considering his own involvement in local theater, it may be no surprise that Kathy\u2019s brother Mike Murphy<\/strong> \u2013 the \u201cMike\u201d of Mike \u2018n Molly\u2019s \u2013 has been amenable to hosting non-band gigs in his bar including improvisation comedy, plays, and movie screenings. He has even allowed filmmakers inside Mike \u2018n Molly\u2019s several times to shoot scenes, none more so than genteel Pi Omegan Jason Butler<\/strong>. We presume it is complete coincidence that Butler, now a Portland, Oregon,<\/strong>\u00a0videographer, and fellow Pi Omegan Karl Bauer<\/strong>, a graphic artist at Weiskamp Screen Printing<\/strong> in Champaign, both happened to post older, rarely-seen projects with a heavy P.O.O. influence in the weeks immediately leading up to Mr. Mustache 2013. In either case, pests are apparently best!<\/p>\n

Bauer\u2019s basement-borne surrealistic short ONE ROACH FOR SEAMUS<\/strong> was originally made in 1990 and only recently completed, premiering at the aforementioned beer garden in 2010. Butler\u2019s educational musical-comedy THORAXX II: THE BREEDING<\/strong> is a University of Illinois<\/strong> class assignment made a decade ago with his wife,\u00a0the lovely Ann Fitzgerald<\/strong>, and numerous Mike \u2018n Molly\u2019s regulars<\/strong>. Both can be watched in their entirety below; natives of the C-U should recognize plenty of people, places, and things between the two, adding a weird time-capsule dimension to the viewing experience. We wonder if enough material exists that an ambitious Pi Omegan or three might be inspired to launch a YouTube<\/strong> channel filled with ludicrous PBR<\/strong>-fueled tomfoolery\u2026<\/p>\n

Until then, you can learn more about Butler\u2019s pre-Portland adventures including THORAXX II<\/strong> by checking out this early C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> interview<\/a> from 2006, while a brief essay regarding ONE ROACH FOR SEAMUS<\/strong> appears in the 2011 issue of C-U Confidential, issue 5<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

~ \u201cLenscap\u201d a.k.a. Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n


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“Lost” underground local cinema has recently crawled its way onto the Internet in the forms of THORAXX II: THE BREEDING and ONE ROACH FOR SEAMUS, distinct species with a common genus (Pi Omega Omega) and family (Mike ‘n Molly’s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,19,13,31,20],"tags":[66,1101,1102,423,1103,421,194],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition-du-c-u","category-images-du-cu","category-public-events","category-the-old-school","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-jason-butler","tag-karl-bauer","tag-kathy-murphy","tag-mike-n-mollys","tag-mr-mustache-contest","tag-one-roach-for-seamus","tag-thoraxx-ii-the-breeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","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=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}