{"id":9469,"date":"2015-10-28T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2015-10-28T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:17:07","slug":"iow-hello-kitty-freeky-ditties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9469","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Hello \u2018Kitty\u2019 &#038; Freeky ditties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/109774776?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/109774776\">E.B. and Naughty Kitty take a trip<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nfrom <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/sleepycreekstudios\">Sleepy Creek Studios<\/a><\/span> on <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Yeek!<\/em> What better time than on a cold and dark October evening for your fiends at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong><\/span> to manifest one final \u201c<strong>Image of the Week<\/strong>\u201d prior to <strong>Halloween<\/strong>! Since the humble editor will be going out-of-state for a family visit this weekend, we\u2019re posting early to remind you that <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Sleepy Creek Vineyards :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepycreekvineyards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sleepy Creek Vineyards<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in <strong>Fairmount<\/strong> is hosting their annual <strong>Freeky Creek Short Film Festival<\/strong> at <strong>7:30 p.m.<\/strong> tomorrow,<strong> Thursday, October 29<\/strong>, and at <strong>8:30 p.m.<\/strong> on <strong>Friday, October 30<\/strong>, and <strong>Saturday, October 31<\/strong>. Word is the first two shows are sold out and very few tickets remain for the finale, so write <strong>info [at] sleepycreekvineyards [dot] com<\/strong> or call <strong>(217) 733-0330<\/strong> to inquire about availability or a wait list as soon as possible. We simply can\u2019t recommend enough the loony mesh of live stand-up comedy and freak-out world cinema developed by Sleepy Creek co-owner<strong> Joe Taylor<\/strong> and talented collaborator <strong>Bill Kephart<\/strong>; since Taylor does not reveal the schedule in advance, one needs to take a seat in their wine tasting room so one can enjoy every little Freeky Creek surprise to the fullest! <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Freeky Creek Short Film Festival @ Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FCSFF\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haunt the event\u2019s <strong>Facebook<\/strong> page<\/a><\/span> for awards announcements and other fun if you can\u2019t be there in person or simply scroll this post to enjoy a complementary dose of Freeky on us! Below we have locally-made entries from 2014 that also <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"That was the NAFF VI that was :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9394\" target=\"_blank\">played the <strong>New Art Film Festival<\/strong><\/a><\/span> earlier this month \u2013 <strong>IF ONLY\u2026<\/strong>, a tuneful lark starring <strong>Mike Trippiedi<\/strong>, and <strong>CLOWNS ARE <em>NOT<\/em> SCARY<\/strong>, directed by Trippiedi and featuring Kephart in a squirm-inducing turn \u2013 while above is a decidedly spacey oddity shown in 2013 as part of the event\u2019s custom-made <em>tour de farce<\/em>. Each year, a cigar-chomping <strong>Easter Bunny<\/strong> played by Kephart emcees the show, typically involving a story line in which E.B. must get his bunny-tailed butt out of trouble by show\u2019s end. The stage antics trade off with prerecorded gags such as the \u201ctrip sequence\u201d shared here featuring E.B. and a recent addition to his stable of questionable pals, <strong>Naughty Kitty<\/strong>. We can\u2019t be any blunter about the nature of E.B.\u2019s misadventures except that, when paired with creepy and darkly funny films, Sleepy Creek wine, artisan confections, a game audience, and gut-busting laughs, it\u2019s absolutely worth the weirdness!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.<\/em> We don\u2019t run advertising on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>CUBlog<\/strong><\/span> for others unless it is poster art or vintage graphics, but we feel obliged to trot the Freeky Creek skeleton mascot out of the closet today since it should have appeared in print by now in <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">C-U Confidential<\/span> #8<\/strong>. We apologize to all Freeky creatures great and small!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.2<\/em> So, dearest reefers, it dawned on us while writing this piece that we have run consecutive stories with fluffy flying beasts awash in a rainbow of colors. Maybe we should lie down for a spell\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.3<\/em> Oh, who are we kidding?!? This <em>is<\/em> an event anchored by a giant talking White Rabbit that is always in a deep hole and desperate to stay away from reality. <em>Duh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9gtda_bFDtU?showinfo=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yuvq0UtlBpI?showinfo=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"Freeky Creek Short Film Festival 2015 (courtesy Joe Taylor\/Sleepy Creek Vineyards)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog Art\/cu_freekycreek2015_advert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Hide your Easter baskets! Lock up your children! The decidedly mature Freeky Creek Short Film Festival returns on October 29-31, 2015, with rabbit and cat to be pulled from their hats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,13,20],"tags":[361,1600,420,1599,360,417],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-images-du-cu","category-public-events","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-bill-kephart","tag-clowns-are-not-scary","tag-freeky-creek-short-film-festival","tag-if-only","tag-joe-taylor","tag-sleepy-creek-vineyards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}