MOVIE NIGHT

Tuesday 8:00 PM - FREE
MODERN TIMES (1936)
The idea of the film was apparently given to Chaplin by a young reporter, who told him about the production line system in Detroit, which was turning its workers into nervous wrecks. In the film, Charlie becomes literally trapped in the machine and, in one of his finest patches of comic invention, is battered and buffeted by an automatic feeding machine introduced by his bosses to save time and money. After his breakdown, he is arrested for 'communism' when he picks up a red flag that has fallen off the back of a truck, and runs down the street to return it, exactly the same time as a left-wing demonstration comes round the corner. He meets 'The Gamine' (Paulette Goddard) in the back of the police van, who has also been arrested for stealing bread. From then on the theme is about two tramps just trying to get along in modern times. "Smile, though your heart is breaking ..."



In place of Jazzfest I have some old performances of Oscar Peterson,Count Basie and Louis Armstrong to play as shorts.

Officer Tony Coniglione, NOPD - a missed connection (m4m, Marigny)

I must say it's funny how such a small amount of marijuana can land you in so much trouble! But, as I lay in a pool of vomit and urine in the processing center of Orleans Parish Central Lockup watching the seventy inch TV's displaying people even less fortunate than myself and enjoying the symphony of backed up toiletry - you occupied my thoughts the entire time. Perhaps it was your marathon lecture delivered to me as I lay cuffed and stress positioned in the back of your car - coupled with your unassailable reasoning and faultless, Orwellian dialectic; perhaps it was the glistening beads of sweat dripping off the pack-of-hot-dogs-like rolls of flesh on the back of your neck, ruthlessly squeezed between your collar and cap and illuminated by the ghastly strobe of red and blue flashing lights; maybe yet the shocking array of armaments, radios and weaponry festooning your ballooning waist - or perhaps it was just your innate or maybe steroid induced hostility - look, in any case, I find myself very turned on. I was as bored by your partner as you were - I could see it in your eyes (I think?). I guarantee you - it WAS mutual. There's a reason he does all the paperwork - and you do all the talking.

You said you "hated me" for "my shit being all fucked up" - and while it's true that my brake tag, license and registration are expired, my craving for you has no expiration date. The skinny cute west bank boy (and his morbidly obese girlfriend with her constant threatening mentions of Irritable Bowel Syndrome - go figure) in there with me for domestic abuse was only a brief distraction, I assure you - it was nothing. The ninety year old black house painter in there for a traffic citation meant even less.

I realize you might be worried about your figure since you have clearly let yourself go - but don't be. I've never been attracted to plus sized men before but then again I've never been so deftly & handily abused by one either - at least not since Catholic school.

I want to do this again - but I want to do it right this time. Your lecture and subsequent prison sentence has certainly convinced me to "go straight" (well, as far as I can anyway) but I am retaining in my possession a small amount of contraband in order to seduce you yet again. I want the trifecta this time - lecture, beating, AND jail. Let's do this. I've plastered messages all over town in hopes of consummating my lust for your punishing hands!

Earth Day/ Was the worst day / Now we sip ice tea when we thirs-tay

Did you purchase stupider, less useful types of lite bulbs? Did you drive in your car and buy them, and throw away the packaging? Fuck "Earth Day." Only Mary Worth is real. Seriously, the only positive impact an individual can have upon our environment is by direct attack on the industrial infrastructure itself.



The earth day sort of "change begins with my personal habits" shit is just self-congratulatory consumerist individualist nonsense. It's solipsistic. The bigger picture is global capitalism and techno-industrialization; the powers that be will SELL you a 'green' lifestyle the same way they'll sell you anything else. It's branding and marketing, no more.

Yellow ribbon magnets don't bring soldiers home, and absurd NEW IMPROVED ULTRA-ECO LIGHTBULBS don't do a thing for mother earth.

(Mary W)earth Day. No disrespect meant to Mary Worth; she's cool with me. I dig it when she peers out of the strip at us.

Ladies' Night!

Starting this week, the Iron Rail will be open late night on Thursday evenings for women and trans folk only. The idea is to create a safe space for ladies that will allow them a few hours every week to work on projects, share ideas, and build support networks. Please bring a dish. Or don't.

WHO: Ladies & Trans Folk only
WHAT: Potluck/Meet-up/Reading circle/Artists' forum/Terrorist cell
WHEN: Thursdays starting 4/16 at 7:30 pm
WHERE: the Iron Rail, 511 Marigny

Questions? Comments? Concerns?
ladiesnight.ironrail@gmail.com
954.294.7377 or 504.944.0366

TUESDAY MOVIE

Tuesday, April 14 8:00 PM FREE

IDIOCRACY (2006)
To test its top secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down and so relentlessly stupid that they're the smartest people around. Mike Judge and Etan Cohen reteamed for this futuristic, utterly hysterical farce (or documentary, depending on your point of view). Our short is 1986's Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Come count the Camaros!