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I haven't, but has anyone esle ever meet someone in person that you first knew from the boards?

Or ever meet anyone from another message board you post on?

nope

Not yet.

No, but I want to.

Can't say I have.  I've never really met anyone off any forum before.

Ever since I joined this family in 2007, I've always wanted to host a bad movies film festival in South Africa and invite all of you here.

If anyone ever wants to call me, my work number is (002712) 441 3150 CAT and I will describe the state of my undies to one and all.  :twirl: :buggedout:

Can we call correct, Trevor?

You mean "collect" right? Holy cream crackers catwoman! What the hell has happened to everyone's literacy on here all of a sudden?  :buggedout:

Oh, and to respond to the thread topic....No. You wouldn't want to meet me. It would tear your soul apart!  :wink:

Not yet.  I have plans to meet several people I know from other boards.  And I do believe that I eventually will meet some of the BadMovies bunch as circumstances allow.  (C'mon: I have ponies for the kids and the world's largest fibreglass catfish!  Who is going to resist visiting?)

nope :twirl:

Nope, but I came thisclose meeting people from another forum on two occasions. Due to unfortunate circumstances we missed one another literally by a hair.

I was going to see another guy at a film showing But stuff got in the way

You got me. I did mean collect, but is collect the correct way to call Trevor?

No, but I've often fantasized about having a badmovies.org thing at my house (once I get one) and party and eat and drink and watch b-movies, of course. And living right in the middle of the country, I figure that would work the best for everyone, exept for our over seas brethren like Trevor and Circus.

So no, i havent, but yes, id like to!

Someday someone in here will organize a "let's all meet someplace" event . . . and several people will actually show up . . . and it will be a good time.  I hope I can participate.

yup

i would so be there. now, the only question is what shoes to wear? ha
 
i did plan to meet someone from the board once, however distance and cash-flow prevented it.

I had the luck of meeting AndyC at B-Fest about 8 years ago.  Besides him, I do not believe so.

actually Andrew, when you were here in 99, i believe i saw you

No.... :bluesad:

Me neither, but with enough advance warning, I'd be there for a weekend of movies, drunkenness, drug abuse and endless conversations about how relevant Andy Milligan is.

Not to mention screams of "OMG, what the heck is that smell?"  :wink:

I haven't but it would be cool to.  Ed Just Ed lives just south of me.  Joe The Destroyer doesn't live too far... maybe we could meet for a Blazer game.

Nope.  And do to money issues it probably won't happen either.  :bluesad:

No and it's not likely given where I live.

No, but it would be interesting as hell, it does seem like a family environment on this site.

Does anybody live near south jersey, particularly the camden county area?

That sounds awesome  :drink:

I live in Monmouth county, NJ. Not really near you, but NJ is wee. 

What we need is a convention, in a city like New York... 'cause it's near me...  :lookingup:  :wink:  :drink:

I've never met any of you, but I wish I have. Unfortunately for me, I live in Montreal, Quebec whereas everyone here lives either in the U.S. or UK.

It'd be so awesome to meet one of you guys.

*Ahem* Correction: there are several Canucks on here.  Though we do come from all over the place.

We are widely dispersed on purpose.  This way, no evil villain could take us all out with one bomb.  He'd need to send an army of sexy robots to seduce us one by one.  Actually, that sounds pretty good.  But I digress . . .

I ran into Saucerman a few times at Monster-Mania 16, this past weekend. His jacket looks even better in person, by the way.

Why would that be, Burgo?

Not at all.  In fact, next time you go down to Brazil buy me a ticket and I'll meet you there!

umm, I hide from everyone here. I have no idea how to post a pic of my self on tha dang computer!

Ouch!  My eyes hurt!

Never met anyone from here. 

I did meet a group of people I talk to from this one Weird Al forum thing I go to.  Al was doing a concert here in Philly and a bunch of em live around the area, so we met up after the show outside and all talked.  They knew each other for years and this was my first time meeting them.

Talked by phone to some people on another forum but never met.

New York's a short trip from Philly, so if one were to happen, it's easy.

I am down in your neck of the woods once in a while, my wife's family being from Caledonia. It's just always around a holiday when there's too much going on to make a run down to Dunnville. I will work it in one of these days.

I met Andrew once, a few years back. It was at B-Fest in 2002. I knew he'd be there, so I just introduced myself to the most military looking guy in the room. He did stand out in that crowd. I was briefly introduced to some of the b-movie webmasters active at the time, but I don't know that any of them are currently active on this board.

There are a few of you I'd really like to meet, or even chat with on the phone sometime. I live in a place where if you're a guy who doesn't hunt, fish, play hockey or snowmobile, you just aren't going to have a whole lot of close friends.

Yeah, I'm probably the same distance from both of you. I seldom get over to Montreal though. Closest for me is having family in Ottawa.

Or I'll make it up north.  One of these days. :wink:  Funny coincidence: we just dropped off our family's entries in the Caledonia Fair last night.  We'll be there with the 4-H too.  It's a big one for Dunnville-ites.  :smile:

On my other forum I met up with 3 other people from it for the San Diego Comic con this year. Split a hotel room for 4.5 days. It was mad fun. We went  to the comic con, a rap show, a tranny stole my friends camera, videogames live concert, a cleveland browns fan saw my buffalo bills hat....we both hung our heads in shame. I would definitely do it again.

Since my first post to this thread, I met up with two people from two other forums I frequent (both equestrian-related) - at the same 'horse-y' event.  I had the best day.  It was even more fun than I had anticipated and we will definitely do it again.  :teddyr:

So I say 'go for it' - if you can arrange something, make it happen.  Life is short!

If the future works out the way I want it to, then I'll have at least one trip to a convention in the US every year. If it works out that way, I'll have to meet some of the Americans on this board.

Some interests do lend themselves more to meeting people in person. People who are seriously into horses do travel and have a pretty good chance of ending up in the same place. I found the same thing when we were more into dog shows. Bad movies being largely a hobby for relaxing at home, it's not naturally going to take people to the same places.

B-Fest is about the only thing I'm aware of that people with our hobby will travel to, and not all that many, relatively speaking.

It's one of the reasons I keep looking to get some kind of an annual event started. Apart from my own entertainment and spreading the gospel of bad movies, I'd like to actually establish someplace for fans to gather. Where I am now, I can see the potential for an outdoor b-movie weekend with camping and beach activities. People will drive up here from Toronto for stuff like that, and I'd clean up selling hats and tshirts. I would, of course, apply for a federal arts grant to fly over an eminent South African film scholar as keynote speaker. :teddyr:  Problem is, I can't find anybody else locally who's interested in organizing it with me, since most of the organizing types don't even understand the concept ("Would it be possible to get movies more people would enjoy?").

The best I can manage alone is an occasional movie night, and the last one I had to cave in and include a Spielberg picture. Not that I minded; It was the first time I'd seen ET in probably 25 years, and I found it very nostalgic. If I'd been thinking, I would have brought my old Atari 2600 and challenged people to play the ET game on the big screen after the movie, just to see the utter confusion on their faces. :teddyr:

Maybe some of the Canadians here should look at a mid-winter weekend getaway, maybe on the February long weekend. Get hotel rooms at some central point like Toronto, bring spouses or girlfriends, set up a projector in a suite and spend a couple of days watching cheesy movies. Probably not that feasible, though. There are only maybe three of us close enough to drive, leaving out a couple of maritimers and a westerner.

Every summer a number of boutique pop-up cinemas start up, with two prominent ones being the Moonlight Cinema at the botanical gardens, and the Rooftop Cinema.  The first is basically a giant screen set up and people bring sleeping bags and pillows and food etc and watch a movie.  It runs most weeknights and weekends.  Fun stuff!  The Rooftop cinema is as described and is on top of a bar in the city.  Great views, and great atmosphere.  The Moonlight Cinema tends to play mainstream movies and 'cult classics' such as Ferris Bueller, but everynow and then they slip through an obscure one.  It gets huge crowds, 1000+, and as such they need to be fairly mainstream.

The rooftop plays more obscure 'cult' movies, though not to our level of obscure.  A couple of hundred people on average per screening.


If the weather ever gets warm enough for you up your way, something like the rooftop cinema isn't too hard to set up with a few extra people and some funding/sponsorship for equipment and the like.  Of course, the sacrifice is playing movies that will at least give you an audience, and you can use the majority of the screenings to subsidise the more obscure, lesser attended screenings. 

Aw man it'd be awesome.  Do it AndyC!  C'mon man!


I actually saw once a screening of Monsters Inc for a charity that was on top of car park of all places!  Another playing 'Breakdance' in a junkyard...  I figure you can start with the more mainstream and build the rep, and then start slyly adding the cult favourites.  IF you can be bothered that is.

I'd love to head to Toronto for the Toronto After Dark festival some year.  Maybe I could run into you Canucks up there sometime.

Rev, you do that and I assure you we will be there too!  Count on it.  :smile: