Comments on: Elimination Dance

Elimination Dance

dhruva — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:04:59 -0800

Elimination Dance A quicktime movie based on Michael Ondaatje's poem. "The rules of the dance are simple: if the caller announces a circumstance that has occurred in the lifetime of you or your partner, you must leave the dance floor at once."

By: dhruva

dhruva — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:07:47 -0800

damn, here's a better link to the poem.

By: stray

stray — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:30:43 -0800

All sorts of well known (well, that's relative) Canadian actors in there. Cool.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:48:38 -0800

Damn. Knocked out at the next to last one. How the hell did he know the LCB didn't have the '85 Lynch Bages ? Painful, humiliating, almost cruel at times, the Elimination Dance is not for the squeamish. It's a piece of cake for MeFi noobies.

By: showmethecalvino

showmethecalvino — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:10:58 -0800

Eerie. I was just searching for the image on the cover of Elimination Dance, but with no luck, as I couldn't remember the book's title. After several fruitless Google depth charges, I gave up and decided to head over to Metafilter to waste some more time....

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:25:10 -0800

Out by the third one.

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:26:20 -0800

showmethecalvino: i too have experienced several seemingly random instances of metafilter collective consciousness.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:31:31 -0800

It was the Rosicrucians who got me eliminated. I blame Umberto Eco :)

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:33:16 -0800

excellent.

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:34:15 -0800

[didn't get eliminated until the last]

By: Parannoyed

Parannoyed — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:46:51 -0800

resisted perversion? jesus, man.. why not just eliminate anybody who's carbon based and be done with it?

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:10:07 -0800

I know a guy who's into carbon dating. That's really perverted.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:29:21 -0800

But he's still dancing. You're eliminated if you have resisted depravity. Get back out there, Parannoyed!

By: Simon!

Simon! — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:55:20 -0800

You have to love Don McKellar and Bruce McDonald. Highway 61's a classic of Canadian cinema. Also, eliminated due to self-staplage.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:44:40 -0800

Crap. I can't be the only one to have mistaken a flasher's penis for a loaf of bread?

By: papercake

papercake — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:14:58 -0800

I'm telling you, I know that dog and he never could have done what they say he did.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:48:57 -0800

The movie is sweet and perverse and oddly moving. I popped a copy onto the ol' hard drive as a contingency. Thanks, dhruva.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:44:54 -0800

I love Ondaatje, but would it be too much to ask Don McKeller to simply go away already? I believe the country does have other actors.

By: mic stand

mic stand — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:01:53 -0800

Did anyone else get ~~terminated~~ eliminated for mistaking the woman wearing a naked woman's body suit as actually being a naked woman while viewing at work? Can I get a ~~what what~~ NSFW ?

By: cmyr

cmyr — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:30:47 -0800

great link, thanks. And yeah, is probably minorly nsfw.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:20:54 -0800

/me joins Simon! in the autostaplage corner. Neat movie.

By: mic stand

mic stand — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:40:50 -0800

Just to clarify, I, in no way, was upset by the nudity nor did I get in trouble, so don't take offense to my post, just foolin' 'round.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:59:00 -0800

Anyone else having problems with the movie loading? Anyone have a mirror of the Quicktime file?

By: neuron

neuron — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:16:12 -0800

I first encountered this poem in Harper's 10-15 years ago and became an instant Ondaatje fan. He's best known as the author of "The English Patient" (great novel, bad movie). "Elimination Dance" is in a collection of his poems called "The Cinnamon Peeler", which I've actually been rereading in the last few days.

By: SoftRain

SoftRain — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:41:29 -0800

Coming Through Slaughter is better than The English Patient. dobbs: Yeah, there's also Sarah Polley.

By: ifjuly

ifjuly — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:33:31 -0800

i love this poem, for a couple (the one about lending someone a book and the person returning it ruined and crappily "fixed" comes to mind) in particular but especially because of the perfect ending. i even own the print version... thank you for this! :D

By: quasistoic

quasistoic — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:34:30 -0800

Make that three unintentional self-staplers. How many of us are there?

By: unrepentanthippie

unrepentanthippie — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:03:00 -0800

Unintentional stapler. One of those huge copper ones they use to hold together exploded locomotives or something.

By: Larzarus

Larzarus — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:43:54 -0800

Count me among the accidental-auto-staplers...I made it that far... But the whippet touching would have gotten me if the stapler hadn't. (isn't that always the way...damn whippets)

By: quasistoic

quasistoic — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:59:40 -0800

Don't worry, Larzarus, you're safe: "Men who have never touched a whippet "