Elimination Dance
December 15, 2004 12:04 AM Subscribe
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."
All sorts of well known (well, that's relative) Canadian actors in there. Cool.
posted by stray at 12:30 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by stray at 12:30 AM on December 15, 2004
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.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:48 AM on December 15, 2004
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.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:48 AM on December 15, 2004
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....
posted by showmethecalvino at 1:10 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by showmethecalvino at 1:10 AM on December 15, 2004
showmethecalvino: i too have experienced several seemingly random instances of metafilter collective consciousness.
posted by Espoo2 at 1:26 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by Espoo2 at 1:26 AM on December 15, 2004
It was the Rosicrucians who got me eliminated. I blame Umberto Eco :)
posted by dhruva at 1:31 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by dhruva at 1:31 AM on December 15, 2004
resisted perversion?
jesus, man.. why not just eliminate anybody who's carbon based and be done with it?
posted by Parannoyed at 1:46 AM on December 15, 2004
jesus, man.. why not just eliminate anybody who's carbon based and be done with it?
posted by Parannoyed at 1:46 AM on December 15, 2004
I know a guy who's into carbon dating.
That's really perverted.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:10 AM on December 15, 2004
That's really perverted.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:10 AM on December 15, 2004
But he's still dancing. You're eliminated if you have resisted depravity.
Get back out there, Parannoyed!
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:29 AM on December 15, 2004
Get back out there, Parannoyed!
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 2:29 AM on December 15, 2004
You have to love Don McKellar and Bruce McDonald. Highway 61's a classic of Canadian cinema.
Also, eliminated due to self-staplage.
posted by Simon! at 2:55 AM on December 15, 2004
Also, eliminated due to self-staplage.
posted by Simon! at 2:55 AM on December 15, 2004
Crap. I can't be the only one to have mistaken a flasher's penis for a loaf of bread?
posted by Justinian at 3:44 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by Justinian at 3:44 AM on December 15, 2004
I'm telling you, I know that dog and he never could have done what they say he did.
posted by papercake at 6:14 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by papercake at 6:14 AM on December 15, 2004
The movie is sweet and perverse and oddly moving. I popped a copy onto the ol' hard drive as a contingency. Thanks, dhruva.
posted by cgc373 at 6:48 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by cgc373 at 6:48 AM on December 15, 2004
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.
posted by dobbs at 7:44 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by dobbs at 7:44 AM on December 15, 2004
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 awhat what NSFW ?
posted by mic stand at 8:01 AM on December 15, 2004
Can I get a
posted by mic stand at 8:01 AM on December 15, 2004
great link, thanks.
And yeah, is probably minorly nsfw.
posted by cmyr at 8:30 AM on December 15, 2004
And yeah, is probably minorly nsfw.
posted by cmyr at 8:30 AM on December 15, 2004
/me joins Simon! in the autostaplage corner.
Neat movie.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:20 AM on December 15, 2004
Neat movie.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:20 AM on December 15, 2004
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.
posted by mic stand at 11:40 AM on December 15, 2004
posted by mic stand at 11:40 AM on December 15, 2004
Anyone else having problems with the movie loading?
Anyone have a mirror of the Quicktime file?
posted by rhapsodie at 1:59 PM on December 15, 2004
Anyone have a mirror of the Quicktime file?
posted by rhapsodie at 1:59 PM on December 15, 2004
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.
posted by neuron at 4:16 PM on December 15, 2004
posted by neuron at 4:16 PM on December 15, 2004
Coming Through Slaughter is better than The English Patient.
dobbs: Yeah, there's also Sarah Polley.
posted by SoftRain at 8:41 PM on December 15, 2004
dobbs: Yeah, there's also Sarah Polley.
posted by SoftRain at 8:41 PM on December 15, 2004
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
posted by ifjuly at 1:33 AM on December 16, 2004
posted by ifjuly at 1:33 AM on December 16, 2004
Make that three unintentional self-staplers. How many of us are there?
posted by quasistoic at 1:34 AM on December 16, 2004
posted by quasistoic at 1:34 AM on December 16, 2004
Unintentional stapler. One of those huge copper ones they use to hold together exploded locomotives or something.
posted by unrepentanthippie at 5:03 AM on December 16, 2004
posted by unrepentanthippie at 5:03 AM on December 16, 2004
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)
posted by Larzarus at 6:43 AM on December 16, 2004
posted by Larzarus at 6:43 AM on December 16, 2004
Don't worry, Larzarus, you're safe:
"Men who have never touched a whippet "
posted by quasistoic at 12:59 PM on December 16, 2004
"Men who have never touched a whippet "
posted by quasistoic at 12:59 PM on December 16, 2004
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