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Updated: BUTT-NUMB-A-THON 6 Submissions Over!!!
Well - this year through the submission process - The Boston Red Sox swept the World Series... which obviously is a clear and direct sign from God that John Kerry must be the next President, and that God clearly hates George Bush Jr and Texas. Well, God may hate Texas, but BUTT-NUMB-A-THON is heaven, and a final tally of 9,677 email applicants in the 12 hour run. To those that missed the window, I'll see you hopefully at BNAT 7.... For those that got your submissions in... I'm gonna work to get through these and send out an email to the winners at some point on November 1st. --- If I can't get that email out on time on that date - I'll update this page with the latest. Problems why I might not get that email off? 1) the volume of emails to weigh and consider. 2) Also finishing my Dvd November Column. 3) Constant sacrificing to Cthulhu to curse the Bush Reelection Campaign. 4) I'm seeing THE INCREDIBLES on Saturday, and may die of glee. Otherwise - I'll be emailing on November 1st. Good luck, and may the force be with you...
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As of 3:53pm (cst) on Oct. 27th, I've received over 3500 e-mail submissions for BNAT 6. By all means submit. If you get your email bounced - send it again - there's a big glut of people sending and some of the attachments are quite big. I've set my automatic check email thing at 3 minutes so my email box doesn't fill up on the server due to the overage of attachments. Some people's pics are as large as 20megs, why? I don't know. Under 300k each would be COOLER! Heh. Nice to see some familiar faces and all the new ones. Good Luck and I hope I pick you!
Hey folks, Harry here… There’s been a lot of speculation regarding me no longer holding a BUTT-NUMB-A-THON due to my new extra duties as a Producer on JOHN CARTER OF MARS and GHOST TOWN… Well, I’m also doing other top secret projects that nobody nowhere knows about yet, heh… As well as guiding a long overdue Site Revamp, a wonderful 5 month long relationship, helping taking care of my Grandmother, brainwashing my lil nephew and prepping for a surgery that’ll end up with a 40% reduction of Harry himself. – And if you think that’s stopping me from throwing BNAT 6 – well you’ve got another thing coming brotha –
B U T T - N U M B - A - T H O N: - VI
After the tremendous success of BNAT 5 – which brought forth the first public screenings in the U.S. of RETURN OF THE KING (Best Picture & a total of 11 Academy Awards, $1.1 Billion World Wide), THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST ($609.5 Million World Wide) and OLDBOY (Grand Prix at Cannes 2004). These films’ staggering success is obviously due to the good Karma of playing at BNAT 5 first! Ahem. Heh. There were other wonderful firsts in the U.S. like the Screening of UNDEAD and HAUTE TENSION. The astonishing print of Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL accompanied by Guy Forsythe and his band. The brilliance of TEENAGE MOTHER stunned the audience into a stampede out of the screening room, a classic moment! Peter Jackson and Mel Gibson both attended and there was much magic. Well, as I was saying after the success of BNAT 5 – How do I top it?
Well, let’s just say I’m working on it. Right now I’m working on a helluva show – Will the films playing go on to the success of those above? Well, the films that play BNATs are measured by only one standard… Do they entertain us, the greatest audience of film geeks, lovers and aficionados from amongst the world.
First of all, Butt-Numb-A-Thon 6 will take place from 12noon December 11th to roughly 12noon December 12th. Which means, it will actually take place over the course of my actual birthday, something that hasn’t happened since BNAT 1!!!
As always the proceeds from the ticket sales will go on to sponsor the Saturday Morning Kid’s Club for the 6th year, which screens wonderful films for kids from local Austin Families as well as folks from the Big Brothers Big Sisters. A program that I’ve hosted the last Saturday of every month for the last 5 years, and which hopefully I’ll continue to host even once my brain is preserved in the Robotic Body that I’m piping my vast fortune into building.
As usual how do you get in to BNAT 6?
Every year I get thousands of submissions attempting to win a chance of buying tickets to attend the best 24 hours of film in the world. And every year I attempt to make the fairest way of getting tickets. Last year was a Yearbook Submission process. I got such a positive feedback from everyone and it made such a memorable treasure from the event, that I can’t imagine not doing it again. SO – here’s how you get in.
On October 27th beginning at 12 noon (Central Standard Time) through 12 midnight (Central Standard Time) submit the following:
1) A picture of you that expresses your personality best.
2) Vital Stats (Ie – Where you’re from, how old are you, Favorite Film, Book, Song, Toy and your most embarrassing moment)
3) Why You Need To Attend Butt-Numb-A-Thon 6 & how many tickets you'd need, who you're extras would be, their pics and Vital Stats too.
4) Your Guess For 3 Films Playing At This Year’s Fest.
5) And Email it to: HKnowles@Austin.RR.Com with the subject line: "I SUBMIT TO BNAT 6"
Then – On Nov 1st, at some point during the day – Each of the 240 Winners will be notified. Then you'll need to be ready to purchase the tickets via the Drafthouse's website or at the door, the day of, here in Austin, Texas at the Original Alamo Drafthouse. The attendees will be made up equally of Austinites (and the surrounding vicinity) and those from outside Texas, around the USA and Abroad.
Each and every year that I’ve done Butt-Numb-A-Thon, not only do I love the actual event, but I love reading and learning a bit about all of you. In a way, it allows me to know my audience a bit more intimately. I get to find out about those of you out there like me that loves not a single genre, but all of them? Films from studios and individuals, from our country and beyond, from 20,000 yesterdays and those from a hundred tomorrows. People drunk on cinema, ill with the 24 frame disease that holds us in our theater of worship… The Alamo Drafthouse.
My friends, prepare… Here comes BNAT 6!!! God I love this!
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Oct 16, 2004 1:07:13 AM CDT
I am FIRST...to suggest that Fat Albert will open BNAT 6!!!
by i hate movies
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Show the complete first 3 seasons of Enterprise. --- You just know that's what all the AICN'ers are really wantin!
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Headed for gastric bypass surgery huh? Well, good luck on that, man. If you feel it's the only way to go to lose the weight, I wish you the best, although it's a major life long sacrifice there you're making. I hope you've considered all the alternatives fully and the risk involved.
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is a very good bet. Perhaps Calvaire (The Ordeal), too, since Harry tends to throw in at least one movie concerned solely with torture. Rahtree: Flower of the Night is also a possibility, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it. What else... The Aviator... if Harry could get Scorsese to show up. The Libertine. Sucker Free City. Kung Fu Hustle. Hell, maybe he'll toss in the nine-hour Evolution of a Filipino Family just to fuck with people.
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The sexiest tomboy beanpole of all time!
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Oct 16, 2004 2:23:19 AM CDT
Step 1) Liposuction. Step 2) Ain't-it-Cool Soap Company.
by i hate movies
Now a question of Butt-numb-a-thon etiquette -- as I pass your seat do I give you the ass or the crotch?
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Oct 16, 2004 2:39:09 AM CDT
Site revamp? Awwwww, I was traumatized enough when you guys cha
by tall_boy
Just fix the talkback order, that's all I ask.
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Go Broncos...
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...but without the movies. We just sit in chairs and stare and the floor for 24 hours! :D Anyone interested?
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Beaks talks in his sleep.
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Harry, don't go a-changin'. You've got the girl. Part of what keeps 33 year old geeks who still live at home (like me) coming to this site is knowing that it's run by an overweight red-headed freak with bad facial hair --- who still lives at home, too. If you can get The Girl, it gives hope to losers like me. Also --- revamping the site??? Don't do it to me, buddy. I've been here since '97 when the site used to be a long single page of update links against an ID4 background. When you changed it the first time it sent me into fits. Geeks don't like change.
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It's that time of the year again! Yay! It's been a crap year, too.
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Has this site ever changed? It looks the same to me as it did 6 years ago. How about a european BNAT? In fact those horse-munching, bureaucracy loving quasi-fascists can go and fuck themselves - just do it in the UK.
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I haven't missed one yet! Er, well, except the first one, but revisionist history is all the rage! I can't wait to sleep at the Austin Motel, to eat at Threadgills, Amy's Ice Cream, and the Green Mesquite, to tour the Capitol, to hang with my friend Ginger on Sunday night at Casino el Camino and Beerland...
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A real Butt Numb a Thon would be pay per view. That way, nobody has to get off their ass to attend.
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I hope they've gone over all the risks with you, not to mention some of the unfortunate side effects. In any event good luck with that.
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I got limited funds and flying down there and stuff I don't think now's the right time to go, BNAT VII yes though. Good luck with the weight reduction Harry and way to begin updating the site, good luck.
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Oct 16, 2004 4:33:02 PM CDT
there's this movie, I Heart Huckabees, has anyone heard of it?
by lou c.
Good God. This whole Web site is filled with ads for it everywhere I look. I will now NOT see the movie because of this. Unless someone can promise me hot lesbian sex with Naomi Watts is in it.
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Oct 17, 2004 8:34:19 AM CDT
If you can pass last year's line-up, I will be shocked. My guess
by krims0nknite
Both shocked and awed. My guesses for movies: The Life Aquatic for sure. Maybe Constantine or Blade: Trinity or Elektra (but not more than 1 of the three), The Phantom of the Opera, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and maybe Meet The Fockers. And a bunch of indie stuff.
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This is quite possibly one of the ugliest sites on the web. For a site that's visited by so so many, this is unacceptable. Please re-design this disgusting web layout. Kudos on the whole weight loss thing by the way, now all us talkbackers will have to retire our fat jokes.
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C'mon Harry, spend some quality time in a darkened theater with us Brits. Make it so, and the people will come.
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I know this site gets criticized for being ugly, but at least it's readable, unlike some sites with white thin type on a black background,,,I like the simple format of the talkbalks, as I have limited brain capacity and become confused with the branched talkbalks of other sites
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Oct 19, 2004 3:29:47 PM CDT
if you're not going to redesign the Web site, at least get rid o
by lou c.
... how about cameron diaz's swirling ass instead? ... or is that so 3 years ago?
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Hey Harry, it's me Vern. You know how I now have a book collecting 87 of my greatest movies reviews? Well what better thing to give out to your numb butts? What you should do, you go to http://www.lulu.com/outlawvern where the book 5 ON THE OUTSIDE: VERN'S WRITINGS ON THE FILMS OF CINEMA is available, and you should buy 240 of them. And then you should give them to everybody there. It would be great and they would learn alot and we'd all be happy. Also to be frankly honest it would be good for me, I could buy christmas presents this year. You know how people are about that shit. "can't believe you gave me a six pack for christmas" etc. Well think about it bud, p.s. if Mel Gibson shows up again ask him what's the deal with payback 2: the man with the getaway face. Starring somebody else. It would be a good idea. p.p.s If you want to give everybody TWO copies that's not a bad idea. That's 480 I believe. Or just round it up to 500 to be safe maybe. However you do these events, you know what you're doing. thanks harry
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you can
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how about holding BNAT 7 in the uk? i know there are loads of us who'd love to go but cant get to the states to attend BNAT. please!
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BNAT 5 was NOT the first public screening of Return of the King, if it was on the 6th(my bday incidentally). I bought public tickets for, and attended the first public screening to night before in Palm Springs, a KCET fundraiser event; Ian KcKellen spoke beforehand. These tickets were publicly, and easily available(just called them up, no connections or such), though pricey heh.
So if the BNAT screening last year was on the 6th, it was SO not the first public screening :) -
I'm sure I'll regret it, but... any BNAT attendees that are also LiveJournal users can join the bnatters community at http://www.livejournal.com/community/bnatters/
As an out of towner who has been to two BNATs, and who has absolutely no corporate affiliation with the film industry, I have to say that I greatly appreicate that Harry makes up the crowd of equal parts locals and out of towners.
It really did not seem corporate at all at 5. Many of the films that were there have not found their way to US release dates yet. Haute Tension is still being held up, and OldBoy isn't hitting a US release until 2005 (and I can get that at the video store down the street). And Teen Mother... god, trust me, there's nothing corporate about that steaming pile of... Americana. The most coporate thing there, to me, was The Passion of the Christ, which was a real ho-hum for me personally. -
How much do BNAT tix go for if you get the chance to buy them?
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No joke about the Tarantino festival! That was great because A: It went for a few days if not a whole week, B: QT is much more fun to listen to than Harry, C: Everything he showed was old, quirky, and was influential somwhow to the way indies are done now and D: I didn't have to try to justify who I was just to attend. I stood in line and bought a ticket and that was it...no essay, no nothing. I remember seeing Motel Hell and The House on Sorority Row back to back with intro by QT before each show...and he'd go on...and on...and on...man that was fun! Oh, and everyone in the crowd was a local...that was nice too.
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The first year I went was BNAT 2 and it was a minimum $24 donation ($1 per hour) but last year I think I paid $30? All money goes toward the Alamo Drafthouse and it's kids' program.
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...was 45$.
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you need to turn your security settings off on your road runner account. 2 of my emails were returned with a message about security. very stressful it was. i had to use a different email address and i have no idea if it even went through to you. so please check that setting out and get an auto responder set up so that everyone who's entering knows that their emails go through. know what i mean? thanks!
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I sent my email at 12:15, and I bcc'ed my own account, but I don't see any proof that it went thru. as the previous poster implied, is your account bouncing any email with attachments? I sent it via gmail which is still pretty slow and I know some of these photo heavy emails must be clogging your account. I can send it again but I know that would just add to the problem. so let us know what's going on Harry...please, the pressure is making me queasy.
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i think it is bouncing emails with attachments. even though i had saved my images for web and the toatl email was only 91k (which should go through without a hitch) it gave me a delivery failure. so i did the next best thing: i sent it from hotmail which gives me no response or reassurance that anything went through. i'm very nervous right now and tempted to resend it with my first email without attachments. very very nervous right now.
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i just tried it again but this time with NO attachments. it still didn't go through. pretty shitty. let's hope hotmail works.
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Oct 27, 2004 8:09:57 PM CDT
Nice piece of shit talkbacks on this site. What the fuck are th
by lamerz
Shit-tacular.
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well...lay off your unilateral ideas, brits!! the future of filmfestivals is BNAT-WORLD TOUR. the groupies are already waiting for a night with front film......
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Oct 28, 2004 4:11:36 PM CDT
John Kerry is no Sox fan (and he can't even pitch over the plate
by electric tsunami
If you think the Sox winning the series is a good omen you are a dumb ass. Just look at this sKerry sQuote from the debates:
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(remember the second Presidential debate when he said this in response to the environmental question.....)
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GIBSON: Senator Kerry, minute and a half.
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KERRY: Boy, to listen to that -- the president, I don't think, is living in a world of reality with respect to the environment. Now, if you're a Red Sox fan, that's OK. But if you're a president, it's not.
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I am dying. I feel like the polka dot elephant on the Island of Misfit Toys, who thinks Santa is going to pass her by. Has anyone gotten their e-mails confirming their ability to attend BNAT 6. One of my friends got an e-mail yesterday.
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I was dying all day too. Then midnight came, and the coroner made it official.
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BNAT 6, here I come. Thanks for the email, Harry, and I'll see ya there.
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I am a poor polka dot Elephant on the Island of Misfit Toys, who has to wait till next year, as Santa passed me by.
My condolences to those of you who also did not get in.
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me. I guess I'll go eat worms. -
The last two years I did not recieve the e-mail but still got on the BNAT list. Please post a copy of the list and crush the last hope of a desperate man.
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