It's Almost Time for Hooker to Hit Philly!

Fill the tank up, turn off the Journey, grab a Pabst and a shot of Jim Beam because 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk' will be hitting Bob & Barbara's Lounge this Tuesday, September 14th. Holy fuck. And there Pabst with a shot of JB (the special) is a mere $3.50! Here's what they (City Paper's Arts and Entertainment Blog) are saying --

"Bob & Barbara’s is really the only spot in the city that deserves to screen the east coast premiere of the Canadian movie Dead Hooker in a Trunk.

But deceased ladies of the night aren’t all that Greg Christie is interested in. “Mounting repertory film in Philadelphia has always been difficult,” says Christie. “I think its struggling right now in the wake of Netflix because showing the film, even if it’s on 35 mm, isn’t enough.”

The former TLA Video manager recently got back from a stint in Austin, where he was impressed by the formidable Alamo Drafthouse. “They have programming every night and it’s always sold out because it’s not just film,” says Christie, siting the ATX moviehouse’s drinks service and their penchant for activities on the side, like quote-a-longs.

So when it came to putting on his own weekly screening series at the lovable South street dive, Christie thought outside the box. “I’m trying to film events that are more interactive parties,” Christie says, “rather than just film screenings.” Christie’s solution is to bring in the Swellco & Swellco Video Circus, aka the minds behind Anti-Bestiality Educational Awareness and similar exploits, to perform burlesque once a month during his events.

For their first mutual offering on Tue., Sept. 14, Christie and Swellco will present the aforementioned Dead Hooker in a Trunk. Along with the movie screening and performance there will be a dead hooker costume contest and a performance by the one and only filthy Neil Diamond impersonator Dirty Diamond.

Other events include a screening of Cory McAbee’s sci-fi/Western/musical Stingray Sam and a film from the makers of Tokyo Gore Police and The Machine Girl, with a special presentation by Japanese burlesque group Tokyo Dolores.

“I don’t want to get pigeonholed,” Christie says about his film choices. “I want to program films that will work in a bar setting. We want to make Bob & Barbara’s a premier setting for independent and foreign film.”"

Mr. Christie you make fucking rad entertainment! Thank you for hosting the East Coast premiere for Hooker.

This is going to be fucking epic. There is a dead hooker costume contest - send us your pictures, we have gifties for you if you do (and I know there will be prizes at this screening, too!). There are prizes galore, performances by Dirty Diamond and the Dead Hooker Dancers, Louise LaTease and Keycifer, and all the cock rock your ears can handle spun by DJ Dan 5! I want to be there so bad - so I need you, girls and boys, to rock out as hard as you can and tell me what a rad time you had. I will party vicariously through you. It will be mega.


~Jen and Sylv


Tomorrow (September 11) is the last screening at Cinefantasy in Brazil! ¡Disfrute de su prostituta!