Filed under: Food & Recipes
Well there I was, waiting for winter to kick in and being very confused about the warmth, until a few days ago. Gah! Well, it’s time for comfort food, clearly.
Hence…shepherds pie on the menu today!! With brussel sprouts and parsnip chips.
Also, sweetcorn and potato fritters served with homemade cucumber relish, excitingly cooked cabbage (I haven’t worked out how yet, but it WILL be exciting), and salads.
And, pizza. With aubergines and peppers and mushrooms and and and…
Filed under: Events! | Tags: comeback, free films, horror night, thetre of blood, vincent price
All right. My reign of terror has nearly ended. Tomorrow is the last Spooky Monday and next week we go back to the same ol’.
This week its going to be British Classics. In the seventies Britain was winning at horror films, and I’m not even including Hammer in this. British cinema is one of the only reasons that exists for me to be patriotic, so this Monday we’re gonna show two of the bestists…
First up is The Comeback (1978 Pete Walker). It hard enough breaking the music business as it is right, without the ghost of your dead wife trying to interfere. This film’s got a real-life pop star in it too, Jack Jones, but I’m too young to remember him anyway.
Then we’re gonna show Theatre of Blood (1973 Douglas Hickox). Vincent Price gets pretty annoyed when his last performance is slated by critics, and returns from the dead to punish them in awesome Shakespearian manner. Well, Vincent Price’s character anyway. Although, he should bear this in mind. It would be awesome if Vincent Price came back from the dead.
Like last time there will be free popcorn. I’ll make sure we don’t run out this time. BYOB.
Filed under: Events! | Tags: film night, free films, martyrs, poo your pants, switchblade romance
Alright, so last weeks films made us giggle. This weeks are slightly more scary, but only slightly depending on how hard you are…
First up is Switchblade Romance (2003, Alexandre Aja). It all goes a bit bocky when a girl joins her friend to visit her parents. Those type of situations can be awkward enough (where’s the bathroom? do you flush in the night? etc) without a brutal killer in overalls coming to visit. Yikes!
And then that delight is followed by Martyrs (2008, Pascual Laugier) where one girl’s loyalty to her lifelong friend is kind of put to the test when she makes a somewhat unexpectedly harsh visit to the family she suspects abused her when she was young. And what’s with the scary, naked girl who follows her around all the time?
I don’t know, its all a bit of a mystery that can only be solved by coming to Pogo on Monday and watching the films on our super state of the art screen/sheet.
There will be popcorn there, and you can bring beers if so inclined.
Filed under: Events! | Tags: brains, city of the living dead, double bill, film night, horror film, pogo cafe, return of the living dead, zombies
Cause its the incredibly terrifying month of October (!), and as we aren’t showing documentaries, etc at the moment, I’ve high-jacked Monday nights and there will be horror film double-bills for the next three weeks. There is something lovely about watching horror double bills, specially on a school night. By the time you get to the second one, the mutual terror in the room has formed an awesome sense of comradery…or is that just the beer?
This coming Monday is Zombie Monday! BRAAAIINNSSS!!!
The first film is ‘City of the Living Dead’ (1980) from Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci. It has awesome zombies with super-powers in it who start destroying the people of the town when the gates of hell open in the cemtery! Oo-er.
The second film will be ‘Return of the Living Dead’ (1985) which is nothing to do with the Romero trilogy, just the relatively unknown writer and director Dan O’Banner cashing in on the fame of the name. It is awesome though. Come and see your stereotypical american zombies (caused by a government clerical error no less) try to eat stereotypical 80’s punks. 
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: brick lane, clean bean, hackney downs., local tofu
We have started purchasing plain tofu from Clean Bean! Yay! They’re based just near Brick Lane, and we’re really happy to be supporting a local tofu-maker! Now if only we can get someone to start planting a few acres of soybeans…maybe Hackney Downs is a good spot? Hmm.
Filed under: Events!
Fired Up Queers is putting on a benefit dinner and film screening for the printing of the next issue of Race Revolt.
Come to a tasty dinner (several courses plus dessert) at 7pm at Pogo.
Dinner £4 – 10 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
If anyone fancies doing donating some baked goods for us to sell on the evening that would be grand!
And at 8pm we’ll screen Homotopia (27 mins United States)
Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia chronicles a group of radical queer’s dedicated to exposing the trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire, while looking totally fierce. Woven into the story of Yoshi’s adventures in love, resistance, and sex, is a critique of the crushing violence of homonormativity and its deadly perpetuation of US patriotism, conservative kinship structures and affective accumulation. Homotopia holds cinematic assumptions hostage through its motley assemblage of never-passing crew. Race, gender, ability and desire are reworked through an anti-colonial take of queer struggle creating a visual rhythm of melancholic utopianism that knows there may be no future but still hopes today is not their last. Love revolution, not State delusion, Homotopia.
