A Fine First Fire for Folks and Friends

Edit: Remembering Billy Stubbs has been temporarily removed due to an unforeseen issue.  It will return as soon as possible.

Our theme was Losing Everything, but we managed to keep from losing our way.  Thank you to all the people who turned up for the show.  We hope you enjoyed it; we hope it made you think; we hope we didn’t scare you off by being too weird.

What did you miss if you weren’t there Friday?  Highlights included:

• Music by Dear Corban
• The hosting prowess of Kurt Gund and Lanyard Adams
• The videographic tale of Billy Stubbs
• An inspiring song by Julie Guthrie
• The true story of Lal Bihari
• The documentary Luging Everything
• A visit from the long-suffering Rev. M.B. Manfield Dent
• Instructions on How Not to Lose Things
• A message by Pastor Gary Rush on why losing everything is actually a good thing

But fear not! If you couldn’t make it to October’s Friday Night Fire, there is another opportunity for you on November 21!

And if you want a taste of the Fire to show your friends or see for yourself, look no further.  Enjoy the videos below, and we’ll see you at next month’s show.

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Luging Everything

The big hit of the evening was this mockumentary about two brothers careening uncontrollably downhill.

see it on Vimeo | join Vimeo to download it (136.65MB)

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Important!! Luging Everything is made available under a Creative Commons License (by-nc 2.5 Canada), which means that you have our express permission to download it, modify it, share it with your friends, etc.  You could even re-edit it or sample portions into your own video.

But you must follow these two conditions…  You must make it clear where you got the original work (a mention of itsthefire.com will work fine) and you can’t try to make any money off whatever you make.  Also please notice that the license does not extend to the clip of the street luge, which we do not own.  The original clip is found here.

Remembering Billy Stubbs is not currently licensed for that purpose (but you can still download it).

With the solid thwack of a sheaf of high-quality laser-printed paper…

…flyers and posters for Friday Night Fire have arrived! If you attend Stanley Park Baptist you can get some flyers from Pastor Gary.  But what if you do not?  Or if Gary has run out of them?  My word!  What can you do then?

Well, just download them here and print some for yourself!

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Flyer #1 – a.k.a. “A Box for You” – 8.5″x11″

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This invitation can be enjoyed as an unfolded sheet of letter-size paper, or can be cut and folded into a papercraft box.  Original photograph “Chicken Supply” by mhaithaca.

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Poster #1 – a.k.a. “A Poster for You” – 11″x17″

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The poster is designed for tabloid-size paper, but can be printed on whatever you happen to have available.  Original photograph “Metered Life” by bizzyb0t.

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And now a special web-only bonus!

You especially-attractive people who are visiting the site can download a bonus flyer, we like to call…

Flyer #2 – a.k.a. “A Bottomless Cup of Coffee for You” – 8.5″x11″

medium-quality PNG (292 KB) | high-quality PNG (1.48 MB)

Download and enjoy.

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All three of these ads are made available under a Creative Commons License (by-nc 2.5 Canada), which means that you have our express permission to download them, modify them, print them, share them with your friends, etc.  You could even change them into an invitation for your own event!

But you must follow these two conditions…  You must make it clear where you got the original work (a mention of itsthefire.com will work fine) and you can’t try to make any money off whatever you make.  You should also remember to credit the original photographers who also generously licensed their work to us.

After eight years Friday Night Fire rises from the ashes…

What is The Fire? — Why not ask, “what is a rainbow?”  “What makes the flowers bloom?”  “Where do the passing years go?”* We cannot say, because the answers to these questions cannot be known.**

Suffice it to say that from AD 1994 to 2000, Friday Night Fire strode the earth like a colossus.  No, not a colossus.  What’s that other thing…?  A Yugo.  That’s it.  Friday Night Fire strode the earth like a boxy Yugoslavian car.

It was an eccentric variety-show style performance unlike anything professional actors and comedians would condescend to be associated with.  It was cheap; it was loud; it was weird…  but ultimately, it was ours, and we loved it.

Performed on a semi-irregular basis in such locations as the hay loft of a barn, a high school cafeteria and a church gymnatorium, The Fire was something beloved of a few, admired by many, and witnessed by maybe about 8-or-900 people in total, if we’re being generous.

What made Friday Night Fire unique among its peers was that it didn’t really have any peers.  It was like a cross between Late Night with Conan O’Brien… and a tomato.  (I leave you to visualize that on your own.) Enough about the past.  I have already spoiled the magic, and besides, those years are behind us.***

The new and improved(sic) Friday Night Fire is not the same as before.  It is older.  It is, perhaps, wiser.  And, having suffered a near-death experience, it is certainly more conscious of the sodium level in it’s diet.  (Really, you can’t be too careful about salt.)

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Friday Night Fire returns to the grand central stage of Stanley Park Baptist Church on October 17, 2008.

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*Answers: a) a cunningly disguised mongoose, b) insecurity, c) they are processed into an industrial-grade slurry

**Yes, they can; I just told you.

***They have already been processed into an industrial-grade slurry.