Lost Media Archive-Out/Ex

"Why don't you go braid your hair or something?"

The lost media Archive was created to preserve all forms of old media such as films, records, old comic books, art, and all kinds of other things like that that ultimaly would have been destroyed, forgotten or otherwise disappeared into unknown places never to be seen again. It was originally started by a group of people who appreciate old things like that, but since then has been moved to the University of Utah's library system where it can be organized, catalogued and made available to everyone.

The Out/Ex part refers to the watching of outsider/experimental movies. Once a month, the group meets in Salt Lake to review these old movies and the progress of the archiving work. I'm new to the group so I'm still learning about everything this involves, so don't quote me on all the details. From what I can tell, it basically boils down to a bunch of geeks getting together to watch horrible movies. These movies are so bad, they're good- no wait, they're awesome! They've got it all, cheesy special effects, bad acting, poorly written scripts, outrageous fashions, you name it.

Last Saturday I participated in this madness by attending a screening of "Creating Rem Lezar" , a children's movie from 1989. You'll have to look it up on Youtube to find more about the movie itself. We watched the movie, then a few from the group performed some of the songs from the movie. After that a bunch of us went to breakfast at freaky Dee's (it's like Denny's). It has been dubbed "freaky" because there is a transgendered person that works there as a waiter/ess. We didn't get to see it this time though, oh well. And since it's always open this restaurant seems to attract odd people at odd hours of the night too- like weird movie geeks for example. We even had our Rem Lezar with us in full costume! We sure got some weird looks walking around with a guy wearing a blue spandex suit, cape, gold shoes and a curly blue wig. I was one bisquit way from finishing an entire Cowboy Breakfast while the large guy next to me tapped out at about 3/5ths of his same meal. I finally got back to Logan completely exhausted at about 1:30 in the morning.

Not everybody gets to have their picure taken with Rem Lezar and Ashley for their birthday!

Hey! It's Ashley, Zach, and Rem Lezar! (you'll have to watch the clips on Youtube)