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As a fan of the earlier work of Jay Katz such as Moodarama and Sounds of Seduction, I highly anticipated this event as part of the Sydney Film Festival. JLAVSD was held at The Studio at the Sydney Opera House, a cool venue if you’re not seeing opera. The actual show didn’t quite live up to the blurb in the SFF guide but was a fantastic night anyway. Perhaps more people may have attended if they’d known earlier what Jaimie and his new wife and partner in crime Miss Death (should we address her as Ms Death from now on?) was going to present - “a Western take on the roots of Japanese Anime and live action fantasy. They will be selecting material from Television and cinema history.” Anyway there was the first episode of Astro Boy (aka Mighty Atom) on B & W film, a live action version of Astro Boy which apparantly nearly sent the production company broke, early Japanese Sci-fi films with cardboard cutout aliens, giant mutant moths and two-headed monsters and an absolutely f***ing hilarious game show hosted by Takeshi Kitano (in his former sadistic comedian days). I was crying because this was sooo funny - it’s great to make fun of other people’s misfortunes - such as going to a public toilet and having the walls collapse and find yourself in a game of Curling. Jaimie gave interesting and humorous anecdotes about all the footage he presented from the Mu Meson archives and I had a very fun night. Afterwards, Dave and Josie had big dirty slices of cake from a cafe in East Circular Quay and I had some garlic bread. Yum.