"Mojo Chan": A Cult Play Relives On Video

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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Dylan Welles Hillerman
Teknicolour Yawn Pictures    
503.223.5968
dylan@inetarena.com
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                                                         MCTV's "MOJO CHAN" Tragi-Comic Antihero, Or Stool-Pigeon for the Gods?

      Portland, OR, November 17, 2000 — Teknicolour Yawn Pictures presents "The Runt Life & Inexplicable Death of Mojo Chan, the Great", a 50-minute horror rock-opera, featuring the band Ant Farm (Chico, CA) and premiering Friday, December 8 on Multnomah Community Television cable channel 11 at midnight, to harken a new Portland comedy troupe known as Megg Ryan's Le Theatre du Grande Guignol.

      "Mojo Chan", directed by Dylan Latimer, is based loosely on "The Sand Man", a short-story by E.T.A. Hoffman, a.k.a. author of "The Nutcracker", a holiday tradition. "Chan" is the fin-de-siecle alchemical product of a 1990's ensemble in the guerrilla-art crucible called The Blue Room Theatre, Chico, CA. The result: A multimedia rock spectacle performed before a gleefully drunk audience in 1998 about a Satanic homunculus, created synthetically out of "shit & clay", attempting to lead a life of virtue while society threatens to transform him into a monster. Intent on destroying his diabolical, asexual progenitor, Mojo becomes an gets an education, murders a robot manufacturer, goes insane, eats an intern in the mental ward, escapes, starts a riot in a loafer shoe sweat-shop, runs against the Devil for President of the United States (guess who wins...), karate-chops villains, suicide bombs a factory, dances with beautiful droids, and still finds time to contemplate the exhistance of the human soul while sitting on the crapper.                                          ". . . Like 'Ubu Roi' meets Jet Lee as 'Der Golem'", says Geoff Earl, formerly of The Rocket. "With music by the inimitable 'Ant Farm', believe the hype . . . Mojo Chan' is the BOMB!"

      The first half of the show features Joey Ficken of the local rock-orchestra "The Swords Project'" as stunt-double for Ant Farm drummer Jim Rizutto. (NOTE: Other Portland musicians with Chico roots include Casey Maxell of 'The Weaklings'/ 'The Viles', Tanya Smith of 'Made for T.V Movie', Larry Crane of 'Tape Op', Michael Ismario of 'The Dickle Brothers', Tim and Shawna Ervin-Gore of 'Captain Vs. Crew'. . . Coincidence, . . . or MOJO?)

      In the tradition of "Rocky Horror" & "The Forbidden Zone", "Mojo Chan" is the antidote for commercialized Christmas cheer, a psychedelic musical for post-election meltdown boasting numbers that rival those seen in "Dancer in the Dark", an homage to Hong Kong action films and early German cinema, a no-budget alternative to Hollywood's "Little Nicky" and "The Nutcracker", but ultimately, a hell of a lot of fun! The infectious noir carnival-surf live soundtrack stylings of the newly reformed Ant Farm will reassure viewers that the "Doctrine of the Human Soul" is alive and well, and the tale of "Mojo Chan", although perhaps not to be admired, is not without merit.    
                                 "Mojo Chan" airs on MCTV in December:   Friday 8, 12am, Ch. 11;   Wednesday 13, 10pm, Ch. 21; Tuesday 19, 11pm, Ch. 21; Thursday 21, 11:30pm, Ch. 21

      "Megg Ryan's Le Theatre du Grande Guignol" made their first stage appearance in Kitty Diggin's Mad Monster A Go-Go! at Berbati's Pan last October. Don't Miss the "Mojo Chan" art show at Internet Arena, 1016 SW Taylor Street, across from the Portland Library. Stay tuned for a special showing of "Mojo Chan" at a club near you! For more mojo, visit www.dylanhillerman.com for the "Mojo Chan" webpage and a copy of this press release.

    For additional information or to buy a copy, contact:
                                                            Dylan Welles Hillerman
      503.223.5968
      dylan@inetarena.com
      dylanwell@hotmail.com
      Fountain Place" 929 SW Salmon St, #211
      Portland, OR 97205
      http://www.dylanhillerman.com/mojochan.html
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