Hey kids, Spencer here from rainy, dreary Austin TX, temporarily the center of the entertainment world's attention as we host our annual South by Southwest music, film, video game, and interactive media festival! This festival is otherwise known as "SXSW", or "South by" if you want to feel like an industry insider/dipshit face.
So, why do I mention this fact? Well, someone near and dear to me, VERY near and VERY dear (with the initial "H") managed to score us a couple of badges to this year's event! That means that I am smack dab in the middle of attending my VERY FIRST SXSW events! Yes, I know that I've lived in Austin since the damn thing started, but I've never had quite the right combination of free time, disposable income, and committed interest to take the plunge and buy a wristband. But since these were free, H and I are making the time this year to try to take in as much of the festival as we can.
We got started on Sunday morning, as we went to The Wild Horse Redemption, a cool documentary about prisoners in Colorado doing "horse whispering" to train wild mustangs from Montana that are brought in from the wild to combat over-population. Then I stuck around for a program of animated short films, my favorites were Madame Tulti-Putli and I hate you don't touch me (or, Bat and Hat).
Then, last night at midnight, H and I went together to see Dance of the Dead, which was way better than it needed to be for what it was, a zombie movie set on prom night. It's got that smart, funny kind of writing that it's always a pleasure to find in a movie, because it's pretty unexpected these days, at least for me.
For tonight, I'm planning on checking out a couple of documentaries while Heidi does a little recovering and hangs out with the dogs...I'll put up some more mini-reviews after I get to peep those.
So, wish me luck, hopefully I won't catch some kind of weird show business disease from one of our Hollywood visitors!
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