Austin
Film Festival 2003 - Day 5 - October 13, 2003
Back to the daily grind. I had to go back to working
at my day job today. So it's working all day and seeing
movies all night for the rest of the week for me. Except,
of course, with all my car troubles, I had to rent a car
to get to the screenings at night.
All day, my boss tried to talk me into buying a
new Kia. My roomie Amanda had taken me to work and my
boss ran me over to Enterprise at the end of the day
to rent a car. There's a Kia dealership on the way back
to work, and we stopped to look at some cars. We looked
at one and decided to test drive it but the damn salesman
went with us and took us on some long trip out to the
country, where we could drive the car on a shitty road.
This was cool but neither one of us wanted to take such
a long test drive and the guy didn't tell us that's
what he intended to do when we headed out. It was after
7pm before we got back to the dealership.
I went home an Amanda had made spaghetti and she
dished up a big bowl for me. It was delish! We hung
out and watched "Everwood" together. I like this show
but it doesn't have enough Gregory Smith in it and he
never takes his shirt off! (Don't they write a specific
number of shirtless scenes into the contracts of the
young actors on the WB?) The episode tonight was okay
but not great.
I headed to the Arbor for the 9:45 showing of "Shattered
Glass." There were some people milling about the
lobby and I saw my friend Jan. She had seen the previous
showing of "Happy Hour" but, as is her wont, had not
hung out for the Q&A afterwards. We talked about some
films and she said she thought "The Girl with the Pearl
Earring" was "beautiful." She had also seen the Hunter
S. Thompson thing but didn't think much of it. We discussed
this and the Bukowski documentary and after a few minutes,
they opened the theater up for us.
Sadly, no one had cleaned the theater so it was
really nasty. The director of the previous film, "Happy
Hour," Mike Bencivenga, was still up front talking to
people and I sat close enough to hear a lot of his conversation.
He seemed really nice and amiable. He talked to folks
until they began the next screening. I heard him tell
a few people he would be in Austin all week watching
movies. I was really sorry I didn't get to see his film.
Lisa Albracht, the AFF Competition Film Programmer
got up and did a short intro to the film but, as is
usually at AFF screenings, neglected to introduce herself.
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