Another day at my day job. Another night of movies and writing. My life is officially a blur by the 5th of 13 days. Luckily this next weekend I am only doing on movie on certain days, so it will be a little less hectic.

Got to the Arbor at nearly 7:30 and had my ticket to "Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes" in my hand. A girl in an Agliff volunteer shirt (they're lime green this year) was next to the Arbor's ticket taker and gave me direction to which side the movie would be on. At the door, a cute young girly boy with long hair tore my ticket. He was cute. I went into the theater and sat in the 4th row, got out my clipboard and began to write some notes. I was lucky. My favorite thing to do when I am alone at a film festival is to eavesdrop and there were a group of friends sitting directly behind me who were talking in voices loud enough for me to hear them.

They were discussing "Anonymous," which had shown the night before and one male member of the group said, "One thing you can say about that film is it didn't compromise." And then added, "At some point you wished it would have..." I thought their take on the film was a little simple minded. They didn't seem to get at all that it was about a guy who subjugated his entire life to his drive to have sex with numerous, anonymous partners. One of them even though it was like porn, "you know, if porn were real," which I thought was a really simple-minded evaluation of the movie. Eventually the talk turned to porn and one of them said that the best porn they ever saw was a "Star Trek" spoof called "Sex Trek: The Search for Sperm."

Two guys directly behind me began talking about getting an Agliff T-shirt and how exhibitors got a free one (the ones for the public are powder blue this year) and I realized that one of the people behind me was someone who had a film in festival this year. When someone asked him where his "cape" was, I realized it had to be the guy who had been wearing the Surge costume in the lobby the other day, the lead actor. The two, who apparently had only known each other a short time continued talking and the other described himself as someone who "writes and sells ads for "Out in America," which he described as "the second largest gay and lesbian website in America." What's the first? I wonder.

Scott was soon in front of the crowd and did his standard introduction including mentioning the sponsor, Mopac Media. He also mentioned that it was the World Premiere of the film and then introduced the director and the actors, including the star who also wrote and produced the film, Vincent J. Roth.

The lively group introduced the film and told us they would do a Q&A afterwards and also clued us in to some of the cameos to look for including the woman who played Lois Lane on the original series of TV's "Superman," and two comic book writers. I am not into comic books, so I didn't really know who they were.

The group sat down, the Agliff trailer started and as they sat back down behind me, one of them if that was Summer in the Agliff trailer. Johnny Oh! had mentioned to me that it was the first time we saw it. When the John Waters clips began, and he introduced himself by saying "Hi, I'm John Waters..." someone in the audience replied, "Hi John Waters" back to the screen. Last years Agliff trailer was so much fun because the audience began talking along with it. I guess we're all desperately trying to find something fun to do during the one this year.

After the film the "Surge" guys did a Q&A. They were really odd. The film is really odd. They talked a lot telling us more information that anyone ever really asked about, as if they were answering the questions about the film that they hoped we would have. There are more notes about the Q&A in the review of the movie.

As I was leaving the theater to get back in line for the next showing, I ran into the guy who has the reserved seats in the third row. He seemed miffed that I didn't like the film and went on and on about how he hated it, giving me a snobby look. It was unpleasant.

I went to the bathroom and found myself after peeing washing my hands next to Vincent J. Roth, AKA Surge. We went to leave at almost the same time and as he opened the door an older man with a cane came in wearing a John Kerry button. He went off on this random story about how Kerry said that the strangest part of being in the spotlight was meeting people in the restroom. Finally, after he talked for a second we realized he was relating this because he was meeting the actor who played Surge in the bathroom. Roth asked him where Kerry had said this and he relied on the John Stewart "Daily Show." Surge was very polite and they shook hands and the man entered the restroom. Surge held the door for me to exit too. My brush with fame, hehe.

Going back into the theater for "Blue Citrus Hearts," one of the few movies I was really interested in seeing simply from reading the festival program, the cute long haired girly boy tore my ticket again. I was desperate to talk to him, to say anything, and when it took a little effort for him to tear the ticket, I made some lame joke about not getting a paper cut. He was cute and sweet and responded.

Before the film, they re-ran the trailer for the Agliff sing- along again, which is "The Best Little Whorehouse" and I noted that the date is Sunday, 10/9 at the Dell Jewish Community Center.

After a few minutes, Scott got up and introduced the film's sponsor, The Austin Men's Project (AKA AMP) and a well spoken young man got up and said a few words about the organization. He mentioned that it was for gay, lesbian, transgendered, bisexual, questioning, and non-labeled young men who want to socialize with others outside of the "bar scene." I thought it was cute and ironic that "non-labeled" is now a label.

"Blue Citrus Hearts" was a very emotional movie for me and it had really great music by a lot of instrumental bands including Godspeed You Black Emperor and a lot of bands that sound like them. I wished I had one of my Explosions in the Sky CD's but didn't, so I put in my CD by Arvo Part and drove home attempting to collect my thoughts and decompress after such a unique film experience.