Day 5

My life is Festival

Got up a bit late and lounged around. Went into Park City around 12:30 and got tickets to "Double Parked," a new film with Rufus Read (of "Happiness") and Noah Fleiss (of "Joe the King"). Then headed down to Tromadance to see what they had going on.

Ran into Timmy and he and Web had just seen Johnny Rotten and taken two pictures with him. I walked Main looking for him but did not see him.

On the way there, I got stopped by a woman from Channel 7 in Little Rock who did a quick interview thing with me. She was nice. I mentioned the website, so she probably won't use the footage. When I told her I was from Austin we talked about SXSW a bit.

I saw three shorts at Tromadance, kinda. Ran in to one of the guys from Troma whose been real nice to us this week; He's the co-writter or maybe the director of "Terra Firma." Tried to get the hook-up for their party tonight, but he shined me on. This kinda surprised me. Troma has been promoting their 1 day film festival all week as a "festival for the people," so I didn't expect them to treat me like I wasn't cool enough to get in.

Went back up to Slam and ran in to Mike Tarnower, Robert McCollum and Jeanette Chivvis of "15 Minute Tape" on Main. Talked for a few minutes about his short film.

Watched "Double Parked." After the film, during the Q&A, the director mentioned that Noah Fleiss' flight was delayed but that he would be here for the Friday showing. Me and two of the teenage girls in attendance were highly disappointed. Seriosuly... Fleiss and Read are two of the most amazing young actors to be found.

Got out of the screening and met up with Tim. He had been working with Mark David all day shooting some video of Mark out promoting his film around town. Mark was there now with Tim as was Chuck. Went back into the lounge party at Slam and met William, who writes music with Mark and plays with "The Agency". And I was also introduced to a couple of guys from the band. And then, like Wow! I meet Michael Dalmon, who stars in "Sweet Thing" and "Attack of the Bat Monsters." Dalmon is one of my favorite Austin actors so it was cool to meet him. He was very high energy, much to my surprise. He seems like a pretty nice guy. Dalmon also has a role in "What I Like about You."

Tim and Web met up with a lot of celebs and got photos of Tammy Faye Baker and RuPaul. Tim also heard stories of Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, the Beastie Boys, and a lot of others being here in town.

I was pretty depressed by all this, especially, since I hadn't seen anyone. Then, as Web and Tim went and got the Yukon Cornelious to pick me up, they saw and got a picture with Emilio Estevez.

I was really down. As we drove down Main, Tim spotted Val Kilmer. We got out and Tim took a picture. Right next to him was Kurt Russell. We got pictures and got back in the car just in time to see Goldie come and hook up with Kurt. That was insane. Surreal.

Went back to the condo, ate some chilli and hung out a bit. Then Web, Tim and I went back into the city for the "Amargosa" party. This is a documentary film that has been pumping the promotion scene in Park City all week. They must have some money behind them. They have full size one sheets, hats, and more. The other day I even saw them putting up posters inside an abandonned storefront for the film.

Too bad their party was a snooze festival. They had a really great folk singer named Amy Cook (who also does the soundtrack music) playing but, of course, you couldn't hear her over all the schmoozing going on. I don't know how those little guitarist girls handle doing a show like that.We saw the guy who was a "producer" on "Searching for Roger Taylor" and I saw the group from "The Monitor" (a New York magazine), but other than that the party was pretty dead. They closed down free drinks at 9pm, so we hit the road.

We walked up to Slamdance and met Mark David who immediately hooked us up with free passes to see "What I Like About You." I didn't realize that this was such an Austin based film or I would have put it much higher on my "must see" list.

After the screening, we hung out a bit with Bob Ray, Mark David, Michael Dalmon and some other folks involved with the film.before we headed back to the condo to pack up and get ready for check-out time tomorrow.

Our last full day at Park City.

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Johnny Rotten and Web take time out from their busy schedules to say "Fuck Off!".

 

Web and Lodger marvel at the amount of cocaine accidently being swept off the balcony above, by the wind.

 

The mad, last minute frenzy to paste over the past events flyers, and grab some free advertising.

 

Michael Dalmon apparently frightens Mark David and Web.

 

Tim "The wonder horse" and 'melio.

 

Kurt Russell trying to act like he doesn't have any spare change for one of the festival homeless. (just kiddin')

 

"Hey, Val Kilmer, shut the friggin' door, you're lettin' in a draft."

 

 

Tammy Faye Baker, walkin 'bout in dead animal skins, like she's not already in dutch with the big man upstairs.