Last night just after I finished writing Stubby and Lodger walked in. It was about 2:30 A.M. They had just gotten back from an after party for the Sundance film "Snow Days". Pretty cool considering it's the first Sundance screening that any of us had been to. So, after they finished telling me what had happened, we went to bed.

When I woke up, I think Stubby was already up. It was Stubby's last day. So, after about six hours of sleep and heavy drinking he got into his car and headed home. A ten hour drive up and down mountainous terrain. Not what I'd like to be doing after a long night of drinking. But, he had to be back at work on Wednesday morning, so...

Before he left he woke Lodger up to say bye and such. So, Lodger stayed awake after that. We get a call a few minutes later from Web. He said he'd be here in a half an hour or so. So, we start to get ready, showering and such.

When he gets here he tells us of his supernatural experience at the bed and breakfast that he stayed in on Main Street. He says that he felt a petite hand touch his face while he showered. When he looked around there wasn't anybody there. When he looked out in the other room his wife says she didn't do a thing. He tells her to come in and sit with him while he showers, since he was a little freaked out. He went on to say that it seemed as though the temperature in the room dropped about ten degrees causing Goosebumps to breakout all over his body. Now, although I'm never had anything like this happen to me I'm not a total skeptic, it just seems unreal until somebody you trust has an experience and I trust him. He went on to say that after all thisl happened and he finished showering he went down to the front desk and asked them if they've ever heard of any strange happenings in the place and come to find out a woman was murdered in the next room. Pretty creepy stuff. I actually wish I hadn't started thinking about it this late at night-damn. Oh, well.

A little later it's time to head on down the road so Lynette can get to the airport to leave. I decide to go and tape her departure while lodger stays back at the crib finishing up a little unfinished business.

We get to the airport and do the usual check in and waiting things, then decide to grab a bite to eat. Now, I don't know if you remember what I'd told you, but there wasn't but one place to really eat when me and Lodger arrived just four days earlier, because the other places were being renovated and were concealed behind a plywood wall. But, today there was a whole food court. Very strange. Kind of like "The Game".

Lynette catches her flight and we head back to the workshop.

When we get there, Lodger is ready to go, so we head back out to the festivals. There were a few things playing at Nodance that Lodger wanted to see that sounded kind of interesting, so I figured what the hell, I'd join him. One of the films we were both really looking forward to was supposed to be a documentary about Stanley Kubrick's younger brother, but just turned out to be an impotent hoax titled "A Clockwork Murray". I had a feeling that this was a joke when I first heard about it because the name alone just sounded a little to kooky to be true, but my curiosity and hope got the best of me and were rightly crushed by this dull and unattractive film for even buying into it for a second. The fact that the director pushed it as being authentic didn't help this any either. But, I guess that's my fault for falling for it and I guess his trick worked. It does have one extremely funny thing to say I will give it that.

Another film we saw here was "Moses vs. Godzilla" which was as big a let down as the iconic lizard himself especially when I found out that the guy who directed worked for Dreamworks and took around a year to complete it.

This whole run at Nodance this evening would be a real let down. We viewed "Waiting" which has it's moments and looks very nice, especially for being shot on DV. I did laugh at times, but overall I was just amazed by what people think of as being funny and entertaining. Lodger was highly offended by some of it's humor and I don't think he was totally wrong to feel the way he did, because some of the things the characters say or do were highly demeaning to specific groups of people. Now, I understand this was just meant to entertain and not to cure the world's ills, but stereotypes are a cheap laughs and I hope that in the future all of the people involved won't allow any these things to continue to show their immaturity as filmmakers. Because, I think it'd be a real shame to have a group filled with so much promised be stunted by ignorance. I really think that with the right script the this director could really do something. But, then again maybe so could anyone else.

The next thing we watched would be the last at Nodance. It was "15 minute tape". A movie that bills itself as being very explicit and disturbing.. This is an understatement.

Now, I've have been a fan of violent movies for years and in fact some of the films that I've wanted to make have had extremely violent themes. And no, not because I get any kind of special thrill or exhilaration out of seeing these types of things, but because they seemed to be interesting plot devices and propellants. Well, those days are over. I don't ever want to see another violent movie or any movie in general that can't justify the subject that it explores and I hope to never make a movie that might be one of these. Now, I'm not positive if this was the intention of the filmmaker and I'm not sure if it is that good of a film, because in all honesty, I wasn't able to watch the whole thing. I left as did a whole wave of others within the first ten minutes. Lodger stayed inside and continued to watch this film that I felt was a horrid atrocity with no meaning or merit. But, from what Lodger tells me. And, after a few long discussions. I think I may be wrong and that maybe the director's intention were to make me feel the way that I did and although it was excruciating to watch, it was actually cleansing to really understand the responsibilities that filmmakers and artists in general have, when creating what they do. This is not a film for the weak. This is not a film for the ignorant. Because, I'm not that sure that they'd get it, hell I didn't and I consider myself to be pretty damn in tune when it comes to analyzing films. But, I hope that they would. Maybe not understand the exact intention, but at least maybe they'd become disinterested in those films that glorify violence in an unredeemable fashion. I don't know. A man can hope to make the world a better place, but is that what the world wants. Only time will tell. I would love it if I could tell you to run out and see this movie, because I would. But, I can't. Because again it is extremely disturbing, but for all of you out there who are adventurous then please, I urge you to go and see it.

TIM the wonder Horse

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