So, I'm about to go downtown to Austin for South By Southwest. My first planned stop is to a MT party. It's Movable Type, and they are the fine folks (or the fine system) that my website is powered/published by. I hope to get some tech points ... while I play kickball? Their party is called "KICK" and that's what they do. They serve breakfast tacos and play kickball. They also promise not to pick you last.
That should be fun. I'll then run some flyers off for the Uganda Bloggers' Tour. Anne and I thought it'd be fun to promote this innovative bloggers' tour at a place that is inundated with bloggers. I'll hang some of those up around.
Then it's away to watch and review some movies. The first one I want to see is Crawford, a documentary about the town that George W lives in and how it's changed since he moved in and been elected. It'll be at the classy Paramount Theater. I can't forget this guy I met at that theater before a SXSW screening a number of years ago. His appearance was kinda ruddy and after pleasant introductions he expressed his keen interest in movies of debauchery. He talked about a movie "that even showed beastiality" and cackled like he got royalties off the very mention of the practice or something. It was kind of creepy, bizarre, and pitiful. It was so strange, in fact, that it made me wonder if he knew what HM Magazine was and just said those things to push my buttons. I'm certain that wasn't the case, because the world doesn't revolve around me and he really didn't look at my badge. I think he asked what I did, but that was about it. No, this guy was a legit indie film whacko. That was a sxsw.strangencounter.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at March 8, 2008 09:43 AM