Austin has some of the ugliest…
Monday, March 16th, 2009Austin has some of the ugliest homeless people I’ve ever seen. Someone should address this. Where’s your civic pride, Austin??
Austin has some of the ugliest homeless people I’ve ever seen. Someone should address this. Where’s your civic pride, Austin??
Line for badge-holders at Lamar Alamo now has benches. For sitting! You have to wait in line, but you get to SIT DOWN! Best news of the day.
More SXSW anecdotes, hijinks, shenanigans, and monkeyshines: http://tinyurl.com/crk5wa
At Cinematical, I’ve written about the footage we saw of the upcoming “Bruno” film (Sacha Baron Cohen’s followup to “Borat”), and about the screening of “Troll 2″ I attended Saturday night. The latter article also explains why I won’t be covering that film in Eric’s Bad Movies — not because it’s not bad, but because its badness is so self-evident that mocking it is redundant.
At Film.com, I’ve posted two dispatches of mini-reviews — you know, of the movies I’ve been seeing here at this film festival, where people occasionally watch films. Here’s dispatch #1, and dispatch #2. (I should have chosen a word other than “dispatch,” since that’s what I’m using here on my blog. But it’s a little late for should-haves.)
Also, unrelated but I don’t have anywhere else to mention it, this week’s edition of Eric’s Time Capsule at Film.com is about “The China Syndrome,” released 30 years ago today.
And now, more anecdotes.
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I saw Tami Taylor from “Friday Night Lights” last night. Why is that my favorite celebrity sighting so far? #sxsw, #thisisnotmyfirstrodeo
The ‘Bruno’ footage we saw Sunday night was legendary. I’m not sure I’ve ever laughed so hard at anything. And I don’t even like humor!
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