I had kind of planned on seeing "The Sisters" and maybe the film about Roy London back when I thought I was going to get up early on Day Two and see a press sneak of "Three... Extremes" at the Dobie. I decided since I missed it to go see it at the IMAX tonight but since it didn't start until 9pm, I came home after work and did some more writing. I noticed more e-mails from AFF and thought that whoever was doing the e-stuff for the festival this year was doing an awesome job. If it is this B-Side Entertainment or whatever, they rock.

After watching a bit of "Two and a Half Men" and the opening bump for "Out of Practice," I drove over to the IMAX. Since there were no films at the Paramount tonight, I wanted to be early. I was even earlier than expected; the drive takes only eight minutes. Since Johnny had told me that the garage was free after 5 at the Bob Bullock State History Museum where the IMAX is housed when we saw "Brick," I didn't bother with street parking and went right in the underground area.

There was a small line and they were already lining up badge people with Film Pass people. I saw my friend Jan and she had just come out of "Abnormal Beauty," the film that had replaced "R-Point" at AFF this year. She said she liked it better than "The Eye," which, to me, isn't saying much. We joked about how lining up the badge and pass people together would totally disrupt the social order of the film festival and cause chaos and anarchy. Jan always takes time off from her day job during festivals and we talked about all the regular release movies we were missing like "Good Night and Good News" and some Spanish movie that they opened at the Metro this week, "Secuestro Express," which Jan wanted to see and "Thumbsucker" and "Kids in America" that I wanted to see. A friend of mine told me that "Kids" was going to be pulled this week after being out for only 7 days in Austin. We were talking about the tight schedule on Thursday night after the first schedule movie of that night and Jan said she was going to try and see "Sorry, Haters" as her last movie of AFF. I knew I'd be wiped out and would probably just see the last show at the Paramount, "The Squid and the Whale" at 7:30pm.

We got in the IMAX and waited several minutes for the film to begin. There were lots of cute guys coming in to see "Three... Extremes," some of them Asian. It suddenly hit me that if you are in a college town and want to meet cute young guys, the Asian action flicks are the place to be. Eventually Barbara Morgan, the AFF Executive Director, got up and did a pretty standard intro and the film begun.

During the film, the college boys next to me whispered too loudly to one and other occassionally but this was mainly during the Fruit Chan segment of "Three... Extremes" which was quite boring. They were quiet during the Takashi Mike episode which was good except that the sound during that portion of the film, which is often complete silence, kept clicking in and out of digital sound causing the emergence then disappearance of "hiss." It was annoying.

After the film, as I was walking out of the theater into the lobby, Johnny was there and walked up and started talking to me. On the spot I decided I would just try to have the simplest conversation I could with him as we walked to our cars. He was talking about the movie and then said something about seeing "Prime" tomorrow night at the Paramount and how this would be his last chance to give the cute concessionist boy his phone number. WTF! If that wasn't what he was upset about yesterday, being rebuffed by this guy, then what was it that made him so upset yesterday?

I came home and watched "Medium" which I had taped. Wish I had a psychic to tell me what the fuck was up with Johnny yesterday.

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