I woke up at eight this morning after an almost sleepless night--this is what I recommend for any film festivals that you might attend in the future.

I started off the day by watching the screeners I had taken home last night: Home Sweet Hoboken, Revenge of the Red Balloon and Peepshow (all of which I'll write reviews for).

Then it was time to head over to downtown for more of the action and insanity that is Slamdance. I really haven't had much desire to go to any of the Sundance screenings except to say I went. I did tape some footage of people waiting in line.

We drove separate cars into town. Stubby and me in his and Web and the others in theirs. Me and Stubb wanted to check out this live web interview John Pierson had with a few directors that were part of the festivals. If you don't know who Mr. Pierson is, he's the host of "Split Screen" on the Independent Film Channel, who's helped many unknowns become known. The turnout was very disappointing I talked to one of the producers I think who gave me a IFC T-shirt and gave me permission to use some pictures I'd taken as long as I mentioned the channel and their show. Also in attendance was Bob Ray director of Rock Opera. Stubby asked if I could get an interview with him on video. He agreed. I was a little nervous cause I wasn't at all prepared, but I did like the movie quite a bit so I thought what the hell. He was a very good sport for being put on the spot. I think it actually came out really good, you be the judge when we put it on the site. Cause it's coming.

Afterwards, we met up with the others. They went their way and I went to see "Dolphins". I walk in and the line is all the way down the hallway. I step up to the ticket desk and ask if their showing "Dolphins" which they confirm and then I, I'm sorry to say abuse my power as part of the media, I flashed my badge and walked right in. I felt bad at first, but it wore off as soon as I saw that the entire room seemed packed and people made their place on the floor and in the aisle. The M.C. asked if anyone had an empty seat next to them, to which a few people raised their hands. So I took a seat and waited to see my first Slamdance feature. It started off with two shorts before it: "Voodoo" and "Crosswalk". They were both very good and "Dolphins" was great. I really love the fact that I'm seeing movies that haven't been judged yet and could very well never be seen again.

I leave the theater to pass out some more flyers and after about a block or two I come up on Stubb who's ecstatic with the fact that he just got a shot of Neve Campbell, which was just nuts. The second day and another great shot. Who's tomorrow. I want Redford.

We wander around for a bit looking for Chuck and the others. We finally decide to try and go back to the hotel and hope for the best. We ended up having to drive back to downtown and eat our McDonald's in the car. It was now about 4:30 so we decided to head on over to the Slamdance site so I could get a few more screeners of things that I wanted to see. It ended up being a little to crowded due to the free drinks they were giving away. They gave all who came three tickets, one ticket, one drink. I could only handle half of a screwdriver. We headed down to the No Dance party, hoping again to find the others there. And again no luck. We hung around for a bit and had couple more free drinks. Only a coke this time, since the wear and tear from last night and today began to kick in, which I'm sure that vodka didn't help any either. We watched a film here that was alright called "When Actors Attack" which looked like it was filmed by a couple of friends with good editing facilities. It was okay. After that everything pretty much fell apart and every went their separated ways, so we went ours. Back to Slamdance, Stubb got another drink and we talked to a few people, then headed over to the filmmaker's lounge to see "Enter".

The turnout was very disappointing, especially since the video was very good. It'll show again, so keep an eye out cause it's cool. If you'd like to know a little more about it read my review. After the screening Stubb sat down and had an interview with the director, which was going really well until the battery ran out, but don't worry we got plenty so check it out when we get it up.

After Enter it was about all we could handle. So, I stopped by the press desk and grabbed the few screeners that I wanted then headed home.

We got here. The others were here and now I sit writing about it all to you.

TIM the wonder Horse

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