Notes
from Austin Volume 3 #8
On my nightstand:
Stories by T.C. Boyle
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
In my CD Player:
Gary Numan - Random (tribute)
REM - Reveal
Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
Acoustic Alchemy - Natural Elements
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
Bowie - Buddha of Suburbia
Well… it's been a while. My day job is really, really hectic
during summer and this got me way behind on the site and on
movie viewing. I've been screening films for the Austin Film
Festival and gearing up for Agliff and this has occupied a lot
of my time too. (Don't get me started on how webcams take up
way too much of my time. I am addicted).
I have no less than 5 films (videos) in my in-box waiting
to be reviewed and looked at. David Zellner sent me a copy
of "Plastic Utopia," which I've been dying to see for a long
time and I wont be able to get to it for at least 10 or 12
days. Zellner also sent me a nifty T-shirt and bumper sticker.
Meanwhile, Mike Tarnower has sent me something new he is working
on and I'm looking forward to watching that too. Mike also
sent me a video he co-directed for a Dallas based rap group
called Soap C that I really liked quite a bit. We may show
it on Lube TV some week.
It's been fun screening films for the Austin Film Festival this
year. I've really gotten to know Courtney Davis, the festival
programmer, a bit better and she has set up several viewing
nights at the AFF office where we screeners get together and
watch films. I've got to hype some of the shorts I've seen that
I've really liked and it is nice to be able to show them to
my fellow screeners and get some feedback. There is going to
be some great stuff in the fest this year.
Courtney, by the way, was on an episode of Lube TV recently
showing her shorts "Love Me Tender" and "The Interview." Both
of these were quite well made and amusing. Anyway. Lube TV
is really turning into a headache. ACAC fucks up way too often
and we had a real debacle in July where they switched the
editing bays from ¾ inch to DV Cam. This would have been okay
but they did this with no notice to producers and then could
not air our shows on DV Cam tapes until August. On August
1st, Lube didn't even air. And on the 15th, the episode aired
without sound. It's just becoming more and more of a nuisance
to do the show. I mean, when I get Oriah of Hobble on the
show and then the show is postponed 3 times and then aired
without sound, I look like a fool. And I am totally helpless
here. ACAC continues to screw us over. I really think the
place is run poorly and feel sorry for anyone who is trying
to do a real show, like Mark Brauner and myself.
Regardless, we have some really good stuff we want to show
in the next few episodes when we get back on track. We shot
an episode where we show a short Miss Xanna Don't acted in
back in '92 called "Black Hearts Bleed Red." We haven't edited
it yet though. It should air first Wednesday in September.
Speaking of Hobble, they played a bit over the summer and I've
seen them at the 710 a couple times. I saw them just the other
night on the 24th when they played with some band called the
Hippy Dippy Trippy Children or something like that and Ignorance
Park. HDTC or whatever they are called were a nice solid band
but the were too boring and formulaic. The lead singer had zero
charisma. I was bored shitless watching them.
I saw my friend Fitz from Defrockers at the show. He is
working on getting a CD together and getting the band geared
up for some shows. I haven't seen them play live even though
I've known Fitz for over a year. I'm looking forward to it.
Of course, I was looking forward to seeing Ignorance Park
for the first time too. After a wonderful but perfunctory
set from Hobble on Friday night, Ignorance Park took the stage
and then shit upon it. This is a band that delights in throwing
lit cigarettes at their audience. (The women in the audience
seemed gaga). Worse yet is their, well… ignorant lead singer
who was one of the dumbest assholes I've ever seen front a
band. He insisted on acting like he was a hottie when he is
one of the most repulsive looking individuals I have ever
seen. This guy actually needs to keep his shirt on. (And from
me, that is saying something). The band's songs were driven
straight out of the T-Rex, Bowie, Iggy glam rock school of
rip-offs, but the band was so fucking sloppy and egotistical
(not in a good way) that they could not be enjoyed. I left
early.
Oh yeah, at the show, Oriah came up to me and told me he'd
been dating this girl. He was at my house a few weeks ago
and used my computer to send her an e-mail. He proceeded to
smugly thank me for letting him hook up with her via my computer
as they were really hanging out a lot and having a lot of
sex. Oriah knows that I am crazy about him and I did not appreciate
this at all. I think he was trying to be flirty or something
but I don't know. It kinda pissed me off. At least Hobble's
guitarist Mike Flatten saved the night by telling me that
he is going to use me in a short film he is hoping to shoot
in September. That will be cool.
Flatten and Oriah recently shot another video for a song
off of Hobble's "Blackmassking" CD. This one features Oriah
as a nerdy Floyd-like barber who gives a young child a Mohawk.
Flatten is working on the edit currently. Hopefully we will
debut this on Lube TV soon. We have already showed their vids
for "Yoko Ono" and "The Adventures of Rollerboy (Doublewide)"
(albeit without sound). The kid from the video, who is about
4 or 5 was at the show on the 24th and Oriah had him come
up onstage during a song. He loved it and did not want to
get off.
I read the other day that Laurie Anderson has a new CD out so
I'm really looking forward to that. I also want to get the "Hedwig"
soundtrack. When I watched the film, I was creaming over the
songs. They are brilliant. I'd get an Amazon Wish List going
if I thought anyone would liked me enough to spend money on
me.
Oh yeah, I had a car accident a couple weeks ago. No one was
hurt. I didn't even really do any damage to the other car, a
taxi, but my front end was totally wrecked. Totally. I bought
a "new" car at the Salvation Army auction.
My mom and nephews came down and visited a couple weeks ago.
We went to Barton Springs. It's fucking cold! 68 degrees! I
could only stand about 45 minutes, but my nephews loved it.
They didn't want to leave. They also loved swimming at the pool
at my apartment. These boys are going to grow fins.
We also went to Wimberly to the 7A Ranch and swam and hung
out at Pioneer Town. I knew that my mom would love it and
she did. They are going to come back next summer and we are
going to stay out there for a few days.
We ate out a lot too. The boys loved the frozen custard
ice cream at Sandy's on Barton Springs. I did too. It's really
good. We went to Threadgill's, Katz's, Hut's, Frank and Angie's,
Baby A's, Shady Grove, Wan Fu and some other places. The best
is hard to pick but the worst was Shady Grove. The atmosphere
was nice but the food was pretty awful. Except the chicken
strips, they had the best breading I ever had.
The amazing amount of young men in my life has me severely depressed.
I have lots of young male friends who are cute, and fun and
STRAIGHT. Or so they say. They really seem to like me. The cutest
gay young man I know is in a relationship that is long term
and seems quite solid. What's really sad is that I think I could
have any one of these guys if I really set my mind to it. But
getting me to concentrate for 5 minutes is a chore. Maybe I
have sexual ADD.
My friend Kelly recently gave me the new Air CD which I hate.
I can't make it past track 4 on this CD. A better choice is
REM's new one, "Reveal." My friend Rich gave me this CD because
he hated it. He likened it to 12 versions of "Shiny Happy People."
I think the new REM is awesome. It's like an REM album if it
were produced by Air. The new Air CD is far too cluttered and
disjointed. It does not make for pleasurable listening. Kelly
also gave me a copy of a CD by a band called Plaid but I haven't
really gotten into it.
I was going through some old empty boxes and when I shook one,
it rattled. This was the box that Ted Bonnitt, producer of "Mau
Mau Sex Sex" sent me the poster in about 2 or 3 months ago.
I poured the contents onto the floor to find a CD soundtrack
and postcards for the film inside. Wow. Delayed treat action.
Thanks Ted.
My new upstairs neighbors seem to be running a acrobat training
course. Classes are apparently in the middle of the fucking
night! I swear these guys are the noisiest, most inconsiderate
bastards I've ever had the displeasure to live beneath. I beg
you. If you live in an upstairs apartment, please remember that
your floor is someone else's ceiling. There's no reason to be
dropping 50 pound objects at 3am to the beats of the new trip-hop
album your playing at full blast. The music is annoying enough
of it's own. These guys are so loud that I actually had to move
my bed from the living room to the bedroom. I actually like
it better thought. Now I need a couch.
Guess that's a wrap.
Until next time
Lodger2001
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