February 08, 2005
I've had versions of this post in draft form for the past two days, and keep having to change it.
Today is Tuesday. Yesterday, Bright Eyes had a show at the Ridglea. The day before, on Sunday, James, being the good friend that he is and knowing how much I love them, called me to see if I wanted to take some food to Conor Oberst and the rest of the band at their hotel. You may remember that I mentioned they came by the Spiral Diner last time they played a show in town, back in the fall; and Spiral being the only place to get vegan food in the metroplex, we were pretty sure they'd come back this time. So I went with Bryan Norvelle (art/construction on Deadroom) and he and I, and subsequently James and Amy, all ended up getting on the guest list. Which made us - or, at least, me - feel important. The show was outstanding. Rather than describe it further, I'll just refer you to this New Yorker profile, which describes his show in Manhattan last week; it was pretty much like that.
We left them with a copy of Deadroom. Hopefully they'll watch it and not be turned off by the fact that it's the old, vastly inferior version. Although it is the version that got us into these various festivals, so I guess it's not too terrible.
Speaking of which, SXSW announced their official line up. There are a lot of must-see films - including ours, of course. Unfortunately, the synopsis they gave us is HORRIBLE! It doesn't make any sense. Hopefully it'll change when the final program is made available in the next few weeks.
I have a lot more to delve into before I leave in a few days, but at the moment I've got a script to finish co-writing.
Posted by David Lowery at February 8, 2005 12:43 PM