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July 27, 2009

Covert Drama Queen

I left Seattle a few hours after a vibrant screening, and a few hours after that I was in Austin, in the screening room at the Austin Film Society, watching the first cut of Bryan's film. The fact had already hit me that it was just about a year to the day since I'd shown St. Nick to an audience for the very first time, in that very same theater; and also un annum since the beginning of something that has long since ended but which formed the backbone, for better or worse, of a strange and memorable fragment of life. I left a little bread crumb trail over that entire period: I can follow it back to here, where it began, and then to here, where it should have ceased; but no, it sustained itself until Christmas, after which it flared up and down and sent me on my merry way feeling very unmerry indeed. This ephemeral trail finally, eventually, inevitably, definitively reached its conclusion here, and now here I am, sitting on the same couch that I was on when I wrote that and feeling like a whole lifetime has passed, all for the better.

Posted by David Lowery at July 27, 2009 2:31 AM