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November 5, 2009

The Death of my Priorities

If I were to have a whim that, for Halloween, I wanted to dress in very specific late Victorian couture, I'd waste not a moment in hopping on a bicycle - even if, being on a cleansing fast, I hadn't eaten a thing in eight days - and pedaling fifteen miles around Austin in search of just the right bits of vintage garb. And I'd find it all, scattered in shops across town, and everything would fall into place just so.

Were I to be asked, on the other hand, by a prestigious cinematic organization to overnight ten copies of St. Nick to them, or by an impressive European festival to be sent a screener at their expense, it would simply not happen. In the event that I actually got the DVDs made, I'd nevertheless fail to make it to the post office until the day after the overnighting was supposed to take place. Perhaps I'd run into all sorts of trouble trying to print out press kits; I'd then run into even more trouble trying to burn them to CDs because my printer is out of ink; I'd then give up on the press kits altogether and focus on finding a sharpie marker to label the DVDs with (the nice thing about having handwritten titles in your film is that it makes DVDs labeled with the same handwriting a little more acceptable), and perhaps even cases to put them in, because that's the sort of thing you just always assume you'll have but have inevitably always run out of. After a day or two or three of stultifying misadventures, I'll finally get the package in the mail, write an apologetic e-mail to the recipient and weigh the importance of paying rent versus paying a personal assistant to take care of all these tasks my brain just isn't pragmatic enough to execute properly.

But back to the Halloween costume! It turned out so well that I'm taking it to Greece with me. I'll wear it at the Closing Night Party (although it won't be quite the same without the compliment of its better half).

Posted by David Lowery at November 5, 2009 7:04 PM