Jax Film Fest
On Saturday and Sunday this past weekend I volunteered at
the Jacksonville Film Fest. Volunteering apparently meant just standing around
a lot.
Seriously though, I think the fact that there were a lot of
volunteers and we didn’t have much to do is just a testament to the fact that
so many people care about the film fest and wanted to volunteer.
Other than standing around, not much happened for me. Although, while I was walking down the sidewalk on a dinner break Saturday night, a nice (and crazy) bike riding gentleman decided to serenade me. I guess he wanted some cash but I pretended to make a phone call and ducked into a restaurant. I also witnessed a flash mob – but I don’t think it can be considered a flash mob since most of the volunteer staff knew about it and told me to go check it out.
I talked to some interesting folks and I think I’ll
definitely participate in the fest next year – I may just attend some parties
and screenings, however.
Nerd Lunch Podcast
If you’ve got some spare time and you want to confirm your
suspicions that I’m just one giant walking awkward pause, check out this week’s
episode of the Nerd Lunch podcast. We chat about different films and TV shows that may or may
not live up to their own hype – my topic was HBO’s The Wire.
It may have been my first attempt at podcasting, but the Nerd lunch Podcast regulars (CT and JEEG from Nerd Lunch and Pax from Cavalcade of Awesome) were on their A-Game as usual. You can listen to the podcast on iTunes.
If you want to spice up your listening experience, take a drink of your favorite booze every time I say “uh”, “um”, or any derivative. Between that and listening to us talk about stalking Bruce Campbell, torture, and zombies, you should have a good time.
At one point in the podcast I mention a quote about The Wire from Community. I failed to mention that I got the full quote, the name of the episode – and the actual clip – from two message board users on IMDb. Thanks, IceTruckDexter and arcangle66!
Halloween and Our
Tribute to The Shining
Last but not least for this installment, I’d like to point
out some of the Halloween-related stuff we’ve done this month so far.
We’ll be doing some other Halloween-related posts, including
a big tag-team review of/tribute to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, which’ll hit the blog this Saturday, October 22nd.
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