How I Spent My Austin Vacation

I'm going to repost an aborted journal I did, from when SoCaller Danny Grossman and I went to the 2005 Austin Film Festival to show our SCFG short "Who's on First? - The Movie."

How I Spent My Austin Vacation
by Steve Barr, AFF newbie

So... Where to begin? Austin. The Austin Film Festival. The Austin Heart of Film. The Driskill. The Driskill Bar. The Paramount (as opposed to the Dobie). Shane Black. Terry George. "Oh my God, that's fucking EGON!" Lots and lots of geeky boy screenwriters. A surprising and mildly upsetting number of gorgeous female screenwriters. The relative values of sleep vs more beer. The screening of my movie. The decision not to pimp my scripts. The round tables. The panels. The staff. The food meat. The Driskill bar (again, for good measure). The coolest shirt at the festival. The dumb questions. The smart questions. The puzzling questions. That guy with the thing. (No, the other one.) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Old friends. New friends. The Mythology of Shane. Not nearly as many really weird people as one would expect. The Ghostbusters Sing-Along. Drinks and tapas, and drinks. The Austin Brew House. The respected screenwriter and novelist who flipped me off (and who could have punched me in the neck, and rightly so, for my thoughtless comment).

Should I write a chronological after-the-fact journal? A stream of consciousness mishmash? A sonnet, or quatrain? Haiku?

It occurs to me that I could try to write up my experience in screenplay form, but that's just fucking stupid.

So.

Where to begin?

...
Well, fuck. It's late, I'm still sleep deprived, and I'm not nearly caught up at my crappy day job yet (despite being here for 12 hours today). I'll sleep on it and get back to you.

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