Alright, here’s another trailer.

Check out this li’l fight scene between Cameron and Emily, pretty hawt!

Something happened. Something bad. It took a long time. Luckily, it didn’t take as long to clean up. Here’s something about all that. Was that vague enough?

Well, Jeff already has his own private hate squad on the On the Lot message board. Awesome! Personally, I thought Jeff was great. He got plenty of air time, he was confrontational, and he put that blow-hard know-nothing Marty Martin (Marty Martin?! Come on, how do you name your kid Martin Martin? What’s his middle name, also Martin? Very original.) in his place. Everything we love about Jeff. To me it seemed like that Marty guy had never been on a movie set before. There is no sympathy and no love lost in Hollywood.

Update: Check out this post from the On the Lot message board. Another Jeff vs. Marty post. It seems like something Seth would write, and the username scr0tum is also very Seth-like. Ahhh… it all just makes me chuckle very hardily.

For Mike: here’s the final cut of the bar fight from “Rainy Storm 2: Thunderstruck”.

Greetings dear readers. I haven’t made an original post in a spell. Haven’t had access to the inTARweb. But that don’t mean there’s been grass growing under my feet. No-no. There’s been a cadre of odd things happening since I escaped The Basement Of The Alamo. The Obama campaign came to town, then SXSW. The last week of March had Joe Dante, the Grindhouse premiere with QT & RR, and Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost presenting Hot Fuzz. Whew. I love living in Austin. Were else you gonna see all these wonderful filmmakers?

Spring is here and it has unleashed the New York City film beast within me. Ms. 45, Fear City, Street Smart, Art School Confidential, Cruising, and Angel Heart have randomly ended up in the video machine. My system was primed for this thanks to the Radical NY exhibit at MoMA that closed a few months ago. Street Smart, as Shivers promised, was awesome. And Ms. 45 proved that there actually were rapists on every street corner in the Garment District.

Retrospectives. It’s time to take a look at your old friend Michael Haneke again. But this time think of him as a smooth jazz aficionado. Thanks to Chale and the AFS for bringing the new 35mm prints of Haneke’s work to town. I cannot think of a more appropriate director to focus on for the last AFS run at the Alamo Downtown. The Seventh Continent made me fall in love with that song “I’m Your Lady,” all over again. I think I like it more than Sheena Easton’s “For Your Eyes Only.”

This all coming on the heels of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo & Holy Mountain. Sorry about the imdb link. I must now give myself to the mountain!

Back to New York City…be sure to check out The Budos Band and Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. I’ve separated their performances in hopes of you being able to download them faster.

I almost forgot…I made the cut. And you get to see me from behind. When you’re watching Grindhouse, be sure to look over Eli Roth’s shoulder when he’s ordering shots at the bar. Don’t blink, because if you do, you’ll miss me walking gingerly though the frame. It’s from behind, but I’ll take what I can get. And for you readers not familiar with the Alamo downtown, right after the opening credits for Death Proof, there is a shot of the exterior. That’s were I’m at every day, even when I don’t have to work.

Thanks badman.

Grindhouse was pretty good. Look. It does feel a bit like the RadioActiveMan episode of the Simpsons, but it did make me laugh. Don’t! Don’t! Don’t! Thanksgiving.

March has been full of goodness. SXSW favorites The Budos Band can be seen here. As Well as Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Please forgive the titles, this is a rough draft. Hope you like it.

It’s been a long week, but it’s done. You can check out my submission for the SXSW Grindhouse Trailer Contest here (NSFW). Thanks to Josh K & Josh D, Chad, Deb, Buzz, Anne, Annie, James, Elliott, Robert, Jean, Angela, the staff of the Alamo Downtown, Tim D & the original Alamo Basement Mondo Tees. Also thanks to Lance for waiting an extra week for his new trailer. Peep the lovely 16mm Blue Ridge photography by Drew here.

If you want to watch more SXSW trailer submissions check out Ain’t It Cool News. You’ve just gotta see Hobo With A Shotgun. Death Maiden has great production value, and Cong of The Dead is just plain awesome. And when you’re done go rent Visiting Hours from the local video store. Anchor Bay, another reason to say Yes! To Michigan!

Check out the latest dramatic offering from 301 Films/Limited Ed./Etsi Films, Not if I See You First. It’s a romantic story of a woman obsessed to the point of stalking a man who is oblivious to her intentions towards him. I hope you all will enjoy it.