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December 13, 2005
Travelling
I'm out in California again this week, which sucks pretty hard. Work is in super-crunch mode, which is why I'm here, so it's not like I'm even getting the chance to do cool San Francisco things.
However, I did get a little coolness on the trip out. On the plane I sat across the aisle from a guy returning from an Alamo Drafthouse festival, their annual BUTT-NUMB-A-THON. I've never been, but it's apparently a 24-hour marathon film festival with several cool films including a few not-yet-released films. Usually, at least one of them is a surprise. This year it was the upcoming V is for Vendetta which will be released sometime in 2006. My fellow traveller was flying the film back to LA after the screening, with the film canisters taking up the other two seats on his row.
Apparently, that's his main job, flying movie prints around the country for advanced screenings. I guess they don't considering the shipping companies secure enough. But how cool of a job would that be?? You travel all around the country and even the world and go to film festivals, getting to see lots of films in advance of everyone else. I'll admit, it's not the best job for a family man, but he was young and likely single (I saw no wedding ring), so it must have been as good of a grunt job as you can find.
So, now I return to my previously scheduled, non-glamorous nose-grinding.
Life in General by Dan at December 13, 2005 11:38 PM