Busy weekend

The poster for this series of movies



Dot from Animaniacs



James Dean at his best



The crowd before the show



Light concessions were being sold

The weekend started on Friday night when we headed over to the San Antonio Botanical Garden for the week's Starlight Movies in the Garden series.  They were showing James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause.  I had never seen any of his movies and since the weather's much cooler now (not 100 degree plus) it seemed like a good idea.  Everything went off without a hitch until the sprinklers went off.  That's right, someone forgot to disable them for the night.  It was already dark so all we knew was people in the back were screaming bloody hell.  They ended up drenched by the time they were turned off.  Before the movie they showed a couple of episodes of Animaniac.  It was pretty cool cause I hadn't seen those cartoons in years..Oh, and the mosquitos, yeah, they were there, so a lot of people thought ahead and brought the repellant. Luckily we did too.

Yesterday we headed over to Santikos Bijou for the Houston Film Commission's Texas Filmmakers Showcase 2012.  It's a showcase of seven short films from Texas' filmmakers.  It had a little bit of everything but I swear not even I understood/liked a couple of them, and I'm a big artsy person. Oh well, that's why they had different kinds.  My favorite was The Order of This by Chris Spisak.  It's about this guy who gets arrested after a confrontation with his girlfriend.  Like always there's two sides to every story and....*spoiler alert* it turns out he killed her and i guess he went nuts because he's seeing her even in his cell in the looney bin. It reminded me of Criminal Minds, which is cool.  Aftewards they had a Q&A with a couple of the filmmakers there so it was pretty cool.



Q&A with Chris Spisak and Will Shipley

Can't wait for next weekend, it's gonna be another busy one.  Friday night it's Austin's Roxy Roca at Luna, Saturday it's the San Antonio Fall Home and Garden Show, the opening day of the mummies exhibit at the Witte Museum and we're having our next neighborhood night out shinding.