February 2, 2010

• Tonight the Streets are Ours

   
  I had a great time at the Sundance Film Festival thanks to Drew, Christine and baby Lance.  Thanks also to Christine’s parents for watching the baby while we played on Saturday.  My 2nd Annual trip to Park City also coincided with a ski trip that Marcelo and Emily planned with Vonda and Nate.  So the entire weekend turned out to be a mini GLY reunion.  We laughed, shared stories and ate good food.  The best movie we saw at the Film Festival was called “Exit Through the Gift Shop“.  There was a lot of mystery surrounding the film.  We initially thought it was going to be a documentary on the infamous (and anonymous) graffiti artist Banksy.  His amazing street art has been popping up all over the world in recent years, especially in Los Angeles, and now in Utah, just in time for the premiere of his film.  It’s described as:

  In the late 1990s, a hybrid form of graffiti began appearing in cities around the world. Enlisting stickers, stencils, posters, and sculpture and spread by the burgeoning Internet, it would be labeled “street art” and establish itself as the most significant counterculture movement of a generation. Los Angeles–based filmmaker Thierry Guetta set out to record this secretive world in all its thrilling detail. For more than eight years, he traveled with the pack, roaming the streets of America and Europe, the stealthy witness of the world’s most infamous vandals. But after meeting the British stencil artist known only as “Banksy,” things took a bizarre turn.
  
  Sundance has shown films by unknown artists but never an anonymous one. Banksy turns the tables on the only man who has ever filmed him, creating a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype. In the end, Exit Through the Gift Shop is an amazing ride, a cautionary modern fairy tale . . . with bolt cutters.

  Take a look:

  The worst film we saw was called “Double Take“.  It was about 2 hours too long (and it only lasted 90 minutes)!  It was a documentary about Khrushchev, Alfred Hitchcock and Folger’s Coffee.  Very weird.  Maybe I’m just not intellectual enough to get it, as Christine pointed out on Facebook, LOL:

  

  Yesterday morning the snow fell lightly and we went to Dim Sum with Marcelo & Emily.  I flew home to warm L.A. late last night, but I’m still reliving the snowy weekend, and already looking forward to next year!  Here are some photos:

  
  Flying into Salt Lake City, Utah

  
  Lance was glad to see me!

  
  So was Betsy!

  
  Brrrrr!

  
  Typical Sundance fashion…guess where they’re from?

  
  Adrian Grenier of Entourage fame signing an autograph on Main St.

  
  Main Street, Park City

  
  An original Banksy!!

  
  Drew and Christine, before they knew how bad “Double Take” was!

  
  An Olympic tribute

  
  Skiing in downtown Park City

  
  Drew and I on the red carpet

  
  Vonda, Nate, Betsy and I

  
  Marcelo playing Puff the Magic Dragon for Lance
  
  
  The dim sum tradition continues!

  
  Lance, rubbing for good luck

  
  Best of the rest…starring Paris Hilton and Kevin Bacon

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