Senior Tour Update

(wikipedia) Columbia, MO

Well, it's been awhile since I started the Senior Year Tour project, and I've crossed a couple things off of my list. And I've added a couple things and crossed them off. Here we go:

1. Tonic nightclub: more enjoyable if you get there at 11pm instead of 10:30pm, like we did. Awesome event of the night: I was standing, looking over a railing, and I saw a guy out of the corner of my eye check me out and walk over. He started grinding his butt on me and I started laughing. He said "go ahead, you can touch it. I worked out for 10 hours today, go ahead." I just laughed and walked away.

2. True/False film festival. Fantastic. One of my favorite quotes from the event was when a yodeling musician was playing before 'American Teen' (very very good - check it out), who was in his mid-twenties and pretty cute. A woman in her fifties beside me leaned over and said, "He can yodel at me anytime." This made me want to date a guy whom older women think is attractive. I feel like they know what they're talking about.

3. Universal Thrifts update: Not open on Tuesdays, or whenever Jeff and I tried to go, but is most likely probably open on Saturdays only.

new things on the list:
7. Go to a Mizzou basketball game
8. Figure out where the 63 Diner is and go there
9. Go on a walk around downtown in the morning.

Little things

(link) Yep, those are the twin towers

• don't wear skinny jeans with long underwear, it ruins the whole look, trust me.


• fool proof way to get a guy to like you: be completely bored out of your mind and uninterested, yet polite.


• look up this guy: Philippe Petit. I saw wonderful, glorious documentary about him: 'Man on Wire'
  

True/False is here!

(stolen from truefalse.org)

This is the first year I am able to attend (some of) the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, and I'm really really excited. Columbia explodes with movie-goers, and it's a total cultural community event. And the Rag Tag is getting a new building! (Vox article) Along with the new Rag Tag there are 10 other venues that will be showing True/False films (list here). Very very exciting. For your viewing (and deciding - for you Columbians) pleasure, here are links to all of the films being shown this leap year weekend (list online here):

• An Alternative to Slitting Your Wrist
• American Teen
• Audience of One
• Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
• Carny
• Cat Dancers
• Echoes of Home
• Forbidden Lies
• Girls Rock!
• Gonzo
• The Greening of Southie
• Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
• How I Am
• I Think We're Alone Now
• Joy Division
• Knee Deep
• Life. Support. Music.
• Lucio
• Man on Wire
• The Man Who Ate Badgers (and other tales from the British Isles)
• The Mosquito Problem (and other stories)
• The Mother
• My Mother's Garden
• The Order of Myths
• Oscar Shorts
• Paradise: 3 Journeys in this World
• Please Vote For Me
• Secret Screening (Blue)
• Secret Screening (Green)
• Secret Screening (Red)
• Shake the Devil Off
• Song Sung Blue
• Sons of a Gun
• Stranded
• Summer Sun Winter Moon
• Taxi to the Dark Side
• To Have and To Hold
• Very Young Girls
• Working Title

Stolen things:

Looking on Cassidy Shearrer's blog, I just found out about the future residence of three of Columbia's best businesses. The RagTag Cinemacafe, Uprise Bakery, and 9th St. Video are all moving to a place on Hitt St.! For ease, and in honor of the typical clientele of these fine establishments, I shall take to calling the complex "indie-ville" or "hipster-town," whichever catches on first. The article (here) says that a lot of Columbia artists are working hard to make the renovated space beautiful and unique. It should be open in time for the True/False Film Festival in February. I'm excited. I've never been to True/False because I've coincidentally been out of town each year and wasn't cool enough freshman year. It's a festival of all indie movies and they're all super-wonderful and interesting and they bring in lots of producers/directors. I'll probably stop going to class that Friday.

My second stolen thing comes from Mondo. I love public art and (as it is called here) subconscious art. Here's a sweet video from Mondo's blog on the accidental beauty that comes from covering up public graffiti.


the subconscious art of graffiti removal (excerpt) from matt mccormick on Vimeo.