The day started with me with sleep still in my eyes. Day 3 of little to no sleep and the effects of 2 straight days being ourselves (i.e. drinking and being totally cool people) I ambled to the Federal Building where I was told there was going to be a press event in which I could get more interviews. I have interviewed a lot of fascinating people the last couple of days. but figured I could always stand to meet a couple more. (It’s kind of a cool passion of mine, this talking to people thing) So I show up to the building, inside they tell me to go ahead and set up and do my thing,  I go upstairs inside this beautiful old building (which would make great artist apartments)  and just kind of hang out, after about 30 minutes, some festival volunteers come to help out, but no one else comes. Turns out, 10:30 is too early for some people. I guess some people just can’t hang. Oh well… After an hour we decide to leave, but it wasn’t a total loss,  we did walk around the place, the building is awesome. Someone needs to shoot a video in it.   The first movie I watched that day was the short film program . The Love and Other Malfunctions program featured 5 films. Some touching. Some funny and some very sad and thought inducing. Following that was a Q&A with director Christine McCarthy and the Miller Brothers from “Pillow”.     The next film I saw was “Kevin”, which is the documentary by Jay Duplass. I was lucky to interview Kevin Gant the night before, and he is a really cool guy who remembers your face and what you talked about. As a musician, that’s important,  Kevin gave everyone he talked to his attention and left everyone feeling good about their Kevin Gant experience. Before the movie, he played for the crowd.   After the screening, the audience was treated to a Q&A with Kevin and Jay Duplass who was skyped in via movie screen.   I was really going to stick around for the awards ceremony. I don’t really care about awards ceremonies anyway when it comes to artistic things. I honestly think you can’t judge one person’s art over another, (that’s a whole other blog) .. Our podcast wasn’t invited in to the VIP with the other legitimate news media, and I wasn’t about to pay to get into a lounge, so I went to the art exhibit next door that had been the site of the afterparties the last few nights, and it was already in full swing. (plus we had a table giving away beer koozies, buttons and stickers) so I was happy to be in my element again with DIY Art and music. Mike Turnini played a blistering set. The 17 year old Shiner high school senior always impresses me.   Poor Favor played after that.   After we recorded both Mike and Poor Favor’s set, we tore down our booth, and put it away so we could enjoy the after party. When we came back the party was in full swing, spilling out of the building into the street.   We tool a break from the party to watch young  15 year old Caleb Moraida’s short music video which was a last minute unofficial addition to the program at midnight. There were numerous people from the party (inebriated) who came in with us and the film (which is awesome) brought down the house. It was a very gratifying thing to see a kid who made a film because he wanted to have his movie shown in a theater to a crowd. Later we came back and proceeded to do what we do at afterparties, which is just be awesome. We learned a lot about things this festival, we had a good time. We can’t wait for next year.