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Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News and me on the night before Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9

So here it is: my review of Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9, the annual 24-hour long film festival hosted by Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News, which was held at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz in Austin, Texas this past weekend on December 8th through 9th. It might be worth noting that according to the yearbook that we all received, I was the attendee who was from the most obscure town anywhere: a miniscule spot-on-the-mind somewhere in North Carolina, as opposed to being from Austin or Los Angeles or Atlanta.

This was also my first Butt-Numb-A-Thon.

First film festival ever for that matter.

Heck, this was my first time in Texas, period.

I left my friend Deborah’s house around 10 a.m. and was in Austin about 30 minutes later. I parked at the Hilton ...

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And my butt is, literally, numb after watching movies for 24 hours straight 🙂

I’m going to file a more complete report later on, maybe even after I get back tomorrow, about what went down. But for those who are curious: we didn’t see Cloverfield or I Am Legend or the new Rambo movie (although Sylvester Stallone did send two new clips from it that we got to watch and one of them is pretty violent even for a Rambo flick). However we did get to see Sweeney Todd… and I’m going to have tons of stuff to rave about that after it’s had a chance to settle in. We also got to see a couple of movies that won’t be coming out ’til late next year.

Around 8 or so this morning came one of the most diabolically evil things that I have ever witnessed in my entire ...

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Still can’t get the pics to load at the moment (our digital camera is more used to hooking up to a Windows XP machine and it’s nothin’ but Macs here) but I’ll be showing the cream of the crop from the bunch when I get back. In the meantime, I can report that it was another action-packed day here in Texas…

My friend Deborah and I got in my rented Jeep about 10 this morning and headed to Austin. She got us on Congressional Avenue and I got some awesome photos of the Texas State Capitol. Then we headed over to the University of Texas at Austin campus, and Deborah got a pic of me standing in front of “The Tower”. And yes, this is the building from which Charles Whitman shot and killed all those people. Which isn’t really why I wanted to see it: it’s always struck ...

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