Friday March 12
Denton, Texas’s NX35, originally a panel for Denton bands at SXSW, celebrated and produced a formidable first in what one could only hope becomes more in-town annuals March 11-14. I had attended the first Denton-anchored event and was experiencing this bloated annual with every bit of awe and elation as, I expect, those who had put it together must have also felt.
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Thursday night at NX35. Opening night. Denton is not a 9-to-5 kind of town, but even the indiest community feels the workday pinch when putting on a ruckus, even one as all-consuming as NX35.
Rob King, who has some experience with local music, made the trek to Denton, Texas for NX35, a music conferette and cultural explosion. I, however, got sick and missed most of it. Rob will tell you the full story of NX35 later this week.
What I did experience was two febrile nights of venue-hopping greatness, a video dump of which I’m providing here.
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Never mind that NX35 is the most pressing event requiring blogging, here are the movies I watched last month. (Some NX35 content will come once I have Internet at home or go to Starbucks long enough to upload video.)
Moving Pictures:
2/5 - Public Enemies | Stander
2/6 - Running Scared
2/7 - From Paris with Love | The Fourth Kind
2/9 - Stuck | Foul Play
2/10 - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2/12 - Edge of Darkness
2/14 - The Wolfman (2010) | Spider Baby
2/19 - Boondock Saints
2/21 - Shutter Island
2/26 - Valentine’s Day
As committed as we at Farrago’s F.M.I. are to the history of things that aren’t, parallel realities, and the inexorable blending of fact and fiction, it appears as if the Texas State Board of Education is way ahead of us.
Kudos, bureaucrats, for what promises to be the most expansive experiment in unreality ever achieved. If only F.M.I. had the reach and the budget …
