I'm Neither Here Nor There

These are the reasons I love Doctor Who fandom, the fans are the coolest!

( Spoiler warning for DW season 5 Finale )

Last Friday I went to the Lethbridge GLBT film festival.

It's a funny story, being new to this city a lot happened at once, but two things stand out for this story. The first is that I've met a bunch of new people, the second, I've been sick with something that's like the cold, but it makes me dizzy. The last two weeks every friend I made I've also infected, though if they live doesn't that just strengthen our friendship? (I'm sure that must be how biology works)

Art classes is a six hour class, and luckily the profs are humanitarians so every hour and half, we get about fifteen minutes to wander. By the second of these breaks I met someone and she was hilarious and we got to talking. She mentioned that she had a film in this film festival and it sounded exciting so I said that I would go.

It's good that I did go, I was considering not because I was getting supper dizzy and sleepy.

I really enjoyed myself. I found the transit here is great and the drivers are super helpful. I met up with troutkitty and daemonluna And they are just the greatest for commentary. Also free candy! Yes, that's right they gave out free candy, pop corn, and multi-coloured juice. It didn't take me long to get hoarding! (It also didn't take long for me to start eating, but that's besides the point)

The films themselves were quite varied in quality, let's see. The first one was just so cute and funny, it was about these two girls who are meeting on a blind date, the film was in spanish with subtitles. Next was a student film from the Vancouver Film school, it's about this boy who is on a bus and unable to talk to his crush, for me it was a lovely idea but it missed its emotional connection with me. Then a documentary about how difficult and dangerous it can be to have ID that has a gender on it, it was interesting but the visual was repetitive. The next one was about a young girl from I think Hong Kong who was uncomfortable as a girl, it was very bitter sweet. Then there was one where the guy meets this elder couple while on holiday and they tour together, but the old man keeps trying to hook him up with his daughter, that was a cute fun one that reminded me of NFB.

Then I watched the one that the girl from my art class made, and man was that ever a riot. It was so funny, I wanna re-watch that one. It was by far my favourite. Sadly I did not have a chance to tell her how much I enjoyed myself, because my ride was leaving and I had too much sugar and I was incoherent and twitchy. (Though the sugar did suppress the sick feelings I was having) I plan on telling her next class, though.

There were a couple films that did not rate quite so high... The one that comes to mind seemed more like a home video, rather than a film... For a film festival... Just say'n. Also I didn't catch the significance of the last video of the evening... I'm sure there's a reference to something, but I didn't recognize the song. Any way it was odd full frontal nudity dancing done in inversed colours.

In the end good times were had, met up with friends and got candy. Also I think getting out of rez help my quick recovery from what ever I was infected with.

PS I just noticed this is also my 100th LJ post. I really need to post more.