To Oxford and Back...

My friends, can your heart stand the shocking facts of what happened when Tate English, T. Lynn Mikeska, and The Ballad of Friday and June went to the Oxford Film Festival? Well, I hope so. Because here it is, all compiled into one handy-dandy video.

Concept Art!

While Tate is in Atlanta, I thought I would post some early concept art for the Friday puppet. These were created by Cameron Petri. You can see his website here.





That's all I have to say. More from Tate soon...

Don

Questions, Answered!

Don here. Some of you probably have questions about 'The Ballad of Friday and June'- well be prepared to have them answered!* Above. Up there. The video box.

Enjoy.

Don

* Unless your question is when can I see the movie? They don't answer that one, because these people, the question people, they saw the movie.

The Snowpocalypse Reacheth Westward

I'm Rachel, and I am ALSO not on the road. And I'm not nearly as funny as Don, so there's that. BUT! (And it is an important BUT!), I've been Tate and Lynn's go-to for weather reports all day today. Because, the snowpocalypse? It found Oxford overnight and has made driving, in the immortal words of Lynn "super crappy and dangerous."

LOOK WHAT THEY DO FOR YOU. And by "you" I mean "the fabulous parties and booze found on the film festival circuit. But anyway. They're stuck inching along through the snowpocalypse with only their creative fire (and the heat) to keep 'em warm.

Expect a video or two as soon as they're back to the wonderful word of the Internet.

From Memphis to Oxford...

While Tate is busy "film festivalling" or "driving" or "sitting in the passenger seat while Lynn is driving" or whatever, I though I'd post this nice mention our Oxford screening got over at Indie Memphis' website.

They also point out several other Memphis selections that will be playing in Oxford this year including our friends Jonathan Epstein's and John Hubbel's award-winning doc. 'I am a Man: From Memphis, A Lesson in Life'.

Speaking of our friends' films, this year Oxford is also screening Todd Berger's 'The Scenesters' (Hey, it just won an award at Slamdance!) and Mark Potts' award-winning short film 'Building Imagination'.

Check them out if you're going to be at the Oxford Film Festival 2010!

Don

An Update from the Road, from the Guy Not on the Road...

Look for two of these people if you're in
Oxford, then be like "hey what's up?"

Tate and Lynn are currently driving to the Oxford Film Festival for tomorrow morning's screening of 'The Ballad of Friday and June'. I, Don, am not. I'm holding down the fort here in Austin. Like, in case someone shows up and says "hey, any puppet musicals in here?" I can go "yeah, this one."

Anyway, by my calculations Tate and Lynn should be approaching the Atlantic Ocean any minute now (Oxford, England, right?), fortunately they're riding in Lynn's car/boat-hybrid vehicle which she received from the same top-secret government program which gave her her "super powers." I put that in quotes because I don't consider being able to swim well a super-power, it's like, you're just good at swimming, lots of people are, even like little kids and stuff...

Well anyway, long story longer, if you're at the Oxford Film Festival 2010 you should:

1. Check out this blog often, add it to your reader, of if you're still searching the web the way people did in the 1800's you can physically type "fridayandjune.blogspot.com" into your web browser hole.
2. Look for Tate and Lynn, they'll be the ones drinking and behaving in a Rip Torn-ish way.
3. Go watch 'The Ballad of Friday and June' tomorrow (Friday) and/or Sunday, it's screening before the feature film 'Bicycle Lane'.
   

Okay. Bye.

Don