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Last Sunday at the WI Film fest, one week and a lifetime away, or at least a half a lifetime.<\/p>\n
We had fried eggs and toast (potato rolls<\/a> and the last sesame bagel) and bacon for breakfast, then I biked off to do my first partial shift at Sundance. Basically I was there to get one film, Rwanda & Juliet<\/a>, loaded. The Provost<\/a> came to intro the film, I think because we’re gearing up at UW-Madison to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th, and the first folio is coming<\/a>, and the filmmaker was there too, for a Q&A after. The director<\/a> of the UW-Arts Institute appeared as well, chiding people to make sure there was always water for any filmmaker who had to talk.<\/p>\n I biked downtown and met Mark at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art for our next movie, Good Ol’ Boy<\/a> [I think it will be Growing Up Smith in commercial release], which was really one of the best ones of the Fest, IMHO. About an Indian kid growing up in the US and fitting and not fitting in. Jason Lee<\/a>, who’s in a lot of Kevin Smith movies, was in it. After, Mark went home to get his car and drive to the train for his work week in Chicago and I went back down State St. to the Chazen, the University Art Museum, where I watched about an hour of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence<\/a>. With David Bowie in all of his slim 1980s beauty, but very violent, and military honor, and lots of people saying ugly things to each other in Japanese.<\/p>\n I biked out to the east side for the Smart Studios Story Madison premiere, and decided that I might as well go and wait in the ice cream line at the little Chocolate Shoppe that’s in where the tattoo parlor used to be, before getting into the movie line – a cone would make the movie line go better. I got something like mocha macchiato in a waffle cone – hunks of chocolate and caramel swirl in coffee ice cream. It was the perfect dinner; it had turned into a hot afternoon. I’d been looking forward to the movie – like I said almost four years ago<\/a> at a museum exhibition about the Madison music scene in the 1980s & ’90s, I was there. My ex-husband owned a record store on State Street downstairs from Merlyns, a cool club where everyone I wanted to see played, and I did a show on WORT.<\/p>\n I liked the movie. I think my favorite picture in it was one of Steve Marker from when he was the bouncer at Merlyns – he looked kind of like he does in this one with Butch, but even more baby-faced, and with big 1980s glasses.<\/p>\n Steve Marker and Butch Vig<\/p><\/div>![\"Steve](\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/steve_marker_and_butch_vig-300x240.jpg\")