Jared Hess, the director and writer of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre has a new movie releasing soon: Gentleman Broncos. Weeeeeell, he decided to have a Utah premiere and since Scott has all these sweet connections, we got to go and it was free! Scott made it a surprise date for me. I really had no idea but when Scott told me to guess where we were going I totally guessed it to a T. Seriously, I'm that good. ANYWAY, Jared was there to introduce the film and Scott was just dying to talk to him. After my 5,294 nudges for him to go out in the lobby and talk to Jared, Scott finally did it. Said he, "Jared is freakin' awesome!" Jared actually asked for his information so Scott promptly whipped out a business card. Cross your fingers something comes from it. FYI, the movie is funny but REALLY strange, like Napoleon Dynamite on drugs. Right up Scott's ally.
On another film side note, this week Scott spent an hour on the phone talking to the Director of Photography (in charge of camera department) of the TV show Bones. Gordon Lonsdale actually lives in Alpine too, but commutes to LA every week to shoot the show. He was very impressed with Scott's photography and invited him to come out and see the set. He also mentioned he might be able to get Scott an internship on Bones through BYU.
I was so excited to see Where the Wild Things Are!! Loved the book and the preview alone made me wanna cry. SOOOOO Scott and I went opening day to see it. Reaction after the movie? "Huh." The strangeness of it cannot even really be voice. It was just, I don't know, too over the top wild. It wasn't one of those "truly moving films" as many said. Secondhand Lions - now that was truly moving. This... just weird. The music was odd, and the cinematography annoying (and out of focus as Scott pointed out on many occasions). However, there were a couple things this film had goin for it: Max Records (who played Max) did very well; really brought to life Max from the book. The locations were phenomenal (that's Australia for ya), and the lighting was hands down beautiful. But overall? Don't waste your money seeing this one in the theater, go buy the children's book instead. The book really is always better. 
Beautiful fall weather: Fall is definitely my least favorite season. However, now I'm beginning to think that's only because I've always lived in a place where the fall weather sucked tremendously. In Washington, fall just means rain, rain, rain. In Idaho it meant snow, snow, snow. Here in Utah, we have actually had a whole week of beautiful fall weather. Sunny skies, 50s, crunchy leaves. I'm lovin that!
