I was back in New York for the Tribeca Film Festival. This was a ruse.
I mainly meant to come back to go drinking at Grassroots Tavern. That means drinking a lot of Brooklyn Lager, occasionally sitting at the bar near those older regulars who hunch over the corner of the bar near the front door and doing a podcast about film.
Our guests include Andrew Grant, Preston Miller and Akiva Gottleib (who is the Alejandro Adams of Twitter.)
Out topics include:
- How The Human Centipede opens a larger question about mainstream acceptance of genre and why some genre elitist pricks (i.e. me, sometimes) don’t get to be an elitist prick.
- Why panels about independent distribution using social media isn’t helping, despite it being championed by certain film news sites and places like Kickstarter and Indie Go Go.
- Why mumblecore is a dirty word.
- Baby-fucking.
- Why I should never try to tell a story about the time I went to a cocktail party,had a diet coke and felt really awkward at SXSW.
- And finally: why drinking and doing a podcast out of a bar is pretty great. It also goes on for an hour. You’ll thank yourself for listening to this, you’ll learn a thing or two and then you’ll never want to actually make a film ever again.
Fact: The 4 is the cleanest of the subway trains.