Opening Night

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All that mess with the show I've been talking about felt like it was coming to a head yesterday, but then it worked out. So there was back and forth with the booking agent. I had misunderstood "offer" to mean "guarantee" (to be fair to myself, I did ask the booking agent to clarify if that's what she meant and she never contradicted it). So I'm thinking the band won't play since there's no way we're getting a guarantee, but she was just asking what the actual deal is. By the time we're on the same page and the confusion is clarified and I've just sent my email where I think we're synced back up, I get an email from Skinny (Hi Tone owner) asking me to call him. So I can tell the booking agent had emailed him and that there was now a whole other level of confusion thrown on top of everything. Anyway, I call him and he was a little frustrated with the booking agent but he was nice to me about it all. Mostly everything was clearing up, but there had been introduced a confusion about the date where she was then giving a different date. I emailed her after that and the original date was confirmed. So anyway, that's all fine and good and the show's back on track. But it was a little harried for a bit there. Last night was the opening night for Indie Memphis. So Mary Beth and I went and saw the first movie: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. It was really good. Don't always go to the opening night movie as those are a bit crowded, but this one looked really good (and like I just said, it was). The director did a residency with Indie Memphis a few years ago while working the movie out so it was a bit of a homecoming having it open the festival this year. It was very fragmentary with little dialogue about a family's life in the rural south (focusing on the daughters). A lot of it was their childhood but it went into adulthood as well. It was non-linear and jumped around in time. It reminded me a bit of The Long Day Closes (though that did focus more on a certain period in childhood as well as being linear, even though fragmentary, but that fragmented nature and the focus on detail (and very rich detail) and lack of explicit narrative and exposition and often dialogue as well as a good bit of overlap in the time of childhood, though different time periods...anyway, that made me think of them together).