A Slipping Down Life

All of this screen-, panel-discussion- and party-hopping is beginning to take it out of me — and, I assume, many of my T/F-attending brethren and sistren — so I'll probably just incorporate my Day 2 recap into tomorrow's True/False Film Festival wrap-up.

For the moment, I'll leave you with the above image, provided by the Tribune's Gerry McCarthy, of the Pine Hill Haints as they perform this morning on the back of a bus — which was joined by two others, including one of the veggie-guzzling variety — en route to the Reel Gone Roundup at the old sale barn behind the Bull Pen Cafe.

One thing I do need to mention now is how much of a privilege it was to get a chance to experience AJ Schnack's "Kurt Cobain About a Son" this afternoon at The Blue Note.

Thanks to True/False these past two years, I've developed a strong rapport with my fellow University of Missouri journalism-school grad.

Putting that association aside, I think it's fair to say that Schnack, producer/wife Shirley Moyers, co-producer/provider-of-source-material Michael Azerrad and definitely director of photography Wyatt Troll, scorers Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard and music supervisor Linda Cohen have lovingly handed us a singular, ambrosial 35 mm "death poem" — as Schnack related Troll saw it — giving us a better understanding of the depression-wracked life of one of the most significant artists of the late 20th century.

Beautifully done.