I'm kinda feeling just like the weather, but mostly because I'm a little tired and the ride won't be over for several more days yet... so, onward.

Tonight's Film Festival events should be cool. Mom and I are attending the first one:

1. “Pageant” + drag @ Axis; 8pm, 775 N. High Street (Short North); Admission $7 at the door; “Pageant” follows fifty men as they compete for the 34th Miss Gay America®.  Following the film is a drag show (the Festival’s first!).

2. Student Division Winners @ CCAD; 8pm; 60 Cleveland Ave.; Admission free for students, $5 for others; parking free in CCAD lots; Join us for an evening of award-winning student films from around the world.

And midday today:

3. Who needs to work on a Thursday afternoon?  Instead, drop by for a free talk by Irish director Mark Mahon.  His film Strength and Honour is screening at CCAD on Friday night, but on Thurs. he is graciously going straight from plane to presentation at CCAD.  DETAILS:  Thursday, Nov. 13, at 3:30 PM in Kinny Hall rm. 301. Kinny Hall is located on Gay St. directly behind the Columbus Museum of Art. This is a free event and is open to the general public.

Other nifty stuff of interest (to me, anyway; hopefully, to you, as well):

From Welsh Art Now: We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 1 of WelshArtNow (WAN).  WAN is the new quarterly art magazine that discusses art with a Welsh connection.  Wales can now claim to have its own dedicated art magazine. WAN is A4 sized and contains 48 pages, printed in full colour on high quality art paper. WAN will ride on the crest of positive change and the sense of optimism that defines modern Wales ; there would not seem a better time to launch a new and dynamic cultural arts magazine.  Welsh art, now has its own platform and can take centre stage.  A wide range of art is featured, ranging from cartoons to gallery art; there will even be an art ‘centre fold’ each issue! As far as we are concerned it’s all art and is interesting in its own way. It would seem to make perfect sense to feature different types of art side by side.  Although about ‘now’ the magazine is interested in the rich and varied history of Wales and its people.  Apart from talking about art the magazine will feature lots of original art specific to a magazine format (think of it as a gallery within a magazine).

For more details, visit the site.

And...

From today's Women & Hollywood blog, I ran into this cool new interview with Rachel Maddow in The Advocate.

And in today's indieWIRE, tehre was this cool interview with GLBT Isaraeli filmmaker Yair Hochner about his new film Antartica.

(Apparently, I'm heavy on the gay stuff today!)

Also on IndieWIRE but not gay, there was a review of the film version of one of my favorite books of all time, House of the Sleeping Beauties. The book was written by Yasunari Kawabata, and it is a classic about youth, aging, death, bittersweet sorrow and eroticism. The film version was made by German filmmaker Vadim Glowna, but if the review's title "Yawn of the Dead" tells you anything... well, you get the picture, I'm sure. I'm sad to see that, though, because the book is such a treasure.