Reason 74 I'm Excited to Move to Austin at 6:46 AM

Once I get married in August I'm going to be packing up my life here in Greenville and settling down in Austin, Texas. It's a town I knew little about until I found out my wife-to-be is going to school there. I figured Austin was your stereotypical Texas town. A place where people wear cowboy boots and still like George W. Bush.

This is not the case.

It's a town full of small businesses, live music, and Barack Obama stickers.

It's also home of a little place called the Alamo Drafthouse.

Alee recently told me a story about the Drafthouse that nearly had me packing up my suitcase and catching the next plane out of Greenville:

The Drafthouse recently had a free screening of what was supposed to be Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, with some special scenes from the new Star Trek to follow. The night of the event, before the film started, the theater announced that the writers of the new Star Trek were in attendance. The writers gave a little speech and then the lights dimmed and Kahn began.

A few minutes into the movie something happened to the film, so the manager ran up to the projection booth to "fix" the problem and the writers got back up on stage to stall. Then, to everyone's surprise, Leornard "Spock" Nimoy emerged from the audience.



Anyway, to make a long story short, the movie goers did not get to watch The Wrath of Kahn that night. They watched the new Star Trek instead.

So if the booming independent film scene, the home of arguably the best film school outside of L.A. or New York, or Alee Franklin weren't enough to make me completely stoked about being a resident of Austin, Texas in a few months, the fact that I'll be in a town where Leornard Nimoy stops by every now and then and hosts world premieres of movies does.