Okay, seriously behind in blogging about SXSW adventures, so I'll try to catch up quickly.

Caught a few extra zzz's in the a.m. so I wouldn't start the fest with a complete sleep deficit, and then headed off to the airport pick up David Au, my DP/editor/partner in crime. I immediately whisked him away to the Intercontinental Hotel, where we interviewed David Boreanaz from SUFFERING MAN'S CHARITY. Funny, charming and very tall, he takes his craft seriously.

David Boreanaz talks with me about Alan Cummings and how he chose his lingerie for the film.

Next stop: the cow skin couch at at the Driskill Hotel, where we shot segments with the ELVIS AND ANNABELLE folk. The lovely Blake Lively (SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS) lives up to her last name, and seems a perfect choice for the role of the troubled Texas beauty queen. She's balanced well by the dry Max Minghella (ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL), who finds his true self again when she enters his life... and turns it upside down. Director Will Geiger and his stars filled us in on the ins and outs of the production.

By that point we were starving, so David and I trolled 6th street and ended up at the Iron Cactus. He had chicken fried steak, I had a steak kabob with cheesy rice-n-corn, the sun was shining and all was well with the world. It was a perfect SXSW moment.

While David got settled into the hotel, I ran over to catch part of the interactive panel "Production Companies 2.0: Taking Online Video to the Next Level." Since I produce and host video segments for an independent film website, I'm trying to take advantage of both of the film and interactive parts of SXSW as much as possible. Suggestions from the speakers, who included Aaron Michael Baron (Rocketboom), Zadi Diaz (zadidiaz.com) and Doug Sarine (Ask A Ninja), included making your shows available in as many formats as possible, registering your own name as a domain name and making sure to protect your trademark as you grow your show(s). There was also lots of talk about how to make money from videoblogging, including sponsorship and going with an aggregator.

Next stop: The ELVIS AND ANNABELLE red carpet, where we caught up again with the now very nervous Lively & Minghella, and then on inside to watch the film.

I decided to make it a double feature and afterwards headed over to BIG RIG, Doug Pray's new documentary about truck drivers. He and his producer traveled 25,000 miles across the U.S. while making the film, and quite a few of the drivers they met while filming showed up to the premiere. The diverse group was funny, opinionated and uniformly angry about fuel prices.

I walked away from the screening making a vow never to cut off a truck again in my zippy little Corolla. Later in the week, I interviewed Pray and producer Brad Blondheim in Studio SX, the festival's on-site interview studio. They’ve posted a clip from the interview here.