Luv Doc Recommends: Salvage Vanguard Cinema

Just give up. No, that’s not a funny bumper sticker or one of those sarcastic faux inspirational plaques you can buy on the Internet, it’s sound advice. There is no way in hell you can make every cool event in Austin this weekend, even if you try. Unless you’re a fuck buddy to disappointment or the sworn enemy of downtime, you’re going to need to pause for a moment and set some limits. Realize that every weekend, every night and every day, people are engaged in totally cool shit that you’re missing. Make peace with that. Own it. Know that your occasional foray into Dave and Buster’s or an Ice Bats hockey game doesn’t necessarily preclude getting a table at Kenichi (OK, maybe it does, but there’s always Oslo), and if you spend a night or two at home eating Cheetos and watching reruns of Walker, Texas Ranger, it doesn’t mean they’re going to jack you up at the door at Platinum X (unless they can smell the Cheetos on your breath). Still, before you do something drastic like buying a tongue scraper or stalking Stephen Moser, know that you just can’t do it. You can’t be at all of the cool places all of the time. It’s pointless to try. What you can do is choose wisely, make informed decisions, try to get the most bang for your buck. Make sure that the cool event you attend is the absolute coolest it can be. Not as easy as it sounds, is it? Well, except for this weekend when Salvage Vanguard Theater celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown with Salvage Vanguard Cinema, a collection of 10-minute films by local artists and filmmakers in honor of Salvage Vanguard’s 10th Anniversary. The show features films by some of Austin’s most innovative filmmakers like Divya Srinivasan (Waking Life); Adam Bork (Searching for Tony Joe); Justin Hennard; Cory Ryan (Flicker Austin); Peter Stopschinski and Darin Nurano (Household Names); animator Lance Fever; L.B. Deyo (Jinx Magazine); and SVT’s own Ryan Harper Gray. Music in the films is provided by an equally weighty list of composers: Graham Reynolds (Golden Arm Trio); Andy Hardaway (The Innocent, Pack of Lies); Adam Sultan; Buzz Moran (Foleyvision); Conrad Keely (Trail of Dead); and Chad Nichols (The Transgressors). As always with the Drafthouse there will be drinking and eating and then more drinking, which should make for a fun evening even if the projector breaks, but given the talent amassed for this celebration, there should be some eye and ear candy as well. One more thing: If, in the course of the evening, you’re enjoying yourself so much you begin to wonder if you’re actually at a cool event, relax. That’s how you know.