"freshman orientation" at filmout san diego

our friend bruce, who runs obelisk bookstore in hillcrest, had some free passes for filmout, the gay film festival over at the ken theatre. we walked over for the 5:30 showing of freshman orientation (imdb has it as "home of phobia"), which unlike most gay film festival movies i've seen, was quite good. the writing in particular was extremely funny, and rachel dratch and john goodman had hilarious cameos.

browsing through the filmout guide (their web site seems to be down right now) showed lots of interesting films, and short movies too. one that we recognized was peking turkey, about an asian-canadian and his partner announcing their engagement over a thanksgiving dinner at the former's parents house. it was on logo television recently in a short films special.

it's great to be able to walk to a movie theater, especially when it puts on film festivals. we stopped in for a coffee at kensington coffee on the way home, and it was packed with folks who were out enjoying the cool, clear evening.