Director and Sundance alumnus, Andy Blubaugh, responds to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
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Director Andy Blubaugh’s latest short film HELLO, THANKS–a look at writing personal ads to find true love or just someone to sit on the couch with–is just the kind of smart, self-effacingly clever filmmaking we’ve come to expect from Blubaugh. A year writing personal ads doesn’t net the catch of a lifetime, but it does make a better personal ad writer out of our hero, and the ads interspersed throughout the film are funny, poignant, and real, only better than.
Featured at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, HELLO, THANKS gets its broadcast premiere tonight at 10 PM on on the Logo Network as part of THE CLICK LIST, Logo’s weekly survey of the best new short films from queer filmmakers across the globe. In Portland, you can find Logo on Comcast channel 139. After the broadcast, HELLO, THANKS will be viewable on the Logo website.
You are going to be hearing a lot more about Andy Blubaugh. Here he takes a minute out from post-Sundance hoopla to answer the ultra Q.
Qualities you most admire in design: Earnestness and boldness
Qualities you most despise in design: In print: unneccessary flash. In product: things which should clearly have handles and don’t.
Reading: How To Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
Listening to: A lot of country right now: Jayhawks, Handsome Family, Gillian Welch, Neko Case, etc.
Dream project:To direct the feature film script I’m shopping around, about the events leading to the video game crash of 1983.
Favorite virtue: I know when to keep my mouth shut.
Favorite vice: Hebrew National Kosher Franks. I could eat them all day.
Tragic flaw: I waste time like nobody’s business. All I did today was fill out this questionnaire.
Secret superhero power: I can make hollandaise with regular (non-clarified) butter.
That which keeps your afterburners firing: Attention and flattery, same as the rest of us.
What you’d like to be when you grow up: Generous.
Portland’s best kept secret: Fehrenbacher Hoff: The cozy little coffeeshop next to the Goose Hollow Inn and also owned by Bud Clark and family.
Portland heroes (sung or un-): There’s a whole crop of filmmakers that are about to explode, if the goodamn local press would just pay attention (ahem): Ryan Jeffery, Nick Peterson, and Matther Lessner just to name a few.
Interesting on the horizon (PDX): That Ikea out by the airport will be pretty fucking rad.
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