Hey folks, Harry here... here in Austin. I'm having a great time here, but there's a part of me that misses being on the road with my Dad and nephew traveling the country on the pure love of cinema. Last year's Rolling Roadshow by Tim League and his mighty Roadshow crew - the cream of the Drafthouse Team... Traveling from Austin to Austin with nearly 8000 miles between the destinations.

Each one of the screenings started off with the inflating of the screen... like this:

That was at Devil's Tower prior to the screening of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. It was kinda fucking amazing. Stunning. The type of magic you just don't get to experience. The purity of a silver screen sprouting from the earth that Teddy Roosevelt set aside and preserved as our first National Monument and that Spielberg burned into our collective consciousness. Tim's use of Thus Spake Zarathustra for the inflating of our monolith unmarred by anything but for the dying embers of the light.

It's a shame that Netflix in their sponsorship of Tim League's Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow - that they've gone the crass route of defacing the magic of the screen with their gaudy corporate logo. Construct a gigantic tent towards the back of the crowd next to the projection truck. That said - the showmanship of Tim League and his Roadshow Crew is still evident. Take a look at this YouTube of The Warriors screening in Coney Island...

Then there's these two from the Kevin Smith / New Jersey / CLERKS screening!!!

It's the same old Rolling Roadshow - fantastic entertainments in fantastic locales... If you can get there - get there. And if the Netflix logos and pushiness get to ya - just let it go. If it wasn't for that sponsorship this year - there'd be no Rolling Roadshow. Still - don't put it on the screen. Not the screen.

Tonight in Chicago - it's FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, Tomorrow in the Field of Dreams is the screening of FIELD OF DREAMS - with Costner there... singing: Click here for info! Then on the 16th - it's THE SHINING here, then it's out to Monument Valley for THE SEARCHERS - that's the screening I absolutely hate missing. Then you head off for RAISING ARIZONA. Then the Drafthouse and the Rolling Roadshow board the Queen Mary to watch the original POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Then... for the final stop - it's on that cold fog enshrouded island in San Francisco Bay.... on the isle know as the Rock... Alcatraz for the amazing screening of ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ!

If you go - and you tape some of it - put it up on YouTube so folks can share it. Especially folks like me that miss the road and the show.