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I just caught the end of a master class with Bradley Beesley, the director of Okie Noodlin' and Hill Stomp Holler and an OU alumnus. He showed us clips of his latest movie, Fearless Freaks, a documentary about the Flaming Lips that will be premiering at the South By Southwest film festival. The Flaming Lips often make me nostalgic for my days in the Norman-OKC metropolitan axis, and I was feeling wistful until he showed us a longer scene of one of the members cooking up, which reminded me of not-so-pleasant days in Norman. I'll probably have to wait until May, when it comes out on DVD, to watch the whole thing, but it looks like it will be an awesome flick.

One thing that was kind of funny about the class was the Chainsaw Kittens' Tyson Meade was in the audience, and he sort of looked at me with that don't-I-recognize-you look. I'd only talked to him a couple of times at parties in Norman (althought I saw him at parties a lot) so I didn't go over and introduce myself, but it was one of those moments when you realize that you might be more of a scenester than you admit to yourself.