Of all the sponsors of the SXSW event my favorite had to be Sukiyaki Western: Django. It is the new movie from one of my all time favorite directors Takashi Miike. It is a Japanese remake of Django which is an Italian remake of Yojimbo which is ironically a Japanese film. Yojimbo is a bad ass Akira Kurosawa film that has been remade into a bunch of bad ass movies including Fist Full Of Dollars and the highly underrated Bruce Willis film Last Man Standing. Also Django was directed by one of my other favorite directors Sergio Corbucci who is one of the most brutal directors ever. The scene in Reservoir Dogs where they cut the cops ear of is taken directly from the original Django. Anyway, I could not be more excited about this movies existence.

Anyway, the point is, this movie sponsored the event, and what they did was bring in like 100 squirt guns and it seemed like a great idea until the whole Elk Lodge where they were holding the event got covered in water and everyone started running around slipping on everything and crashing into everyone and then the cops had to come because the injury liabilities would be out of control and then people wouldn’t give up the guns and then people got kicked out and Lisa D’Amato filled up the gun with vodka and was squirting everyone in the eyes and it was amazing and madness and great. Anyway, I think the best pictures I took the whole time I was in Austin was of this squirt gun fight so I saved them for last. Check them out.

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