Day 2 of deadCENTER. We started out at Harkins Theate in Bricktown. The first film we saw was “The Aryan Couple.” Not too bad…but it’s hard to do an original holocaust movie these days. We stayed there to watch the documentary “The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat, and Beers.” A bunch of rednecks drinking beer and trying to out-macho everybody else. Funny stuff. Seddy and I skipped out on the Q & A session that followed so we could get to IAO for the horror shorts. This was the worst part of the entire weekend. Lame films, lame food, no A/C and expensive drinks. “An Evening with Ivan Gorsky” was probably the best of the horror shorts…a humorous vampire short. “The Doll Collector” wasn’t the best…but it only lasted a minute. “There’s Something Out There” was pretty good as well. A murderous garden gnome is guaranteed to be good. And, then there was “Coiled Soul.” This was probably the worst of the shorts. And, on top of that, there were video problems with this one. About 3/4 of the way through, the dvd started skipping. They tried restarting it a couple of times, but it still skipped until it froze. Seddy and I hoped they’d just skip to the next film…but, unfortunately, the filmmaker arrived with a second copy of the disc, so we were subjected to the conclusion. “She Sank on Shallow Bank” was more of an art film. It would have been better–more enjoyable–had the sound been good. The speakers kept going on and out, on and out, making the film very hard to follow and stay with. “My Skin” was another really bad film. “Gotham Cafe,” which was based on a Stephen King story, was kind of campily funny. Not the worst. After the horror shorts were finished, we went out to check out the Okie party. The “free food” consisted of a block of cream cheese covered with salsa. High class. This night was too hot and too lame, so we decided to make it an earlier night rather than hanging around for the midnight shorts.