Last night some of our good friends released their independent documentary, Supermarket Boys, on Vimeo. Directed by Jackson Boren and edited by Brian Bazemore, the films speaks of friendship and fashion in 2006 San Francisco. In their words:

“Its the summer of 2006… In the heart of San Francisco three friends find themselves immersed in a fashion subculture known as street wear and inspired to create a line of t-shirts that defines their lives within it. Abdul, Ezra and Will each face immense personal struggles that will test their will to overcome and ultimately decide the fate of the silkscreen dream they call ‘Supermarket.’ In this coming of age documentary, the three young men strive to search beyond the fast paced, big city life they live and find something real in each other: true friendship.”

You can expect a more thoughtful exposition of Supermarket Boys in the coming weeks. But until then, I highly suggest you take the time to watch this film. Get on the Boren/Bazemore bandwagon before they blow up. You can say you knew them back when. I did.

Supermarket Boys

-GWG

I know. Posts have been scarce in the past month or so. My apologies. Life has been crazy—full of moves, trips to Ireland, trips to Napa and other general life stuff.

But we’re making up for it. Tomorrow marks the beginning of Old School Week. In the spirit of last year’s Superhero Week, we’re going to set aside five days to focus on a particular theme. This time it’s the old school.

We’ll share our favorite musicians and filmmakers from generations past. And hopefully, you’ll discover something you’d never experienced in the process. Join us next week as we celebrate those that came before us.

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As you can see, we’re making some changes to the site. We’ve made the long awaited move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress installation. So please bear with us as we get everything set up. Hopefully everything will be back up and running by sometime this week. If any of you have some dope WordPress theme suggestions, please leave a comment with a link. It would be greatly appreciated.

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Just wanted to let you guys know, our friend and one time contributor, Tyson, is doing big things these days. In addition making everyone’s day a bit more hilarious, he’s refreshed his blog, Lazy Sportswriting. His latest article, When The Man Comes Around: Johnny Cash and Professional Athletes is a great take on how different the lives of athletes could be, had they just listened to Johnny Cash.

You can follow him on Twitter, email him at tysonqsports@gmail.com or become his fan on Facebook. Check out his work, you won’t be disappointed.

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I know the Day 2 video isn’t working properly. We’re working on it and will get it up and fixed as soon as possible. I apologize. Please stay tuned for more Ashland Independent Film Festival videos and updates including our bonus video on Reversion and an exclusive interview with one of the filmmakers.

Again, I’m sorry about the technical difficulties, we’ll get it up and running as soon as possible.

Until Next Time,

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Lately, it’s been pretty crazy over here at sexy gypsy. First it was Superhero Week and now we’re in the middle of covering the Ashland Independent Film Festival. But I want to take the time to introduce a new category—Current Events.

This is something we’ve been wanting to add since we started sexy gypsy. But, unfortunately we haven’t found the right person or the time and motivation to write it ourselves. Thankfully, our good friend, Nils Jordan has agreed to help us out and contribute from time to time.

So please welcome him to the sexy gypsy family. I’ll let him introduce himself now:

I’m Nils. I’m livin’ in the Napa Valley with my wife trying to eek out a living while paying back the Man. I’m young, educated and will be using sexy-gypsy as an outlet for (hopefully) successful rants about what is wrong with our society.

You can follow Nils on Twitter here.

Also, we totally forgot the director of Eden’s name, when we were making the video. We apologize. His name is Declan Recks and he is a fine director.]

We got our tickets today for the rest of the week and, amazingly enough, we’re actually going to see everything we wanted to. We bummed around Ashland a bit, hit up 38 on Central in Medford (their duck quesadilla is bomb), and saw our first films in the evening. The first was 34X25X36, a documentary short about mannequin manufacturing, and the illusive perfect female body (and religion…what?) The second was Eden, an Irish film, about a marriage on the rocks (the Irish want their relationships served like their Jameson). Overall a pretty chill day, but we’re in full swing tomorrow, starting at 10AM and rocking until the wee hours of 11PM. It’s a tough job, but we do it for the money. Wait…

AIFF Day 1, Part 2 from The B I G Gypsy on Vimeo.

As you probably all know, movieposter.com was kind enough to help send sexy gypsy to the Ashland Independent Film Festival.

We’ve decided to keep a daily video blog of our adventures at the festival. So keep checking back for our take on the movies, the scene and everything else AIFF.

Here’s our first video:

AIFF Day 1, Part 1 from The B I G Gypsy on Vimeo.