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For a couple years, the best parties in town were at Alamo Drafthouse's nightclub/bowling alley called "The Highball." Along with some of Alamo's programming staff and DJ Fucking A, Houndstooth produced some of the most insane production value theme parties for practically no budget. The parties were meant to celebrate certain new movie releases, such as "Tron" which was our first party. Every show came with a custom show open video which I would typically put together a montage clipshow based on the event's theme and throw in some animated elements on top.
Some of my favorites were Super Heroes, Circus, Storm the Castle, Cowboys and Aliens, Harry Potter, and Tron. I don't know if I can over emphasize how insane and fun these parties were to do.
This was the first super custom show open we did. David Crumley was extremely generous and took a very hands-off approach in allowing me to direct this.
I wrote the "Storm the Castle" script and did all the illustrations for it, as well.