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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Hump / Film Win Humpday Tickets

Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:00 AM

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Earlier this week I challenged Lynn Shelton to make a film for HUMP!—Seattle's biggest, best, and only amateur and locally produced porn festival and a plot point and partial inspiration for Humpday—and Shelton quickly agreed. But she had one condition: she would only make a film for HUMP! if I took ten friends to see Humpday at the Harvard Exit this weekend. "The more butts I can get into seats this opening weekend," wrote Lynn, "the more the likelihood that this film will open in some multiplex in Podunk, U.S.A. (which feeds into my evil plan to treat the crowd that thinks they're in for "The Hangover II" to the hangover cure: an anti-misogynistic, anti-homophobic bromantic comedy...)."

I can't go see Humpday this weekend—prior commitments—but I am holding up my end of the bargain: I just bought ten tickets to Friday's 7 PM screening of Humpday. And I'm giving 'em away to my friends here on Slog. So you wanna win two free tickets to see Humpday this Friday night? Write a short film treatment—one hundred words or lesss—for the five-minute porno you'd like to see Lynn Shelton make for HUMP! The authors of the five best treatments get two tickets each and I'll pass the treatments on to Lynn so... who knows? Maybe Lynn will decide to use your treatment for her HUMP! submission.

Email your HUMP! film treatment to humpdaytix@thestranger.com by 3 PM tomorrow. Winners will be announced—and their treatments posted to Slog—by the end of the day tomorrow. Good luck!

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Holy shit. This is the first movie I'm ever going to actively avoid because of excessive hack marketing. Can't wait for its run to be over so I can turn three pages of The Stranger without reading about it.

Posted by Nick on July 8, 2009 at 6:48 PM

1. "if I would took"?

2. Humpday is great. It deserves all the help it can get to earn Shelton & company the fame and fortunes they deserve.

Posted by josh

on July 8, 2009 at 7:00 PM

I'm excited to see it. Seems like a good place to advertise, seeing as how everyone besides 1 has pretty similar interests.

Posted by BombasticMO

on July 8, 2009 at 9:12 PM

"Treatments," Dan? Have you by any chance been working on a screenplay recently?

Posted by rob!

on July 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM

Hey Dan, love ya, but if she said the deal was you PLUS ten people, that's eleven. You're not going, and you're a celebrity draw which would get other people to show up, so really if you want to be on the level you should buy at least a pair of additional tickets to make up for your absence. RIGHT? Right.

Posted by iLLogicaL on July 9, 2009 at 7:50 AM

She actually said "ten of your closest friends" but I guess that's been edited down to "ten friends".

Humpday was a fun film.

Posted by stinkbug on July 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM

Hey, anyone can use my old hump idea. MUSIC VIDEO. Its easy and hot, plus its a good way to take a small amount of sex and make it feel like a huge deal.

Posted by Fenrox on July 9, 2009 at 10:16 AM

3pm today, Dan...

Posted by smiller555

on July 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM

Holy crap. The cute dude from Blair Witch has not aged well.

Posted by DJDeeJay on July 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM

Writing a good and interesting. Truly, this is that I want, I'm not wrong again. I will visit you more often. Thank you.

Posted by listy on July 10, 2009 at 1:38 AM

Dan, sorry I missed the contest.

I feel that Hump Day will shed new light on m2m relationships, breaking down barriers for certain guys.

Being a gay dude, I like that. After all, we are all part of mankind, who ever we love.

Mega hairy muscle hugs of thanks for everything you accomplish, big guy.

Posted by woofydude on July 21, 2009 at 10:44 AM