I was lucky enough to get to go to high school with Lon Lopez. He's a great guy, and a good eye for filmmaking. He's also a helluva musician, and his band Stantueman was one of my faves in high school, when more weekends than not, I'd be at The Edge or The Cactus Club, watching bands.
He came up with the idea of making a Cactus Club documentary that focused not only on the music, but on the scene, the city, and the personalities. In short, it was about the stories that inhabited the sphere of the old place. Along with Aaron Carnes we worked on this for a long time, and life being what it is, it often puched back and back. Luckily, Lon persisted and the resulting film is something that he really should be proud of, as it tells the story of the Cactus in a way that is critical, loving, slightly biting, and perhaps most importantly, really entertaining. In a way, it was the experience of helping Lon make it that helped to inform what SiliGone Valley would become. The interview styles were smart, and they attempted not only to pull information, but stories. The Cactus Club had a million stories, and Lon worked to get 'em out. I'm proud to have worked on this one, and it tries to ask and answer the same basic question I'm trying to ask in a wider sense now - What did Silicon Valley mean before, and what does that say about today?
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