Bedheads. Desperado. Spy Kids. Sin City. The man who created them all will be speaking in just 15 minutes at 5PM in the poorly lit, WCH auditorium at UT-Austin - a lecture hall internally designed to make students uncomfortable and sleepy at the same time.

I received a mysterious e-mail from a class listserv in which I'm not even enrolled that invited all RTF grad students to come and hear this man discuss his El Mariachi trilogy. I'm not an RTF graduate student and judging from the lack of leg hair, neither is two-thirds of the people in here.