We would like to offer our deepest congratulations to the team behind Friday I’m In Love, the proposed documentary film about the beloved Montrose alterna-club Numbers and for the past few weeks the focus of an intense Kickstarter campaign. The last day would have been today, but thanks to an infusion of last-minute benevolence met and exceeded its $40,000 goal with a few days to spare. Yay!
“I feel great,” director Marcus Pontello told us via email Wednesday. “I’m not sure it’s hit me yet, but I think it will when I’m at Numbers Friday night.”
As of 5 p.m. Thursday, a little more than $45,000 had been pledged to the project, but the cutoff isn’t until 9 p.m. tonight. Thursday night, the Friday crew gathered at Grand Prize for what was originally planned as an 11th-hour fundraiser but became a victory celebration. While they’re still sleeping off all the fun, we’d like to share some more art slated for the film that Pontello was kind enough to send over; these come from spending hours at the Houston Public Library poring through old issues of the late great Public News and This Week In Texas to find the Numbers ads. The pages were so delicate the library wouldn’t allow him to copy them; he had to photograph them instead.
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More art on the next page.
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This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2015.
