Both also insist that there is no political agenda at work in this election year (although critics of the left-leaning festival probably believe otherwise).
One thing you gotta keep in mind is that ACL is by no means a rave, it's not even a left-leaning festival like Coachella or Sasquatch that aims to be at once culturally definitive and progressive.
The last weekend of the 2008 festival left a clamour of typical LJF memories.
Here is what they told each other: The question-and-answer session on Sunday night at the film festival left something to be desired.
"Hmmm … 7 June, Instagram post of vegetarian pizza: highly suspect … 26 June, tweeted selfie from left field, Glastonbury festival: this is espionage gold dust!
Ms. Kopple also delves into the financial morass the festival left in its wake: about 80 lawsuits and a million-dollar deficit that the young producers settled by selling their interest in the film, a concession that was eventually worth many millions.
Our familiarity with state-of-the-art experiences at festivals like VELD and Digital Dreams leaves little room for the left fielders the DIY festivals.
He called himself Double O, and he strutted in a black tank top across the stage at yesterday's Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, his left arm emblazoned with a blue dragon.
He said budgets must be tightened and launched a scathing attack on the Socialist candidate François Hollande, saying the left was planning a "festival of new spending, as if the world, Europe, the crisis had never existed", which would drive France into certain ruin.
