meanderings

Wells Branch

2011-06-03T10:58:00.001-05:00

Great day on the links despite a few bogamills trying to ruin it... Had been out of discs for a couple weeks, welcome back to the heat

Here is the score card for the recent golf round.

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 58
Total Score : +4
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	3	3	2	3	3	4	4	3	2	27

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	4	3	3	3	5	5	3	2	3	31

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wells branch new

2011-05-05T18:42:00.000-05:00

Better than yesterday anyway... Managed one birdie

Here is the score card for the recent golf round.

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 62
Total Score : +8
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	3	4	3	3	4	3	5	4	3	32

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	4	2	3	4	3	4	3	3	4	30

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wells branch new

2011-05-04T19:32:00.001-05:00

At least I kept count this time... Second game after being sick.

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 64
Total Score : +10
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	3	3	3	4	3	4	4	3	4	31

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	3	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	33

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northtown

2011-03-19T18:12:00.001-05:00

Another crack at Northtown; my best yet and cecil's worst. Heavy windage but a beautiful day. One guy we passed went swimming to recover a disc and picked up a few extra for his trouble.

Here is the score card for the recent golf round.

Name : Ben
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 78
Total Score : +24
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	5	4	4	4	3	4	6	3	6	39

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	5	5	4	3	5	5	4	4	4	39

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 76
Total Score : +22
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	5	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	6	38

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	6	6	3	3	4	3	3	4	6	38

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wells branch new

2011-03-19T18:10:00.001-05:00

A solo from 3/15/11. And not a good one.

Here is the score card for the recent golf round.

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 68
Total Score : +14
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	3	3	4	3	5	3	3	4	3	31

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	37

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wells branch new

2011-03-11T19:53:00.001-06:00

Any day on top of cecil is a good day.

Here is the score card for the recent golf round.

Name : Ben
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 67
Total Score : +13
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	5	5	4	5	3	4	4	3	3	36

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	2	4	4	3	3	4	5	3	3	31

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 61
Total Score : +7
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	4	5	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	32

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	2	3	3	3	3	5	3	4	3	29

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northtown

2011-03-06T17:55:00.001-06:00

Rough noogie and a revival of the "every disc golf hole in the universe is par 3" debate.

Name : Ben
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 75
Total Score : +21
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	5	3	5	5	4	3	4	3	5	37

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	4	7	3	3	4	5	3	3	6	38

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 84
Total Score : +30
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	5	4	5	3	5	3	6	3	6	40

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	5	7	3	3	4	4	4	6	8	44

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Wells Branch (new 18)

2011-03-04T18:39:00.001-06:00

Bad start, decent middle, rough end. Anyone that wants to play the new 18, holler at me.

Name : Mike
Total Par : 54
Total Strokes : 61
Total Score : +7
#	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	OUT
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	4	3	6	3	4	3	4	3	3	33

#	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	IN
Par	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	27
Str	3	3	3	3	2	3	4	4	3	28

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Fog over lake Buchanan

2010-01-25T07:23:00.001-06:00

Sampler porn

2010-01-24T21:46:00.001-06:00

bullymike.com vaulted

2009-12-29T10:15:00.002-06:00

I forgot to renew and then missed the next deadline with blogger... eh, who needs a custom URL, I'm not doing much here anyways.

Pearl Jam

2009-10-04T20:37:00.003-05:00

Girl Talk

2009-10-04T19:24:00.002-05:00

The Dead Weather

2009-10-04T18:16:00.003-05:00

Dirty Projectors

2009-10-04T17:19:00.003-05:00

The Toadies

2009-10-04T16:20:00.002-05:00

White Lies

2009-10-04T15:45:00.000-05:00

The B52s

2009-10-04T15:26:00.008-05:00

ACL 2009 Day 3

2009-10-04T15:26:00.006-05:00

The Decemberists

2009-10-03T19:17:00.002-05:00

Mos Def

2009-10-03T19:10:00.002-05:00

Eek-A-Mouse

2009-10-03T17:00:00.000-05:00

Wet Spaceships Abound

2009-10-03T16:31:00.002-05:00

Grizzly Bear

2009-10-03T16:23:00.003-05:00

!!!

2009-10-03T16:05:00.001-05:00

ACL 2009 Day 2

2009-10-03T15:01:00.003-05:00

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2009-10-02T20:44:00.002-05:00

Them Crooked Vultures

2009-10-02T19:44:00.002-05:00

Thievery Corporation

2009-10-02T18:39:00.002-05:00

Walter Wolfman Washington

2009-10-02T16:47:00.002-05:00

The Walkmen

2009-10-02T16:09:00.002-05:00

Dr. Dog

2009-10-02T15:35:00.002-05:00

Medeski Martin & Wood

2009-10-02T15:08:00.002-05:00

Knux

2009-10-02T13:48:00.002-05:00

ACL 2009 Day 1: Always Sunny in Illadelphia

2009-10-02T13:47:00.003-05:00

So beginneth acl 2009

2009-10-02T13:35:00.002-05:00

Geoprobe

2009-09-09T13:00:00.000-05:00

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Tell me about it

2009-09-09T09:53:00.000-05:00

The beetle only gets a few rolls out of his dungball before grass or brush makes him stumble and have to recenter himself. To do this he climbs on top of it facing away from the direction he's trying to go and then crawls down to the ground, pushing with his front legs. This little dance is repeated over and over again, just to move his little turd on down the line.
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Back @ tha omni

2009-09-08T19:15:00.000-05:00

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View from the omni bayfront in corpus

2009-08-18T19:50:00.000-05:00

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Lowball happy hour

2009-08-18T19:45:00.000-05:00

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Jake Kills It

2009-08-10T09:47:00.001-05:00

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Cold as ice

2009-08-01T20:25:00.000-05:00

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Magnolia Electric Co.

2009-07-25T23:15:00.000-05:00

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The Donkeys

2009-07-25T22:17:00.000-05:00

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Sliders @ wells branch

2009-07-25T21:11:00.000-05:00

Fuck ya I threw a -1, best evah
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The Monahans

2009-07-25T21:05:00.000-05:00

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L.L. This Dude

2009-07-23T08:16:00.000-05:00

On an employee locker @ the Midland Hilton
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Rain from the truck

2009-07-22T11:14:00.000-05:00

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Downtown midland

2009-07-21T20:33:00.000-05:00

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Heavy Petting

2009-07-20T16:15:00.004-05:00

As we stood up and pushed in our chairs, the old guy who had been sitting alone at the table behind us spoke up in a gritty but desperate voice:

"Hower yall doing?"

Several times through dinner I had heard him attempt to engage passing wait staff, but even the ones he somehow knew by name gave strategically short, reluctant replies, or merely said nothing at all, before returning sharply to the kitchen. It was getting near closing and they were listless, emerging from the back only to pace to and fro and throw resentful glares about the place. Once I looked over and the old guy was wearing sunglasses, the triangular kind with pointed ends on the lenses, like the ones baseballers wear nowadays, just staring straight ahead, lips pursed, his left hand gently probing the giant purple wristbrace on his right.

Now his sunglasses were off and he was squinting a bit in the light from the lamp hanging directly overhead. Our table being the closest, and what with us leaving now with our own conversation in tow, he was about to be stranded on his island of loneliness with only half an enchilada and some pathetic tufts of guacamole left on his plate to sustain him.

Normally I would think very little of simply returning a polite nod and walking away, however, having a few drinks in me, I gamely replied "Well!" and asked him the same. I reached across his table to shake his hand, having momentarily forgotten about the wristbrace. He extended the wounded paw, offering only his pinky, which I clasped and shook somehow without compunction. "Someone broke my hand," he said after I had released it, once again squeezing it gingerly in random places with his other, undiminished hand. "Who would do that?" I inquired, the beerbuzz maintaining my amusement and curiosity past their normal capacity. "A guy..." he mumbled, "A guy that does Siegfried and Roy. Do you know Siegfried and Roy?" My head nodded, somewhat against my will. "He knows I work with snakes, and he didn't want me to do it anymore." As if to politely acknowledge the tale as a perfectly reasonable explanation, I offered a small rejoinder: "Ah, so somebody put the squeeze on you." I glanced up at the last of my colleagues still waiting by our table and shared a brief conspiratorial grin. The man was less amused, and replied, "Oh, no, you never squeeze a boa. You just pet them," and to demonstrate he affected a snake with the braced hand and petted it instructively with the other. "They have faces. Boas have faces."

At this point I noticed in the lamplight that his cheeks were swollen, chipmunkian even, as if stuffed unevenly with wads of dental cotton or big league chew. Either the beating from the Siegfried and Roy fellow had surpassed the broken wrist, or some other equally improbable misfortune had befallen his face. His eyes darted between me and my colleague, who was by now making impatient shuffles towards the exit. "My boa has his own house," the man gravely intoned, leaning forward a bit, "and noone besides him goes in there."

"I believe you," I said, "Have a good evening!" And though he kept talking, my friend and I walked away, weaving through the empty tables at a spirited pace without looking back.

And that is how I know that you don't squeeze boas. You pet them.

Downtown midland

2009-07-20T06:47:00.000-05:00

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IMG00817.jpg

2009-07-18T18:51:00.000-05:00

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Excavation

2009-07-16T08:30:00.000-05:00

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More pit

2009-07-16T08:28:00.000-05:00

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Son of a

2009-07-15T07:03:00.000-05:00

I wish this big bastard would just stay in bed
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Is look kind of like Jesus

2009-07-14T19:47:00.000-05:00

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Pitgear

2009-07-01T15:01:00.000-05:00

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Don't fear the cowbell

2009-06-30T22:33:00.000-05:00

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Roun rockin

2009-06-27T19:39:00.000-05:00

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Corpus bayline

2009-06-23T21:44:00.000-05:00

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Corpus bay morning

2009-06-23T07:06:00.000-05:00

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Tha pit

2009-06-22T15:44:00.000-05:00

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More grizzly

2009-06-17T00:20:00.000-05:00

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Grizzly bear

2009-06-16T22:49:00.000-05:00

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6th sunset

2009-06-16T20:40:00.000-05:00

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Doggy

2009-06-06T22:41:00.000-05:00

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Ima gonna eat

2009-06-04T21:13:00.000-05:00

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IMG00780.jpg

2009-06-04T12:07:00.000-05:00

Politically incorrect condoms?
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Peacock

2009-06-04T08:44:00.000-05:00

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Daily bread

2009-06-02T12:25:00.000-05:00

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Discombobulated owl

2009-06-01T13:25:00.000-05:00

Prolly stunned by the bad lightning storm last night
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Grow a Pear

2009-05-30T09:17:00.003-05:00

It's cool having a pear tree in our backyard, except when it actually grows pears. That leads to squirrely little fuckers like this guy spending all day up in the branches picking off the young fruit, eating maybe a third of each pear before dropping the rest on the ground. There my dogs eat them (the ones we don't pick up on our 20 pear pick-up runs a day) and puke up chopped pear salad on the good furniture. I'm going to try sticking one of those plastic owls up in there pretty soon. It might keep the freeloaders away, plus I'll have a plastic owl in a tree, which is entertaining in its own right.

Enchanted Rock 5/23/09

2009-05-25T20:50:00.002-05:00

Me, Lube, and the Tube (ok Cecil) went primitive camping at Enchanted Rock Saturday night. We hiked a couple miles to the Buzzard Roost campground, set up camp, hiked up Flag Pole, and waded a bit in the creek as the rain started coming down. Then it was back to camp for some more drinks and gnats.

Low attention span version: Enchanted Rock, Flag Pole, Sandy Creek, camping, hiking, tents, backpack, sleeping bag, overly large sleeping bag, wading, trail food, batholith, gnats, tadpoles, thunderstorm, spicy turkey jerky, spicy turkey jerky farts, spoiled hoagie, spoiled hoagie farts, beans and weenies, beans and weenies farts, 1792, Ombrophobia, inflatable bed pad, park ranger, stars.

Oliver on Moats

2009-05-22T07:23:00.000-05:00

Ja

2009-05-12T21:52:00.000-05:00

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Nin

2009-05-12T20:06:00.000-05:00

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Tha view at ninja

2009-05-12T19:36:00.000-05:00

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"I Wonder If It's A Political Decision"

2009-05-07T23:32:00.002-05:00

huegh. huuuegh. hhhhuuuuuechghchgh... Are you fucking serious.

Wonder if that hellburger's coming back on him tonight.

whaaat

2009-04-22T22:23:00.001-05:00

Wailing Souls 4-18-09

2009-04-19T20:44:00.002-05:00

These guys put on a great show. Good times at the Flamingo!

Hey you know what

2009-04-13T09:34:00.008-05:00

Between this video and watching some of The Crucible this morning, I'm so past done with your frightened, elective ignorance bullshit. Tolerance... I want to know why it would ever be considered a virtue to tolerate these kinds of dumb terrified mammal shenanigans. Coming together in love my fucking ass.

Oh and hey its not enough to hire a bunch of adult actors to play out their fake, sarcastic confusion, let's get some fucking kids in here. I'm reminded of The Invasion when the dad hocks alien luigis into the hot chocolate or whatever to infect his son and his lil buddy.

Update: Here's the Colbert version:

Morrissey

2009-04-12T21:28:00.001-05:00

Quorum Sensing

2009-04-11T18:34:00.001-05:00

HOly crap this video is awesome. We're enormous!

Wow! Here's hoping we get more good out of this than bad (ie new weapons)...

Forgot about this one

2009-04-05T16:46:00.003-05:00

This is a priceless piece of art from the walls of the La Margarita restaurant in Odessa. It was still up in March. Then again, why wouldn't it be?

What what

2009-04-04T20:46:00.001-05:00

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Abash abash

2009-04-04T20:43:00.000-05:00

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good golly miss molly

2009-04-01T22:06:00.000-05:00

Inks Lake 3-29-09

2009-03-29T20:58:00.002-05:00

We went out Burnet way this weekend, up to camp at Inks Lake. The weather was mostly great, excepting some extreme winds and a pretty good chill overnight. It's a short hike from the park HQ down the yellow trail to the campsites, where open ground has been cleared amongst middle age cypress and oak trees. The sites were fairly well kept, we didn't spot an ant the whole time we were there, but then again it might not be warm enough yet. We were the only folks out there until later in the evening, and all was quiet save for the wind rolling the tops of the trees like a pounding surf. It dropped down in the 40's by 9 or so, and then it was out of the wind and into the tent, but we had time for a couple short hikes, some sandwiches, and a few drinks before tucking it in.

It warmed up on Day 2 by 11 and after some snackie poos we hit the green and blue trails. They both have impressive vistas, with better lake views from the green hill, and surrounding valley views from the blue hill. The trails are well marked, some rougher going than others but all quite maneagable. It was too cold to go jump off dead man's point but I gotta try that if we return this summer. We finished up in the evening, broke camp, and headed back home. Fun trip.

Hail hail

2009-03-25T21:45:00.012-05:00

It was already coming down pretty hard when these folks came walking through the street, caught out walking in the fast moving storm on Wednesday. I swear we never saw them get hit by any but when it really started coming down like a minute later there's no way they got home unscathed. We actually had a few car dimples.

I ditched southby Saturday and got a bunch of stuff done around the house. All in all it was a good year, with the King Khan + Department of Eagles day show at Emo's on Friday probably my favorite. A milli a milli a milli thanks to Cecil for the hookup on the wristband! Morrissey is this month, and I also picked up tickets for NIN+Jane's Addiction in May, can't wait for that one.

Eastbound and Down finished out a hilarious first season this week, though I didn't feel like the last episode was the best. I watched the last 3 Big Love episodes having never watched it before and enjoyed it very much, so now I have to go back and watch all the first 2 seasons. Along with Breaking Bad apparently, which was also recommended to me recently.

If you've never watched any of the Ted Talks I highly recommend the experience. Sometimes inspiring, sometimes depressing, almost always very interesting.

Some movies:

War, Inc. - Poop stars? There were some funny moments and plenty of the same actors as Grosse Point Blank but I got totally lost in the muddle and couldn't finish it. Bummer.

Hancock - 1 stars. I remember a ton of people telling me that the movie's "not really what you think it's about" but I thought they practically beat you over the head with it, the way Charlize Theron's mouth is twisting up every time Will Smith is in the room. Meh. Jason Bateman was such a strange pick for the husband; that was probably the most surprising thing about the movie.

Amusing but hardly singular:

A Richard Dawkins piece from last month I forgot to reference a while back.

Cool rechargable batteries on the way.

A bit about Charles Freeman's brief appointment to the NIC. Boy have Obama's appointments been fun. What a pain in the ass.

Bedouin Soundclash

2009-03-21T17:03:00.012-05:00

Sounded like the Police. I thought they were pretty good.

Beachhouse + Peter Bjorn & John + Grizzly Bear

2009-03-21T17:03:00.011-05:00

Beach House was great, I need to get their stuff pretty quick here. I wish I had listened to some of the new PB&J, I didn't really like any of their latest material and they didn't play any of the old songs during their short set. Grizzly Bear was awesome; seeing them live made me appreciate Yellow House even more. Catch them if you can.

White Lies

2009-03-20T18:31:00.002-05:00

Dept of eagles

2009-03-20T17:43:00.001-05:00

Excellent show. They finished with an epic cover of "Fire on the Mountain" but were cut short by the time.

King Khan and the Shrines

2009-03-20T16:37:00.001-05:00

A must-see. This guy is fucking crazy and the band and go-go girl really bring the house down around him. Awesome show.

6th Friday

2009-03-20T14:43:00.000-05:00

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M ward

2009-03-19T20:54:00.001-05:00

Pretty quiet, very nice show. He plays the guitar in a very interesting way and had a few really interesting solos during the whole thing. All in all it was a great evening and a more than a little nice to head home before midnight without my stomach doing flipflops. I just try not to think of the other awesome shows I missed.

Austin from auditorium shores

2009-03-19T20:14:00.000-05:00

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Palmer sunset

2009-03-19T20:13:00.002-05:00

Caleb drew my attention to the Palmer redux all lit up behind us. An architectural wonder I should think and still recognizable.

Cold war kids

2009-03-19T19:03:00.001-05:00

For the second day of SXSW I went with my friends Dani and Jake to Auditorium Shores and ended up running into Caleb and Kara as well. I was looking to take it easy after my apparent bout with food poisoning the night before, and thankfully the breeze and dimming Austin skyline behind the stage coated my insides like pepto. Cold War Kids were meh, and it didn't help that the sound was really low. It got even worse when the Harley Davidson tent behind us fired up their loudspeaker for some auxiliary event.