It’s time for some more music festivals. Ashley and I are headed to Chicago for vacation at the end of July and will be attending Lollapalooza in Grant Park. The schedule grids for both Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza have now been posted. I still have a couple of conflicts to resolve, but I almost have the perfect schedules created. Behold:
Friday
12:15 - 01:15 Black Lips
02:15 - 03:15 Yeasayer
03:15 - 04:15 Duffy
04:15 - 05:15 Black Keys
05:15 - 06:15 Cat Power
06:15 - 07:15 Bloc Party
08:00 - End Radiohead
Saturday
1:30 - 2:30 Dr. Dog
3:30 - 4:30 DeVotchKa
4:30 - 5:30 Explosions in the Sky
5:30 - 6:30 Jamie Lidell
6:30 - 7:30 Lupe Fiasco or Broken Social Scene
7:30 - 8:30 Toadies
8:30 - End Rage Against the Machine
Sunday
1:15 - 2:15 The Weakerthans
3:30 - 4:30 Black Kids
4:15 - 5:15 Iron and Wine
5:00 - 6:00 Saul Williams
6:15 - 7:15 Gnarls Barkley
7:15 - 8:15 The National
8:15 - 9:45 Nine Inch Nails
8:30 - End Kanye West
Friday
1:30 - 2:30 What Made Milwaukee Famous
2:30 - 3:30 Vampire Weekend
3:30 - 4:30 CSS
4:30 - 5:30 Gogol Bordello
5:30 - 6:30 Hot Chip
6:30 - 7:30 N.E.R.D
7:30 - 8:15 The Swell Season
8:15 - 9:30 The Mars Volta
9:30 - End Manu Chao
Saturday
3:30 - 4:30 Man Man
4:30 - 5:30 Erykah Badu
5:30 - 6:30 Del the Funky Homosapien
6:30 - 7:30 John Fogerty
7:30 - 8:15 The Black Keys
8:15 - 9:30 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
9:30 - End Beck
Sunday
1:50 - 2:30 Adele
3:30 - 4:30 Stars
4:30 - 5:30 Neko Case
5:30 - 6:30 Okkervil River
6:30 - 7:45 Raconteurs
7:30 - 8:30 Band of Horses
8:30 - End Foo Fighters
Ashley and I took a trip to Houston for the weekend to see Radiohead perform at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. We did a similar trip as a large group about 5 years ago when they were on their Hail to the Thief tour. It was a great show and was very mellow as expected, although they had a fancy light show this time. They performed In Rainbows in its entirety, along with old favorites from OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, etc. The only disappointment was the small number of songs performed from OK Computer. No Paranoid Android, Airbag, or Karma Police? The highlights for me were the “classics” in the encore: You and Whose Army, Street Spirit, Planet Telex, and Idioteque.
Here’s a video of the Nude performance at the show:
Full Setlist
Set 1: 15 Step, Bodysnatchers, Lucky, Morning Bell, Nude, Pyramid Song, Weird Fishes/Apeggi, The Gloaming, National Anthem, Faust Arp, Videotape, Optimistic, Where I End and You Begin, Reckoner, Everything in Its Right Place, All I Need, There There
Encore 1: Jigsaw Falling Into Place, House of Cards, Climbing Up The Walls, Planet Telex, Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Encore 2: You And Whose Army?, Idioteque
The “Afterparty”
After the show we hung out at some bar called Molly’s that was conveniently located in the parking lot of the Super 8 Motel we stayed at. Only the best for us. Ashley took a couple of photos of me at the pub:
I spent the last half of April in San Francisco and had an absolute blast. I stayed in the Pacific Tradewinds Hostel and met some really cool folks from England, France, Germany, Spain, and just about every other European country. I plan to write about this trip at some point, as I had many adventures and it was one of the my best trips ever. Here are some photos.
So I just got back from Las Vegas a couple days ago. Luckily I came out a bit ahead this time, thanks to a couple of these guys:
Results
March Madness is awesome. Ashley and I each had successful 3 game parlays the 1st day, and I hit a 2 gamer the following day. Nice.
The craps went well and was really fun. Even Mike rolled a few points.
I was eliminated from a Holdem’ tournament early when a guy went all-in on a flush draw and I called him. I had the better hand and odds, but the last card was a spade. I hate when that happens.
I’ve decided to never play 3 card poker again. That game is for suckers — unless you are Jason, in which case you will hit a 3-of-a-kind and a straight flush, which pay 30-to-1 and 40-to-1. The most likely scenario is that you will light $100 on fire though.
Texas got destroyed in their Elite 8 game. Pro Tip: Don’t bet on a team to win just because you like that team. Bet on the better team. Yes, this seems like common sense, but everyone in our group bet on Texas. Then we realized that Memphis was 37-1 for a reason.
Kevin and Mindy got married. This was my first “in the wedding” experience.
In other news, Ashley got a job offer in Austin and we just moved into a place on North Loop and Burnet. Now I won’t have to sleep in a different place every 3 days. If you need me, I’ll be unpacking boxes.
Every once in a while, Ashley and I take a short road trip to a random small town in Texas. This weekend it was Kerrville, home of the Kerrville Folk Festival. Was the festival going on this weekend? Nope. Is there anything particularly special about Kerrville? Not really, it’s just fun to hang out in another town sometimes. It’s also really cheap to hang out in another town if that town is not San Francisco or New York. As a bonus, we got to test out the Garmin GPS unit we just got. No more printing those vague Google Maps directions (no offense Google, we love you). We can just get in the car and go.
Daddy, what was it like?
Well let me tell you. We got to Kerrville and walked around the town a bit. We went into some random bookstore which had a really unique collection of books. I’m always surprised places like that actually still exist since it’s hard to see how a small bookstore can be profitable anymore with companies like Amazon around. I looked through some of the field guides on dragonflies since it reminded me of the work I do with John Abbott.
Fun fact: I work on a site called OdonataCentral, a web application dedicated to expanding our knowledge of dragonfly and damselfly species. The site is very cool because it allows citizen scientists to submit photos and latitude/longitude coordinates of species they find in the field so that their distributions can be plotted using the Google Maps API. John Abbott is a biology professor at UT and the curator of entomology at the Texas Memorial Museum. Every month or so I meet him out at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory by Lake Austin. It’s really fun.
Meanwhile, back in Kerrville — After bumming around downtown, we went to Shreiner Park and hung out by the Guadalupe River. It was very peaceful. A kid was fishing with his dad. Ashley was fascinated by a dead goose floating in the water. You could see it’s trachea hanging out. Gross, I know. But she’s a speech therapist, so she is very interested in such things. Weird, I know.
Check out my new haircut. See how it’s shaped like a “V”. The barber did that on her own, I promise. I “went with it”. Notice also how I look like the little cartoon guy on my T-shirt.
Weren’t you hungry?
What trip is complete without some local cuisine? We went to some place called Pampelle’s and had some salads and sandwiches. You know, stuff white people like. Then we hung out at Hastings and read some books and magazines. I bought Ashley a copy of the Omnivore’s Dilemma since Lee from Jason’s Deli mentioned it in a meeting the other night. Since then she’s been talking my ear off about corn. Ha!
Seriously though. Apparently I can’t eat anything anymore because it’s all made of crap. And those Chicken McNuggets we all loved when we were 5 years old are carcinogenic, which explains a lot.
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