Friday started out bright and early at around 2, meeting up with the crew at the Little Radio party at the Red Eyed Fly. It wasn’t all that happening, but I did pick up a koozie and a free CD from them. We wandered from there when the music started to make us doze off a bit. We got in to Emo’s at the most perfect time, hardly having to wait in the line that was forming. You know the day is going to be good when you start with Sparks for breakfast:

The bands we saw were absolutely great. Menomena, Girl Talk, and Peter, Bjorn, and John, the band I’d been hearing all the buzz about.

I really liked the sound of Menomena (Men-oh-mean-ah, not mahnamahna, like I kept saying). Girl Talk I had never heard of, but whenever a guy gets on a stage with just a computer I’m always wondering what he’s really doing up there. It also seems odd to me that all those super scene-y people listen to all the pop music, I pictured them turning up their noses in disgust, but the were all dancing fools. Peter, Bjorn, and John didn’t really do it for me, but I’ll still be checking out the CD, realizing I’ll probably enjoy it at home with some wine instead of at an outdoor stage with a woman talking behind me the whole time and knocking me in the head with her camera. I also will call them PB and J. That makes me laugh.

*IMPORTANT PART OF THIS STORY THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ:*

I got introduced to some new friends and we were all just standing in the street when what to my wondrous eyes should appear than PEREZ HILTON, with bright pink dyed hair:

Does it look like I chased him down and forced a photo? Well, that’s because I did. He’s the most famous blogger I can think of, and he now graces the pages here at somegosoftly.

*END IMPORTANT PART OF THIS STORY.*

People are always taking pictures with the Frost Bank Tower in them, I figured I’d get you all one:

JC and I then checked out a band here at the outside Pure Volume stage, then met KD, and had some Brick Oven for dinner and saw some of the UT game on our way to the Diesel party. There we saw another great line up: David Vandervelde, The Epochs, Illinois, Matt & Kim, Tokyo Police Club, and Girl Talk again. I would recommend all of that music. The party was great and the (free!) drinks were nice. It might have been a little too much for some people, it got a little dirty in there:

You may be thinking to yourself, that place doesn’t look very full or fun. It got crazy packed and turned into a giant party, but I took this pic while Girl Talk was on, so everyone was dancing.

Let me show you before he started:

And then after:

That’s right, people rushed the stage. Girls were in prom dresses. Everyone shook their moneymakers. Good times were had. Shirts were removed. From men and women. (No pics of that, sorry!)

We managed to make it outside after all that craziness and viewed the phenomenon of the free ice cream truck. It certainly became the hit of the week. It’s sad to realize there’s only one more day of this to go…