Friday – Snippy and I ran our errands. We made it down to the park at about 2:30.

The Music:

• Deadboy and the Elephantmen. Only saw two songs – but excellent.
• We passed by Tristan Prettyman – too pretty to sing, should find an acting job.
• Wolf Parade – never heard of them before, just passed by. Really liked them and will be checking them out.
• Matt Nathanson – Snippy’s suggestion – funny guy. The only person we saw all weekend with a stage presence that we didn’t want to throw something at when they talked.
• Gnarls Barkley. Didn’t make me “crazy”.
• We ate then got to see Thievery Corporation – my favorite show of the day. Didn’t know them before, will also be checking out.
• We were told to go check out a band called The Tragically Hip – totally not for me. Just loud yelling. “Loud noises – loud NOISES“.
• Finally, John Mayer – I’ve heard endless conversations about how good John Mayer is live, but to me exactly the same as on the CD isn’t extraordinary.
• Van Morrison ended the night. Apparently, Van Morrison is 852 years old and is sick of singing the songs everyone knows.

The Festival:

• Ran out of pizza
• Had pretty clean toilets
• Wasn’t TOO hot
• People dance funny
• We shared our hand sanitizer
• Fell asleep as soon as we got home to be ready for tomorrow!!

Since last night is now know as “The night I’d prefer to never talk about again and so help me DO NOT even TALK about football”, like any night when the Longhorns lose, let’s move on to a happier discussion:

Austin City Limits.

In my dream world, SC, MK, and I will neither be iffy nor sleepy nor too thirsty nor need to use the port-o-potty hardly ever. We WILL, however, make it to all the shows we want to see and the bands we like will play all our favorite songs and we will dance and snippy will take amazing photos and everything will be perfect.


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Here’s hoping!

I love music. Blues on the Green last night got me excited. I can’t wait for ACL! The lineup came out today. I’ve got a highlighter and tape to self laminate the color printed maps and schedules I’ve printed.

Blues on the Green is a concert series they set up at Zilker Park downtown. I’ve never been to a concert where I was able to pay less attention to the music. There were way more people than I had expected and I’m surprised this is the first time I went (and that it was Velvet’s idea). They had a great setup going – vendors and that sort of stuff – and the night cooled down perfectly.

I’ve made the improvement to my ACL plan to actually bring stuff this time and stop trying to tough out three days in the sun sans luggage. Mike, my husband, is a great concert companion since he does not actually care what we listen to, as it all sounds like “hippie crap” to him. At least he doesn’t whine.


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