I’ve been meaning to write this one up for a while. Right after I got home from Christmas Vacation, I played a gig with Adam at the Red Eyed Fly. We had been told there was a reality show from the BBC coming to film something there, but we didn’t really know what show, or […]
by david on March 21, 2008
So it’s South by Southwest time in Austin, again. As all the major paper “blogs” report, Austin is now full of hipsters, looking for the next big thing. I put “Blogs” in quotes because I don’t think a major paper can actually have a blog. For example, the Chicago Sun-Times has twenty blogs listed on […]
by david on March 17, 2008
I forgot to include a few things from the other night. 1) One thing that really cracked me up was the guy who was giving us instructions over the PA system. If you’ve never heard Barack Obama said with a Texas accent, you haven’t lived. I believe it’s pronounced Buh-Rock. But to this guy, it was […]
by david on March 7, 2008
Forgive the hyperbole. But let me brake this down for you. I’ve voted in four presidential elections. I turned eighteen five months before the 1992 election, so I got to vote in that one. I voted in 1996, 2000, and 2004. But none of my votes really counted. in 1992 and 1996, I was living in […]
by david on March 5, 2008