The final day of ACL started out rough. I managed to get 8 hours of sleep, but when I woke up I felt like getting out of bed was the last thing I wanted to do! My body was sore, my throat was dry, my nose was stuffy, my eyes were heavy… I remember thinking, “Am I really going to go through another full day of ACL? Really?”
After an hour of being awake, I felt much better and had gathered the energy to make the 1.5-mile trek to Zilker. I missed a little bit of Yo La Tengo’s set, but…
I’m more than halfway through my music/ultimate/work marathon. Here’s the recap so far:
Spoon @ La Zona Rosa Thurs 9/13
Granted, I haven’t seen 18 Spoon shows like I have of Guster, but this was by far the best Spoon show I’ve seen to date (I’ve now seen them 5 times, if you count the Britt Daniel solo show). As I anticipated for a smaller show in their hometown, they played a fair amount of older material from A Series of Sneaks (Metal Detektor!!! Minor Tough, Quincy Punk). Of course, they also played the entire new Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga album,…
If you live in or near Texas and were planning on buying some stuff at some point, you should buy that stuff this weekend. Fri-Sat-Sun are the Sales Tax Holiday for TX folk. It doesn’t include everything, but it includes a lot. I plan on doing a lot of spending this weekend. Basically, all that stuff about which I’ve told myself, “Man, I really want that, I totally need one of those, maybe I should get that for myself, I’ve totally been meaning to get this…” but haven’t done anything about it for months and months (Chaco sandals, more polarized sunglasses,…
I’ve now been at the Statesman for one whole year! It seems so crazy, that it’s been a year already. I still feel like a newbie, though - to the Statesman and to Austin in general. There is, and probably will always be, so much more to learn and explore.
FYI: California pictures have been posted in my gallery!
What a great feeling to wake up this morning and see “The Schedule is Out!” in my inbox. Check it out: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
The first thing I looked up? Wilco and The White Stripes. Big sigh of relief - they’re not even playing on the same day! And of course Spoon… woohoo! But things are still going to be tough. I have to choose between Bjork and The Killers??? Sunday’s a killer. I’m going to see Wilco (too bad My Morning Jacket is at the same time), but right after that Ghostland and The Decemberists are on…
So today is supposedly the day us UVA fans find out if we can expect another thrilling year of UVA-and-Singletary basketball for 2007-08. Apparently, Sean is now driving back to VA to tell coach Leitao of his decision before announcing. Argh, it’s like every minute of waiting is shortening my life. I keep refreshing TheSabre and news sites. I’ve even thought about sending him a message on Facebook (completely utterly ridiculous idea, thank goodness I didn’t do it). I do understand that it’s a really tough decision though, and for that I applaud that he has taken his time. I…