Saw the most awesome caution sign ever today on Lavaca:

CAUTION: MOVIE RAIN, ROADS MAY BE SLICK

Movie rain! They're filming something here...not sure if it's the Tarantino project (though the place they were shooting at looked like it could've been straight out of one of his movies). Unfortunately we did not actually get pelted by any movie rain

I went to my orientation for the SWC Writing Mentor job today. They fed us, and it pretty much sounds like the job is what I like to do anyway (which is to say, exert my superior intellect in a last-ditch fit of alpha maleness). The class I'm mentoring is a Freshman Seminar called Explore UT. I met with the professor, Dr. Bump, for a while today ( Read more... )

So I was in AutoZone today and what should they be playing but...the Arcade Fire. Immediately preceded by "Bullet with Butterfly Wings."

Don't say I didn't call this one two years ago.

I gotta tell you about CHANGE-Texas. It was AWESOME ( Read more... )

Coming home wasn't so easy ( Read more... )

Athens popfest. Too cool to describe quickly. So many awesome bands. New friends. We rocked the house tonight.

We're coming home.

On the night that I posted, we went to this random birthday party with a flaming pinata, a screening of all twelve "Trapped in the Closet" videos, a BBQ, and way more ( Read more... )

Backlog: Day 21 was actually a Fishboy solo show at Mickey Finn's in Toledo with some other artists I'll remember later. Remind me to fill in this info ( Read more... )

We sat around in Toledo.

(there might be a Columbus solo show tonight)

Played in Milwaukee at an artspace. Crazy stuff, including a video piece of a girl stripping naked and covering herself in paint. Also, this is my new favorite idea: a bunch of people came in wearing explorer gear, and one guy was in a loincloth and facepaint, and they were walking aroun town all night pretending to be on an expedition. It was ( Read more... )