get glowing

this group from here in austin, l.a.x., opened up for car stereo (wars) at beauty bar last night. i really dug their sound. i thought they were great. i will definitely be checking their myspace for more opportunities to see them again. beauty bar was packed to the gills, as was expected, and hot hot hot. we stayed outside until chris went on even though i think it was more crowded outside than in. we're not very smart. while we were outside we had some fabulous pictures taken by the wonderful nash cook. doug did the glow in the dark backdrop, it was super cool! i can't wait until nash posts the pictures. they're seriously awesome! car stereo (wars) was a freakin' blast. i we were dancing in front of a giant fan and i still felt like i was going to have a heat stroke though. and some lovely lady spilled lonestar ALL over my arm. it was neato. i thought, "neato, i'm not drunk but when i get pulled over later i'm going to stink of beer!" i didn't get pulled over, btw. anyway, back to the show...i think my favorite moment was the oc theme song with lil mama's "lipgloss". holy crap, it was AWESOME!! on the way home we were behind an HEB 18-wheeler on 35. you know, the trucks that say, "follow me to freshness." yeah, except this guy was swervy mcswerverton so it was more like, "follow me to a fiery death." i was legitimately scared for a few minutes. i couldn't go around him because i didn't want him to swerve into my lane but i was scared to be behind him in case he got in an accident with someone else. at one point a fuel truck came up in the lane next to us and HEB guy was swervy towards him! i was scared shitless. those fuel trucks are just bombs waiting to explode. so the fuel truck guy honked his giant horn at the HEB guy. yikes. alright, lunch time. as soon as nash posts the pics i'll put the ones of me and josh up here.

saturday night

let's go! i may or may not have some glow in the dark ideas up my own sleeve. we shall see! it's probably gonna be a $3ish cover to get in. totally doable! and we looooove car stereo (wars)!

creeps

more to come on the rest of the weekend later. but is that not the creepiest shit you've ever seen? wtf? i am a cyclops!!

i've got nothing

that sign says "WARNING STAY BACK 300 FT NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BROKEN WINDSHIELDS". every time i see those i think, "well if i can read this sign i'm obviously not back 300 feet."

moving on...

when you're unemployed "weekends" don't mean that much. the only difference is that all of your friends have a couple of days off as well. i look forward to the weekends but not as much as most people. however, i am REALLY looking forward to this weekend! and thankfully, it pretty much begins tomorrow. kelly is flying in around 5:00 and i'm sure happy hour activities will ensue shortly after. sam is also coming in tomorrow, but she's driving rather than flying. excited doesn't even begin to describe it. kelly AND sam in the same weekend? be still my heart.

and saturday is robin's birthday! yippeee! amber and lolo are being incredibly gracious and letting us party it up at their place for a few hours. then, hopefully, some of us will head to beauty bar (i swear i go to other bars but we've been going there a lot lately because there's been a lot of stuff happening there) to see car stereo (wars). i already wanted to go to that and robin mentioned wanting to go somewhere to dance so i was like, "DUH BEAUTY BAR CAR STEREO (WARS) LET'S DO IT!" just like that. i always have a good time at csw!

now, i'm going to try to scrounge up a sleeping pill so i can catch some zzzz's. my insomnia has gotten really bad lately. i was up until after 4:00am yesterday for no reason. i simply could not fall asleep. i think i'm out of ambien but i'm sure i can find something. if worse comes to worse i'll just take some benadryl.

p to the s-this is tomorrow! (well i guess technically tonight since it's after midnight but whaaaatever.)

festival news

beloved local dj car stereo (wars) has been working with the acl fest to put together a mashup of 29 artists that are confirmed to play this year's festival. i guess this is like the "scavenger hunt" and crossword puzzles they have done in the past. the official lineup comes out next tuesday.

thanks to the ears of austin, so far it looks like the following people will be playing the festival:

okkervil river
man man
silversun pickups
css
NERD
gnarls barkley
the raconteurs
MGMT
jamie lidell
eli reed
neko case
kate nash
hot chip
octopus project
del the funky homosapien
the heartless bastards
robert earl keen

i have no idea who the other 12 are. i also have no idea if i'm even going to go to the festival this year but i thought this mashup was a fun idea so i decided to share it.

in other festival news, lollapalooza has released their official lineup. there are no surprises there. it's pretty much every band that's ever played at a music festival before.