picture party

tristan and newcomer nick from the headlights show last night. gorgeous dudes, man. gorgeous dudes.

taking a moment to myself after a long and beautiful walk from the hyatt across the river. not-downtown austin is really wonderful. i gotta thank jeff for helping me make a game-time decision after seeing tilly and the wall at club deville: 5 pm local in-store performance by band of horses? or a 4:30-5:30 triple set by john vanderslice, jason collett (of broken social scene) and the long winters? after some back and forth, he picked band of horses and i couldn't have been happier with the call. here's a pic from the in-store at end of an ear. awesome place. awesome band. first and only cd i've bought this week.



silversun pickups from last night:



beautiful downtown tonight:



something i haven't mentioned yet are the birds. goddamn craziest sounding birds i've ever heard in this town. even from inside the convention center and at nearly 8 pm, i can here them going nuts outside. i wish i had some way of recording them for sufie and bring him home a little austin lovin.

here's that stupid girl with the cupcake lip:



oh yeah, this happened too...



hah! i'll have to save the story for later. right now, i'm off to see jose again, then superchunk and the cribs. i may be weighing food money for tomorrow against drink money tonight, i'm quite parched... ;)

thanks for checking up on me while i'm down here, guys, it's been really fun for me and i really appreciate it. i don't know if i'll be able to post again before i leave or not, but i have one special stop to make in houston i'll try posting after. we'll see.

adios!