My Morning Headache

xenophile

i actually spent day 2 of sxsw resting up. turns out, i should've dragged my tired ass out. i ended up missing an incredible show with the dresden dolls, so McP keeps telling me. looking back, i also missed morrissey, headphones, xiu xiu, the crystal skulls, chinup chinup, the gossip, goldfrapp, the lovemakers, new ams and pong. :) dammit.

so, st. paddy's day, drinking starts at 2 for me, 12:30 for McP, who's whole team took the day off to watch basketball. dave'n'busters, then ringers. i parked in the scariest parking lot and drove up the exit ramp trying to figure out what was going on. :) we thought we were gonna die. next time, i'd gladly pay the $10 to park in a garage with lights and stairs. i had my first green beer ever, budlight with food coloring...yeh. i didn't have another.

then brian met us at the driskill for an acoustic showcase. the line up: little things (a little like the doors, a little good) raina maria (McP was blown away, it seemed) mohair (brit-rock, very beatles sounding to me, better than average) nicklecreek (haunting singer-songwriter sound with nonconventional instruments that only brian knows about. really good, but i didn't like when all three singers would sing together. they're great live though, moves you across the spectrum.) this showcase ended with mohair and nicklecreek doing a radiohead cover. i don't know the name of the song they did, but it was un-fucking-believable. the funky bass-cellist for nicklecreek even did a hambone solo. :) the crowd went wild. even brian was impressed, and THAT'S impressive!

i've been told to eat at the driskill cafe before, because of my fetish with beautiful buildings. it indeed was a very beautiful building. the bartender in the cafe turned out to be from houston and was a big deep-sea fisherman. he kept me company while i ate my turkey blt and gave me a hot tip on where to go for big bass. being an asian girl is the best.

brian, McP and i went to the sidebar for some drinks and then spilt ways. brian went to silver sun something. i wanted to see okgo (yes, again.) and nightmare of you. McP wanted to see an irish showcase at the SoHo lounge. i was hoping to see some cute irish boys, so i went with him. we heard Butterfly Explosion from a downstairs couch (that was AWESOME) and started checking out the ladies. :) i saw one of the hottest asses i'd seen....maybe ever. McP pointed out that the singer kinda sounded like brian. after that, neither of us could hear anything but brian singing. :) he was alright.

:) i'm an ass-man myself. McP claims he's a "total package" kinda guy. who isn't? objective: find the perfect ass. this went on for the rest of the night, except when we were joined with two ladies interested in okgo. we all waited at the wrong place til we got to the front of the line, went to the right place, waited in a herd there (herd=non-structured "lines" that don't moove), got to the front of that line and then they reached capacity. so we stopped at the troubador nextdoor for a beer and got to catch some garage sounding band, fronted by a guy who thought he was kurt cobain.

the girls left. we checkedout more honies and headed to exodus for nightmare of you. :) the doorman let me sneak in. score! we celebrated with shots, got to watch some basketball and seinfeld while Duels played. i really liked them a lot. music, voice, beat, all great. then nightmare of you came on. they're fucking crazy live. the guitarist, who i once thought looked like jason case, was so hot! :) he now looks a little like a cross between donnie darko and pee-wee herman. :) m'hmm....anyway, they're very energetic live, the singer did his pterodactyl screeches and the rest of the band was jumping around, sweating, cutting themselves and kept it rockin' the whole time. :) i found a lollapalooza coozie for my beer.

we bumped into brian and gus on the way somewhere. brian got jumped and took off for hellogoodbye. then we stood in line for the best wurst before heading home. i had been drinking a little and couldn't take smelling the awesomeness any more. it was pretty good. i dropped my last bite, but didn't cry about it. best wurst is now my food of choice on 6th street.

it was strange to see families with little children walking around downtown. i don't know if they were going to shows or if they were just out to see the parade of freaks. there were tons of older people wandering about, a few blind people, people with crutches (they must've gotten really good parking), religious fanatics, party people, street bums and ofcourse, the imported indie scensters. the streets were packed. every trash canister, corner and gutter was brimming with stickers, postcards and debris of the like. i generally hate large crowds of people and i can't stand waiting in line for longer than it takes to drink a can of sodapop!, but there was something really fun on the streets that night. and i felt very inlove with austin, tx.

posted by xuan @ 3/18/2006 08:18:00 PM