Austin Week 2

Week Two in Austin. Starting to feel like I know my way around a little bit, have to take fewer notes at work, and I'm starting to remember some names. Improvement over week one.


I really cannot remember what every day was, because I feel like we do so much every day. I know we went to The Parlour for pizzas and beer...on Thursday maybe? Crystal met us there and then we walked across the street to the Hyde Park Theatre to watch "The Atheist" which is a one-man play that an actor Tomas/Crystal know performed. After that we all headed over to Mohawk to check out a show James had booked for a bunch of local bands.


Then - FRIDAY!!! Joe & Lauren flew into town to visit his family and James & I reaped the benefits. James worked, so I stole Joe & Lauren and brought them to a few of my fave places around town. We hit the Good Knight (which is a little like the Red Stag, but much smaller), Shangri-La (where we sat outside on the back patio because it was so nice out), The Highball to meet Randy and listen to Kellen spin, and then finally Plush so Joe could check it out.


Saturday we went to Black Sheep Drafthouse for some food/drinks in the afternoon and then over to the Austin Art Garage. We wandered into a few boutiques and then made our way downtown for coffee and later sushi. After lining our stomachs with delicious fish & rice we split up with the plan of meeting back in an hour at Dirty Bill's for drinks before Joe had to be at Plush to play.





Dirty Bill's LIMO...took this over to Plush after some dranks >>>

Kellen's laptop crapped out on him last week and he pretty much lost everything on it. Rocking the desktop. KILLING IT>>>

Somehow didn't get a single pic of Joe/Lauren/James/Me at Plush...but here are some pics from the after-party at The Music Gym. For those of you coming to sxsw from MPLS - you'll be partying until the wee hours here.

Family Time Brunch at Woodland on South Congress:

Found the EXACT same finger puppets that Sam bought in CHI 2 years ago:

Sunday Night @ Red7...Look Mexico CD Release party...I grilled up 40 burgers for the show and basically had a great time. Missed ribs @ Joe's place...next time.

Had lunch with Joe/Lauren, and Joe's parents on Monday and then they headed back to MPLS. Sunday was an absolutely gorgeous day, in the 70's - and then Tuesday we woke up to this:

Snowball fight at work. That's Tatjana and Rachel.

Jill and Rachel with the first snowman they've ever built. People were geeking out over the snow...one guy told me it hadn't snowed this much in 10 years. Also, lots of people went home early from work and schools let out at noon.
Week 2 down. Bout to get on a plane for MPLS tonight...see you all soon.

Then it's moving day...round 2.