oh, uncurable human-ness

oh, october. how i love thee. you bring us good weather and halloween as well as the austin city limits music festival.

acl was pretty fantastic. but as usual, i met a really cool guy halfway through the last day. what great luck. haha. friday it was supposed to rain, but it was just hot and sunny all day and i got a little toasted. saturday it was overcast and drizzly all day and sunday, zilker park was a giant fishy-smelling mud pit.

highlights:
FUCKING GIRLTALK - girl talk puts on a high energy show with great lighting and lots of crowd participation. if anyone ever gets a chance to see girl talk, GO. it was my third girl talk show and i can say i still genuinely enjoyed myself. i felt like i was going to die waiting for the show to start. after 3 days of music festival festivities, being pounded on by the sun and packed shoulder to shoulder with hot sweaty people for an hour with a small amount of water is very difficult. but i had thought it was going to rain that day, so i had my umbrella. we used it as a sunshield/ fan by moving it up and down and within 5 minutes the crowd looked like a sea of umbrella jellyfish.

the staff walking right by me and tucker blazing- we were smoking pretty far back in the crowd and one of the festival employees walked right next to us and hesitated. we both thought we were going to get kicked out or something but she merely just smiled, winked and carried on. yessss.

the toadies- i was by myself almost the whole day sunday and i took advantage of the oppurtunity to make friends. i worked my way as close to the front of the stage as i could, befriended some friendly stangers and loaded up a few bowls. we jammed to the toadies together (FUCKING INCREDIBLE) and i ended up bonding with one guy over bonnaroo stories. overall, a great success.

mute math- amazing live performance. i was left speechless. go to their shows and prepare to be blown away. the drummer is incredible and the music is just great.

the house of torment- although it is not in acl, i did go to a hounted house while i was in austin. it was in fact, quite creepy. the characters they had were very well portayed and some of them freaked me the fuck out.good scenery, good actors, good lighting, ggood themes, and good costumes. they would jump out of every corner,and since i was brave enough to be in the back, they would follow me and breathe down my neck or just follow me and wait until i noticed and would scare the shit out of me. if they got too close or wouldnt stop harassing me, i would tell them i had swine flu, and in the next flash of the stobe light, they would be nowhere to be seen. i also got a monster to say vagina. and if they would breathe on my neck too much, i would blow in their faces or roar at them. i left the haunted house laughing. i win this time, terror.

the yeah yeah yeahs- so basically karen o. is my idol. the end.

my all night philisophical conversation with tucker- although we kept alex up the whole night, tucker and i had a super awesome all night convo about my favorite topics of conversation from death, religion, astronomy, armageddon, philosophy, politics, to drugs. everything. so high five to you, tucker, for being an awesome person to share ideas with.

so overall i had a very fun and eventful 4 day weekend in the ATX. tomorrow i shall return to the real house of torment, lamar, where there is probably swine flu oozing from the walls and blowing in my teachers faces wont make them leave. boo.

the countdown to ACL '10 has begun.

p.s. drank really does slow your roll. i came home and passed out. im a huge fan. not to mention its yummy and purple. score for drank.