Entry One: Welcome
After resisting this blog stuff for however long it's been trendy, I've decided to break down and post some entries. I actually used to blog before most of you were born, way back when the Internet was just becoming popular among people besides sundry ex-boyfriends of mine and the Gore family. I blogged via email. So maybe I actually spammed. Whatever. I'm back.
What really made me want to start an online column again is the Modest Mouse show I attended last week. It was an Austin City Limits taping which means, when the house is full, there are about 300 people total. Then season ticket holders who are frightened by Modest Mouse or sleepy because it's past nine o'clock all go home. Which means you are then in the room with the band and about fifty people.
Isaac Brock is a genuinely weird dude. Very refreshing. He sings like a cross between Steve Forbert and Kip Dynamite. He kept focusing in on the guy two seats down from me and saying, "You look like my dad. You're freaking me out, man." Before I decided he really was weird and wasn't just acting, I thought, after a while, "Okay, enough with the you look like my dad," routine.
But then, the next night, I went to see a documentary by my friend David Layton. The doc is called Hot Shoe about card counting in Vegas. (I just did a typo and wrote Vegan. Now I want to write a song called Viva Las Vegans!) Anyway, David interviewd a guy named Tommy Hylander who lookes EXACTLY like my dad except Hylander has teeth. Suddenly I had deep empathy for Isaac Brock.
Speaking of documentaries, my friend Lisa Kaselak made a GREAT one called, "The Soup Peddler." Some of it is based on a story I wrote about The Soup Peddler, local South Austin hero David Ansel. Not only does he make fine soups, he also maintains my web site. His web site is www.thesouppeddler.com "The Soup Peddler" is Airing in Austin this Sunday night, December 19th at 5 p.m. Please don't miss it.
Lisa and I are making preparations to collaborate on a documentary about the no-holds-barred world of competitive quilting. If you would like to be a sponsor by donating cash, frequent flyer miles, or some other thing that would help us defray costs, please do not be shy about saying so.
That is the end of today's entry. Please stay tuned for another entry: "My First Amendment Rights Get Pooped On: A Trilogy" coming to this space very very soon.
What really made me want to start an online column again is the Modest Mouse show I attended last week. It was an Austin City Limits taping which means, when the house is full, there are about 300 people total. Then season ticket holders who are frightened by Modest Mouse or sleepy because it's past nine o'clock all go home. Which means you are then in the room with the band and about fifty people.
Isaac Brock is a genuinely weird dude. Very refreshing. He sings like a cross between Steve Forbert and Kip Dynamite. He kept focusing in on the guy two seats down from me and saying, "You look like my dad. You're freaking me out, man." Before I decided he really was weird and wasn't just acting, I thought, after a while, "Okay, enough with the you look like my dad," routine.
But then, the next night, I went to see a documentary by my friend David Layton. The doc is called Hot Shoe about card counting in Vegas. (I just did a typo and wrote Vegan. Now I want to write a song called Viva Las Vegans!) Anyway, David interviewd a guy named Tommy Hylander who lookes EXACTLY like my dad except Hylander has teeth. Suddenly I had deep empathy for Isaac Brock.
Speaking of documentaries, my friend Lisa Kaselak made a GREAT one called, "The Soup Peddler." Some of it is based on a story I wrote about The Soup Peddler, local South Austin hero David Ansel. Not only does he make fine soups, he also maintains my web site. His web site is www.thesouppeddler.com "The Soup Peddler" is Airing in Austin this Sunday night, December 19th at 5 p.m. Please don't miss it.
Lisa and I are making preparations to collaborate on a documentary about the no-holds-barred world of competitive quilting. If you would like to be a sponsor by donating cash, frequent flyer miles, or some other thing that would help us defray costs, please do not be shy about saying so.
That is the end of today's entry. Please stay tuned for another entry: "My First Amendment Rights Get Pooped On: A Trilogy" coming to this space very very soon.
1 Comments:
¡¡¡hello!!!! I´m Silvia.I´m spanish
and I love the "spike´s books" to school.My school is public & your´s
pictures it´s very beatifull.
traduccion:
¡¡¡hola!!!!Me llamo Silvia, soy española y me gustan los libros bug
Mi colegio es público y los dibujos que haceis son muy bonitos
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