ACL Fest!!

Another long sun and beer soaked weekend in Zilker Park for the 2011 ACL Music Festival. Highlights include SPOON, Sonic Youth, The Strokes, The National , TV Torso, Trombone Shorty, and The Sword. Colby and Kris came down from Seattle and while Colby and I were rocking out Mindy and Kris had a leisurely weekend of pedicures, wine tasting, movies, and talking. Who do you think had a better weekend? It was great to see them and now its back to reality.

Shiny Empire

And now for your listening enjoyment....

http://www.shinyempire.net/music/

ROCK'N'ROLL

Just got done recording some more tracks at Public HiFi last week. On to mastering this week and then to the Interwebs for your listening enjoyment. I'll post all the details soon.

This weekend ACL Festival with my brother. Should be great weather and some good bands. TV Torso, Chief, SPOON, South Youth, The Strokes, Broken Bells, The National. Most excited to see Sonic Youth Saturday night at an after-festival show. Almost all the bands play additional shows at clubs downtown for those who want a non-festival experience. So i'll get to see them twice. Who knows maybe yours truly will be gracing the stage at ACL 2011.

Stay tuned to the left of the dial....

Making Babies...

Guess I can expect the frog population in my pond to explode in about 20 days.

Lucky little guy...

Opening Day

Well its that time of year again when the doves are flying. The opening of hunting season starts with Doves which is a nice way to get back in the groove. I managed to knock down 10 the first day and will be back out this afternoon. Conditions today are much better with cloudy skies and cooler temps. It's bag limit time!

Maybe One Mile High

Another stellar trip to CO. Got to spend time with old friends whom I haven't seen in awhile and meet some new friends. Highlights include the Rockies game (don't ask me the score), the FRUN- which is a good way to realize how old you actually are and that heavy drinking at 10am could take a toll on you for the rest of the day, and of course SUPERCHUNK. They still got it! Oh yes. Lots of gems in the set list and a pretty good crowd. If you could see through the medicinal haze.

My first SUPERCHUNK show was in 1992 and I have seen dozens since. And they have usually always involved FRAZ, Dave, Opel, Harris, and the like. Now that we are older and SUPERCHUNK is older and don't tour much, shows tend to revolve around random dates in random cities. Making it even better. The music is still great, my friends are still great, and this weekend was a great time. Kudos to those of you that made it happen.

See you in Omaha!

Beach Bust

well i should be waking up on the beach inside my tent this morning. however with a 20 mph wind, high seas, and kelp in the water, fishing was a no go this weekend. as soon as i got out of the truck i was covered with that wind blown salt spray and everything had a fine layer of sand covering it. mmmm, maybe i should turn around right now. but i didn't. casted three times, lost one hook setup and called it a day. showered at the visitor center the next morning and high tailed it back to austin.

better luck next time.