Wednesday, October 8, 2008

austin: day four

it's amazing how much long days in the sun wear you out. luckily we had lots of great music to look forward to on sunday. that and being able to watch the skins game in cowboy territory, but more on that later.

here's who we saw on day three of the festival: priscilla ahn (filling in for adele, but very impressive nonetheless), tristan prettyman, gillian welch, start, xavier rudd, silversun pickups (i still don't get their appeal), blues traveler, okkervil river, gnarls barkley, the raconteurs, band of horses, tegan and sara and the headining foo fighters. we only got to see half of a lot of the sets since a lot of the sets we wanted to see were overlapping. but i really liked band of horses - perfect music to listen to just as it's getting dark. minus all the crazy drunk people making tall towers out of their day's worth of beer cans. ugh.

keep austin weird of the night: when walking home from the concert that night we passed what is possibly the best sign of life. it's for a business called mermaids, which has private hot tub rentals by the hour. ok, granted this is the most disgusting sounding thing ever - i'm pretty sure sitting in a hot tub after the weekend we had would have felt amazing. but don't worry - we didn't.

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