That was what the weekend for me was all about. Friday night we played at the Rock the Ovaries benefit along with Mira Radar and Kick It! who were all excellent. Ledaswan ended up closing out the evening’s festivities. We had a rowdy group upfront that were slam dancing and stage diving through our set. This was the first time this had ever happend during one of our shows, so it was exciting and funny at the same time. Unfortunately, my sister (who was taking pictures during the show) said the battery on my camera ran out before the stagediving started…so no pictures of that. Dammit!!!
Saturday was our friends birthday.
Oni lives in Austin, so a road trip had been planned earlier in the week. Erica and I leave here about 630pm and make the one hour trek to Austin, TX. At 1030pm we arrived at Oni’s house (which by the way is where they filmed the movie ‘Teeth’, so yes I was partying at that house). The fridge was full of beer and by the end of the night David and I were too. Erica and Lisa stopped drinking a lot earlier, but apparently we don’t know when to stop (or according to David, I don’t).
We left and spent the night at Lisa’s house in her spare bedroom (thanks Lisa!)
Sometime during lunch on Sunday, it was mentioned that there is an Ikea in Round Rock. Now, I knew this but had never given it a second thought. We were going to leave right after lunch, but we decided to go check it out. Why not? Well, we kind of went crazy in there for a bit. You would seriously have to spend an entire day to see everything. and they have everything. Everything you can think of for your home, room, bathroom, kitchen…etc. We were smart enough to leave without spending under $100. But the next trip has already been planned. Erica must have this desk she saw there and I will certainly take advantage of that and get some other things I spied while there. For now I am very happy with our new lamps that we got.
Oh yeah. One more thing. My Chemical Romance is playing Stubb’s in Austin on Monday, April 28th. I am so going, but nobody else seems to want to go. I see these guys twice last year. Both times were at big places. AT&T Center and Verizon. Stubb’s is a small place only holding about 2000 people so it will be even better. Fuck it, I guess I will go alone.
Oh and one more thing. While listening to the radio in austin I heard that you can get writsbands to SXSW soon. You enter your name and billing info into their website and if you’re one of the lucky people drawn then you are charged $139 for each wristband (limit 2). In order to be eligible to buy them you have to have an Austin address. So does that mean they only want Austin people to be able to attend? What about if you want to take the week off to go to SXSW and see lots of bands, but you don’t live there? I wasn’t planning on buying a wristband anyways, but sounds kind of weird to me. I am going to make it up there, but probably for some select shows.
