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There she blows. Today I spent uploading this lady. I've slep ten hours in three days and it shows. We finally got some cat food for Puerto Rico. She's been hanging out a lot. She sort of comes in then runs outside for no reason and rolls in dirt then comes back in just to leave. I'm going to spend tomorrow cleaning the house. I'm not sure if the "We just moved in" excuse is still valid.

Dreamweaver's taking its time

I'm uploading my website to my server right now... So this blog may not exist for too long. Or at least maybe in another place. The site's not done, but the four main pages are and I've decided to stop for tonight since its 4 and we have to pick up Malicen and Ruby at the airport tomorrow at 11. Then get lunch and its back to work. This has been good though. I've spent a lot of time exploring the programs I've been slobbing through since highschool. Check out the new Soft Intelligence posters once they're up. Soft Intelligence being my band/video project with Caitlin. More on that as it develops.

Tomorrow I'm picking up tickets for Man Man and Quintron (which is a Halloween show!), total cost: $21. Some things are great here.

Last night we couldn't get in to see Interpol and more importantly Liars, since it sold out almost a month ago. So instead we packed a couple beers and sat on the top of a parking garage across the street. It was an outdoor show and even though we couldn't see them, the sound was perfect. And on top of a parking garage is the one place where nobody thinks to look. Nobody being pedestrians. We saw some fun stuff. Drunk girls walking at a 30 degree angle, shirtless guys doing laps on single speeds, pedicabs doing laps with nobody getting on then the peddler getting off their cab trying to get into the show then getting denied and sitting in his cab waiting for the show to get out.

Some guy snuck onto some adjacent buildings that had a better vantage point in that from there you could actually see bands, and a place we considered sneaking up on to. We watched him flee security as we biked home.

The good news is there seems to be a good flow of people coming through. This weekend brings Malicen and Ruby Khan. Next week the brodukes and Theresa are passing through for a few hours. A few weeks later Caitlin's sister will be here for a weekend. And supposedly a certain John Dewey Leone should be stay for a week in November. I meant to call him tonight. I guess it'll wait.

VIRTUAL TOUR!

Here's the house! Note the rags and debris we haven't taken care of yet. And the all around disarray of the place, since we don't have shelves or anything to put stuff on. Its ugly and it leans but its nice and its ours. The ugly neighborhood cat just let Caitlin pet it. I'm naming him Puerto Rico.



I got a bike! Its got a flip-flop back wheel (one side is a singlespeed freewheel, the other is fixed), good brakes, good parts and short bullhorn handlebars like I wanted. Its exactly the bike I was going to build but now don't have to. I took it for a spin earlier and its super tight. The chick who sold it to me was awesome, too. Her name was CJ and her boyfriend is aparently in an awesome stoner metal band with a complicated name that I wrote down and have since forgotten. I'm going to paint it since a teal bike really isn't my deal.



This is our show! The opening is in two hours and I hope to meet a lot of cool, motivated people. I'm especially interested meeting the people who run Collective RERT, the home-gallery people.

So that's that. More when it happens.

We're in an art show

Yes, sir. And apaprently there's a whole collective down here of people with the same goal as Caitlin and I: to have shows out of the home. So we'll be meeting them. The show is friday. I have two drawings, I might make some more and Caitlin put 6 or 7 in. Wish us luck. For no reason. Since we're already in it. I'll post a flyer later.

Good news, everyone!

The house gets free internet! The place is a charmer. Today we spent scrubbing the floors and getting all the old plaster off them, then scrubbing the tub and the toilet (out in the street, for all to see). We put the toilet in but had some troubles with the sink, Bob got a new one and its not lining up with the existing pipe, so he has to go get some flexible hose tomorrow. So we have no sink, but we do have hot water and just took showers, but the AC isn't working yet since he also got the wrong size filters for the intake duct. But the ceiling fan is new and nice and the windows open (they need to be rescreened and giant moths are swooping in)and we just got a mattress from IKEA which is really nice. Its not the one we wanted as that was obviously sold out, but its cheaper. And thinner. But still nice. We have a nice stack of pillows too. In a couple days we'll go back and get some house stuff which will be very nice.



The Departed was excellent.

Tomorrow: Finishing the kitchen and bathroom, scrubbing the gallery, and a little bit of organizing.

One more day of hotels thank god

So spent the last days sitting in the Extended Stay till the afternoon, getting Puffy Tacos then driving the twenty minutes from Round Rock to Austin, applying for jobs, looking at nice houses, and being amazed at how many mascots here have sunglasses. "Ah, dragon with sunglasses, mushroom with sunglasses, snow-cone (caitlin's favorite, picture later) with sunglasses..." None of those are jokes. Then we go back to the room and watch movies or Arrested Development or Futurama then go to bed. We did this because we thought the house would be done by today but since we are now in the Walnut Forest Motor Inn, it isn't. Our landlord, Nice Guy Bob, had to leave town for a few days for family stuff up in Oklahoma, but he said he'd have some guys go to the house to paint and sand the floors. They never showed up. So today was spent with Caitlin and I being little homeowners and painting our walls (two light brown, one white for the gallery, and the kitchen is a lovely yellow) and then I got to be a man and scrape out all the old black caulk from the tub and recaulk all the seams.

We took a break and went to an ok greek place on Guadalupe. Then we worked until about eight thirty and spent the next two hours trying to find a cheap place to stay, since by now we've both spent at least 350 on hotel rooms; many thanks to everyone who's helped me out in that respect. So the first place we tried was this Motor Lodge that as soon as we pulled in we could feel the low bass hum of warning brewing up from within the earth. We were stared down by a man at the teller window, not the teller, but some 50 year old getting a room. We walked up and notice he was with a girl I'd love to say was at least 16 but I have no idea. Your conclusions in regards to that are your own. When he said "how y'all doing?" to us we both thought "did you have to?" but said "just fine." He then through vulgar, sexual comments to the 60 year old fat lady behind the counter, while his lady laughed. It was incredibly upsetting. One of those rare occasions where you think in the past that you've met a sociopath, only to actually meet one and know that you need to get away from him as soon as possible because he doesn't care about anything. The scariest person alive. Other than that there was a guy lying down by the pool, yes pool, with his thousand pound girlfriend dripping over the fence onto him. As we pulled right the fuck out of there, we had just enough time to see a shirtless monster loom in a doorway with no lights on inside. Jesus.


No place is perfect.

So we cam to the Walnut Forest which is very cute and nice and we talked to a guy who had the misfortune of spending last night at the palce I just talked about, it is thirty bucks a night, but some things aren't worth anything. "Just nasty" is what he had to say, the business man from Lubbock. This room is a little smoky and hasn't changed ever.The curtains won't close, but these photos were shot there.



Tomorrow I install the toilet and sink, then we finally empty the car after two weeks of torture and we go to Ikea and buy a damn bed.

Good night! Tonight we watch The Departed.

By the way

My copy had German subtitles

Grindhouse was awesome. We watched the first half last night and its like that whole thing with bands now where people are realizing they can just make things awesome. The whole movie is just dudes being bad ass and heads exploding.

Same thing goes for Smokin Aces. With less heads exploding and more semblance of plot.

We have a membership to an amazing video store now that has several out of pront John Waters and Ken Russels movies.

Man Man is playing in October and Liars is playing in two weeks. At a place half the size of TT's.

Its been hot, obviously, but not too bad, if you were wondering.


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