GenXer

I think that’s a thing now. I saw Isbell in May and his new album dropped in June. I’m seeing Stapleton in Oct, and his new album drops in Nov.

All that was missing was a tap on the broken microphone.

Just saw that Gary Clark Jr is doing new years eve at ACL Live. I’d like him to do a show in dallas.

I’ve had my Briggs and Riley since ‘98. I paid $400 for it. I have 1.5 million miles on American and some 250k on Delta. I’ve sent it in to get the zipper repaired twice. It’s a damn good bag and worth the price.

Again, thanks for the recs. We’re staying at Stanton House. They too recommended Elemi.

If I understand correctly, punks are lousy electricians. I will keep this in mind for my future electrician needs.

I’ve tested positive once in Sept of last year. I’m certain that I got in Feb 2020. No testing available at that time. in 2020, we had an enterprise software go-live and the implementation team (8 of us) were working in a war room the entire week. On Wed, one of the consultants said he was getting dizzy and had to leave the room. 5 days later, my temp was very high. Last Sept, we had family visit (7 kids). 5 days later, I got a headache that was concentrated in my nose. Home test came back positive. I work from home so it’s easy to isolate. I’m a 54 yr old type 1 diabetic and give myself 4-5 shots a day. Firm believer in modern medicine. I always get a flu shot, and I got vaccinated as early as possible. Had one booster, and it’s time for another. I’m a pin cushion.

Digging those Wine Lips and Sgt. Papers tunes. Wine Lips came through Norman and Austin but skipped Dallas in april. I was kinda bummed about that. I’m going to Off With Their Heads on Fri in deep ellum.

Went to Ft Worth last weekend for the Pearl Jam concert. Wife and I each picked up a pair at Rod Patrick’s. My first pair of full quills.

Three recs for L&J Cafe on the surl = sold for me. In on those carnitas.

This looks legit

Thanks for the food recs. Is there a cultural area there for shopping and/or bars?

Wife and I are going to the Foo Fighters concert in El Paso in a couple of weeks. I was there once on a cross-country Clark Griswold style vacation; I was in the first grade. A million years ago. Looking for recommendations for an interesting area to stay and restaurant recs. For reference, we usually stay at Hotel San Jose in Austin, and prefer locally owned restaurants/ food trucks. Wife is looking to hit up Rocketbuster for a pair of custom boots. I’m gonna try to convince her to recreate the tradition founded at the sun bowl. Will report on my success or failure of this mission.

They’re just the dumbest people imaginable

Just saw that Charlatans (UK) with Ride are doing shows in Jan in austin and dallas. In for this show. I always dug the manchester scene sound. Ride’s Going Blank Again was in heavy rotation back in the day. Twisterella always makes it on my 90’s playlists.

Let’s buy Greenland and build it there.

Does bono have a last name?

Yeah. Bono’s kid. I didn’t know that until after their set. I liked ‘em. Need to listen to some of their studio stuff. Their live performance was good; plenty of ambient noise to add depth. Gave me a pumpkins vibe a bit.

It was fucking glorious Vedder came out before the opening band and did throw your arms around me then introduced Inhaler.

Made the trip down from Dallas last night to see the PJ show tonight. Wife is working in San Antonio today and driving up mid afternoon. Hoping for a great show to close out the tour.

Lulz. 6 ft and 205 lb here. I’m svelte compared to the other GenX dudes we saw at the show.

Of the random sampling of people around me before the show, 3 people were seeing PJ for the first time; all of which were 40+ yrs old. Another guy had seen them 35 times and another 10 times. That was my third time. Deep cut set lists are for people having already seen them several times. Your 90% number there to see deep cuts doesn’t check out based on those numbers. Take two deep cuts off the setlist and replace with any of black, animal, wishlist, daughter, nothingman, not for you, corduroy, go, or given to fly, and it’s a damn good set. Eddie calling out Mike before alive tells you what eddie thought of the set list. Regarding Dickies, the art deco architecture is beautiful. I suspect that is what masks its deficiencies with the people you spoke with. The seats are too narrow; it’s difficult to argue that point. Restroom set up is reasonably good. Hallways are much too narrow to accommodate the merch sale line, concession lines, and general thoroughfare. Dickies suffers from form follows function failure in my opinion.

Also, Dickies Arena seating sucks. Seats are wider on airlines. Not exaggerating. Viewing is poor because 1) the seats are too close together and 2) the seating on the “sidelines” is very close to the court. Bands play in the “end zone” so the angle to view the band results in your neighbor in the audience blocking your view. Lousy venue.

Fri night set list for PJ had too many deep cuts. It was my wife’s first time seeing pearl jam, and I got damn frustrated with them for it. They played some goddamn disco song for fuck’s sake. Can’t include black but can fit in a disco song? Eddie knew going in the set list would disappoint and told the audience that mike mccready made the set list leading into evenflow. I get the band wants to change things up but not everyone has seen the band live 10+ times. People that had seen them a bunch were happy with the deep cuts but people that drop $200 and never seen them before want their best Only thing that pulled the set list out of the ditch was surprisingly playing Yellow Ledbetter to close the show. That being said, Eddie sounded amazing. He held one note for like 10 seconds to close out one song. Truly remarkable given his age. Wife is now toying with the idea of an Austin show to get a better set list.

Agreed. My philosophy now is that any interaction I have with cops now is to not have any additional holes in me when the interaction concludes. My strategy is be super nice and non-threatening. I rarely get a ticket when employing this strategy.