SXSW 2010 Complete!

What I ended up seeing in alphabetical order, repeats noted in parenthesis, newly discovered favorites denoted in bold:

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks
Andrew WK
Awesome Color
The Baths (2)
The Beets
Birthday Suits
Black Angels
Black Cock
The Carrots
Cheap Time
Cheeseburger
Cococoma
Destruction Unit
Eternal Summers
The Fresh and Onlys (3)
The Girls at Dawn (2)
Golden Triangle
Gun Outfit
Gwar
Hunx & His Punx
JEFF the Brotherhood
Magic Kids (2)
Man or Astroman?
Mickey
The Muffs
Pierced Arrows
Puffy Areolas
Rainbow Bridge
Rayon Beach
Reading Rainbow
Shapes Have Fangs
The Spits (2)
Tamaryn
Thee Oh Sees (5)
Thomas Function
Total Slacker (2)
Ty Segall
Tyvek
Vivian Girls
White Mystery
Wizzard Sleeve
Woods (2)
Wounded Lion
Woven Bones

I think I'm forgetting some - but it's all a blur at this point. I made a compilation of some of my favorites. Find it *here.

*(ugh - I'm afraid the files might be a little sloppy (missing artwork) - but I'm too tired to correct it at this point. my apologies.)

SXSW plans: Friday 3/19

PPM & The Smell @ Cheer Up Charlies

12:00 Moment Trigger
12:30 Lovvers
12:55 Devon Williams
1:20 Audacity
1:45 Residual Echos
2:10 Pocahaunted
2:35 Infinite Body
3:00 Tearist
3:30 Randy Randall
3:55 Gun Outfit
4:20 Pearl Harbor
4:45 Total Abuse
5:10 Abe Vigoda

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SXSW plans: Wednesday 3/17

I've listed all the bands playing these shows, but hyperlinked the one's I'm planning on seeing.

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Can’t Stop The Bleeding @ Beerland


The Uptown Bums (1:00 pm)
TV Ghost (1:40 pm)
Cruddy (2:20pm)
Woven Bones (3:00 pm)
Awesome Color (detroit)(3:40 pm)
The Spits (4:20 pm)
The Muffs (5pm)

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BrooklynVegan Day Party @ Emo's

(FREE BREAKFAST TACOS + DAILY JUICE!)
noon YellowFever
12:45 The Rural Alberta Advantage
01:30 The Morning Benders
02:15 Japandroids
03:00 Titus Andronicus
03:45 The Black Angels
04:30 GZA
05:15 Fucked Up

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Escapes IV @ Club 1808

Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt (NY)(5:30pm)
Male Bonding (UK) (6pm)
Peter and the Wolf (6:30pm)
Reverse X Rays (7pm)
Popo (7:30pm)
Prince Rama (8pm)
Quiet Hooves (8:30pm)
Light Pollution (9pm)
Yellow Fever (9:30pm)

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Tormenta Tropical @ Iron Gate Lounge

Lemonade (SF)(7:30pm)
Delorean (spain)(8:30pm)

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Hozac Records Party @ Trailer Space

The Fresh&Onlys (SF)(7pm)
Puffy Areolas (clevlnd)(8pm)
Rayon Beach (ATX)(9pm)
The Girls at Dawn (Bklyn) (10pm)
White Mystery (chicago)(11pm)
Mickey (chicago)(11pm)
Wizzard Sleeve (alabama) (12am)
Woven Bones (atx)(1am)

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Strangest band name of the day: Puffy Areolas
Favorite band name of the day: Wizzard Sleeve

I saw: Woven Bones, Awesome Color, The Spits, The Muffs, Rayon Beach , The Girls at Dawn, White Mystery, Mickey, Wizzard Sleeve, Woven Bones

SXSW plans: Tuesday 3/16

Day Before the Mess Fest (free)

@ 2908 Cole St. off 30th/Red River (near Austin vet hospital)
Predator (GA, 6:30pm)
The Girls at Dawn (NY, 7pm)
Eternal Summers (VA, 7:30pm)
Reading Rainbow (PA, 8pm)
The Carrots (8:30pm)

@House of Guys (1907 Rio Grande)
Fungi Girls (Denton, 9pm)
Total Slacker (NY, 9:30pm)
Air Waves (NY, 10pm)
Beach Fossils (NY, 10:30pm)
The Beets (NY, 11pm)
Harlem (11:30pm)

@ 21st Street CO-OP (707 W. 21st St.)
Shapes Have Fangs (11pm)
The Baths (SF, 11:20pm)
Wounded Lion (LA, 11:40pm)
Woven Bones (midnight)
The Fresh and Onlys (SF, 12:20am)
Thee Oh Sees (SF, 1am)

2nd Annual Panache Pre-Party @ SCOOT INN 7pm (free)

Turbo Fruits: [myspace]
Golden Triangle: [myspace]
The Strange Boys: [myspace]
Thee Oh Sees: [myspace]
The Coathangers: [myspace]
So Cow: [myspace]
Signals: [myspace]
Z's: [myspace]
Videohippos: [myspace]
Baths: [myspace]

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update 3/17: saw - Eternal Summers, Reading Rainbow, The Carrots, Total Slacker, Shapes Have Fangs, The Baths, Wounded Lion, Woven Bones, Fresh & Onlys, and Thee Oh Sees

Smitty's BBQ

If you visit Austin, be sure to let me know and I'll take you to eat the best BBQ you've ever had in your life. Seriously. Everyone in Austin has their own Central Texas favorite, but most will agree Smitty's Market can't be beat for history, atmosphere, and...meat.

Nina Schmidt Sells opened Smitty's in 1999 in the same building that held her father's Kreuz Market for over 50 years. Just like in the olden days, there's no bbq sauce and no forks, but they do serve potato salad, slaw, beans, avocado, onion, cheese and jalapenos.






More photos from our recent excursion can be found here.

Don't say Vanilla, Say Adam's Best

For everything that New York City has to offer, it's difficult for a Texan to find the comforts of home, 1,500 miles away. Tex-Mex, Iced Tea, B-B-Q, Ro-tel Tomatoes, Breakfast Sausage, Chicken Fried Steak, Dr. Pepper... not easy to find in the big city.

And, apparently we can add Adam's Extract to the list. Last month when I was in NYC visiting my long-time/best friend, we decided to make cookies, and he lamented that there was no "good" vanilla. Only the real stuff. Adam's Best is not really vanilla, it's vanilla flavoring. But most importantly it has the coolest packaging (meaning it hasn't changed much since 1905). I had know idea it was a Texas original.
From the Adams Extract site:

"[In 1905], most vanilla was sold to pharmacies and was often labeled “Do not bake or freeze.” John A. Adams, a pharmacist whose imagination was stirred by his wife’s yearning for a flavoring that wouldn’t bake or freeze out, announced that he could produce a better vanilla than the one his wife was currently using. Working with just $6.71 worth of materials on top of an old icebox, Adams discovered the formula he wanted."

Today, I'm sending my friend a big box of the stuff, along with some long promised photos of us, and some other Texas treats, which I won't share here on the off chance he's reading!