- New York was a blast. I may be back there in January.
- Jeff and Austin, my roommates, finally made it back to Austin from Massachusetts.
- I have a punishing schedule this semester and am graduating in December, crazy!
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS!
I went to ACL this weekend and had an incredible time. I saw The Walkmen, Bon Iver, Ghostland Observatory, Passion Pit, Mos Def, Dirty Projectors, Girl Talk, Phoenix and a few others.
I was quite excited to see Passion Pit and wasn't too impressed with their performance. I'm not sure if it was the acoustics or the pitch of Michael Angelakos voice, but something just didn't sound right. So, Caitlin and I went over and saw Dirty Projectors instead.
Girl Talk and Ghostland Observatory were, by far, the most fun. Also, the UT marching band came went onstage and played during Ghostland's last song. That was pretty cool.
Here's a clip from Girl Talk:
Back in January '09, the City of Austin spent $2 million to lay down new grass that could survive heavy foot traffic from 60,000 people over the course of three days. The grass looked like this at end of the weekend.
I took a few pictures to document the mud fest.
I wish I had gone to more of these while I was in Austin. I hope to go next year, too.
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