January 31, 2007
Some people have been more than concerned about my current away message. All I can tell you is that when I read Corporate Casual, I laugh and laugh. And I don’t want to forget. If you can make it past “you have gross bodies but you don’t even care and stuff” without laughing out loud, I’ll buy you a beer.
Ladies, I love everything about you. When you get older you really come into your own and you have gross bodies but you don’t even care and stuff. I will fuck you in the bathroom. Here I am, I’m so great, what’s the deal? I just want to get married to a lady, but she has to be 25 years old and want babies in 74 months to 88 months. THAT IS MY TIMELINE MAYBE YOU NEED TO LOOK AT YOURSELF FOR WHAT IS THE MATTER. One time I will talk to you on the subway or anywhere, I don’t care. Beautiful women I’m always talking to. We talk about what’s wrong with us. That is as real as it gets. THIS IS CALLED REAL LIFE. What the thing is, men know what they want and you need to look in the mirror and WAKE UP. Don’t hate men because they don’t want to harvest babies from your body until they are ready. That is so obvious.
Here’s another thing, what is up with all the crying?
January 30, 2007
With SXSW creeping up on us, the music section at Austinist has been crazy busy. This is a good thing! One things we’re doing this year is sending email interviews to as many bands as we can early, so people can read about and get some info on some of the act that they should be excited about. Today, we posted an interview with Ladyhawk, and I highly recommend their stuff, it’s good good stuff.
In news unrelated to SXSW, I officially reviewed the Lindsey Buckingham concert. The only thing missing from that evaluation of it was my utter childishness and near-freak-out at the end when he signed my album and dripped sweat on my wrist. He also made eye contact with me during the encore–I didn’t imagine it, the people next to me noticed and mentioned it to me after the show. I proceeded to bring those people over to where my friends were waiting for me so that I’d have come credibility later on when I talked about how Lindsey was looking at me (MORE THAN ONCE).
“Please tell my friends what you just told me.”
“Oh, yeah, he was totally looking at her. More than once. Absolutely gave her the eyes.”
“See?”
The expressions between us were hilarious: the strangers were thrilled to be confirming my story, my friends were bewildered and I was ecstatic. Hilarious. Also, I got a t-shirt. Also, the girl in the cowboy hat was insane. Also, Linsdey Buckingham. Gah.
January 29, 2007
I got an invitation to the supposed hot new social network, the very 2.0 Virb. I was super curious after taking an initial look at the design, but wasn’t sure exactly what it was until I created an account and logged in. In short, it’s just about everything you’d hope MySpace would be, only 100x less … ugly.
Basically, users can create a profile not unlike MySpace with their interests, tags, photo albums, music tastes and more, in a clean, neat framework that is super easy to navigate. In a perfect world, Virb would surpass MySpace and Facebook as the easiest place to start a band profile, I imagine. Though at the end of the day it appears as though Virb offers more than that: you blog, Flickr, Lastfm, MySpace, comment, customize all in one place. Add mp3s, videos, photos, etc. pretty easily and set up a page to work between all your media. I wonder if it’s neat enough to make everyone move.
I won’t go into my social networking rant, because it’s probably obvious how ridiculous a lot of it is. That being said, if I’m going to spend time using such a thing, it might as well be slick and easy to navigate.
What I do know is that while I can’t imagine I’ll update it very often, I’ll definitely browse it, it’s too pretty not to. Plus there seems to be an inordinate amount of attractive people there–sort of like this party I was at on Saturday. Where do they come from?
Anyway, the customization options are great, it’s sort of hard to make it ugly (though I imagine that will change when / if people move over from MySpace), and you can sorta set up shop and chillax.
Right now it’s in BETA and invite only, but if you’re interested in checking it out I’ll find out how attractive you are and then make a decision. <3
