Barrel Fever p. 15

"I sometimes just want to shake the life out of her, to point at the radio waves in the night sky and tell her that, Goddamn it, people are thinking out there."

David Sedaris

Inner Space Caverns

Gingerbread Roof

Lights on the Riverwalk

Tree of Lights at Zilker Park

Matt Costa

Matt Costa with Everest @ Stubb's
November 18, 2010

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010

ACL Fest

The Flaming Lips

Muse

F-U-N

Spoon

Friday:
Beach House
Spoon
Vampire Weekend
The Strokes

Saturday:
Lissie
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Two Door Cinema Club
Manchester Orchestra
Broken Bells
Local Natives
The XX
Monsters of Folk
LCD Soundsytem
Muse

Sunday:
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Portugal. The Man
The Relatives
Yeasayer
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
The Flaming Lips
The Eagles

Best all around: Muse
Dying to see: Vampire Weekend
Surprisingly great: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Surprisingly terrible: Broken Bells
Most danceable: LCD Soundsystem
Most eclectic: The Flaming Lips
Need to check out: Lissie
The come to Jesus band (literally): The Relatives
Classic: The Eagles
Grooviest: Yeasayer
Seriously talented: Muse
Could have done without: Beach House
Best foreign band: Two Door Cinema Club
The “I forgot how much I loved this band” show: The Strokes
The “sit back and chill” show: Monsters of Folk
The “thanks for playing my two favorite songs first” show: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
The “there’s way too much pot here” show: Portugal. The Man
The “knew all the words” show: Vampire Weekend, Local Natives
Wtf, where did all these hipsters come from? show: Local Natives
The “my mind was blown” show: The Flaming Lips

kismet

\KIZZ-met\   noun
: fate

Philosophy #20

We're all enchanted, really.

Texas State Fair

Texas State Fair

Independence Day

"Everybody knows you only live a day, but it's brilliant anyway."

--Elliott Smith

Aha

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter-- 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

-Mark Twain

Hold It In

"If there's a God He's embarrassed and it's no secret why, the only thing that He can do is hold it in, hold it in."

-Jukebox the Ghost

Philosophy #19

Something is better than nothing.

Coy Koi

Please don't eat the Toots while I'm away, thanks.

Cupcakes

A small white box
Two sultry sweets
Decadence dances on my tongue

Construction

Star Gazing