Our good friends the Unbearables are on “Before the Break” on KUT. Somehow I missed this. Listen to Laurie talk to them about their background as well as where they’re going with music, including a brief mention of “Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey”.
Also, don’t forget to get your tickets for Slapdash Flimflammery 3: Slapdash Slaps Back!
I was just riding past the Dougherty Arts Center on the bus. They’re currently having their summer art classes. Lot and lost of kids everywhere. Teachers in the parking lot, checking kids off the list as the parade of Volvo Station Wagons, and Subaru Outbacks drop them off. Then I noticed in the back yard, in the very farthest corner a little kid was sitting. One of the teachers came and sat down to talk to him. Probably to try to get him to give the other kids another try and go talk to them. Poor kid. Doesn’t even fit in at the art camp. He’s definitely going to be Goth when he grows up.
I did my first race yesterday. It was pretty cool. Very relaxing. I ran it a bit slow, because I didn’t really know how fast to go. But I still managed to do it with a 8:29/M pace. Hopefully next time I’ll be able to go a bit faster. I was 49th overall, so that’s not too bad.
2006-06-24T22:13:35.000Z
Congrats, Tim! I’m so proud of you!
We got a mention on Small Appliance Puppet Theater’s blog.These are the guys who did the political play involving appliance puppets. It sounded awesome, unfortunately I did not get to see it at Frontera Fest, but I hear they’re going to be doing a show again in Austin before they go to New York City for the Fringe Festival. Paula Gilbert, one of the directors for Slapdash Slaps Back, is an actor in the show. Paula, puppets, and politics promise pleasure. Loaded Gun Theory loves politics and puppets. It’s in our mission statement.
Ah the bus. It’s wonderful. I was having a wierd morning this morning. Time was moving oddly. I was sure I was going to be late because two people in wheelchairs had to get on the bus. For those who don’t know, this involves them lowering the front of the bus on hydraulics. Then they have a ramp that they expand out from the front door way. Basically the floor of the bus kind of flips up. The person in the wheelchair drives on and the bus driver flips up all the chairs in the front of the bus, and seatbelts the wheelchair in place. For some reason everytime this happens I expect it to take a really long time. I guess this is some ingrained expectation of dealing with the disabled. The bus drivers manage to do all this in about 1.5 minutes though. Which is really fast, when you consider that lowering the bus, and expanding the ramp aren’t exactly quick and there’s nothing the bus driver can do to make it quicker. I’m also really impressed with the drivers. They’re very kind. But I digress.
So my internal clock is off, because I keep looking up, sure that I’ve missed my transfer. And then I finally looked up, and I saw a construction site. “Funny”, I thought, “I haven’t seen that construction site before. Must be new. Oh wait…” It was the construction site for the new lofts right in front of Paggi House at Lamar and Riverside. I’d missed my bus stop. Even worse, the next bus stop was about 1/4 mile east of lamar on Caesar Chavez. So I got out and had to walk back over the lamar pedestrian bridge, back to barton springs and lamar. It wasn’t a horrible walk, but I’d just finished running 4.5 miles earlier that morning. And it was really warm. Anyway, I caught the next bus and got to work a little before 10. Hopefully this will teach me to have patience with the disabled.
Cars are a fourth wall. I’ve come to realize this. The problem is that they’re not really very wall like. What with the windows. I’m the guy sitting at the bus stop watching you pick your nose and talk on your cell phone. Feel free to wave.
But you won’t wave, because you respect the wall. You look away so as not to acknowledge the people outside your car. Straight ahead. Homeless, bus riders, helpless child getting raped by maurading dogs. You don’t see it. None of it.
Not that I’m better than you. I ignore the walkers. And the runners. Pretend they’re not there. We bus stop sitters. We don’t interact. We start ahead at you. Picking your nose. For the love of pete, stop it.
But when I’m a runner, I ignore the riders, too. I say hello to the walkers. And the runners. But I ignore the riders. Once they’re on that bench at the bus stop they’re invisible. I’m trying to change, but those are the rules. We need our fourth wall. We can only interact with people in our activity group. Driver. Rider. Runner.
Saw “District B13” last night. It’s a French movie starring one of those free runner guys. Which was pretty cool, and a lot less gimmicky than say the movies starring twin body builders, or anything starring Steven Segal. The action was well done although the pacing was a little goofy. But, the thing I enjoyed the most was the politics injected into the proceedings. Even though it’s sci-fi they really addressed many of the issues involved in the current Paris riots. And after they had their big climactic fight scene ending, they had an even better political ending. Don’t get me wrong, the writing in this movie had every cliche in the book. It was like they distilled every cop show from the 70’s and 80’s into one movie. But the politics were still there, and anytime I start thinking in an action movie that can’t be a bad thing.
It’s got kindof a bluesy Erasure type sound, mixed in with a bit of 70’s style. Dunno… I think I might. The first track only hooked me after repeat listenings…
Well you can checkout the Chronicle today and find out. Elizabeth Cobbe has written a great article about us and many of the other small companies in Austin. It’s a great way to get pumped about seeing Slapdash Flimflammery 3, and find out about some other companies in town (many of who I’m going to have to go checkout).
Man, so Julie and I are trying to cut down on our spending overall, since she is now sans job and staying home with Stella. One place we saw for improvement was eating out. We used to eat out a lot. Like 4 to 5 meals a week. That’s probably the low end. In any case, for the past two weeks we’ve been eating in fairly religously. The disgusting thing is that our grocery bill has grown to match fairly closely our eating out bill. Eating out is cheaper than cooking. And I’ve been scaling back my gourmet-ness, and making sure to do lots of meals that have ingredients that can be used for more than one meal. And it’s still more expensive. How can we live in a world where it’s more expensive to cook a healthy dinner, than to go buy one? It makes no sense. We’ve got to do something about this.
2006-06-12T15:53:08.000Z
Dude man, I so totally feel ya. We eat organic foods and I cook everything from “scratch”…this has run our weekly grocery totals somewhere over 125. Per week! And I dont buy meat!!!Of course I could stop buying organic but really, its not THAT much more expensive. I think that unless you are serving variations on hamburger helper for every meal then you are going to spend lots of dough (teehee, im punny). Eat out? Does that mean like sitting in a restarant and someone else makes the food? Yeah we dont do that anymore. Except the occasional deep dish pizza from conans. :-)
2006-06-12T16:36:10.000Z
A lot of our meals were fast food, too. I think it’s usually cheaper to get fast food than tto eat at home, which is sad, but you can’t survive on fast food alone!
2006-06-12T19:14:37.000Z
Whaddaya mean “never eat out?” We went to Hill’s Cafe this weekend!
2006-06-12T21:37:53.000Z
I take it all back, we do sometimes eat out…
I also went to sun harvest today and shelled out 90 bucks for food that I hope will make it to next sunday. They have their Natural chicken tenders for 1.49 a pound and super lean natural ground beef sor 2.99. Not too shabby. Sometimes I wonder what in the world we spent my past income on cuz if we had that now it would seem like we were rollin in it! Beer all around!
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