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So it’s Sunday…meaning spring break is over.

That sucks.

But – this spring break was definitely a great one…maybe the best one I’ve had yet. It was full of music and friends and such.  I’ll sum up the beginning of the break in a few sentences.  I saw Mates of State and Midlake at the Gypsy Team Room w/ Laura on Friday, don’t remember Saturday…don’t remember Sunday, on Monday, 3^rd Eye Blind played a free show down the street so me, burger, Robby, and Ethan went…it was cold. Yes.  On Tuesday I turned 20. I spent time with my fam and went to dinner with Danielle. Good times.

Okay, on to South by Southwest.
Hell yes.

Wednesday
Allie and I had lots of good luck on this day. It was weird. We woke up early and drove to Austin. It only took us 3 hours and we didn’t hit any traffic.  We exited on 6^th street and managed to find a parking spot on the side of the street about a block away from the venue we wanted to go to (believe me, this was amazing…there were so many people on the street).  We saw Chris from Troubled Hubble…it was kind of awkward because we hadn’t really talked to him since we went to Chicago. Well, around 3:30 or so we drove out of downtown to Lake Travis where we would be staying the night w/ our friend, Esther.

Thursday
Well. Hmm. Weird day. We made it downtown around 2 and saw a lot of our friends play (Taylor, Joshua, Lang, porterdavis, + some) at a coffee shop called The Hideout.  We stayed there for about 3 hours and made a new friend named Todd. After they were finished we walked over to the Red 7 and saw Midlake play a few songs, and then Taylor called and we left to go eat w/ Taylor, Joshua, Todd, and 7 other people that I had never met at some small Mexican restaurant that I can’t remember the name of… Pretty sure we played 20 questions…and the answer to Taylor’s was ‘the spirit of freedom.’ Right. When we were done eating we went to Tambeleo and saw Mat Kearney and Glen Philips? Allie and I knew nothing about them, but the guys we were with seemed pretty excited. Hell, our new friend Todd even gave Allie his jacket to keep because she took a picture of Todd and Glen Philips together. We stayed there for a couple of hours until the bands started to get awful, and Allie, Joshua, and I drove back to 6^th street. Ooooh 6^th street.  Joshua tried desperately to get into the nada surf/mates of state/starlight mints/john vanderslice show, but it didn’t work out….so then he tried to convince some wasted girl to give him her wristband to get into another club.  Basically, the conversation between the 2 of them ended like this: girl- “I live about 5 mins from here. Do you want to go have sex?” Haha. Poor guy.  Allie and I left him there to ponder that question. Apparently he said no and went into the club where Taylor and Lang were. Lame. kidding… Then Allie and I went to UT (boooo) to meet up with Whit and get some sleep.

Friday
Holy crap. Crazy freaking day. It was probably my favorite.  Since the point of Allie and I going to SXSW was to see good shows, we hadn’t done a good job of it….so we made it a point to see some good crap that day.  We started at noon and saw Ted Leo + The Pharmacists. That man wore very short shorts. It was enjoyable, though.  After their set, we stopped by Urban Outfitters (yes they had shows there, too) and caught Rogue Wave’s set.  But I was a bit sad because Of Montreal played before them and I missed it.  Anyway, then Allie and I went back to 6^th street and started walking around looking for the Crown and Anchor Pub. As we were on our search, a guy (looked like a leprechaun) ran up behind us and asked where we were going.  We told him what we were looking for and he told us that he would help us look for it. Little did we know, his apartment was on that block and he kept insisting that we go into his apartment to help him look for the place online. Hell no. We told him we’d wait outside while he looked and he got frustrated….and magically he all of a sudden remembered where the place was and gave us directions.  Apparently the place was about 10 mins from there and we were nowhere close.  We got the hell out of there before we got raped and never found what we were looking for.  But it’s okay! Because we went to Trophy’s and saw Hockey Night play.  It was hands down my favorite show of the festival.  They have so much energy and are ridiculously entertaining to watch.  I mean, they have 2 drummers… can’t beat that.  After the show, we met up with Esther again, and then with Whit and ate at a place called Kirby Lane.  Eh. Then, Allie, Esther, and I met up with Taylor and watched Lang’s band play.  Went back to 6^th street around 1:30AM and had scary guys sprint down the street after us (pepper spray works wonders even when you don’t spray it, by the way).  I’ve never seen so many desperate guys congregated in one place.  It was pretty entertaining.  Then, it was back to Whit’s for some sleep.

Saturday
Met Esther for some Chinese food and then went to the party at Pok-E-Jo’s where John Vanderslice, The Long Winters, and Andrew Kenny from The American Analog Set were playing.  They were running way behind, so we didn’t get to stick around for JV, but we did get to talk to him and have him take pictures in Todd’s jacket…actually, we had many people take pics in Todd’s jacket. He’s going to hate us.  Umm, I love John Vanderslice. A lot.  Anyway, we drove home after that and yeah. Gay. I hate Austin, but I want to go back.

And today as I was driving back to OU, there was a van in front of me with Minnesota liscence plates…and I was getting really angry because they were driving so slow, but when I was able to see inside, I saw Hockey Night! They were on their way to Kansas to play a show. When I got back to the apartment, I found a flooded kitchen due to massive dripage from the ceiling. Yay.