In October I visited my dear friends the Blases in Austin Texas, to attend the glorious ACL Music Festival. Every once in a while over the course of this 5 day visit, I would spout off some comment, thinking no one was really listening to me and my silly happy beer-margarita-sunshine-music-food-fun-inspired vacation commentary.
After three or four such moments, aimee said: you HAVE to start "tweeting" these. To which I replied, I don't tweet. I do facebook now & then, and as you know because you are reading this, I sometimes blog. But I don't tweet. Which aimee pointed out, is a very big mistake!
So we started keeping track of what would be my ACL tweets, if I was a tweeter.
Many of the following are largely really silly inside jokes, and wont make any sense or insight laughter from anyone but my two hilarious and lovely hosts. However, aimee swore if I didn't blog about it, she would .
I have given brief explanations where possible, & apologize for how not funny or interesting this may all be to those of you who were in fact, not there. the phrase you had to be there, has never been more apropos, but I promised aimee so here you go…
My dad was so right about chest waders:
This was my comment while slipping, sliding, splashing & wading thru the two inches of floating mud that was the festival grounds on Sunday after the intense rain storm that had occurred Saturday. I had flip flops on and they were doing A LOT more harm than good. Ick! So so so gross. But as I explained to my sister via cell phone moments after I shed my shoes, I MUST be having a lot of fun because you KNOW how much I HATE dirt, let alone thick germy stinky mud squeezing between my toes. Did I say ICK!?!?!?!?!
At least those are normal underwear..at the felice brothers it was like the worlds biggest nicorette patch:
so there was this odd phenomena at ACL where a number of the musicians had really odd underwear on. Not the typical, hiphop artists whose jeans hang low exposing their boxers. Much, much weirder. This was like really odd, really high wasted nude polyester-ish, granny-style panties, sticking out over the top of their hipster, skinny jeans. If anyone knows what is up with this "trend", please explain…
Miller lite…its all over the NFL so its gotta be good, right?
The beer selection at the festival was corona & tecate for like $8, or miller lite for $6, so we were enjoying Milwaukee's finest. The "joke" is aimee & I don't really like beer, at all. We typically enjoy a crisp pinot gris on a hot day, but this was a music festival. In Texas. and did I mention the mud? We were clearly not in our "ladies of style who lunch at Moody's" element.
Marc loves the $5 rule, therefore I love marc
a while back, over cocktails of some sort, marc was telling me about some cool jeans he bought that were kind of spendy, and that he was feeling kind of bad for spending so much money on them. Having experienced a lot of shoppers/fashion guilt in my life, and feeling pity on poor Marc, I told him about my $5 rule. which is, for every time you wear an item of clothing you "earn" $5.
I bored him by going on….if you spent $200 on something, after you wear it 40 times, not only is it paid for, but you are actually earning money.
Marc is not one to spend $200 on something real often, so I tried to make this topic one he could easily & more frequently relate to. I explained, if you happen to find a cool cheap tee shirt that you love, say that cost like $15 or something, you are really raking it in, earning money after just three wears. thereby offsetting the cost of the jeans in question. Because the rule also states that any money you earn from wearing a cheap tee shirt to death, goes towards covering the cost of those cool jeans.
Now, marc has style, and the thing I think he does best is cool tee shirts. And I don't mean tees that are kind of cool, quirky, funny – although he has some of those – but I mean tees that double as art! And when he finds a tee he loves, he wears it A LOT! ALOOOOOTTT!!!
there is this one super cool kelly green tee with a big winged bike tire on it that is the quintessential marc blase tee. I have literally not recognized marc a couple times cause he wasn't wearing this tee. So according to my calculations, that thing has earned him like thousands of dollars. Way to go marc. Shop on!
Anyway, Aimee pulled me aside at ACL & told me she heard marc explaining the $5 rule to one of his buds a few weeks earlier. It truly warmed my heart. Not only was he paying attention to my drivel, he found it worth repeating.
When you have two Mondays in a week, you get two Saturdays to make up for it
Aimee & marc work really hard. And by really, I mean like 70 hours a week, pretty much all the time. And aimee has a great deal of stress in her line of work – crazy short deadlines, and a dedication to perfection don't often mix well. So she often has a week that literally feels as though it was 7 Mondays in a row. Well ACL started on a Friday morning, so she had to –GASP!– take an EXTRA day off! In addition to the Saturday & Sunday I was going to require her to accompany me to the music & mud, she had to also come play with me on Friday! So we came up with this little rule.
Marc is more asian than the asian girls
Too hard to explain. But totally true!
Burger bun & the holy toast
some spin on father son & holy ghost….invented while waiting on line for some Texas BBQ of some sort
Cage free, organic, no antibiotics added, free range, root beer
Just a bit of an elaboration on a sign in the uber-gourmet food court at ACL
Tipping, its not just for cows anymore
ditto the above...this was affixed to a tip cup. Only in Texas!
Keep Austin weird..and slutty
As anyone who has been to Austin knows, it is divinely quirky, creative and arty! Everyone loves the weirdness of Austin! During ACL, we rode bikes to & from the fest grounds all weekend. Pair that with the fact that aimee I loooooove to wear dresses, no matter where we are goign or how we are getting there, so Friday she did both. She wore the cutest little sundress & rode this rock star road bike. As she was boarding her bike Friday morning (after drinkin a shiner bock at 10am, to counter the massive amounts of caffiene & giddy tweaky excitedness we had for the three day extravaganza we were about to experience) I got a flash of her undies. and that is how i came up with this spin on an Austin classic.
so there you go aim! hope it makes you laugh a bit. i probably got some of the details wrong, and am sure i forgot a few gems, but it was truly the best music-friends-food-fest weekend ever! can't wait for ACL 2010! love t
