Hello fellow milliampers! It’s time for me to tell you about my weekend again, since I have apparently no imagination (feel free to interject with an adamant ‘NO!!’). Friday started out normally enough, work and my lovely interactions with clumsy iPhone owners. After saving the world one digitizer at a time, I began my voyage to Austin, TX with a couple of amigos. We passed the time by listening to lame 80s music and trying to guess the name of the band (Ratt, etc.) with the help (of course) of an iPhone and that song-recognition app (i sadly don’t have an iPhone and don’t know what it’s called). After enough of that torture, we finally made it to The Hole in the Wall off Guadalupe in Austin. There, Clay Nightingale and Moonlight Towers (first time seeing them, awesomenessss)
Gleeson performing with Channing Lewis of Grand Champeen
performed before my good friends Gleeson (The Very Very Best of Gleeson) played their CD release show. They basically played the whole record, which was amaaazing (plus AC/DCs Dirty Deeds…unfortunately they didn’t play ‘Victoria’ by The Kinks and i was somewhat disappointed). They were joined on stage by Grand Champeen’s Channing Lewis (check out ‘Dial T for This’) and Mandible’s Phil McEachern (Here Come the Mandible). I highly suggest pretty much every band i’ve mentioned (Ratt’s Round &Round is pretty legit… haha). Well after the show (Gleeson didn’t play ’til 12:30, but I was high on rock’n'roll(aaaand had a little Shiner)..so I didn’t even notice), we crashed at some friend’s house where I received a horrible night’s sleep on the floor. For some reason, I’m a disgustingly early of a morning person and woke up at 8:52 a.m. (yes, that time is burned into my memory because it was so horrific) and proceeded to make everyone breakfast with my buddy Jay, who is also a morning person (thank God). Anyways, after that we all went to Independence Brewery in Austin (duh). SIX dollars for a pint glass and three pints of their cerveza deliciosa!! (oatmeal stout=fun times for your taste buds, they need lovin’ too!!!) It was a beauuuutiful day and we spent it drinkin some berrrs (beers with an awesome Creed-esque accent) and hanging out on some blankets, haha. The tasting at the brewery is the first Saturday of each month! I plan on going back fo’ sho, although I did break the pint glass i bought upon arriving back at my apartment. Here I am, finally arriving home after an exhausting weekend of good times and I try to make it out of my car with all of my schtuff. As you can infer, this was a bad idea and I broke/shattered the glass upon heaving my lifeless body out of my civic. I was sad. Buuuut I’ll just go back next month and get another pint glass (great excuse, ya?). Well if curiosity overcomes your being and you’re thinking “Hey, Lindsey’s a pretty cool girl, perhaps I should check out some of the music she’s suggested to me? She wouldn’t lead us astray!!”, then you are in luck my friends! Cdbaby.com carries all of the albums I’ve mentioned! (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Gleeson) From that site, you can navigate to the other records I’ve mentioned in this eloquent journey of writing. I’ve been listening to Here Come the Mandible a lot lately, every song is really great. The songs are a really imaginative way of looking at life, coupled with quirky and sometimes pessimistic lyrics plusss really catchy tunes. It’s a win-win. Anyways, if you like what you hear let me know by commenting on the blog! Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon to tell you about yet another weekend’s occurences!! 
p.s. Here is the link to Gleeson’s myspace:http://www.myspace.com/gleesonmusic You can listen to a couple of full songs, and ironically enough all of the other bands are in their top friends! enjoy!!
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Man, i thought sleeping in until 7:30am on a Saturday was decadent..
anthony