Then, I went to ACL

We interrupt this house building blog with a news flash: Austin City Limits Music Festival

I deeply, deeply regret not getting any lawn shots. My bad. You will see why I'm so regretful soon.

Friday October 2

First I saw The Sound & The Jury winner, The Bright Lights Social Hour. They were great!

Then I saw Low Anthem, which if you read my facebook you know I described as 'deconstructed Americana with a fat dirty groove'. They were very unique and very awesome!

Then, since it was very sunny, and was getting very pink because security had confiscated my sunscreen (metal can), I decided to duck into the Wildflower stage, which is covered. I missed Sara Watkins, but what I saw instead was nice... I mean, niiiice. The sound in the wildflower tent wasn't that great. But I still loved it! I saw 4 bands in the tent.

The Gospel Silvertones

Mishka

Poi Dog Pondering with guest Abra Moore

Poi Dog Pondering again

Then, Walter 'Wolfman' Washington came on this stage (no vid). He was smooooth...

After that, I saw some of Daniel Johnston's set. He was... freaky!

And I caught one song of Phoenix, French rock and rollers

Then I tripped on over to see Raphael Sadiiq. Swoon... I stayed for his whole show baby!

Raphael Sadiiq

After that I met up with Jen and saw all of John Legend's show (swoon, too)

It was a full moon. Or close to it.

Then I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They were pretty freaky too, but in a good way (no pics).

Jen likes 'em

Saturday.. Saturday was rain day. Sigh. It was pretty much a waste of time, but we had fun anyway. Sort of.

The Mud Series: Thus begins the ruination of the lawn.

Rain, Rain


Isn't this great?

We heard -couldn't see- someone called Eek Mouse (or something). Then, during a break in the rain, we decamped and went over to the XBox stage to see STS9 (Sound Track System 9), which I was really looking forward to. Unfortunately, the skies opened up with a fury again, so we left. We were tired of being wet!

So long, ACL 09

Sunday- we all had premonitions of the final destruction. So we stayed home. After what I saw on TV, I believe the right choice was made.