Day 2 of ACL started off a little different than the day prior. Instead of hopping a cab to Zilker bright and early, we headed to South Congress to have some lunch. We went to Magnolia Cafe, which is my most favorite place in Austin to eat. We ordered a few skillets of MagMud (queso [...]
October 5, 2011
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Friday morning, I loaded into a cab with Kenneth, Paige, and Alix. Alix handed me the HTC Thunderbolt connected to the @RadioShackLIVE account and told me to go ahead and tweet it up. Uh, ok. Um… I drew a blank. When I have to tweet or write for myself, it’s like mind vomit that just [...]
September 23, 2011
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This year’s ACL festival was a little different for me. I had bought my tickets months and months prior, and was stressing out over how the weekend was going to go – would we plant like the years prior? Would we wander around and get to see exactly what we wanted, but not from the front row? Would [...]
September 20, 2011
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I started Day 3 much happier than Day 2 – we weren’t planting at a stage that day, and we had VIP passes (gifts from new friends Chris and Jodi from the Muse stage the day before) and the parking pass that came with them. Since we weren’t planting, we slept in and arrived at [...]
December 19, 2010
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I’ll admit, while I was getting ready for bed on Friday night (ACL2010: Day 1), I was wondering to myself WHY in the hell I had decided to do ACL again this year. I was exhausted, filthy, dehydrated, and there was no end in sight. Two more whole days of what we had just fought [...]
October 18, 2010
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ACL 3-day passes go on sale a year in advance. Even though the festival was just last weekend, we knew the day after it was over that the $50 3-Day Souvenir Passes would be on sale this week. This news has had me on red alert all week, as I also knew that these passes [...]
October 14, 2010
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I had literally been waiting for October 8-11 for a year. Having purchased these tickets the week after ACL2009 (late September 09), I calmly waited months to even see the lineup, then planned and replanned my ACL schedule until the day before the festival started this year. With all that anticipation and planning, there’s generally [...]
October 13, 2010
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