GOOD LUCK, FARMER

(RSVP HERE)

If there's anything dear to the small nuclear reactor I call a heart, it's food. The process of growing that food is just plain intriguing. Growing that food on an acre (!) of dedicated rooftop space in Brooklyn, well wow, that's amazing. This event is your chance to help make that happen. Screw FarmVille, Brooklyn Grange is the real thing. $10 entry fee gets you all that stuff on the flier, which I would normally hype for you individually, but I have the suspicion that you can read for yourself. OK OK OK, just know, good live and DJ music, loads of free stuff, and yes, A PUNCHING MACHINE! COOL! GOOD TIMES! RAKES! SHOVELS! HOES! FRIDAY THE 13TH! SEE YOU THERE!

DETH COMES RIPPING

Halloween day party excitement for you! The Deth Killers of Bushwick are going to be providing you with a dirt bike track and a bonfire and food and porta potties and fake violence and oh yeah, music.

THE MUSIC
Ninjasonik, who you may remember from their song about getting somebody pregnant and/our mixtape, and Anamanaguchi, the kings of 8-bit rock that's like yeah, are playing in the live. This is really cool! In additon, Theo G (WESTERN BEEF!), GRAM0PHoNE of Phone Tag, and probably SIMIAN GIBBONS are all going to be blasting out raucous, seasonally appropriate jams. I should also mention it's all happening at the magical pizza kingdom known as Roberta's. That place is so tasty.

RSVP HERE

While you're on the site, be sure to check out the new Des Kiraz shirts. I hear there will even be a few limited edition shirts available for purchase at the event. They're quite touching.

SEE YOU THERE

HIREMEHIREMEHIREME

I started my internship with barstalk.com this week. That's a link to a splash page. The full site launches on the 1st, I do believe. A cool concept. It's been fun running around to bars and restaurants and then getting to write about it.

On the music front, my pal Gryphon, of Phone Tag and a thousand other things, and I are working on a mix tape. I would tease you with a track list, but you have to wait until next week. Ok ok, I'll just say it features Phoenix, MVSCLZ, Vanity 6, Nightshade, Iron Maiden, Beyonce, Yuksek, more dirty rap than you can shake a PARENTAL ADVISORY label at, and oh so much more. It's good, trust me.

Also! Phone Tag is playing at Kenny's Castaways as part of CMJ this Friday. Needless to say, you should attend. FB event page behind the link.

Carry on, internet soldiers.

MIND PLAYIN TRICKS ON ME

Oh yes, there is alot to do on this Thursday night. UPDATE: Peter and the Wolf, Sunset, The Eastern Sea, and Silent Diane are all playing from 9-11 tonight at Baby Blue Studios (1522 E 12th)! This is alot of music for a $5 beer donation! + DJing by Dan Gentile in between sets. GOD WHY AM I WORKING LATE WHY WHY WHY

The ever awesome WWLs open up for the Lemurs tonight at Mohawk. You know this will be super magical.

And lo, a "dance party"/hang out session at Primo's. Come fill yourself with $2 Tecate and take in a really nifty variety of musics. SPREADING EVER EASTWARD: WE WILL NOT STOP TIL WE REACH THE OCEAN. EVEN THEN, WE WILL ONLY PAUSE TO BUY BOATS. I digress. This is gonna be fun.

I really messed up about letting you know that you should RSVP for this for cheap tickets, but after all, it's only a $2 difference. You'll survive. If you know who My Cousin Roy is, you know that this show will be amazed/guessing. Primo stuff here.

And yet another show featuring some fun local talent. Cheers!

BONUS

UNIVERSAL SYNC

DRUM MACHINE CIRCLE tonight at the Lamar pedestrian bridge. Well, unless it rains. Then it will be somewhere else. This is a whole lot of fun and a good excuse to hang out, even if you don't have a drum machine or what have you. In addition to drum machines and amps, bring lasers and mirrors to aid in the construction of a 9,000 pointed laser star. How can you say no? You just can't.

2 THINGS

Life is consumed by endless hours spent with well meaning tech support people whose only way to help me is by using arrays of inferior crap and scripted methods that don't work. Someday, my iPhone will actually be able to access the internet. Someday. It still makes phone calls and texts, so I guess it could be worse (KNOCK ON WOOD REAL HARD). Anyway, Tuesday is today. Escapism is in order.

St. David and The Dirty Kids are having their debut show at Mohawk! A three piece that focuses on playing rock as you may not have heard in awhile: with "no indie harmonies n bullshit," as St. David himself so eloquently puts it. I'm excited. You should be too. If next you see me and inquire as to why my face is gone, I shall answer, "Sir, was rocked clean off." Show starts around 10.

"Guests" this week means Details, so you know it's gonna be a good time.

SATDRODAY

This is Saturday's post. This post belongs to Saturday. Hands off, Thursday.

My A-grade pre-party pick. Big Medium Gallery (5305 Bolm Rd #12) hosts an opening reception for Here We Are, art by Christa Palazzolo and Brian Halloran. If you want a preview, the artists' sites are here and here. 8-11.

An opening at the MASS Gallery (916 Springdale Road) from 7-11, with large-scale sculpture from Dave Bryant and Nathan Green.

Domy Books is hosting a book signing for Handmade Nation, which is a movie you should watch (see Sunday). Anyway, this is from 7-9 and there is free Live Oak.

Fairly self-explanatory. I do like Auto Body and I do like this poster. Tumblr has turned me into some sort of psych art freak the last few week.

+ SHOW. + Black Panda is headlining at the Scoot Inn tonight. They don't believe in posters, but they are a great band nonetheless.

SUNDAY
See above. The Alamo South Lamar is hosting screenings at 1:30pm and 4:10pm w/ a craft bazaar til round about 6. There's an after screening party at Austin Handmade right after that. So many ways to be crafty.

Heart Beats: benefit for a good cause at Mohawk, featuring loads of local acts, who are doubtlessly easier to see than this flier. And and and Black Panda is playing ANOTHER show. This time with the The Apeshits, Monkey Town, Extravaganza, and The Cassingles. All at the sovereign nation of Beerland.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

This weekend is like your high school valedictorian that went to Harvard: it has no excuse not to be great. OK, that was weak, but seriously, even if you're chronologically challenged, there are still plenty of house parties and other such things to keep you busy til the wee hours. I will not post them here, because where's the fun in that. If I had to spend all night hunting for disappearing ghost parties when I was your age (ok, I'm only 22, but still), then so do you.

Four flavors of local indie rock for your listening pleasurfication. May I suggest you try the waffle cone. Yay! Eastern Sea is at Emo's! Go team, go!

Here there be free vodka til 11. The only kicker is that only females are allowed to access it. IIf wearing a dress or getting a sex change sounds like too much of an effort, I bet one of your gal pals would be willing to send some of it your way so long as you ask nicely.

THREE IDEAS

Super quick post before work work work.
YES! DO THIS! It is both super cheap ($5 for 21+/$8 for -21) and guaranteed to make you emote. In the very very best way.

Hot Pink Delorean is a long time favorite. You don't need me to tell you that things like this don't come around often enough. This is guaranteed to sell out, so get your tickets (here).

Always a viable option.

BONUZ

HRM HRM

In case you haven't heard, after a month of steady "leaks" *cough* press releases *cough* Fun Fun Fun Fest has finally released an official lineup!

Looks like a good ol time! I'm especially happy about the comedy lineup + King Khan + Danzig + Broadcast + Vega/Neon Indian + more Austin bands than you can shake a $5 bottle of water at. I'm obviously just bitter because I probably won't be in town. Mer mer sad me, but that's for another post. I do like the color coding of the stages. It sure beats having to remember whether you're supposed to be going to the Sprint Taco Bell Pepsi Powdermilk Biscuits stage or the AT&T Bank of America Pitchfork Incorporated Church of the Dark Lord's Majestic Revival stage.

TONIGHT
An excellent chance to purple up your Tuesday/planet.


And Terror Tuesday is already sold out! Oh no! And it was a movie I really really wanted to see! But fret not, Rounder's Pizza presents Free Film Noir and Cupcake Night, featuring Orson Welles' south of the border masterpiece, Touch of Evil. This really is a great movie, even though - yes - Charlton Heston plays a Mexican. 7-10. It could be way worse, y'all.

BONUS

EAST SIDE MYSTICS

The word of the day is OPTIONS. The number of events is MANY. The adjective I'd use to describe all the possibilities for fun today is WONDERFUL.

MANY WONDERFUL OPTIONS
Note this starts at 4. Free kegs + grillables + I am not sure what strings they had to pull/trans-dimensional portals they had to open, but there will be centaur rides. I think it's easy to conclude that the fine folks at Misprint are some sort of space witches. Amazing!

And at 7! Right down the street! At Cheer Up Charlie's! Nanobang presents a Micro-Nano(bangbang) party with DJ sounds by DJ MVSCLZ, DJ Dan Gentile, DJ Rusty Lazer; live sounds by Computer Jesus Refrigerator; free frEE FREE Pineapple Jalapeno Margaritas & Tequila Lime Avocado Vegan Ice Cream; taro card readings; the usual creative loveliness you expect from a Nanobang event.

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BACK TO POST (IT'LL BE LATE NOW)
Heh, uh yeah, this is tonight. Not yesterday. I never make mistakes. Ever.

Quite the army of assorted local favorites tonight at Mohawk.

Tittsworth. Do you really have to say more?

MORE
There's a free show at Sonny's Vintage (2928 Guadalupe St # 104) from 4-7 that features Shells and Some Others. Tripp T-shirts (24th and Nueces) is hosting a back to school edition of Prints for Non-Profit, with Prince Klassen, Zlam Dunk, Dubb Sicks, and free Lone Star beers and Sweet Leaf Teas. 6-9. Also, if you're looking to get some spinning time in this evening, Backspin Records is hosting an open deck session from 6:30-9:30.

I mention this mainly because the $7 you would pay to see bands you probably don't want to see benefits the bats. The bats are good. Do something for the bats. If someone has had the questionable judgment to entrust a child to your care for the day, this is an excellent opportunity to make yourself look really cool. Make up bat facts (they have been taught to sing Elton John). Fill them with inordinate amounts of sugar. Tell them the hippies that populate this event are in cat cave men. A family event, but like I said, bats.

BONUS

TOYPEDOES AWAY

Quick post. If you think tonight has options, Saturday is gonna blow yer mind tanks. Plenty of excellent ways to kick off your weekend here. Now 25% more factually accurate.

SHEBAM
BLOP
POW
WHIZZ

INSPIRATION

JEOPARDIZE YR SANITY

Hit the ground running with a photo exhibition by some of Austin's best and nicest photographers. In addition to all the pretty pictures, you get DJ musics by Hobo D and DJ Boozwa and band musics by King Dong. Mix in stand up laughings from Albert Im, Bryan Gutmann, and Doug Mellard, and you have good way to start your night. For sure. It's at the Art Authority, which means that the free things that usually accompany an art show will not be free, but it runs slightly later than the average art show, ie til midnight.

A show featuring music by ZinBin's good pals at the Eastern Sea, 3-D visuals, and oh yeah, Fulton Read. I don't talk up the Eastern Sea enough, but the stuff they've put together is really top notch. Talented folks.

A good time for a good cause. Cipher Austin will be accepting donations of blank CDRs, pens, and notebooks, so bring an armload.

This week's guest is So Sweet Record's in house guru, Eli Smith. A+

And DJ BOOTYGATOR and co are taking over Hush Lounge tonight. Cheap drinks, plus, if you get tired of the amazing combos of new and old wonderfulness that BOOTYGATOR throws around like it's no big deal, you can go downstairs and be edified by radio hip hop. It's a full cultural experience.

If, like myself, you're working late tonight, you've still got a golden opportunity to get your dance party/free drinking on. In addition to local heroes Dubbel Dutch and Teenage Wolf, Italian masterminds Blatta and Inesha are there to light up Music Gym 'til 4 in the AM. Tour mix (here). They play another set earlier at Beauty Bar, if you want the full effect. Fun fun fun

THIS REALLY DOES NOT FEEL LIKE A TUESDAY

Am I alone in feeling this way?
Fun fun fun from a lineup that is sure to overload whatever organ in your body is responsible for processing indielectro. Hard to beat the $5 cover.

Unless of course you're talking free. This week, "friends" means Teenage Wolf and French Roast, so be sure and get your world purpled up. Happy birthday, James!


This $1 Terror Tuesday, Vulcan Video presents Kingdom of the Spiders. If you are unfamiliar with how spiders work, well there's going to be alot of biting and shrieking. Evolution, too. And William Shatner. You heard me. The only thing standing between spiders and world domination is the unique cadences and plucky individualist charm of Bill Shatner. Sleep soundly, humanity.

AND I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND DO WEDNESDAY IN A SQUIGGLE PATTERN

OH RLY

Tiny fliers are go:
This show is set to be so much fun. Maybe too much fun. This show will probably be illegal by the time you're done reading this. Mohawk prices apply.

This show starts at 6, which is excellent timing for a show at the Parlor. Ya know, normal dinner time and all.

BONUS

UND ZEN ZERE VAS DANZING

Quick dance party update before I hit the art shows I mentioned last post. And go

Dear reader, I have made this small, as to avoid damaging your precious eyes. Click for larger image/details/to be completely overwhelmed. I do love me some Le Castle Vania. Stylistically speaking, he was way ahead of the curve back in the day, er a year and a half ago, so it's definitely worth seeing what he's up to now. If you've never heard of Lava Hill road, you are not alone, but hard cheese, because that's where it is. Drive safe!

An Austin centric show for your BYOB pleasure. Never been to this place, but maybe tonight's the night.

If you're in the mood for irony, being covered in glitter, and general madness, this is your one stop shop. If you don't know what I mean, photographic evidence abounds behind this link. It's at the Cockpit, which I mention only to say that someday someone should open a lesbian bar next door called the Booby Trap. Get on that ASAP. Have a good night, y'all!