Jason Smith

The Bad Lovers @ Beerland

• OBN III’s with
• Cause For Applause,
  
• The Bang Bang Theodores,
• and The Bad Lovers
  

Should be fun. See you all there!

1. The Strange Boys (15)
2. The Jam (12)
3. Regina Spektor (9)
4. Tom Waits (8)
5. The Flamin’ Groovies (7)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

That’s right folks. This is not The Onion, but the New York Times.

“You humans are strange creatures. You extol your every technological advancement, call your cell phones smart, and describe social media as a revolution. Meanwhile, whether you realize it or not, nature has already bested you. For fifty million years, whales have been using sonar to broadcast our status across hundreds of nautical miles. My social network numbers in the thousands. Once, I picked up a female in Madagascar. We rubbed up against each other and sloughed off large sheets of skin. That’s no euphemism for sex. It’s how we keep ourselves free of disgusting marine organisms.

Dear me, I’ve lost my thread again. Sorry, that’s just how my brain works. It’s the largest of any animal, ever, with a highly developed neo-cortex. Long story short, I invented Twitter.”

- Fail Whale Speaks

Les Bourgeois - Jacques Brel

What am I getting into!?!

“To reiterate on the math explained earlier: For a medium-sized independant bookstore to exist, they need to sell 108 hardcover books in one day. That’s a lot of books. That means, honest to God, that every time you order something from a warehouse that employs no one in your town or neighborhood, you really should think about walking to your brick-and-mortar store and seeing if they have that book. Make a dent in that 108, people!”

- The Panorama Book Review

This morning’s bike ride destroyed any confidence my last bike ride might have given me. I had to walk up two hills, and had to get off three times because I changed the gears incorrectly. I also went careening off a curb at like one mile per hour. I’m sure the people stopped at the light were laughing at me. Then while going the wrong way down a sidewalk with a bike lane on the road (I didn’t know there was one because I was trying a new route) like 80 cyclists came flying past me. How embarrassing.

The good news is the new route was easier than just riding all the way down South Lamar. I could walk when I got to where I was going. The down side being that when I return home the trip will be all up hill, and I will die.

There is a gentleman, and I use the word loosely, on the phone two tables away from me. He has been on the phone for the last hour and a half. He is trying to sell his house, has just moved to Austin and needs a place to stay (he’s been calling craigslist listings non-stop), has recently split with his significant other, and thinks that she should “jump in the lake”

He’s obnoxious.

I won’t deny his right to use his phone in public, but this is a talk in person, or stare at your computer screen blankly kind of place. Not, a yell in your phone over the coffee grinder kind of place. Go outside to talk on your cell for an extended period of time like the rest of us.

Also, he has two windows computers open on two separate tables. In my opinion, you can do work at a coffeeshop, but it is not your office. Place one computer in your bag when you’re not using it. Why would you even need two windows computers?!?