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MidTexHorn

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  1. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    This is our dumbass chihuahua Pluto, relaxing in her new dog bed that we bought yesterday.  We got the new bed because she had a bad case of fleas, leading us to toss the old bed.  She thinks she's a Doberman pinscher.  She's roughly as dangerous as one of those fleas.  Oh, and she has 13 nipples.

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    Looks like my dumbass Stella, a rescue chihuahua. She hates everyone who doesn’t live in our house and tries to bite me when I go to put her leash on for a walk because she’s lazy as fuck. I love her dearly and I would shoot a bitch who tried to harm her. 

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  2. Rex confuses mainline Protestant denominations with American evangelicalism. It ain’t the same thing. At all. And guess which  version of Christianity dominates US politics thanks to the modern Republican Party’s selling of its soul back in the 80s. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, Rex Kramer said:

    I’m Methodist. Heard of all this shit - never seen it live, and I know tons of people, mostly of faith and diverse denominations at that. This is in no way mainstream. I’ve literally heard nobody discuss any of this. 

    When Gaza is discussed in church, prayers are offered for the conflict and everyone involved. 

    Man you are way out of touch with modern American evangelicalism. And citing your Methodist bonfides proves it. There is very little connection between the Methodist version of Christianity and evangelical version of Baptists, Church of Christ types and Bible church types. 


    I grew up in a Bible church, very fundamentalist evangelical. Parents went to Moody Bible Institute. They now go to a Baptist church because that’s where all of their old evangelical friends now go. When I decided to go to a Methodist church as an adult they thought that was the next worst thing to atheism or Catholicism. IMO You will never hear mainstream evangelical thought in the vast majority of Methodist churches. And my parents know that and despise it. 
     

    My very evangelical parents and in-laws very much support Israel both to support Gods chosen ones and for its end times implications. They also very much believe Jews (except Jews for Jesus) are going to hell. And they are very much all in on MAGA and all that stands for as are all of their evangelical friends from Bible churches and Baptist churches. We no longer discuss religion or politics, but I hear enough from this to know this. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:


    Cool post, thanks. Yeah, I wonder what a lot of types of acts cost these days. Would be interesting to know.

    Yeah it would. The economics seem to have changed quite a bit since Covid. I wish I still had some of the paperwork we got from the big agencies. I remember being surprised by some of the numbers - some more than expected, some less. Probably not surprising that the bigger nationally recognizable touring acts were $100K plus. 

  5. When I was involved in a money losing music promotion venture out in Midland a decade ago we got to see the going rates for a lot of bands. Texas bands who you’ve heard of (think Ray Wylie Hubbard, lower level Texas country bands) were in the $5-10K range. Any national level act whose name you’ve heard was $15-20K plus. I believe we got Avett Bros for $30-40K and that was a discount because we caught them in a convenient spot in between shows.  I suspect 38 Special was somewhere between $25-50K. 

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  6. 44 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Off to see LCD Soundsystem in Mexico tomorrow. 

    If I'm not back here on Monday, call the embassy. 

     

    Jealous. We've seen them in Brooklyn, Austin, New Orleans and Dublin and had a blast each time.

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  7. 11 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

    So you posted a picture of the garage grunge band and not the eyeful strip club band?

    Ha! Yeah, my wife was with me which cut down on the creeper photos. Didn’t want to risk the side eye from her. Google is your friend. 

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  8. Had some health issues this week so haven’t made it out much like I wanted to. Did make it down to SXSJ for a bit yesterday. Saw part of cumgirl8’s set. Not that musically impressive but they were an eyeful for sure - felt like I was at a strip club. 
     

    My fun discovery was Native Sun out of NYC at Radio East this afternoon. Rowdy grunge/punk rock and roll and a lot of fun. 
     

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  9. 6 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    My dad band played a day gig at Sahara Lounge this afternoon.  The audience seemed to be mostly middle-aged lesbians, a few confused Black regulars who were like "wtf are these old white spares doing playing garage rock in our bar?" and some lawyer who thought we were worthy of a record deal but who doesn't run a record label.

    Austin, never change.

    That’s hilarious. I almost went to this actually, would’ve been another old white lawyer, but work unfortunately intervened. Looks like a pretty cool dive bar. 

  10. 3 hours ago, stc said:

    y'all got anything better than the chronicle's list of day parties? feel like there used to be a bunch of websites that listed the day shows but now it's pretty much just the chronicle. 

    https://www.austinchronicle.com/sxsw/unofficial/

     

    That’s the one I’m using. Think I’m gonna hit this show on Thursday night after the day show at C-Boys. 
     

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  11. I'm kinda sorta one of these types. Music is mostly about a vibe for me. I almost always either instantly love or hate a song based on "how it sounds" and whether it strikes an emotional chord with me or not. Yes there are songs where I love the lyrics, but I'm rarely drawn to a song for that. Unless it was written by John Prine or Townes Van Zandt.

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  12. I went last night. Thought Paack was decent, wouldn't mind checking them out at their residency at Saxon. I'm not a Doobie Brothers fan, but went as a favor to a friend. Their voices were surprisingly good, but their music does absolutely nothing for me and it just seems all over the map - is it 70s rock anthems? Yes. Is it the occasional attempt at actually rocking out with some 70s psychedelia? Yes. Is it Michael McDonald 80s yacht rock? Yes. Is it mostly just kinda boring pop rock? Yes.

  13. 1 hour ago, Native Horn said:

    I've been to Vegas probably 30+ times, but will be making the first trip there for March Madness on first weekend.  Will be with a small group who I don't think will want to spend morning till night watching the tourney, but will def want to catch some games and make some sports wagers in between playing in the casinos.  Home base is Bellagio.  Any tips from those who have done this before?

    We did it a few years ago with a small group and didn't make any watching location reservations. Ended up one day at Tilted Kilt and wandering around from bar to bar and sports book to sports book another day. Tilted Kilt was packed but not bad. We were able to find a 4 top and the rest of the group used that to hold their drinks while they stood.

    In hindsight I would definitely reserve a watch location for at least one day. Didn't really feel like I did it right just wandering around and ended up missing a lot of the action.

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  14. Through 3 episodes of Beef. Fairly dark and depressing and looks like it may get moreso. Don't really need that in my life right now, but I'll probably finish it out.

  15. Yup, prices on their way down now that folks have their tickets in hand. Anyone have a feel for what face value was for the varies levels? I'm holding out for 300 or lower, but really don't want to pay anywhere close to what folks are asking now.

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