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UTCzech III

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  1. Mother fucker, beat me to it by 30 seconds. Yeah, we could have THAT back...
  2. Don't know if anyone else has been following this, they had their first show last night: Video starting to come out, pretty damn good...
  3. Been a fan for a few years, does all her own arrangements, pretty darn good...
  4. Since this is the humblebrag thread, child #2 graduates tomorrow night with his Masters in Civil Engineering (could also go in the graduation thread, can't wait to fight the shitshow at the Erwin Center tomorrow night, then turn around and be back in Austin at 8am for the Masters-only ceremony at Bass...). He's already got a job lined up in Dallas, starts in the middle of June. When he was little, people thought he was "special", we never did, but he couldn't talk well and just seemed to be off in space all the time. Turned out, his hearing was all fucked up, even though they kept telling us, no, he doesn't need tubes or anything. They actually put him in the pre-k for special kids. Once we got everything figured out, my wife busted her ass one summer to work on his speech before he went to kindergarten. Even when he was in school he never seemed "smart", he got good grades but never was a bookworm or anything. Our daughter was the genius, top of her class every year, graduated valedictorian, top score at state in Academic Decathlon. The boy, I never figured it out, he played sports (never too "into" any one, but just to try them all, although he did finally hit a groove in cross-country), was first chair in band (thank you, that's my influence there), learned guitar solos by ear sitting in his room, just normal. But damned if he didn't start taking all the math/science classes in high school and just acing them. And then he got valedictorian as well. Suddenly, it just all clicked. My wife's dad was an engineer with the Highway Dept. for 30 years, so we kind of steered him that way, I don't think he really knew what else he wanted to do. He just took to it like a duck to water. My daughter, she's still probably technically smarter, she went to Rice, got a degree in linguistics, lives in Seattle now and draws comics while she's looking for a job. Like I said, he's already got a job laid out, I think eventually him and a buddy from high school want to start their own firm. Would have never in a million years guessed how this would have turned out for the both of them. And he plays in my polka band with me, father and son on stage together. Couldn't be prouder.
  5. Finally after going to the nytimes site and sliding it way to the left (cancelling out the high frequencies) did I hear the laurel, but still underneath the yanni. I hear them both now, now that i know what I'm supposed to be listening for, but still yanni on top.
  6. This right here. Will give it another shot at work with my headphones on.
  7. That's my daughter at the bottom of the $. So go ahead, enhance, enhance! Every time we went to visit we had a great time, plenty of room for tailgating, loved the stadium, old school, you could drink a beer in there long before UT finally came around. Campus was nice and small, Rice Village was cool, lots of good pubs down there. That's all I got.
  8. Funny, I just read the is the other day, hard to disagree.. Was 1978 the greatest year in music?
  9. I never met her, not sure if they were divorced yet the first time I met Steve (maybe 2005 or so). Mainly used to just run into each other at church picnics or dances, the other trumpet player and bass player in my band both knew him much better, Dave the trumpet player used to drive on some of those dancehall tours Steve would organize about 5 years ago, they'd just rent a van and take off. Used to love to just talk music with him, he's tell us about all the bands he'd worked with and we;d clue him in on all the polka bands that used to play at the various halls they would tour.
  10. Known Stephen for years, was going to post this but wasn't sure if anyone else knew him. He did a lot for our band, got us in at Sengelmann Hall when it first re-opened, and we did a presentation at the Austin History Center a couple years ago with Steve on old dancehalls. Really heartbreaking though, to watch him go through all this, he lost his girlfriend to cancer just a year or so ago, then his cancer came back, he had been in remission for a while. We all knew it was coming, just still sad. Unfortunately my band is playing the same day, but y'all go to the Continental Club on May 20th and have a slice of pie and raise a glass for Steve. Here's a trailer for a new indy film he's starring in, a fitting tribute.
  11. I think that was kind of that late 70's/early 80's "Buddy Holly" look revival, Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, Donnie Iris all had it.
  12. So when I got to Ausitn and UT in 1984, and finally had cable, I just watched videos all the time, even the country ones. It was hilarious watching these country stars trying to adapt to MTV, or even CMT. These two are a couple of my favorites, they both have one of my favorite "video meme"s, the cameo. Of course they have break dancing, jazz ballet dancing, every kind of dancing, every goddam video in the 80's had dancing. Christ. The first video features a very young Mariska Hargitay, along with Tattoo, Exene and John Doe, and Britt Ekland (growl!). The 2nd features Bill Monroe and a swoop-in by David Keith at the very end.
  13. Blood coming out of the rooms, blood coming out of the..whatever....
  14. I really like this one. Big hair, holy closeups Batman! Tina Turner in leather, yeah I'll watch. My favorite part is the cameo by Cy Curnin of the Fixx, who wrote this song. He just appears from the side of the stage, then does some weird fight-dancing. Another favorite, I've always been fascinated with that British post-WWII period, and Ray Davies is great as a smarmy cheese.
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