Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Sunday, August 31, 2014

500 Words a Day

What does 500 hundred words a day look like?  Is this challenge something that's easy to accomplish when it's extracurricular?

So it's not just an email or a Facebook status. And it most definitely is not just a tweet (this would be a lot of tweets!). 

I want to write more, though you wouldn't know it from the neglected state of my blog. 

Is 500 hundred words too obnoxious a length for a yelp post?  Cause I want to do more reviews for yelp, I just don't do it, but if that could count... Game on. I'd of course cross post to my blog cause it feels sad and lonely and my life has not been sad and lonely.

Life is full of good times. Even watching the most depressing episode of HBO's The Leftovers is a good time because I am watching with Justin. 

By the way, the above sentence ending with the word Justin is only 145 words. 

And the above sentence counts in my word count as does this one. 

I know this because of Google. I searched for and found an online word counter tool (because I started writing this on my phone in the car while Justin was driving). It's a nice basic tool: http://www.wordcounter.net/

A short break was taken in the writing of this post for lunch at an awesome,local joint called The Cove. They are known for their fish tacos but I think their burgers and sweet potato fries are better. The Cove prides itself on serving food from sustainable (and mostly local) resources. So when you eat local it's paid forward many times over to their vendors and so forth and so on. They have "Eat well, live well" written on the wall. 
#LicenseToEatSweetPotatoFries #TheyServeThem. 

While at The Cove we enjoyed some live music and a few bottles of brew. If you haven't had a Shiner Premium in a while, or ever, I would say it's time to pop one open. Drink it straight from the bottle and remove the pretentiousness of using a glass. It's the only way to truly enjoy this beverage that touts itself as being "behind the times."

The live music was also fun, an artist by the name of Ashlee Rose. Her voice had the depth and slight roughness one wants from a soulful singer and her accent had the perfect Texas twang.

Justin made a joke that her wind machine was working overtime. Her wind machine was simply a fan. 

We are at 417 words people. 
 If you've read this far in the post then I am much obliged. I don't know if I would've read this far if you had written this much. #honesty

I think part of the challenge is that you can't cheat by writing ahead of time and stockpiling words. It's about taking the time each and every day to do this. That said, if this goes the way other 30 day challenges have gone for me...  Let's just say I'm great at throwing myself into little self improvement projects but when it comes to seeing it through to the end, not so much. 

I'm now over 500 words!  Now you know what it looks like. And now I know what it takes. (It takes more than I thought it would, but I also wrote the whole thing on my phone.)

Sunday, February 16, 2014

All I Do is Win

All I do is win, win, win no matter what…

No, not really. But...

I did win tickets to see Fun. tape their show at Austin City Limits Live last September, thanks to KLRN and their Facebook post. It was fun and awesome and amazing!


That's how close we were to the stage!
I won cookies from Cookie Cab  about a week ago on Facebook. I still need to order them!  I know, I know, who can resist ordering fresh cookies that will get delivered to your door?  Somehow I have.

And my latest prize?  A fun gift basket from Evite thanks to the fun of retweeting. It’s full of cute owl goodies that are supposed to be for a kids playdate.  But I don’t have kiddoes. I am however planning a baby shower for a friend that is having a little girl.  Owls are smart and most of the owls on the printed materials have bows, so I think it’s kismet.


The basket itself is awesome too!
How cute is everything!

In the mean time I’m gonna keep following, sharing, retweeting and hashtagging.  I’m still convinced the Eursance people went to the wrong house with the $1.5 million they gave away after the Super Bowl.

You can't win if you don't retweet, share, like, follow, hashtag, etc...

What have you been lucky enough to win using social media?

In the meantime try to get this song out of your head.  


Please note: None of the entities from which I won anything asked me to blog about it.  That would have been insanely flattering. I just wanted to give a shout out to all of the organizations in one place. 

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Austin City Limits 2010...

This was our first time to go to Austin City Limits (ACL). We lived in Austin for 3 years and it never happened. 

We bought our tickets almost a year in advance, months before the line-up was announced, and booked our hotel obsessively early too.

We brought the sunscreen, the backpack chairs and the CamelBak. 

We enjoyed 21 hours of music over 2.5 days:

My poor attempt of taking a pic of Holly and myself.
Friday 10.08.10
  • The Black Keys
  • Beach House
  • Spoon
  • Vampire Weekend
  • The Strokes
  • Phish
The stage where LCD Soundsystem, Muse, REK & more played.
Saturday 10.09.10
  • The Very Best
  • Bear in Heaven
  • The Gaslight Anthem
  • Black Lips
  • Silversun Pickups
  • The xx
  • LCD Sunsystem
  • Deadmau5
  • Muse
The stage where the Strokes & Phish played.
Sunday 10.10.10
  • Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
  • Blind Pilot
  • Portugal. The Man
  • Lance Herbstrong
  • Robert Earl Keen
  • Rebelution
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The National
  • The Eagles

We saw sunrise.

We drank beer. 

We hung out with friends.

We had a blast.

 We're doing it again next year.  

Tickets purchased.  Room booked.  CamelBak readied.