Tex Message

"Tex Message." Oh man, that's golden. I think the inspiration was a girl near me who just said "I totally include a smiley face in all my text messages."

Tonight we played at a coffee house near Dallas called The White Rhino. All I could think about was our video tech project in high school where Andrew Kilpatrick, Conor, and Peter made a fake commercial for heroin called "White Tiger."

The only two guys at the show tonight who were not in high school were Harley Davidson employees. One of them had been hit by a car while riding his motorcycle TODAY. "Dear God, are you alright? Why are you even out of the house?" "Well," he said, "my helmet worked. I only had a mild concussion.....I think....I was unconscious for a while, so I'm not sure. It happens." Instant new hero. He even put money into our tip jar.

Last night's show was in College Station, TX. Quite a wide array of characters made it out to that one, too. Including a man who now spends much of his days organizing free meals for all the patrons of the bar. He just buys a bunch of food, and makes it outside on the porch, and gives it to people at the bar. Kristy and Casey thought that was a wondrous idea until I pointed out that maybe there were better candidates for free hot meals than the drunken patrons of the Revolution Bar and Cafe. The man was pretty cool though....wearing socks (but no shoes) and jeans with a GIGANTIC hole in the ass.

I ended up spending most of the night (after our show) speaking with Rudy, a big Mexican guy living in College Station who loves Sonic Youth, Pavement, and loads of other bands that my friends in college adored, but that I couldn't stand. "Listen man, you need to buy Daydream Nation and get into it," he told me. "Study it. It's amazing. Then, a couple years later, get this other album they released called -- "
"Wait a second," I interrupted. "It's going to take me two years to grasp this album??"
"Yeah man, it's really intense. It's some insane shit."
"But TWO YEARS??? If I've been listening to it for, let's say 14 months, and I still am not into it, you think I need to invest another 10 months of my life trying to grasp this Sonic Youth album?"
"Well....yeah man, I guess you may not dig it."