I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes...
Eyes...
Oh, did I say
That I loathe you?
Did I say
That I want to leave it all behind?
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind...
My mind
My mind...
Till I find somebody new."
Saturday I went to Austin City Limits Festival with Ericka. She was so wonderful to invite me to this festival. I didn't attend Friday or Sunday. I'm glad I convinced her not to give up on getting tickets for the sold out Saturday show. This year they were Going Green for the ACL Fest, in case you wanted to know. I was worried I wouldn't be able to do an entire day music festival, but I'm proud of myself for manning up and rocking it with what felt like most of Austin. I had a pretty amazing time. Here are the bands I saw, Paulo Nutini, Augustana, Blue October, Damien Rice, Indigo Girls, and I left right before Muse. The White Stripes pulled out late and so did Amy Winehouse so that was disappointing.
Oscar and I met at Ericka's work. I have to say that there was no way I could of done a full 3 day weekend looking back. I got Ericka her favorite latte from Starbucks and we left for my super secret awesome kick ass free parking. It was better than paying and parking downtown, but it was still a walk on a day full of much walking.
As we walked in, the relief of knowing our tickets were real quickly settled and we looked out upon all the people and glaring sun and all I could think was wow, can I survive being outdoors for this long. (Marty has this thing with allergies and being dirty and being tired and being burnt.) All those thoughts just swept away as we started listening to the bands. My first thought was, man I really should of brought those really cool chairs you can carry. That is a must I think, especially when you plan to spend the entire day there. But really, man it was hot, I got a really good tan if not a sun burn and haven't sweat like that in forever. You don't notice all of it too much during songs you like, when songs you don't care for it sets in a bit more.
We heard Ericka's band she loves, Paulo Nutini. He was pretty good and I was glad I had checked out a few of his songs before I heard him. My favorite is Million Faces. We had a late lunch and later met up Danny and his friends to watch Blue October. Being with a group of friends definitely makes the experience more worthwhile. We left because they were going to watch the Artic Monkeys and we wanted to see Damien Rice, my choice. We then met with Karina and her cousin and hung out with them for a while. I was drinking water all day and had no beer. I guess you can have a good time by just drinking water and enjoying music. Then finally Damien Rice came on and it the was highlight of the festival for me. I had always wanted to see them live in concert, but was never able to. After the set it was 8:30pm and we had been there all day so Ericka and I just called it a night. At night the weather feels so cool and nice, perfect concert weather I have to admit. We met up with Oscar to tell him that we were going to skip Muse and just get going. Since I hadn't heard them before I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything, but I'm sure one day I'll look back and maybe wish I did stay to listen. I like the way it worked out. I later heard on TV that Muse put on quite a show and that Drew Barrymore made an appearance.
I have yet to try adding video to my blog and here is my first attempt. I've uploaded photos, so check them out here. Here are my Damien Rice video excerpts:
We made out long walk to my truck, got some dinner and came home where I watched the UT game I recorded (in fast forward) and TV ACL coverage. The TV coverage wasn't too bad. It was a good experience, but next year I plan to go again for just one day and I hope to invite friends and pass on the gift Ericka gave me by bringing my own guests to hopefully enjoy their first ACL. I'm glad I didn't have to deal with the dust issue from the past and that I had such good company. Here is looking to new year.
Here is Ericka's ACL video review at the end of the day:
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