Nov 1st 2005 Austin Texas show

[harkrider]

It was a dark and stormy night.  Beer cost five fifty a can (yes, a can).  The concert shirts could hardly have been worse.  My wife and I took up a comfy position near the back -- twenty five feet from the stage, where we could survey the gathering crowd.  I had not seen so many computer programmers in one place since Kurt Vonnegut spoke at the UT campus.  Underaged girls swarmed like bees.  These two crowds mixed quite poorly, I noticed, creating large pockets of open space very near the stage.  Things tightened up when Liz came out, though, wearing her futuristic headset.  I forget which song she played first.  For that matter, I don't remember the set list all that well.  Smoking a joint in the men's room was far too easy.  I owe this mostly to the fact that Supernova started just as I lit up, further enthralling the wild crowd, and also that the five dollar beers had kept the "dry" crowd dryer than usual.  The encore consisted of a few favorites.  Liz played Stratford-on-Guy solo, following with Chopsticks on the piano.  Some tough-looking chicks near the front nearly convinced her to stage-dive (or so I imagined), but she wisely declined their offer, whatever it was.  She was very charming, telling numerous jokes throughout the set, mostly one-liners, displaying no hint of the stage-fright for which she is infamous. 

[TrampolineFrSpace]

I really wish that I could have seen it.  I believe that she's been here in Austin 2 or 3 times since I moved up here in 2000.

The only problem for me was that Liz Phair wasn't yet on my radar.  That didn't happen until Nov 12, 2005.

I had heard about her on XM but didn't make a real connection until I did a search for some songs.  This was just one year ago.

Oh well.  I'm glad it was a good night for you, even though the drinks were steep.

This Friday, I'll celebrate my 51st with a happy hour at Joe's Crab Shack.  Cheers!

[Surflord]

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[harkrider]

That's the best bigfoot photo I've ever seen. 

[Surflord]

Heres me waiting in line notice the belt buckel.