Cah-razy!

Mmmm...bed....kitties....Swedish cheese.

Oh, wait! Whiskey...Norwegian friends...countless opportunities to poke fun at feather-haired, blazer-sporting film guys.

How ever will I choose?

In the end, The latter won out. But as late as I got down to Casino el Camino to meet Tor and Magne, I got a fantastic parking spot and had enough time to have a ball without having more than two drinks and without getting "downtownies" overload.

Today I exercise, purge myself of books and other belongings, do a spot of laundry, pick out some songs to work on, and maybe eat some tasty and healthful food.

I found out that the Skatalites are playing tonight and although Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso joined that great ska band in the sky many years ago, they are still undoubtedly the best live ska act that I've ever seen. Doreen Schaffer, Lloyd Knibbs, and Lester Sterling are still keeping things cooking. I believe I shall go and let all my friends know and of course, Tor and Magne and Richard and Steinar will come, because they squealed like wee girls and jabbered in unintelligible Norwegian when they heard about it last night. Of course all Norwegian, when jabbered, is well nigh unintelligible to me...so we'll just forget I said that.

In the meantime, I'm drawing on my battle gear and starting pull myself into the frenzy that is SxSW. A heartening conversation with Laura yesterday assured me that even if the Shim Shimmy Go Go Girls don't put in an appearance at the official SxSW showcase of the Woggles/Cynics/Ugly Beats/Reigning Sound, there are still ample opportunities to enjoy each of these bands at some of the day shows. Plus Muck & the Mires are here; they're our buddies from Boston who won the Little Stevens Garage Contest last year. And of course, I think I will have to *ahem* be very ill on Friday March 16th, because the Stooges are playing at Waterloo and well, I need to see some of the Raw Power for myself.

So yay!

Although, I *really* would like to see Mary Wells sing with the Reigning Sound backing her up. Good lord, what joy! I'll have to see what sort of finagling I must do in order to achieve that.

And now...elliptical trainer, more coffee, maybe a tasty smoothie and a burrito later on.