SXSW videos!

Had a fuckload of fun at South by Southwest 2008 here in Austin. A fuckload, I say! 1,700 bands playing across the city over four days, many of those bands playing multiple shows. Here are just some bands we caught on Saturday.

Click on the picture to watch the Youtube vid.

Think About Life
This was my favorite band of the festival. They played at a Pop Montreal showcase at Beauty Bar and ripped the freaking house down!
The Nymphets
It was really nice to see the Nymphets after having played shows with them so many damn times in Montreal. Fun garage punk rock! I bought their 7"
The Knux
These guys were a lot of fun and they played at a Rachael Ray party! Rachael Ray was freaking there, although we didn't see her. It was weird though. But the drinks were free and plentiful.
Mika Miko
Really cool post-punk band from L.A. on one of my favorite record labels Kill Rock Stars. They also put on a great show, even though it was the mid-afternoon. The drinks also ran free at this Bust party.

El Camino

This vehicle will officially ring in the newest category for this blog. It's one I should have introduced long ago given the automobile culture in Austin: cars. You see strange and beautiful vehicles all the time in this city and here is one of them. This extra long El Camino cruiser was in the parking lot of my local H-E-B. Note the container of compressed fuel in the back! This thing must be a bitch to drive but you'd look like a king behind the wheel.

Clinton campaign mailer

One of the benefits of living in a state that could decide the Democratic presidential race is receiving negative campaign mailers. This attack from Hillary Clinton arrived in our mailbox on Saturday, just three days before the Texas primary on Tuesday, March 4th. Click on the images to get a closer look. I find it interesting.

She's attacking Obama's healthcare plan because it doesn't force people to buy coverage if they don't want it. Even though I think everyone should have coverage, mandating that every American buy it and threatening to garnish their wages if they don't is exactly the kind of government intervention the Republicans are ready to pounce on to prevent a Democrat from winning office. I can already imagine the attack ads assailing Hillary and her plan to have the government garnish your paycheck. That's going to freak a lot of people out.

This comes down the fundamental difference in the approaches of Obama and Clinton. Obama is probably more to the left than Clinton but realizes that to accomplish policy goals you have to be willing to compromise. Clinton promises to fight by the old rules. It's a matter of transcending partisanship versus fulfilling it.

Hungry-Man XXL Exposed!

I can't help but laugh everytime I see Hungry-Man XXL products in the grocery store aisles. ONE-AND-A-HALF POUNDS OF FOOD! But yesterday I made an interesting discovery. The nutrition facts state this XXL serving size of Southern Boneless Fried Chicken is actually intended for two! Sharing?! How XXL is that? Not very! It's more like plain old L. Shame on you Hungry-Man!