Mid November, EAST and Angers (FR) with devices.
There is so much happening this time of year in Austin.
Brooklyn Lager hosted a party at the Mohawk, Lee Fields and the Expressions were the main act.
East Austin Studio tour has started, we enjoyed the Chris Maresh Jazz Trio at #459 for Rose Saenz
The architect we hired for this house had a party, goats were grilled and bands played. The band below doesn't have a name yet, but they are "Open For Suggestions".
They might be influenced by Guided by Voices and Superchunk (from what I can gather). I liked them and hope they continue.
Austin has a sister city in France, Angers (pronounced ON-jzay)
Cherry Plum from Angers played for us. The good people of Angers also sent one of their French Chef over to make us some special pizza at ABGB,
More than twenty five years ago, I noticed a friends mother had a Gameboy in her car. She went on to tell me all about her high scores. I found this funny. She said, "Just you wait Paul! One day, YOU will have some sort of device when you find yourself needing something to do, like waiting in the pick up line at school..." I found that idea funny as well, that'd I'd have kids and I'd be the one that spent my time shuffling them around... Oh how right she was.
Now nearly everybody has a smart phone. It can be a great tool and has so many options for killing extra time. The problem now, they have become SO interesting, they are no longer reserved for empty or bored moments. They are now something that has to be served, and often it receives attention at the expense of people and events in the real world.
I'm reminded of the movie, The Matrix. Where humans are slaves to an electronic world where their reality is entirely digitized. It seems each year, we are choosing to spend more time in the digital world, and less attention in the real world. Games, Videos, and Text on phones are demanding more and more time. It can be called multi-tasking, but a brain can only offer a partial attention while it's also doing another task at the same time. These tools are starting to make me feel lonely and it often makes the user irritable, not happy. When does the machine serving us, become us serving the machine?