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Marjorie Fair
GIG 11- AUSTIN, TEXAS
Posted in GIGS on Oct 10, 2006 at 8:19 AM

We stayed back at the warehouse in NoCal again after the Shoreline show. Everyone woke up pretty late and so we got a late start. So late, in fact, that we didn’t get on the freeway until 4:30 p.m. or so. This is after an hour-long shopping trip at Whole Foods for food for our long drive to Texas. We started down the 101 because it was the only freeway near us and attempted to cut across the state to save time and get to the 5 freeway. Long story short, we were going 35 on random back road hills for 2 and a half hours. Finally we got to the 5 and drove through the desert all night. We stopped as the sun was coming up and took some pictures and a piss. One stop at a New Mexico gas station / Dairy Queen / Indian-Western souvenir place to get ice cream, gas and fireworks. After twenty minutes of waiting in the fly-filled van for Artie, he comes out with a grumpy store employee carrying two boxes of moccasins and two big pieces of agate. We drove through the day, going through New Mexico until we hit El Paso, TX at around 6 p.m. We got to Texas, at least the very edge of it. We stayed at a Sleep Inn (get it?) with an indoor pool on the outskirts of town. We all took long-overdue showers, watched “Annie Hall” and got ready for dinner and a movie.
P.F. Chang’s was the best place we could find for dinner. Some of the boys got some alcoholic beverages and trouble ensued (not real trouble though). After annoying the waitress (again) we left and Scott climbed to the top of one of those big horse statues in front of the doors, and then off we went to see “Jackass 2.” After that madness, we went to find a place to light off our fireworks. We got directions to a street that dead-ended a few hundred feet from a small casino on a man-made pond with two 24-hour adult arcades / “gift shops,” and an abandoned fairgrounds just feet over the New Mexico-Texas state line. I was very nervous because I thought it would be a high cop-traffic area. The boys had their fun lighting bottle rockets from their hands and old vitamin water bottles. (Scott was on his cell the whole time.) The party continued to one of the hotel rooms and then we crashed to the “Colbert Report.”
We left the next morning after a trip to a great Goodwill thrift store and a small-town gear store. Needless to say, it lasted longer than we anticipated. We didn’t get into Austin until 2 a.m. or so. We stayed at a Country Inn where we had to sneak three of the band members into the room because we had a two-person rate. We tried using the side door but it was locked, so Jayson had to let us in and we all crept down the hall with video cameras watching. Not the most pleasant thing to do when you haven’t eaten for 8 hours and you are tired. We called around to find a hip 24-hour diner. We found the Magnolia Café, a “sorry, we’re open” type place. The food was okay. Thank God it was there. They were semi-veggie friendly. We went to bed full and content.
Me, Jayson and Scott went into Austin the next morning to the same neighborhood. It was a very cute strip with great-tasting restaurants, antique stores, boutiques and a tattoo place. Jayson and I decided to get some tattoos later on in the afternoon. It was the first Thursday of the month and there was some sort of outside street fair being set up so we picked up Artie and Evan and headed back to the neighborhood for tattoos and more food. After some pleasure and pain we all headed to the gig at The Cactus Café on the University campus. It’s a historic folk club that serves alcohol on the campus. I believe it’s been around since the 70s. The staff was really friendly and we got free drinks. Unfortunately, no one showed up due to lack of promotion, so Evan played a solo set and we hit the town. We went to another college diner and then a video arcade. We all loved Austin (aside from the flying cockroaches). It was a good time.

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