Guardian of the Non Sequitur

The Freeway’s a deathtrap

It kills pedestrians.
The freeway is a deathtrap.

We need to tear it down, get rid of it, before it kills again! METRO and TxDOT are failures. We should hang them all from the gallows.

-b

March 22nd, 2004 Posted by bshirley | inthenews, politics | no comments

musical weekend

I had a non-wristband, mostly Continental Club SXSW 2004 experience. More details to come, here’s the overview…

Thu
Nellie McKay (Waterloo Records)
Hot Club of Cowtown
The Bigger Lovers
CC Adcock
Marah
The Fourty-Fives
Southern Culture on the Skids

Fri
The Bellyachers (Cheapo Records)
The Allen Oldies Band (Rue’s Antiques)
Powderfinger (Emo’s Annex - Australian BBQ)
The John Butler Trio (Emos Annex - Australian BBQ)
Toots and the Maytals (Auditorium Shores)
Shooter Jenning
Jessi Colter
Charlie Musselwhite & Charlie Sexton

Sat
The Allen Oldies Band
Jim Bianco
James McMurtry
Mary McBride
The Goldstars
Redd Volkeart
Jon Dee Graham
Moxo Nixon
Kris Kristofferson
Patricia Vonne

-b

March 22nd, 2004 Posted by bshirley | music, sxsw, weekend | no comments