She’s Young and With It

Bear with me for a moment… I have been very stressed (work) and a tad bit blue (work stress + house etc etc stress) this week. On my way home, I was perusing the iPod for good music to cheer me up and de-stress me. I chose the Essex Green. Listening to The Long Goodbye, I was reminded that I wanted their new record, Cannibal Sea. I decided to go by the record store on my way home and pick it up. On the way to the record store, I thought about seeing them at SXSW. Thinking of SXSW reminded me that I never finished writing this post.

Without further ado, one month ago…

We started Thursday, March 16th, off by going to see Saturday Looks Good To Me (unplugged). Before they started playing, we saw someone wearing the Ladybugs t-shirt that Clint designed a few years back. We think that it was the guy in the Galactic Heroes. That was exciting!

After Saturday Looks Good To Me, we ventured down to Home Slice to see Irving play two songs.

Then we headed over to Factory People to see the Mates of State. We misunderstood and thought they were playing a day show, but they were just acting as DJs, playing tunes off their iPod. Since we were there, Clint bought some t-shirts from the American Apparel pop-up store.

Thursday night we went to Town Lake to see, more like listen to, Spoon. I really am not fond of big outdoor shows so I looked at my feet.

Friday, March 17th, was a good day. We started the day off by seeing Saturday Looks Good to Me again (plugged in). Both Thursday and Friday we heard a few new songs and a few old songs.

Then we ran over to Spider House to see The Hidden Cameras. The Hidden Cameras were my favorite thing about SXSW this year because they were so much fun! They made the audience interact and play goofy and they danced danced danced. Fun fun Canadians! I wish they would come back and play a full show outside of SXSW someday. Texas Voodoo.

After the Hidden Cameras, we headed over to Pok-e-Jo’s to catch the Merge Records showcase with The Essex Green, Britt Daniel, and Camera Obscura. It was really awesome to see Camera Obscura. Geez were those ladies cute! It is quite charming to hear a seemingly shy Scottish gal say, “We all have to pee very bad, but the queue for the toilet is very long.”

(Click any of the above images for lots more from each band!)

One last little tidbit… I will never know for sure but it is possible that Elijah Wood was standing behind us at the Merge show for a little while. At one point I turned around and thought to myself, “Hmmm… That guy looks familiar.” It was not until the next day when I was looking at pictures in the paper and saw a picture of him with Harry Knowles that I realized he may have been the person behind us. Good times.

In April.

What could this possibly mean for August?

We have been very busy at the Young and With It house. Highlights:

1. Clint graduates in about 3 weeks. For real! It will be so nice to not have a Clint freaking out about art projects anymore. Only now we will likely move on to a Clint freaking out about finding a job instead.
2. Young and With It Industries. I like that my (well our, but mostly my) little business is successful, but it is keeping me busy.
3. We have met with a realtor and are really seriously (maybe) thinking about the purchase of a home. Very scary for so many reasons. I am having a really hard time disconnecting myself from our quaint little neighborhood. We can’t afford to buy in our neighborhood so I need to get over it.
4. Sick cat. Wembley had to spend the day at the vet yesterday because he has been having this horribly dry cough and recently started breathing kinda snorty too. Well, it turns out he has asthma. He has two swollen lymph nodes in his chest and his lungs look asthmatic or something like that. The vet is sending his x-rays to a radiologist to make sure that it is just asthma and not cancer. Keep your fingers and toes and paws crossed for Mr. Wembley.

I still have a SXSW post sitting here with a need to be finished. Does anyone even care at this point?

I am listening to my online pal Janice’s podcast. This is good stuff. Have a listen.

If you happen to live in New Hampshire and happen to be reading this today, we have sent Young and With It goods up to artstream studios for their art to wear home design show.

I have a SXSW post pending, but it will have to stay that way until I get a chance to finish writing. For now, check out this cupcake Clint bought me tonight.