Sunday, March 22, 2009

further austin notes

hadn't been in america's live music capital (R) in five years and was quite astonished at the growth there. perhaps it was attributable to sxsw (or as the locals say, "the plague of bad black dye jobs"), but interregional freeway seemed a lot more like the long island expressway than i remember it being. and mopac is a toll road now. and north lamar, which used to be _desolate_, is now teeming with shopping centers and other suburban detritus. and the downtown skyline is dominated by that godawful monstrosity that i swear was in the lord of the rings. everytime i looked at it, i couldn't help imagining christopher lee up there.

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Blogger andrew m. said...

i had a dream/nightmare involving christopher lee (the vampire one) last night right after reading this.

sounds like you had a fine trip. welcome back!

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