Quite the e-Male today

i met ben brown and ani moller today at spiderhouse with julie. i learned that they call new zealanders "kiwis". we drank cocacola and pepsicola out of big glass bottles dispensed from an old-fashioned coin-operated vending machine. i bumped into jessica caplan on my way out. austin is so small - i see that girl everywhere, but never on purpose.

good times, good times.

julie and i then drove downtown for a crash course in photography. she's on a plane en route to chicago as i write this. i taught her about aperture, shutter speed, and her light meter. she's got an old pentax spotmatic. the light meter is a bit wonky on it. we used the light meter in mine to gauge how far off her's was. she took three identical photos of ruta maya, one at 60, 125, and 250. the negatives all came out virtually identical. that really surprised me. i totally expected at least one of the frames to be either under or overexposed.

we had dinner at this fantastic vietnamese restaurant on oltorf just east of congress. i ate the entire bowl of food (which is quite a feat for skinny ole me). vietnamese tastes so much better than chinese. i could eat it all day long. mmmmm good.

we picked up diego and made our way to emos for the mates of state, mars volta, the anniversary, and those peabodies show. mates of state were all that i expected them to be. they put on a good live show. mars volta, which everybody worships because they're ex-members of at the drive in, really sucked. they all played their instruments well but the sound was a big ball of undifferentiated noise. there was nothing to listen to. there was no rhythm, no melodies. they had afros and they jumped around a lot. that's gotta count for something, right? the anniversary played mediocrely. i think they're more of a studio band. the sound was muddled and dirty. those peabodies rocked the house and provided a nice toe-tapping end to a fun evening.

after the show i met up with johnny, ben aqua, cristina, kelly, amd james for coffee at magnolia cafe. the idea was to get johnny hopped up on caffeine enough to pull an all-nighter. he had a five page paper to finish on brave new world. again, every time you get us all together, shenanigans ensue.

by the time my head hit the pillow i was a very, very tired boy.

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