While in Austin for SXSW, I saw multiple stickers, hats, etc., bearing the slogan "Keep Austin weird." The value of weirdness to a community should not be underestimated. As John Stuart Mill brainily said, "Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
Although I can't speak for the collective strength of character, genius, mental vigor or courage of the people who partied down at Ron Megee's loft in the West Bottoms last Friday, I definitely say that there were plenty of eccentrics. For one thing, the party was in celebration of Lenin's birthday. There were people dressed like Soviets and there were men in drag. Take away all the people in normal clothes and you would have had a Trannies & Trotskyites party.
I'm a lousy photographer, but I snapped some photos of the shindig, all here for your vicarious viewing pleasure. The Monitor organized the event and provided the evening's live music, setting up a closed-circuit TV system using ancient, UHF-knob TVs to enhance the band's Big Brother shtick. They had two bass guitars and some keyboards and the three guys in the band wore army fatigues and black armbands and acted like fascists and sang how Scott Weiland would have sounded if he'd grown up in the Eastern Bloc. They closed their set with a cover of the Stooges' "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog," during which singer Cody Wyoming stripped off his shirt and jumped in the crowd. Sadly, I failed to capture a photograph of this moment. Rest assured, it was weird.
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Omg that is halirious!! That is my thelogy teacher!! haha O Mr. Blair!! We gotta love you!!
I had a great time at the party, i had no idea they were taking pictures, thank God they didnt catch us ;).
dig the blog, obviously I'm biased, but being as objective as possible I think it's fucking great. a great way to keep the chops up and get in the crevices of this towns collective musical asshole.
don't stop till you get enough
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