bluegrass to lonestar

Saturday afternoon the Unicycle Football League put on a demo near our house. It is bad ass. Drunk dudes on unicycles (some missing teeth) play football while cheerleaders drink tallboys. They are supposedly starting up a league in Austin.

A belated post to recap SXSW 2010. We ate lots of free food and drank loads of free booze. The best had to be the pancake, nacho, deschutes party.

Wednesday
Bands
Brazos
Inlets
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!
Titus Andronicus killed it as always
Torche
Fucked Up followed.

Thursday
Bands
Turbo Fruits
Surfer Blood
Small Black
Vivian Girls.
Kid Sister
Walkmen

Friday
Bands
Holiday Shores
Fergus & Geronimo
Inlets
Young Buffalo
Thoepholis London
Cool Kids
Frightened Rabbit
Man Man

Saturday
Bands
Sharon Van Etten
Garotas Sueccas
Slaraffenland
Natural Child
Andrew WK
Gwar
Beach Fossils

Tucked away amidst the residential area near zilker park is the greenbelt, a mass of trails, rockfaces and a creek.  Lauren and I decided that the incredible weather warranted a picnic.  After locating an entrance, which turns out to be much harder than expected, we hiked down to the creek and found a large rock to eat our lunch on.  There were a bunch of awesome paddle cacti and deadwood looking debris. The water was actually up in the creek, something I doubt lasts very long, and the wildflowers were blooming. Quite lovely.

Because I have an inflated sense of self-importance here is by my “50 best films of the decade” list you’ve been dying to read.

1. Elephant (VanSant)
2. Mullholland Drive (Lynch)
3. Nobody Knows (Kore-eada)
4. Memories of Murder (Bong)
5. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
6. La Ciénaga (Martel)
7. The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson)
8. L’Intrus (Denis)
9. Dogville (Von Trier)
10. Platform (Zhang)
11. Zodiac (Fincher)
12. 35 Rhums (Denis)
13. La mujer sin cabeza (Martel)
14. Hable con Ella (Almodovar)
15. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Coen)
16. There Will Be Blood (PTA)
17. Still Walking (Kore-eada)
18. Spider (Cronenberg)
19. My Mother’s Smile (Belocchio)
20. Eastern Promises (Cronenberg)
21. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai)
22. Oasis (Lee)
23. Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
24. No Country For Old Men (Coen)
25. Summer Hours (Assayas)
26. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Duk)
27. Werckmeister harmóniák (Tarr)
28. This Charming Girl (Lee)
29. You, the Living (Andersson)
30. Punch Drunk Love (PTA)
31. Kings and Queen (Deschplain)
32. Mysterious Skin (Araki)
33. Under the Sand (Ozon)
34. INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch)
35. The Heart of the World (Maddin)
36. Y tu mamá también (Cuaron)
37. Ce-jour là (Ruiz)
38. President’s Last Bang (Im)
39. Wall-E (Stanton)
40. All The Real Girls (Green)
41. Syndromes and a Century (Weerasethakul)
42. Notre Musique (Godard)
43. American Psycho (Harron)
44. The Life Aquatic (Anderson)
45. Control (Corbijn)
46. Morvern Callar (Ramsey)
47. Private Property (LaFosse)
48. Five Obstructions (vonTrier)
49. Little Children (Field)
50. Grizzly Man (Herzog)

My favorite films of 2009:

35 Rhums (Denis), Antichrist (von Trier), Café Noir (Jung), The Hurt Locker (Bigelow), The Limits of Control (Jarmusch), Mother (Bong), La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Martel),  A Serious Man (Coen), Two Lovers (Gray), Up (Docter), Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze),  You, the Living (Andersson)

Good but lacking:

Public Enemies (Mann), The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson)