![NOVEMBER 6 – THE SUPER CO-OP, AUSTIN, TX [SHOW #118]
Day 150. [JT] Didn’t know what to expect when we pulled up to the address given to us for “The Super Co-Op.” It was a large building complex on a dimly lit street a few blocks from the UT campus. Our friend Alex came down to the street to meet us. She lives in the Co-Op and had organized the evening’s show for us with less than a week’s notice. She led us inside the building and up the elevator. Coming out onto the fourth floor we walked to the balcony that surrounded the indoor concrete courtyard below. There were some picnic tables and benches, a basketball hoop, and an area with a PA set up. Alex invited us into her co-op’s kitchen where she had prepared us some vegan fajitas and chips. We sat around our much appreciated dinner and chatted with her and were introduced to some of her housemates. The complex is large. It houses three co-op communities spread over 5 floors, each with their own kitchen & dining rooms and recreation rooms.
Alex and co. put on quite an event for the night. They invited the local band Diagonals (pictured) to open the show, ordered a keg of beer (Amber Bock?) and were going around with trays of jello shots for everyone in attendance. Diagonals are a great band, a few of the members we had played with a few years ago when they had a band called Peel. My step-sister Susie came out to the show. She attended show #3 back in June in Champaign, IL, and she has since moved to Austin. Also our old Iowa friend Matt Grusha was in attendance, and we were introduced to his girlfriend and a few other friends. And Emily was there too, who we first met at the Denton show in July and she and I had our picture taken in the classic American Gothic pose. We had a lot of fun playing the co-op. It was dark and chilly in the courtyard under the night sky above everyone in the open air courtyard. The balconies of the floors surrounded us overhead, and provided good prospective for those scattered about upstairs. The turnout was great, and we met a lot of great people that night. We stayed up late into the night drinking punch and hanging out in the kitchen. Eventually we packed up and said goodbye to Alex and followed Susie back to her new apartment, where we crashed on the floor for a short few hours before getting up to make our long trip to the southwest.
The jam in the van: Alexander von Schlippenbach The Living Music / Destroyer CBC Radio Sessions / Stereolab Cobra & Phases Group Play Chords In The Milky Night / Deerhunter Halycon Digest / Can Ege Bamyasi / Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) / Cluster Sowiesoso / Terry Riley A Rainbow in Curved Air
The book we took: Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
The Host with the most: Alex
The pad was rad: Susie
Sound Tech we respect: Gavin
The fill of the bill: Diagonals
Patrick: No triple X’s in Texas
Monument / Some Ordinary Vision / Pacific Sunrise / Cognac Dreams / Don’t Go / Thousand Colors / By The Wave / Give It A Try / Camille Claudel / Magic Circle Symphony / When The World Sleeps](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbw6csgfVZ1qahyhxo1_500.jpg)
NOVEMBER 6 – THE SUPER CO-OP, AUSTIN, TX [SHOW #118]
Day 150. [JT] Didn’t know what to expect when we pulled up to the address given to us for “The Super Co-Op.” It was a large building complex on a dimly lit street a few blocks from the UT campus. Our friend Alex came down to the street to meet us. She lives in the Co-Op and had organized the evening’s show for us with less than a week’s notice. She led us inside the building and up the elevator. Coming out onto the fourth floor we walked to the balcony that surrounded the indoor concrete courtyard below. There were some picnic tables and benches, a basketball hoop, and an area with a PA set up. Alex invited us into her co-op’s kitchen where she had prepared us some vegan fajitas and chips. We sat around our much appreciated dinner and chatted with her and were introduced to some of her housemates. The complex is large. It houses three co-op communities spread over 5 floors, each with their own kitchen & dining rooms and recreation rooms.
Alex and co. put on quite an event for the night. They invited the local band Diagonals (pictured) to open the show, ordered a keg of beer (Amber Bock?) and were going around with trays of jello shots for everyone in attendance. Diagonals are a great band, a few of the members we had played with a few years ago when they had a band called Peel. My step-sister Susie came out to the show. She attended show #3 back in June in Champaign, IL, and she has since moved to Austin. Also our old Iowa friend Matt Grusha was in attendance, and we were introduced to his girlfriend and a few other friends. And Emily was there too, who we first met at the Denton show in July and she and I had our picture taken in the classic American Gothic pose. We had a lot of fun playing the co-op. It was dark and chilly in the courtyard under the night sky above everyone in the open air courtyard. The balconies of the floors surrounded us overhead, and provided good prospective for those scattered about upstairs. The turnout was great, and we met a lot of great people that night. We stayed up late into the night drinking punch and hanging out in the kitchen. Eventually we packed up and said goodbye to Alex and followed Susie back to her new apartment, where we crashed on the floor for a short few hours before getting up to make our long trip to the southwest.
The jam in the van: Alexander von Schlippenbach The Living Music / Destroyer CBC Radio Sessions / Stereolab Cobra & Phases Group Play Chords In The Milky Night / Deerhunter Halycon Digest / Can Ege Bamyasi / Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) / Cluster Sowiesoso / Terry Riley A Rainbow in Curved Air
The book we took: Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
The Host with the most: Alex
The pad was rad: Susie
Sound Tech we respect: Gavin
The fill of the bill: Diagonals
Patrick: No triple X’s in Texas
Monument / Some Ordinary Vision / Pacific Sunrise / Cognac Dreams / Don’t Go / Thousand Colors / By The Wave / Give It A Try / Camille Claudel / Magic Circle Symphony / When The World Sleeps