Sufjan Stevens & Calexico on Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits Presents: Sufjan Stevens followed by Calexico
Two of the underground rock scene’s most creative artists perform.
Critical darling and indie rock sensation Sufjan Stevens brings his orchestral folk/pop to the stage in support of his latest album The Avalanche.
Video clip: www.pbs.org/klru/austin/artists/SufjanStevensSong.html.
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Highlighting its latest record Garden Ruin, Arizona’s Calexico dazzles with a unique blend of traditional songcraft and Southwestern roots music.
Video clip: www.pbs.org/klru/austin/artists/CalexicoSong.html.
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Sufjan Stevens & Calexico on Austin City Limits
Plank Poker
I work with a number of very cool and funny people. We decided a couple weeks back that we should do a plank poker night. We have a large open office with a perfect table for seating 6-8 people around, no neighbor’s to disturb and a Mac set to be a pumping sound system hooked to an archive of music (about 300Gig).
The office was prepped with a mini-bar, snacks and drinks, a couple pro chips sets and a whole lotta smack-talking for weeks in advance. The game was “final table tournament style no-limit hold’em”. Everyone got dealt an equal number of chips and once they were gone you were out! No buy out’s, no buy in’s - one winner takes all.
Somehow I got bumped first. I played one too many hands in which I had good cards but ended up seeing bad flops. Then went all in with a K+8 suited hoping to regain some chips. Nope. Thankfully it wasn’t too long after that next person got bumped so I had some company in the color-commentary/DJ seat. The levels of harassment and bluffing grew and grew as the night went on - it might even carry into today !
Warren won taking out Meech in the final head’s up spots. A rematch has already been un-officially set. Some censored photos coming soon from Allen (update: photos online)! Next time we’ll have to setup ichat video with Geoff playing from Washington office.