Playing Catch-Up & Barbershop Man Fest

It feels like every time I post something on here I'm playing catch-up, and more often than not, letting pictures do the talking for me. So why bother? I guess the inner-writer in me keeps me compelled to continue. I guess I feel like it's not worth posting unless I've done something post-worthy, and being on the job hunt trying to not go anywhere or spend money tends to lead to rather uneventful times.

BUT, here's a few pics from my birthday bash from a couple of weekends back. It was a GREAT time, I freakin' loved it.

Marshall, Blunck, and Silly-Lookin' Mark

Ben drinks beer, hears no evil while Jason is entertained by Blunck

Radha, Emilie, and Matt later in evening

So in the meantime I've just been job hunting and taking short temp assignments which can be frustrating and nerve-wracking, but in the meantime, Jason and I play guitar hero and Llana and I hang out and have fun, so that's something.

Man Fest!

So it's Saturday and Llana and I decide to look for something to do, being tired of usual derisions and being sick still, wanting something to get out of the house for is all we can think about, so I look on good ole Austin360.com and find that Bird's Barbershop is hosting "Man Fest," a free event with live bands, skits, and free alcohol and food. The manliness part comes in with the Lumberjack photo booth and arm wrestling contests and such. Oh, and they were giving out free stick-on mustaches to everyone, which was strange and funny. Here's some pics of this highly entertaining affair.

Never been here before, but I might after such a cool event

Mustache rides from everyone tonight!

Lumberjack photos with stump & flannel

More Manliness: A Good Ole Fashioned Shoe Shinin'

The mustachioed girls looked fierce, I dared not...

Llana enjoying the free draft beer

Camo lady + baby + weiner dog-in-a-bag=AWESOME

Golden Bear performing a manly set

So all in all a fun event and good way to spend a bit of the evening. Later that night we went and saw...

So it's true that I don't get out the theater much to see movies, but this is one of the most intriguing movies I've seen in a long time. Such a unique way to portray the strange journey of a legend. The cinematography, the performances, the semi-coherent, semi-arty nonsense, all of it blended into such a marvelous swirl of cinema magic. Plus one has to love a movie that throws in little extra bits for the die-hard fans, using Dylan lyrics as lines in the script, seeing him typing on a type writer what would later be "Like A Rolling Stone," and then typing excerpts from his bizarre book Tarantula. All these bits thrilled me and made it that much more of an in-depth experience. I especially recommend this film to any fan of Dylan, and even to those who aren't very familiar, for the art of a film it is, and I wouldn't be surprised if it turned you into a bigger fan, or made you decide to finally, "see what that Dylan fellow is all about."

Today was a lazy day of the Sunday Maria's Taco Xpress tradition, and then a relaxing stroll through Zilker Park and laying around reading in the sun. A great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

This week, let's see what I can do about the whole job situation...