{"id":7069,"date":"2012-03-15T21:27:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T21:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T16:17:32","slug":"drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7069","title":{"rendered":"Drunk (and also Not Drunk)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen kids, alcohol abuse is not big and not clever. This post was written at South by South West Music Festival, Austin, Texas, in 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

The night before last was a drinkers wet-dream. It started mid-morning on East 6th Street in Austin, Texas, and finished about 1am the next day.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, I found myself in a bar called ‘Bikinis’ (where the all-female mid-20s staff wear… well, I’m sure you can work it out).<\/p>\n

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Lunch at Bikinis on E6th Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I was sitting at the bar teasing the barmaid I met a really cool guy from Nashville. Fred.\u00a0And I had a few beers there. And then we had a bite to eat.<\/p>\n

Then I went somewhere else and had a couple there.<\/p>\n

Then I went to the Austin Conference Centre to recharge my batteries (literally) and bumped in to a Spanish band. They took me captive and forced me to drink a range of increasingly aggressive beers for about six hours.<\/p>\n

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Luisa, about to take control of me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then one of the band, Luisa, felt I needed a bodyguard (as they had just released me from captivity).\u00a0And then it all got very hazy.\u00a0There was a lot more drinking.\u00a0And there were many, many bands seen.<\/p>\n

Fortunately I have totally illegible notes to describe who I saw\/heard and what I thought. Can’t think why my notes are illegible.<\/p>\n

But that’s OK, I have a fallback, obv.<\/p>\n

I woke up yesterday morning, after far too few hours sleep, with a mouth that resembled the floor in a Texan farmers bull-pen. I\u00a0also found myself looking at a small, tasteful tattoo of a blue butterfly.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

Last night was a different kettle of fish.<\/p>\n

I had a brilliant Mexican meal on E6th Street. I interviewed a band promoter from Arizona.\u00a0I saw five bands.\u00a0I had two diet cokes. And one beer.<\/p>\n

And my notes are totes legible.<\/p>\n

There is a moral to this tale somewhere.\u00a0I think it is: ‘Don’t drink and write notes’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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