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By Michael Barnes
| Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 03:34 PM
The game started with a whirl of tornadic activity, as
D.J. Augustin,
Damion James and seemingly the whole Horns herd made every basket they attempted and the Aggies went as cold as Wisconsin in February. Eventually, as the gap between the scores widened to almost 30 points, the full house began to lose interest. Admirably, the Maroon platoon stuck it out to the end, while many of the UT fans headed to the exits.
I’m sure you’ve experienced this: There’s a season ticket holder behind me in Section 94 who talks constantly to officials, as if they could hear him half a mile away in the $10 seats. Now, I could understand yelling at the refs near courtside, and, by instinct, I’ll blurt out a criticism every once in a while, but the ongoing zebra-phobe monologue begins to wear after a few games. (He even critiques other fans’ critiques.) I chalk it up to TV-watching behavior, but a least in the arena, unlike a movie theater, it’s supposed to be loud.
CD of the Week: I was primed for the ball game, not just by thirst for revenge against the Aggies, who humiliated the Horns in their College Station battle, but by listening obsessively in advance to “Rufus does Judy at Carnegie Hall,” songwriter
Rufus Wainwright’s tribute to
Judy Garland’s extremely influential concert and album. (Well, influential to my set.) Wainwright’s tenor-into-falsetto couldn’t be more different from Garland’s plump warble, but they both invest the standards and show tunes with tremendous emotional charge and rare razzle dazzle. I was doing Rufus doing Judy as I slipped into my fellow sports fan’s car headed to the game, so he responded “you can’t get any gayer than that.” Well, add a basketball game …
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By Andy Fuertsch
February 19, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Red 7 (611 E. Seventh) on Friday Feb 22. Old School Punk Show.
Sort of an old punk reunion of sorts, all three bands The Hickoids, Sharon Tates Baby, and Rogers Porn Collection hail with members from the old school punk scene in Texas.
The Hickoids. Alternately categorized as "cow punk" and "hard corn," the Hickoids embodied a most extreme synthesis of punk and country during their mid-Eighties Austin reign. The quintet's beer-splashing, bale-thrashing performances bore all the confrontational hallmarks of punk, yet they actually won Best Country Band at the 1985 Austin Music Awards.
Sharon Tate�s Baby. An original punk band staple, Sharon Tate�s Baby, brings on a barrage of punk, pop, and rock music. They were originally formed in the late 70�s in Austin Texas and found famed at the infamous Raul�s Club, the first punk club in Austin. Along with two original members and now including members from Lester Bangs and the Delinquents, STB is in fine form and unleashing there best effort yet.
Rogers Porn Collection. featuring.... Pat Roach from L A 's Dimwits (members of the Dickies and Angry Samoans) Rob Buford from such early 80's Austin punk bands, Crotch Rot and Rogers Diaper Collection ---- Wes Texas from The Bulemics and mid 90's H-Town punk honeys, Stinkerbell------------ Roger (EL BO) - man of mystery??? ------- Pat Doyle from the Offenders and Felix Griffin from DRI (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) -- Thats the short version of who we are ---old school punk done by old school punks.