Austin Music Awards: The Judy's

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Feb 242008
 

pic_washarama.jpgThe Austin Music Awards this year will be on March 12th at the Austin Music Hall. The big news, at least as far as I’m concerned, is that it’ll feature the reunited Judy’s. Tickets went on sale this past Tuesday at Waterloo Records ($15 advance, $20 the day of the show). If I wasn’t already playing that night, I’d be at this show.

Washarama was a staple of the first few years of high school in the mid-80s along with The Big Boys’ Where’s My Towel. We loved them because they were awesome and they were from Texas, dammit.

 Posted by on February 24, 2008 at 3:48 pm

We Disappear

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Feb 242008
 

Scott Heim’s third novel, We Disappear, will be released this Tuesday. I met Scott at KGB in NYC just after his first novel, Mysterious Skin was published and we’ve kept up a correspondence over the years. His novels have always included some autobiographical elements, but We Disappear, a novel he’s been working on for the past ten years, morphed into a kind of fictionalization of the rougher spots of that time period including a bout with crystal meth and the death of his mother. Scott’s linked a couple of reviews on his blog. If you order from Amazon before it’s released, you get an extra 5% discount. So get going!

[tags]scottheim, book, wedisappear, harpercollins, fiction, novel[/tags]

 Posted by on February 24, 2008 at 3:46 pm