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Last nite we played in Austin, Texas. The place was off the hook
written: 19th March 2004, By Clay

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Last nite we played in Austin, Texas. The place was off the hook. It was Mardi Gras on 6th street. And it just so happens that the gig we played at was on 6th street. What a coincidence. Let me give you a quick run down on Mardi Gras. It all comes down to beer, boobs and beads. In certain cities in America, certain Americans flock by the thousands into a certain area to drink and stare at boobs. Or if youre really keen, you can actually get your boobs out. That’s where the beads come in. beads are given to girls as a reward for showing there tits to whoever the bead bearer may be. So there you go, you can bear beads or you can bare boobs, or on the other hand, you can stand around and go “what the f*#k is going on here?”.
To say the least, it was bizarre. Inside this beautiful little old wooden club off 6th Street, theres Mason and The Beautiful Girls playing these mellow tunes to a mellow crowd, and outside on the dark and dirty tarmac of 6th Street, there were about 50 thousand people going nuts all in the name of beer, boobs and beads. What a contrast.
Anyway, it was a great nite. It was an American experience with cheese y`all.

Now we`re driving thru the Texas plains on our way to Kubbock (wherever the hell that is) and then its on to the desert of New Mexico and Arizona. I cant wait to get out to that part of town. Amongst the farms and flatlands we`re drinving thru are all these pockets of pint sized crappy little run down houses with metal scrap and rusting old cars in their front yards. Ive been seeing heaps of long rectangular box houses that you see in trailer parks but theres no actual trailer parks. I don’t think they`re doing that well for money out here the poor buggers. My heart goes out to em.

A few miles on now, and out to my left im looking at a massive wind farm perched up on this great big plateau. Its one of the few plateaus or hills for hundreds of miles. Ive seen a wind farm in Victoria, it had about 14 windmills and I thought that was huge, but this thing is truly immense. I can see at least 100-150 windmills all standing at least 50 metres tall. I wonder where the power goes? You`d think they could power the whole of Texas from here.
Then I look out to my right, and its dry, grassy flatland as far as the eye can see. Its all happening out here.

Was that a skunk wrestling tumbleweed??

We`re on the edge of the desert and I can see snow. Whats going on??

I`ll let y`all know when I find out.

Gotta go.

Dogs up.

Clay.