On Sixth Street in Austin, it's Day One of SXSW 2009 (for Day Zero, go here) and the promotional and busking stunts are on: A couple of kids dressed in epidermally fused body suits to hype (sweetly) their outer space band Frontier Brothers, some Transformer mechano-dude on stilts, a posse with a sign for "Free Hugs," and more hippies banging on pickle jars than I care to recall with a hangover. Not bad, but I want fire next time. And Secretary Geithner, since you've thrown everything else at the
The Associated Press reported yesterday:Parish priest Tim Jones says it's OK to shoplift at times as long as
you don't take more than you need - but British police, retailers and
clergy disagree.
Jones says people in desperate need may at times be justified shoplifting items from large chain stores.flickr.com/photos/nonojoeThe article goes on to report that nobody agrees with with Father Tim: not his archdeacon, not the Church of England, certainly not the British Retail Consortium.The Daily
Star & Micey are not a duo; they're not even Star and Micey. The young trio of Joshua Crosby (24), Geoff Smith (25) and Nick Redmond (26) took their name from a random encounter with a homeless man who inspired Crosby to get his shit together, form a band and turn his talent into more than just fodder for Memphis open mic nights. The group's self-titled debut is an earnest and folky (but lively) Southern-soul revision of emo, as if Conor Oberst had stopped taking the universe so seriously
