what a show. he came out dressed in bird wings as the magic snowbird and his orchestra came out with butterfly wings and he dubbed them the chinese butterflies. hilarious! anyways - as you can imagine the show was spectacular and mindblowing. i think sufan is an amazing composer and a great songwriter. if you dont listen to him - you should. and to top it all of he had a huge screen behind him projecting images that corresponded to the songs. so great. another pick up from the weekend was the band that open for him - My Brightest Diamond. check her out as well. after the show we headed out to the marlow's place and chris and i enjoyed some yummy cognac and a great cigar. yum. it was rapidly approaching 1am - so we crashed for the evening.
our day began on sat with the wonderful marlow kids plaiyng with us in the living room and chris making some incredible french toast and some amazing coffee. what a great way to start a saturday!! the coffee was so amazing we had to stop at get some before we left austin - it was Ruta Maya Coffee. so so smooth. if you are in austin do yourself a favor and hang here and get some beans!!
we started the morning driving through the hill country back towards downtown. what an incredible view. who knew texas could be this pretty! ha! after winding to and fro we headed for some lunch down by zilker park. we ate at Shady Grove for lunch - great atmosphere and great food. there were tons of people downtown, esp in that area because this weekend was a huge festival called austin city limits. there was a great energy around the city. here are some photos from lunch:
now of course - before we left town there were 3 more stops:
1.BookPeople - sweet independent bookstore
2.Waterloo Records - the best CD store i have been in
3.Amy's Ice Cream - amanda's fav fo sho'
so yea - like i said above - waterloo records was incredible. all the artists we listen to at great great prices. we scored the new now it's overhead record there for $11. so so great. cant wait to go back. they had some sweet listening stations - hooked up via ipods. here is amanda enjoying the tasty tunes.
ah - what a refreshing trip.
