Monday, April 02, 2007
Ack, I forgot one thing in my last post. Erik and I also attended a small portion of the Forty Acres Fest held at the University of Texas in Austin. While we apparently arrived too late for the booths and activities, we got a chance to walk around the campus a little bit and to see several of the musical acts that night. I discovered that the campus is really beautiful there and that it warrants additional visits to see it some more. Whenever I wanted to go to downtown Athens at night, parking at the university was the cheapest (i.e. free) choice and was close to where things went on, so perhaps I can work out a similar arrangement here to see a little bit more of the happenings in Austin. That night, Little Richard played, though we didn't stay for his entire performance because Erik got bored during it. Had I been alone I probably would have stuck around to hear the rest despite it not being quite my style of music. It was funny to see the way he behaved though. He came on stage with crutches and announced at one point that he is almost 75, yet still made numerous statements about how pretty he was. He also stopped at one point for about 10 minutes to complain about the piano and ask if they had another and refused to continue until they fixed something about it which send the crew into a flurry of action trying to get the problem fixed so that he would be willing to continue. Erik and I wondered if he was senile, intoxicated, or just spoiled.