watermelon bubblegum

here is a taste of last week’s south by southwest experience for all you who can’t get enough of p.l.a.’s lifestyle.

the first clip is mew playing at la zona rosa on saturday. it is the first song in their set, “special”, which is a single off their and the glass handed kites album. we were standing back and to the right from this person. the sound is never perfect on these handhelds, but you can still feel jonas’ emotion come through. it was nearly thrice as good drunk and in person.



this clip is the last show we saw in austin this year, girl talk on saturday night at elysium. greg’s shows are always energetic and fun, and i can’t really remember wanting to dance before i experienced his live act. the pure pop-iness of it recalls the scent of watermelon bubblegum and a sunny day from my youth. i was riding my bike, listening to the pop station on my transistor radio, thinking to myself ‘it doesn’t get any better than paula abdul’. well, i was wrong. it does.