• Keyboard player for the Forty-Fives of Atlanta

• Wednesday night: Polvos, Stubb's, P2 lovefest, and Puddy from "Seinfeld."

• Thursday night lineup at the Scottish Rite Temple (Wammo, Hamell on Trial, Asylum Street Spankers)

• Tree cutting party crasher at Cherilyn's 5th Annual P2 SXSW BBQ

• Hollisters at Under the Sun

• Whiskeytown at the Austin Music Hall
  (yes, finally, they were great live!)

• Waco Brothers at Yard Dog (always)

• Road Kings from Houston

• Kim Richey, backed by the Continental Drifters

• Chocolate cheesecake by Michael Hurd

• Gifts from Coven members and wannabes staying at my house (queen soap, goddess t-shirt, CDs, beer....)

• Laura Fowler Dear and Slim Kelly back in Austin

• $4 Jim Beam and Cola drinks at Waterloo Park (convenience and trash all in one)

• Talking, talking, talking, talking, talking

• Joe Gracey hologram at the Kimmie Rhodes performance at the Continental. It was soooo lifelike!

• Fighting with Lonesome Bob at Guero's about women college basketball

• Being in bed with Don/George-Not-So-Strait, Debra and Marie (can't wait for the photos)

• Tift Merritt and the Carbines, followed by the Ex Husbands, at Opal Divine's on Saturday night

And the BEST part of SXSW2000:

• Twangfest party at Under the Sun

 
PART II: SXSW2000 Hall of Shame:

• The crummy folks working the door at the Mercury Lounge on Saturday night, who did not tell those waiting in the long line that it was a badges-only show, until they'd waited 30 - 45 minutes.

• S'Up Boys at the Austin Music Hall (anywhere, actually)

• Crummy staff at the Austin Music Hall (guys, stop treating audience members like the enemy)

• Those who talked on cell phones during shows

• Rain on Thursday

• Jerry Curry

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