Andy Langer
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Austin City Limits Radio: afternoon host, Brand Marshal. Texas Monthly: Writer-At-Large, Esquire (2002-2016). VIEWS ARE WHOLLY MINE
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No mention of Cruz on “High Horse” tonight, but
@KaceyMusgraves
just asked for a drink onstage and
@BetoORourke
delivered it and walked off..
#ACL
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H‑E‑B is still standing strong…
Target releasing a rainbow “F your feelings” shirt in response to the “F your feelings” crowd would have broken the internet.
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Today’s NYT story on Lou Reed’s archive reveals that his wife, Laurie Anderson, chose the New York Public Library only after Texas passed open-carry on college campuses (the archive was originally to go to UT Austin’s Ransom Center)
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I hope an enterprising business reporter at the
@latimes
does follow-up on this and reports back on the shop's immediate and long-term (fans on pilgrimages asking for same backdrop/recreating her poses) spikes in business.
🌹Got my portrait made at this AMAZING little place in Korea Town LA called Tom’s One Hour Photo. It hasn’t changed since he opened in ‘91. It’s cash only & has no internet. Said business has gotten so slow since the digital wave 😞 so we made him an insta:
@tomsonehourphotolab
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There comes a time every American must ask, “Is this fair to Nickelback?”
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Just because you’re vaccinated doesn’t mean you should move to Austin
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@BioAnnie1
@laurenthehough
@MavenofHonor
10 yrs ago, I was behind Diana Ross in a buffet line at a Clive Davis party. When it came time to put food on her plate, she reached in her purse and pulled out her own set of tongs. Who carries their own tongs to a party? Bona fide divas do. (And in 2020 onward, all of us?)
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Strolled through the 37th Street Lights tonight and at the heart of the most-lit stretch of the street sat this purposely underlit house:
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10 year ago, I was directly behind Diana Ross in the buffet line at an Esquire/Clive Davis party. When it came time to put food on her plate, she reached in her purse and pulled out her own set of tongs. Who carries their own tongs to a party? Legends do.
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I’ve been rereading
@DanRather
’s
#WhatUnitesUs
and keep coming back to this paragraph- a meditation on the importance of steadiness. It can be read as a warning or a lament, but it’s mostly a reminder of what we’ve lost across the last 3.5 years.
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I’m not a don’t-move-here or anti-tourism guy, but folks visiting for
@aclfestival
that didn’t have to endure our hellish summer don’t deserve this weather. They’re the equivalent of people who roll up late to Franklin, find a friend at the front of the line and try to blend in.
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Whoa! Bob Dylan painted Austin’s Hole In The Wall in a 2020 work, changing the mural of himself on the side to a mural of Elvis. (H/t dubtothet on IG and Paul Minor on FB) Buy it here:
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When they’re not singing, they’re joyfully squealing. Waiting in line all day has drained none of their energy.
#HarryStylesLive
@acllive
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Honking horns are making it hard for me to hear if my hollering/whooping neighbor is still hollering/whooping, but my lil’ street in Austin, Texas has never sounded so sweet.
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In 1990 and 1991, in college, I wrote occasionally for the UT-campus magazine Study Breaks. My mother saved an intact copy of most things that had my early byline. Found this one today. Recognize the cover model?
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Our school district is more punk rock than yours…
Austin ISD will inform parents of a positive case.
Austin ISD will conduct contact tracing.
Families should keep sick children at home.
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Also, true story I heard tonight: a friend bought a house last month in Austin that had multiple bids and instead of a letter the seller just wanted him to show he’s a legitimate Texan (meaning, not from California).
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Was lucky enough to snap this in 2013 at austin music industry trivia night. Bobbie Nelson never met a stranger. Neither did Bushwick Bill. One photo, two Texas legends:
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Enough with the pics of empty water aisles at HEB. Show us your photos of long lines at polling stations instead?
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This isn’t remotely how herd immunity works, so Austin’s SInclair-owned CBS Austin (KEYE) is either genuinely confused by science or they’re playing a more sinister and dangerous political long game suggesting to viewers the pandemic is over. Either way, Austin deserves better.
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Waiter at a downtown restaurant last night told me they do Mexican with “an Austin twist.” I braced myself for them to deliver my outrageous property tax bill and a coupon for a scooter ride with the check.
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Terrible, terrible news. Bobbie Nelson is gone. May her memory be a blessing. (Official release from The Family below):
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This weekend,
@DanRather
@LyleLovett
@PATGREENMUSIC
and
@JackIngram
were gracious enough to speak to me about the late great
@jerryjeffwalker
. The team-built
@TexasMonthly
piece also includes
@raywylie
@robertearlkeen
@HappyWoman9
&
@ToddSnider
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This is a crazy number of free slices they’ve given away. For
@homeslicepizza
to do this, especially in a pandemic that’s been cruel to the restaurant business, is some truly next-level/inspirational civil engagement.
In Austin, the fine folks
@homeslicepizza
will trade you a piping hot slice of pizza pie for your “I Voted” sticker. Thanks,
@homeslicepizza
!
#VOTE
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When we turn the corner, here’s hoping
@PeterHotez
is repaid for every unpaid minute he spent arguing against anti-science aggression on cable news by making acceptance speeches in front of every assembly, academy and committee that doles out prizes across the globe.
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Wish he’d sent them Austin’s 17k dockless scooters instead
Austin, we have liftoff. Our city just sent queso to the moon. My work here is done. 🚀
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We’re still in Abbott’s Texas, so this is an Ali/Flood/Kaep-level move.
@jasonisbell
is the right artist w/ the right fans, visiting the right city and exactly the right venue to set precedent. This opens the door for other artists and venues to collaborate on similar policy.
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A small crew is painting over the murals at the now-closed HOPE Outdoor Gallery graffiti park at Castle Hill:
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Here’s
@KaceyMusgraves
covering the Flaming Lips at
#Bonnaroo
w/ dancers plucked from the festival’s Pride parade:
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Austin, 1993: “We’re full y’all…stay home..watch us on TV.”
Somebody has finally posted the complete Austin episode of MTV’s The Week In Rock w/
@kurt_loder
@alisonstewart
and a who’s who of Austin musicians from the era:
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We're told Willie Nelson is approaching 90, but apparently there's evidence in Munich that he's significantly older...
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#TBT
: 20 yrs ago, I hosted a show on The now-defunct Austin Music Network. Just randomly found this clip from it of
@Old97s
@rhettmiller
:
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On a walk in the neighborhood tonight and suddenly hyper-aware of this kind of thing:
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Serious question: has any solitary celebrity/athlete singlehandedly raised this much cash, this quickly for a cause?
#hero
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Sure, this town is decidedly less weird, but my first stroll around Eeyore’s Birthday in at least 10 yrs was the reminder I needed that Austin culture ain’t ready for the coroner just yet. (More…)
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More Austin nostalgia: this week in 1995,
@101x
launched. I found this fax of their first playlist a few years ago in a box of old papers. (I came onboard at 101x w/ the music talk show later that year and The Next Big Thing in late 1996)
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Today was a good day.
#grateful
#newsbluesbbq
Eating world famous BBQ. Talking World Politics. Only in Austin!
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Watching a kid at a nearby table get interviewed for a Chipotle job. He’s propped up his skateboard against the table. Unclear whether interviewer can see its inscription:
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Willie Nelson. It’s an embarrassing omission at this point and there’s not a single reasonable argument against his enshrinement. Try me.
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Headed to the station for the first time in decades without the possibility of bullshitting for a few minutes w/
@DaleDudley
. His impact on Austin radio is unprecedented. He’s been a divisive (and sometimes derisive) figure for 35 years, but Austin was listening. End of an era.
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Make no mistake, they’re trolling Austin by co-opting our name. This grift is wholly antithetical to everything this city is about. It’s an attack on our values.
We got sick of complaining about how broken higher education is. So we decided to do something about it.
Announcing a new university dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth:
@uaustinorg
:
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I love the Texas Book Festival, but given the gall it takes for the wife of a guy who openly advocates for book banning to show up at a book festival,
@AnandWrites
pushing back against her husband’s reproductive rights rollback is well within the bounds of discourse/decency
At the
@texasbookfest
gala tonight,
@AnandWrites
asked if anyone present wanted Gov. Abbott’s wife, who was there, to take back to him a message that they support women’s reproductive freedom. SO MANY Texans stood and cheered. (Not all.. but a lot.) Made me tear up a bit.
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SUPER-THREAD: Lots of folks whispering about this year’s SXSW Music Lite: aka Snack Size
#SXSW
. The renewed emphasis on bands, not brands, is worth celebrating, but at what cost? Here’s a contrarian argument for more brands/bigger name bands.
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When this is all over, I hope it’s nurses and HEB store managers that are the first ones recognized with awards/medals of honor.
H-E-B has been preparing for
#COVID
ー19 & we are in a strong position to keep replenishing shelves. Customers shouldn't panic, we continue to restock shelves. We encourage preparedness, not stockpiling – please buy what you need & leave some for your neighbor behind you.
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Seen a lot of these folding stools at ACL this year. I bet these people recline on airplanes too
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Open to hearing your arguments, but I gotta believe boycotting sxsw plays directly into Abbott’s hands and does exactly zero to encourage him to change course.
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Excuse me while I beat a dead horse: My
@Ride_Austin
driver told me today that I was his first Ride ping this week. The way Austin turned its back on Ride- a non-profit that stepped up when Uber/Lyft bolted- is shameful and antithetical to authentic Austin DNA.
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I genuinely believe
@PeterHotez
’s advice/analysis kept my family alive during the pandemic. I told him so in person last year at TribFest and will tell him again tomorrow. If my gratitude - however repetitive- negates .001 percent of the vile pushback he gets on here, worth it.
Heading to AustinTX
@TexasTribune
Festival,
#Tribfest2023
#Tribest23
. Tomorrow (Saturday) PM, I will speak on the new book, THE DEADLY RISE OF ANTI-SCIENCE: A Scientist's Warning
@JHUPress
and related topics together with the extraordinary
@MollyJongFast
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I’m the guy that’s always curious about the concert posters (real and fictional) hanging in living rooms and bedrooms on TV. Tonight, a handful of minutes into HBO’s The Last Of Us I just scoped the super-rare 2002 (first year)
@aclfestival
poster:
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We asked
@thebrianfallon
to contribute exclusive work-from-home performances for tonight's
@ACL_RADIO
ACL Stands With Austin telethon. He went way above & beyond, recording this gorgeous
@LyleLovett
cover. Watch the whole thing tonight at 8pm:
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The Austin-was-better-five-minutes-ago argument is both anti-progress and evergreen. I heard these same arguments when I got here 30 yrs ago as did those who got here 20 yrs before me. People like this want Austin to be a museum. We have enough Armadillo World HQ cosplay already.
Austin, TX: a city that bulldozed all it’s culture and character to build condos for the people drawn there for the culture and character
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Broken Spoke, predictable. Taqueria el trompo mayor? Nobody had that on their bingo card.
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I’m gonna buy this, grow it out, put it on a shelf behind me and hope for a 10/10 from
@ratemyskyperoom
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Woah. This is a good look for Austin’s lil ol’ Broken Spoke. Album out 3/29:
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RIP MTV News. In 1994, they did The Week In Rock from Austin and you’ll find not just the unfathomably young version of me, but also Sue Foley, Alejandro Escovedo, Charlie Sexton, Patrice Pike, and a bunch of clubs and record stores that are now closed.
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SUPER-THREAD: The Incredible Shrinking SXSW? SXSW Music Lite? Snack Size SXSW? A long music-focused post-mortem on how/why SXSW 2023 felt dangerously small and whether SXSW may no longer be too big to fail.
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Looks like Jeopardy threw a freebie to Austin folks last night...
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Not sure how I feel about these new
@AustinChronicle
tees, but nice to see Player’s and Mojo’s on the list- they’re too infrequently mentioned in this conversation.
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Best thing I saw at
@aclfestival
by a long mile was last night’s
@JonBatiste
show, which he described as “not a concert, but a spiritual practice” and made good on that for every last moment of his 60 minutes.
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All due respect, but the most 2024 Austin thing possible would be if it played turn-by-turn directions to a secret $160-per-person tikka masala cauliflower taco omakase-style pop-up.
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Full hearts, clear eyes, can't lose.
@AdriannePalicki
is my guest on this just-posted edition of
@TexasMonthly
's National Podcast Of Texas. We talk about season two's weird murder plot, why Tyra had to exit, and her new life on
@TheOrville
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Are they coming for the celebrities that do drag to play Mother Ginger at the Austin Ballet's Nutcracker, or is that less scary since some of them also played UT football?
A new, anti-drag bill could fine Texas restaurants and bars that host drag events with children present
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Took me two weeks to notice but looks like Eric Alper- who refuses to credit music photographers and apparently didn’t like me pointing that out from time to time and properly crediting his stolen photos- has blocked me. I pass the torch to all of you.
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My Sunday can’t get any better than this photo of
@BillyFGibbons
&
@Bootsy_Collins
from this weekend’s Memphis Music HOF: 📷
@bobmerlis
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This is amazing and innovative. The spines of each 2018 issue add up to a piece of original art. For someone like me that never throws away a magazine, this is a dream (and an easy way to rationalize my hoarding)
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My profile of
@mrBobbyBones
- an entertainment juggernaut who scrapped it out in Austin before dominating Nashville and
#DWTS
- is in the just-released January issue of
@TexasMonthly
and available here:
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Big crowds, big responsibility. This is leadership…
BREAKING: AEG, the second largest concert promoter in the US behind Live Nation, is taking the dramatic step of requiring proof of vaccination at all of its US venues.
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The Austin (Property Tax) Bills
NFL in Austin? Reports say Buffalo Bills may consider a move to Austin as the franchise negotiates to build a new stadium.
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In 2012, I wrote for the
@nytimes
and
@TexasMonthly
about
@ToddSnider
’s terrific full-length tribute to Jerry Jeff Walker and in retrospect the piece stands as a testament to his immeasurable influence on multiple generations of Texas singer-songwriters.
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They’ve been smart/cautious the whole way through and I’m happy to wear a mask to shop in America’s best record store.
Unfortunately, with Covid infections rising in Austin, even some of the fully vaccinated getting infected, the uncertainty of the delta variant, and with Austin now in stage 3 on a collision course with stage 4 restrictions, we are going back to requiring masks at all times.
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Super-stacked Austin line-up for the kick-off date of the just-announced
@WillieNelson
tour: Sunday, August 22, 2021, Germania Insurance Amphitheatre:
Willie Nelson & Family
Chris Stapleton
Ryan Bingham
Yola
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Figuring out who is behind
@EvilMopacATX
will have to take a backseat to knowing who to credit for my new favorite IG account- a sly parody of the NIMBYs and conspiracy theorists spreading easily debunked doom and gloom re: the future of Zilker Park…
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A 35 minute video of Rage Against The Machine's first-ever performance in 1991? Yes please.
http://t.co/k84p3ilV
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The ol’ “blueberry in the punch bowl” thing sells us short. When it counts, decency -not politics- guides even our big public institutions, who aren’t afraid to thumb their noses at dangerous edicts and glide into defiant outlaw mode. THIS kind of thing is why I love Austin.
BREAKING:
@AustinISD
will require masks in school buildings when classes start next week - in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order prohibiting mask mandates. |
@ClaireMcInerny
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HEB is going so above and beyond that at this point if you're a Texan and shop anywhere else, you're kind of an asshole, right?
$27 MILLION!
Thanks in part to an incredibly generous $5 million donation from Mr. Charles Butt at HEB.
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Grohl on bass w/Taylor Hawkins, The Stroke's Nick Valenti +
@Danny_Clinch
at
@aclfestival
early AM
@ArlynStudios
jam:
http://t.co/ucNiU6lABo
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Shady Grove closing wasn’t great. Walking by it now on the way to ACL? Ugh. I’d rather look at shiny new condos. In Yiddish, this is what they call a “shonda.”
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One nostalgic Austinite’s Dirty Martin’s is apparently another’s Container Bar, but just realized Ken’s Donuts- where I joined half 90’s West Campus ritualistically answering chalkboard trivia question (pre-Google) for a free donut- is gone for good and it stings a little.
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Real ballsy, genuinely great, particularly in Tennessee, that Southwest dedicated their very first gate at the Nashville airport- the gate every boarding and unboarding at their 27 other gates must pass- to Pride.
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Make no mistake, the Vanilla Ice show cancelled b/c they were called out. It's not cancel culture to highlight bad actors, its public health. Also, it's just as worth celebrating the 96% of the Austin music ecosystem that's put safety ahead of greed and is staying shut down
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