Song of the week -- Money! From the 2004 KUT Pledge Drive

So I was going to post another live song from our SXSW show today, and then I started looking through my itunes and happened upon this little ditty from 2004 (was that really 6 years ago? Jeez).  It just so happens that KUT is holding their spring fund raiser right now, even as you read these words.  And way back in 2004 we played their fund drive and wrote this song specifically for our appearance.




If you listen past the song, you'll hear me wax very poetically (and for kind of a long time) about how much I love KUT.  I still love the station, and encourage all you other KUT lovers to pledge now.  It's one of the many reasons why I choose Austin as the geographical love of my life.

We interupt your regularly scheduled programing...

I thought I might give Dave a breather, and cut in with a quick non sequitur. Just a shout-out to the best city in the world -- the city that Dave and I love and will raise our child in -- Austin, Texas. I have her loved from the first time I drove down her sometimes strangely pronounced streets. I love her for being a artist attractor. I love her for allowing people to do their thing, without judgement. I love her, even though she seems to have grown a whole new culture, based around expensive condos and a big city mentality. I love her for her undeniable Texas-ness, for her cowboy boots and breakfast tacos and her hint of a drawl. I love her for the Austin Banjo Band, who just had a show at the Farmers Market this morning:




I'm sure there are a ton of Banjo Bands out in the world. Or maybe not. All I know is, some sunny Saturday morning in the not so distant future, my little girl will have the chance to rock out to 10 to 15 banjos and one bitchin tuba. It makes me so excited to be a mom to be, and so happy to live in Austin, that I just had to let the interweb know all about it.