SXSW provided me with a few great shows. I love getting to dance to music I listen to in real life, and I had the chance to dance to some of it with all of my clothes on for the first time this weekend. The songs/bands that I dance to at work that I saw this weekend: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (Thursday at Emo's): "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone", "The High Party", and "Ballad of a Sin Eater" (it turns me on to dance to anti-imperialist invective). Idlewild (wonderful, amazing show Friday at Antone's): "American English", "You Held the World in Your Arms", "A Film About the Future", "Captain". Spoon (in front of thousands at Stubb's Friday): "Anything You Want", "Everything Hits at Once". And I fully intend to dance to the music of the Darkness, a hilarious Brit group that hails back to the glory days of Sweet, Slade and Gary Glitter with a little American hair metal thrown in. Great song title of theirs: "Love On the Rocks With No Ice".

Did a bachelor party on Saturday night for a friend of a friend; I was amazed they found a hotel room on the Saturday of SXSW. I heard what is possibly the best remark ever at a bachelor party. One of the guests said to the best man, "You are the Frank Lloyd Wright of bachelor parties!" Which must make me the Fallingwater of strippers. It was a pretty small crowd, definitely the fewest guys I've performed for, but they were a great bunch, very funny and cool. The bachelor was marvelous. I was having them do some bodypainting on me, and they wanted me to paint something humiliating on the bachelor, so I painted "I love Bob Stoops" on his back (one of them had painted "OU Sucks" on mine). The candle wax was a great hit and an encore was requested. Afterwards I actually stayed out late to attend a SXSW party, my only one of the conference, and was up way late. Oh, the Maxim party had tons of strippers/models there; it was pretty funny, but not very interesting, though my sister and I were chatted up by some LA resident who said that he was sick of women with "fake breasts, fake lips, fake hair, fake nails" and was impressed with us. Of course he was; my sister's natural DDD's (that's three D's, not a typo) were about halfway contained in her dress and he had a very nice conversation with them! But we prefer our men from either Texas or the East Coast in general.