Weekending or beginning

To sum up Austin x AUS10

1 Man,  3 Days, 7 stages, over a hundred bands and getting recognized by fans - this is what you get

Austin shows you can go home again - and - have a good time.

Just have to wonder what he did Sunday - did he stay for Red Hot Chili Pepper and Iggy and the Stooges and just not tweet it or did his  weekend start too.

Who says the weekend can't start on Sunday?


Speaking of the weekender - think he's firm on where he stand  inside the voting booth,  and why.

Out Spotlight

Today's Out Spotlight was a songwriter, poet and educator.  They are best known for writing “America the Beautiful" and for popularizing "Mrs. Santa Claus" through the poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride. Today's  Out Spotlight is Katharine Lee Bates.

Katharine Lee Bates was born August 12, 1859  in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minster.  Her father’s family left England and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635. He was the pastor of the Congregational Church on the Village Green at Falmouth on Cape Cod and died from a back injury when Bates was a month old. Her mother, a graduate of Mount Holyoke Seminary, moved the family to Wellesley where Bates graduated in 1880 from then-new Wellesley College, thanks to help from her two older brothers.

 After spending a year at Oxford University, she began teaching English at Wellesley College and soon became a full professor. Her salary was $400 per year “with board and washing.” When she met  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he praised her high-school poem, “Sleep”. Writing was a continuing priority that provided some financial support—children’s stories, books of verse, textbooks, travel books based on her three sabbatical years in Europe and the Middle East.
 
In the summer of 1893, when she was lecturing at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Bates joined a group that took a rough prairie wagonride plus a struggle by mule, followed by an exhausting hike to the top of 14,000 foot-high Pike’s Peak. Overwhelmed by what she saw, Bates scribbled in her notebook wrote down a four-verse poem originally titled “Pike’s Peak,” now known as “America the Beautiful.” When published in local newspapers, the poem became wildly popular. Her copyright provided continuing royalties for years.

Although set to various tunes, the poem is traditionally sung to the tune of Samuel Ward’s hymn “Materna,” and has become the unofficial national anthem. There have been efforts to give “America the Beautiful” legal status as the national anthem.

She also popularized Mrs. Claus in her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride from the collection Sunshine and other Verses for Children (1889).

Bates contributed regularly to periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym James Lincoln, including Atlantic Monthly, Congregationalist, Boston Evening Transcript, Christian Century, Contemporary Verse, Lippincott's and Delineator.


In 1915, Bates cofounded and served as the president of the New England Poetry Club. She was actively involved in social and labor reform.

While teaching at Wellesley, Bates became involved with professor, poet and dean Katharine Coman.  She described their relationship as a “romantic friendship.” The couple lived together for 25 years until Coman died. “So much of me died with Katharine Coman,” Bates said, “that I’m sometimes not quite sure whether I’m alive or not.” To honor her partner and celebrate their shared love and scholarship, Bates wrote “Yellow Clover: A Remembrance of Love” (1922).

Bates passed away in Wellesley, Massachusetts, March 28, 1929 at the age of 70.

The Falmouth Historical Society preserved Bates’s family home as a historical landmark. In 1970, she was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

"That the hymn has gained a hold is clearly due to the fact that Americans are at heart idealists.”

Austin x AUS10

Instead of SXSW - it's Austin X Aus10 and he is giving a photolog of the weekend.

He started off with The Whigs

Rufus

and  Oberhofer

and The Roots

 Sonambulo

and Bassnectar

and headliners Goyte

Neil Young

And Jack White.

 Just turn on your local alternative or college radio station and it's like you there.

No close up photos or  VIP section today,  this was party with the people in Zilker  Park.  But that's not to say he didn't have a star moment courtesy of former co-star Shantelle.

OMG!! OMG!! I found this guy from #OTH @AUS10NICHOLS ... Seriously he's my fav! Obsessed! #ACL ;) XO

 

Who says you can't go home again.  The forecast is for it to be in 85F in Austin tomorrow. It's still time for you to back to you shirtless ways Mr. Nichols.

Austin's (in the) City Limits

Austin is back to his hometown to catch the three day musical festival Austin City Limits and he's seeing some bands that have been at other festivals he's been to before,  so it is encore to him for some bands  and others it might be his first chance to check them out.

Now Austin will you be giving an encore to the last time you were there?

Wanna catch some shows? You can watch ACL streaming live.
Austin City Limits

Happy Austin in Austin Friday!

Extended Stay

Jake's got a reason to stay in NYC a little bit longer.  And it looks like he will be celebrating his birthday New York style too.

It was announced today that  If There Is... is getting a two week extension and will now play through December 23 at the Laura Pels Theatre. Originally scheduled to run through November 25, the play will take a 12 day break, and then resuming performances on December 8 and then through month.

With shooting for Prisoners taking place soon after the New Year, and rumored to be in Atlanta, Jake will be staying put on the East Coast for a while. 

How long has it been since Jake has been in LA for something else besides business?

Today was Coming Out Day, and it has been  exciting and encouraging, seeing how many celebrities and news worthy people have made the choice to come out in the past year. And even more  exciting is how they have been accepted and celebrated for their decision and the support for them and for others who have come out before has grown. 

We also celebrate and support those and those friends and acquaintances  around us who have come out, and support and encourage those who are still on their own journey to do so in the future. 

Storytelling with Uncle Terry

Let's see do I know any stories?

There's when the alien shoots out of his chest. Wait that's a movie.

 

Then there's the earwig that crawls in the guys ear and burrows into his head.  Wait is that Hitchcock or something I saw on ITV.

 

You know blah blah blah....happily ever after.. or hey your dead, take your pick. 

Oh well.... sleep tight, don't let the earwigs bite. 

Austin Points Bulletin

He goes by a few names,  Austin, Aus10, Wild Turkey...Grey...

He could be scruffy

of clean cut

He could be using a cunning use of hats.

Or boots.

He says he 's back in the New York groove  but exactly where is that? Is he wearing a groove somewhere in the 5 Burroughs, or  just outside one or two of them?  It's a Long Island, so there's lots of places to look.