Austinist: Truesday: The Movement Below

Ian

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:12:26 -0600

I read this drunk last night and thought it was brilliant. Now, on reading it hung over, I think it's still pretty damn brilliant.

Kool Herc

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:32:48 -0600

Can't stop the body rock!

truecraig

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:01:07 -0600

Calm down Brenner, you're getting all worked up. LOLROFLMAO!!!11! OMGDLIGTSS!!! Swweeeeeeet.

jenn

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:16:47 -0600

reading your post today made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. and it's not just because I've got the heater on by my desk. really brilliant. much love to the dj's and all those who rock the party.

genie

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:00:12 -0600

It's not a movement. Because people on the outside are not (and never will be) forced to deal with it, or change, or reconcile any thought they had previously. It's insulated. Some new animal, okay, but unavoidably a slight variation on the old crossbreed of art, music, and public intoxication. Or maybe I'm a square. I guess I don't give a shit either way. So why am I commenting? Fuck.

BrewsTea

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:21:00 -0600

Yeah, me either.

Brenner

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:00:05 -0600

"The culture itself is transformed, hopefully upward, at the point of every hand-off. An upward trend, rather than a cycle." ROFL!

odam

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:58:54 -0600

I will now crawl under my desk and not attempt any works of criticism or thoughtful analysis or humor or haiku or anything for about 6 months. bravo, truecraig. i think you need to be tested for roids.

truecraig

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:48:43 -0600

David, I doubt I'd know a movement if it slapped me in the face, so I couldn't say one way or the other. But in my opinion, all the pieces are there, they just might not be fitting together quite right, yet. If they ever do. If I had to guess one person would go out of their way to point out the dual-intender of the title, it would be MO. But I'm glad it was Bre instead! Brenner, I agree that influence over culture does pass from the elders to the youth in an ebb/flow sort of cyclical way. But only in the nature/form of the baton passing. The culture itself is transformed, hopefully upward, at the point of every hand-off. An upward trend, rather than a cycle. Savlov’s an indisputable and indispensable institution in this town. There’s nothing more that needs to be said about that.

oh, steph

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:48:01 -0600

"It was more like a house party than it was a bar. It felt like we were all kickin’ it in someone’s backyard. But the yard party had found a legit home, with working plumbing, on a dependable day of the week." Exactly! I recall going to some house parties during the rise of this "moment" and then going to the Whiskey on Thursdays and thinking that nothing could be better. I was wrong. Suddenly there was Ian Orth and Chris Rose and the Super!Alright! collective and the rise of Misprint/Team Fab/etc. The bars started to feel like home. I never went downtown when I was in college because of all of the backward-baseball-cap-wearing mouth breathers, but Side Bar, Jackalope and others finally gave me a place to sit in between rapid dance sessions at Whiskey, Plush and the Beauty Bar. The best part of it all is that anyone can bask in the melodic glow of this house party gone public.

josh

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:38:13 -0600

Don't overlook the Whiskey Bar's other key to Thursday night awesomeness (besides the fun back room dj'ing) - $1 drinks til midnight.

Brenner

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:56:55 -0600

Yeah, well, it's good that you're paying attention, Mistah Craig. Seriously, not that *someone* is paying atttention, but that you, in particular, are; because you'll be able to twist off a few insights that others might miss, because you have that sharp (albeit often sozzled) eye and a deft facility (when you're not just chewing the air) with expression; and you know we can always use another insight into what's going on. Because those insights can allow for greater control over what's going on, and thus can we maneuver the goings-on toward our greater interest and excitement and joy. On the other hand, these cycles are eternal, and nothing's new under the sun, and kids have been doing their innovating and elder-directed nosethumbing since before Homer was getting skilled in his alphas and betas; so it'll come, this movement, and it'll go, and the status will return to its quo before being again usurped by the almost brownian motion of culture (as enforced by age progression). Still, as I said: It's good that you're paying attention. And that you know *regard* is best when accompanied by *action.* It's also good that you're using Savlov and his biz as a springboard instead of a bullseye. Because, Savlov? Agree or diagree with him (and I tend toward the former), the man knows what's up with a large portion of most things worth knowing what's up about. And the talent he exercises with the more glittery strata of cultural writing? Amazing. Damned inspirational, at times. 'Course, that's just my opinion; and I keep scorpions, read Naruto, and sleep with a stuffed toy platypus that I ganked from my daughter, so who the hell am I to say? Yeah.

Bre

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:51:19 -0600

Now that I have read beyond the title, I am both glad and slightly disappointed that this post had nothing to do with the (mal)functioning of your lower intestine in any way. Kudos, TC.

David

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:30:02 -0600

There are times when it feels like a movement other times I go out and it's hard to tell. The crowds can be so sporadic and bar owners impatient.