If you've ever been to the Texas/Oklahoma State Fair, you know that area between the ferris wheel and the Dizzy Dragons: it begs for rock. It glistens, yearns, begs for an instrumental post-rock 5-piece to grace it with versions of "Spiegel im Spiegel" (Arvo Part), long-form pieces composed for F.W. Murnau's classic 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and the other, more traditional state fair-ready jams: you know, the kind with vibraphone......

...there’s some kind of breakdown in logic going on here. As in, I made an effort to move here, whereas the people who claim to be native—well, they just fell out of their moms’ vaginas....

We pondered all day today on the subject of Missed Connections. Where are they this week, who spends this much time writing about Lost, and why were we so amused? We were concerned about the feeling that we couldn't bring the "A" game to which you were all accustomed. We then realized that other people's focus on impending turkey meals could be your gain. So we bring you the best of last week's Missed......

[The following is an editorial column by contributor Alison Coffey and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Austinist staff. --The Editors] Sorry I'm late. A couple of mis-strokes on my keyboard made me lose half the column and it took me a couple of days to regroup. Sometimes you suffer for your art. Sometimes you lose two paragraphs and run to the bed and cry instead of taking a deep breath and......