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Someone just took my picture for Austin360.com while I was dancing at Elysium. I'm not quite vain enough to continually watch the site for it, so if anyone catches is, please let me know.

I still haven't been able to completely conquer my feet's tendency to immediately exit the dance floor as soon as the slide whistle heralding the arrival of De-Lite's Groove is in the Heart peals out of the speakers.

...if you can only dance for someone else.

Cafe Mundi, the coolest coffee house and chill space in Austin, has lost their bid to keep their space of 11 years in one of the last remaining legitimate parts of the East Side. This is perhaps the most depressing news I've ever heard.

My identity as a Burner started at Cafe Mundi in 2002, when a shy me arrived, after three failed attempts, at a hidden coffee house on the East Side to the fantabulous scene of freaks spinning fire. Six months later, well-armored in denim and a cotton hoodie, I was initiated in the informal order of firedancers. Shortly thereafter, at my first Flipside, I firedanced naked in a complete stranger's wedding, and the transformation to the Not side of Normal was forever committed.

We continued to have fire practice at Cafe Mundi for many years before we were forced to find a new location, and of all the many, many fantastic coffee houses in Austin, it is still my favorite. Hearing that it is closing is like losing a close friend. The only location I feel more passionately about in Austin is Elysium. Not even my own home is as important to me.

Despite the fact that firedancing is explicitly forbidden in their most recent lease, I feel it's *necessary* to have a final fire jam there. I'm going to approach the owner about doing it at the very end of the lease, but if she feels that's too much risk, I'm considering setting it up rave-style the day *after* Mundi leaves, so she can't be held responsible for what happens. It's not enough, but it's the only thing I can think of that shows a tiny bit of how I feel about the space.

There seem to be plans to find a new location for Cafe Mundi. While it's hard to believe it could be as fabulous as their current spot, I'd love to see what's next for Our Heros. In support of that, as much as possible, Mundi will be my default hang-out location between now and the Final Bell. If you haven't experienced the magic, now would be the time. It won't be with us for much longer.

...was not idle at the Project Pitchfork concert this evening.

Arriving at Elysium without earplugs is a *definite* sign of stress.

Arriving *with* underwear, however, is a whole other *level*...

6:30 PM) Look for Legendary Pink Dots ticket. Can't find it.
6:32 PM) Check e-mail. Delivery : "USPS"
6:45 PM) Call Ticketmaster "Too late to help. Show in two hours."
7:00 PM) Search random Piles of Mail for ticket. No ticket. No Dots!
7:27 PM) Search through *all* of the last two weeks of circulars in recycle bin.
8:04 PM) Find ticket! Yay! I Recycle = No Rotten Bacon on Ticket.

8:30 PM) Imbibe fungus. Feel ill. Cough.
8:34 PM) Check Bus Schedule
8:37 PM) Discover Bus Strike = No Service to/from downtown
8:38 PM) Swear a lot
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The more crazy and deviant any new outfit is, the further you will be forced to park from you destination.

Information Society at Elysium on September 17th.


Ani Difranco at Stubbs on September 21st

I will see you there!

(...unless I'm facing the wrong direction...)

...from the Church, where I've only been about twice in the past year. I used to frequent the club while I still lived here in D/FW in the 90s. Last time I was there, they had introduced an enormous projector into the main dance hall, and it was hugely distracting and sucked a lot of energy out of the room. However, on this visit they had turned it down, and it totally fixed everything. Elysium is definitely my home now, but the Church still rocks, and DJ Virus has turned out to be a worthy successor to Karl Fought. I danced like a whore and enjoyed the extra amenities, like the second dance floor playing more poppy music, and the men's restroom with an actual *stall* *door*.

I *love* the fact that the very first link while Googling "The Church Dallas" has very little to do with Christianity. :)