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I only cry at NFL events.
ha!
I do not drink. my buds were drinking beers, and I was drinking cokes. Fringeware was so great. They had everything an underground literary freak like me would want in a bookstore, and on Fridays would have shows, and screen videos, and have crazy performances and free beer. The problem was that in Austin the freeloader/bum quiotient is so incredibly high that these fucking mooches would hang out, read the mgazines, drink the beers and eat the food and never ever ever buy anything!
at the time I was making very little money and I saved up for 4 months to get $86 to buy the large Ralph Steadman monograph. When I went in to buy it the owner told me he had not made a sale of any type in 6 days, which is fucked cuz the place was packed all the time.
bums.
the store did not last longer thn a year. No support from the hipster assholes. they would rather spend their money on heroin.
It was a GREAT store.
Austin has three things that draw people.
It has a variety of natural beauty, if you like hiking, boating, frisbee golf, biking trails,fishing, canoeing, swimming in lakes and springs, etc, it can accomodate all your desires.
It has a bustling bar/music scene, most of which is shitty fucking roots rock and countryfied boogie woogie bullshit for fucking losers. Tons of bars, tons of shitty bands, tons of hipper-than-thou scenesters. You know the type. they go to a sonic youth show just to stand around and talk loudly complaining how sonic youth has sucked for the past ten years. assholes.
and third, it has a LOT of hard drugs. cocaine for the politicians and power brokers and the massive influx of yuppie fucks that moved in ten years ago, heroin and crack for the underbelly, lots of weed and hash and shit like that, and mushrooms for the hippies. if you like available drugs then austin is for you, but it also comes with every single terrible thing that is attached to places with such heavy drug use. TONS of petty crime.
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