Friday:
KXT Summercut with The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, and Fitz and the Tantrums plus more
The only beacon of light for me today is my first time seeing The Flaming Lips is happening tonight at 10 at Starplex. I would prefer a more intimate setting than I might have a freaking heart attack because I love them so much. There are several other sweet bands opening as mentioned in the title as well as locals Telegraph Canyon, Smile Smile, Air Review.
My fave Flaming Lips song ever
Saturday:
Burning Hotels at Wild Rooster
Wild Rooster is an interesting place. I assumed the first time I went there it was some kind of biker bar just by the title. But then every once in awhile they have a really good show. That's where I saw Homegrown Artist Ume for the first time and they blew most of us away. Anyway, Burning Hotel are playing there and obviously I will always recommend going to their shows. Although the way Chance described the gig in that big FW Weekly article it sounds like they are just throwing a bone at the Wild Rooster. Butttt I never really trust the tone of quotes in articles because the quotes might be out of context. If I were famous the press would go crazy skewing my words. I say the dumbest shit and then a week later I don't even believe that statement anymore.
Friday through Sunday:
14th annual Q Cinema: Fort Worth's Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival
I love telling people about the awesomeness of Fort Worth. ( I mean I started a whole damn blog about it) When I visit other states I feel like I'm an ambassador of Texas in general. The convo usually goes. "oh where are you from?," " Texas," "Ohh I'm sorry," or my favorite "You don't sound like you're from Texas." No I don't sound like I'm from Texas because not all people from Texas are thick accented republicans with a gun and a horse and bible (of course if I get drunk and angry then my accent comes out a wee bit). Then they usually say "well Austin is cool and then I flip them off and walk away." Or I go on a mission to disprove their dumbass stereotype because OMG where's your hackey sac Oregon. Did you lose it at the free range chicken farm?!!
There's a point here and I'm almost at it. ( or you can skip to it) SO Recently I went up to Oregon after the Rainbow Lounge raid. In case you don't know the story I will give you an summary that is only based on my memory of the time. A few years ago on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a pretty huge/ popular Gay bar in Fort Worth was raided and several people were arrested and beaten. The aftermath from Fort Worth citizens was remarkable. People flipped teh fuck out. At least everyone I knew. There was a huge protest people were rading city council meetings. It was amazing to see our little city rally around the LGBT community when stereotypically people think Texans are homophobic assholes. ( To be fair we have yet to pass the marriage equality act so it's not like it's a state wide acceptance.)
POINT BEING there are several screenings for the LGBT FIlm Festival at several locations including: Rose Marine Theatre, The Wherehouse, and T&P Tavern. They are showing a documentary about the raid on Rainbow Lounge on Friday at Rose Marine at 8 if you want more of the story than my vague memory. Also can I note this is the 14th year in a row. So yea put that in your stereotype pipe and smoke it.
Man I feel better now actually. I guess there was a reason I started writing in the first place ay?
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