March 24, 2009

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Drunk of the Week

The Best Punk Rock BBQ in Texas

by Kelly O

Drunk of the Week

Kelly O

I don’t know if you’ve ever been to SXSW, but the real parties go down on Sunday when the official fest is over. The pressure's off, and a good backyard BBQ with some scrappy rag-tag punk bands is the perfect way to end the weekend. I've been hearing for years that the one at "Sherry's House" (Sherry's Annual FUCK-keen BBQ!) was not-to-missed. And shit, when I got there, I thought I’d walked into MAGIC LAND. Nobunny was running around in his underwear and a bunny head, there were a ton of crazy bands playing short sets in the car port (Hex Dispensers, Ex-Humans, The Strange Boys, Personal and the Pizzas... a special Carbonas set by Gentleman Jesse), giant ribs and some guy from Chicago manning a hot grill in the back... AND in the side yard, a bunch of people were shooting each other with BB guns (I think, supplied by some guys from Christmas Island). Guns, even the BB variety, are pretty awesomely terrifying around a bunch of boozers. At first people were shooting empty beer cans, then some guy named Josh got all William Tell and was shooting the cans of another guy's head, and eventually everyone started shooting each other, mainly in the legs (see left leg in photo above, ten points to Sean Spits). Around 9:00 o'clock, it was "everybody out!" time, and small pods people went stumble-bumbling back across the freeway to Beerland... well, everybody but Ditte (from Germany), Rebecca (from London), and Jared (Atlanta, Black Lips). The three of them were rolling around in the middle of the street, where Jared was proposing that he could drink shots of whiskey out of either or both girl's belly button(s).

Before they got up and wobbled off, Jared said, "Fuck thaayt Willie Weed*, I need more Jamie-sson."

*Read more about the Willie Weed HERE. recommended

This article has been updated since its original publication.

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1
Everyone who drinks at the Funhouse makes your drunks of the week look like drunks for the weak. Get a clue and get off hipster hill.
Posted by ya right on March 25, 2009 at 11:55 AM · Report
2
Um, Austin is actually located in Texas, not on "hipster hill."
Posted by Magellan on March 25, 2009 at 4:27 PM · Report
3
Ugh, hipster hell. These are the sort who stop listening to a band once it gets reviewed on Pitchfork (as opposed to the lower-level hipsters who start once it hits Pitchfork).
Posted by formeraustinresident on March 25, 2009 at 11:13 PM · Report
4
Yayyyy. No page on the Stranger website is complete without at least a few people bitching about how much they hate hipsters and Capitol Hill.

even apparently a page of pictures taken hundreds of miles from Capitol Hill
Posted by non-hipster who loves the hill on March 26, 2009 at 6:38 AM · Report
5
HIPSTER HILL? We allways called it homo hill. But then it's only gay if you go there 3 times right?
Posted by P.E.T.A. People Eating Tasty Animals on March 26, 2009 at 9:57 AM · Report
6
No, really. Fuck hipsters.
Posted by Horrible Person on March 27, 2009 at 11:11 AM · Report
7
ZOMG I'm so tired of the word hipster.

This pic is pure awesomeness. I love the drunk eyes. These my sorts of peeps.
Posted by la la la on March 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM · Report
8
Oh Gawd! I can almost hear drunk Kelly O talking about how she shoots guns ALL THE TIME back home. Homemade whiskey, shootin' guns, snowmachines, if that ain't country, It'll hairlip the Pope!
Posted by Ron Boolio on March 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM · Report
9
Cap Hill should be called Hampster Hill, given the proclivities of the population there. Good googly grief.
Posted by Kip Schoning on March 28, 2009 at 1:55 PM · Report
10
Woof! Now THERE'S a 3-way for ya!
Posted by party girl on March 29, 2009 at 10:21 PM · Report
11
I thought people knew this one. You shoot the guns, then you clean 'em and put 'em away, THEN YOU DRINK. Goddamn fucking morons could've put someone's eye out.
Posted by Greg on March 31, 2009 at 9:53 AM · Report
12
I'm Danish! Not german
Posted by Ditte on April 9, 2009 at 1:06 AM · Report

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