Last weekend was the end of Spring Break and on Thursday and Friday, my family and I went to Auditorium Shores to see The Shins and Counting Crows, respectively. We also saw one of our favorite bands, Hey Marseilles, on Thursday afternoon and twice on Saturday. They were all great concerts and Saturday night around 8 PM we arrived home content with our SXSW. And my mom checked our message machine. Our neighbor had called to inform us that she had two free tickets to see Mumford & Sons play at the LBJ lawn on UT campus. The concert would follow a documentary about their Railroad Revival concert series. The documentary had started at 8 so my sister and I urgently begged our dad to let us use the tickets instead of him (our reasoning being that whichever sister got to go would be murdered by the other one) and rushed around the house getting ready to leave again. My mom drove us to the lawn and we hurried by the long line of people without tickets waiting to get in and exchanged our tickets for entry. We sat on the lawn until the movie ended and we listened respectfully as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros played and when Mumford & Sons came out we were beside ourselves with excitement. The concert was fantastic and I'm still kind of in awe of the fact that we got to go. The band is from London and they have come to Austin twice since I first heard them but I had never been able to get or afford tickets. Getting the opportunity to see them for free was outstandingly amazing.
Speaking of outstandingly amazing: HUNGER GAMES.
My friends and I went to the midnight premiere last night and it was great. We got to the theater two hours before the movie started and the theater we were supposed to be in was pretty much completely full so we took initiative and switched theaters. The movie was a wonderful representation of the book, which I am now re-reading so that I can go re-watch the movie with the book fresh on my mind. I got the most sleep out of all my friends last night and I am still ridiculously tired. I keep forgetting things or making absolutely no sense when I talk. My attempt to do Calculus homework at lunch today was a complete flop because I couldn't keep my thoughts straight. But, of course, it was completely worth it.
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