Decisions, decisions...

In the Chronicle(yes. THAT is the paper name for Houston. Classy, no?) yesterday, my mom and I happened to come by a calender for October goings-on in Houston.

Here's a few of them that really caught our eye.

And I quote them word for word. Seriously. I added nothing.

Thursday 1st

Festival

OPA!

Break Baklava with friends or score a souvlaki at the 43rd annual Greek Festival. Or take in a folkloric dance and cathedral tour. Did we mention the wine?

(...souvlaki?)

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Concert

NONTOXIC

Mikel Jollett was a SoCal guy who was writing a novel when he decided that what he was really writing were songs. So he ditched the book, started a band, and the Airborne Toxic Event was born. Good choice too. The band's single, Sometime Around Midnight, began to make some waves on the charts, and next thing he knew, it had its self-titled debut album snatched up by a major label. And the band takes its name from a Don DeLillo phrase, which is cool no matter how you dice it up.

(Oh, it's from Don DeLillo. That influences my decision considerably.)

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(WHO'S Don DeLillo?)

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Saturday 3rd

(guess who's birthday that is?!?!?!??!?!?!)

Festival

NO TURKEY LEGS

Celebrate Korean Thanksgiving with kimchi (spicy pickled vegetables), tae kwon do demonstrations, dances and more when the Korean American Society of Houston hosts a free party.

(But, but, but....no turkey legs? *sad face*)

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Concert

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Mercifully the freak-folk tag has been euthanized as it became a lazy catchall for any band that played acoustic songs with some sort of eerie embellishment. The Dodos--a psychedelic folk group from San Francisco-- would've likely been victimized by the tag. As Time to Die shows, they deserve better. The group plays some unorthodox percussion and adds touches like vibraphone to give its songs a sense of mystery.

(If I ever start a band, it's definately going to be in the psychedelic folk genre. Yep.)

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Sunday 4th

Concert

ORIGINAL STROKE

If you needed only one rock guy from the early-to-mid 1980s for a time capsule Billy Squier might be the most emblematic choice. The hard-rocking guitarist sneezed and anthems came out. He's likely to play many of them.

(Ew...He KEPT his boogers?! Why would anybody want to see snotty booger anthems? Not I.)

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This is only a small taste of the things to do here. Great insentive to visit, is it not?

Eehhh, I'm kidding :) You seriously need to visit me, though. Even if you already have. We don't have to do those things. We can just sit in my room and be all uncultured. I have jelly beans!! That's better than going to a Korean festival where they don't have turkey legs. If it doesn't have turkey legs, it's not a festival. I'm not even going to argue about this.

Owari

(I haven't been doing that lately...whoops.)