Dancing In The Fire, Fire, Fire

I declare Day One of the Austin City Limits Festival a success:

Among the highlights:

- While riding the bus into town yesterday two guys got on dressed in jeans and heavy, dark colored long sleeve shirts. I'm thinking to myself "These Texans are hard core!" (It was roughly 93 degrees yesterday). Turns out those two guys weren't Texans. They were Kaiser Chiefs. Taking public transport downtown.

- Hopping off the bus and meeting up with Chromewaves, Gorilla vs. Bear, MOKB, and You Ain't No Picasso for some pre-festival grub. We went to some Mexican place for fajitas and flautas. Sitting across from us was Grizzly Bear. Sitting behind us was Spoon.

- After breakfast while we made a quick stop at the ATM, Mrs. MOKB took GvsB's Polaroid camera down to the other end of the block where Britt and Co. were talking with some friends. Mrs. MOKB chatted with Britt for a sec before snapping his pic, and at one point she pointed towards all of us (who were milling about on the other end of the block). We were all like "Oh Shit." So Mrs. MOKB comes back and says "Britt wants to come say hi." And he does. How does he greet us?
"What's up bloggers?"
Awesome. I never been more embarrassed in my life*. Britt was really cool though. Later, on the shuttle bus over to the festival Matt Picasso compared the whole experience to you telling a girl that the girl on the other side of the room is cute and then she goes over to that girl and relays that info. Maybe you had to be there.

- There was a huge fire at ACL. People got hurt. I got pictures (of the fire, not the hurt people - I hope they are OK).

- Best band of the day: Queens of the Stone Age. Hooollleeeee Fuck they were awesome. I want to go drink beers with Josh Homme.
Honorable mentions: M.I.A. and LCD Soundsystem.

- Best band not playing ACL: Art Brut. So much awesome.

- Worst band of the day: Grizzly Bear. These guys are popular why? No hooks, no melodys. No need to waste yr time. Towards the end of the Art Brut set, one of the guys in Grizzly Bear came over to the Mohawk and his jaw was on the floor while watching Eddie and Co. do their thing. It was awesome.

More tomorrow. ACL photos on AOL on Monday.