It only took me 3 hours to apply for unemployment here in Texas. No snark at all, I feel pretty lucky. There are people that have literally been trying to get it done for a week.
AXS TV is airing a documentary called "Festival Express" right now. I have it on in the background while I'm "working". How in the world did I not know about this doc or this whole Festival Express event in 1970? Major music blind spot for me until now.
It looks like my job will be ending at the end of this month, about a month earlier than originally expected. Not really surprised since everything is shutting down at this point. Not sure how I'm going to find a job when companies are in hiring freezes, cutting staff, and shutting down altogether.
For me at least, the worst part of all of this is wanting to help out others in the community, but not feeling like I can because I'm in such a perilous situation myself. I know I'm certainly not alone in feeling that way.
Pardon my French, but Jim Bakker and Alex Jones can take their coronavirus preventing snake oils and toothpastes, and they can fuck right off. The last thing we need out there now is more disinformation and preying upon the elderly who are understandably on edge.
Shoutout to the El Campo, TX water tower making a brief appearance in the ZZ Top Netflix documentary via some vintage home movie footage. It's the small town that my parents are from.
SXSW has been cancelled. Going to be a rough financial hit for the city, and so many workers that count on it to meet numbers for the year. But importing people from all over the world probably isn't the best thing at the present time.
I caught some of the INXS episode of Rock Legends earlier this evening. Those mini-docs aren't very well done at all, but it was a nice reminder of all the hits that band produced in their prime years.