With all of it's access roads and spaghetti overpasses, Austin is like an episode of pimp my interstate. We heard you like to drive on the interstate, so we put an interstate next to your interstate so that you can drive on the interstate while you drive on the interstate. The traffic here is out of control. Fortunately, the city makes up for it with amazing food, live music, and beautiful scenery. Check out the view at dinner the other night.
Matt did some great shows in Austin and the surrounding area, and he was really well received at each location. Last year's joke was that we're huge in little towns that no one had heard of, like the band that can't get a gig in the US but has a top hit in Belgium. It was a bit weird to realize today that we can't make that joke about big well-known cities. So, it is without laughter that I tell you that the libraries of Austin, TX love WGC Theater.
Some of the best moments of the tour are the interactions we get with the kiddos. At one point in the show, Matt asks the members of the audience to raise their hand and share a personal wish. A sea of hands go up, and since this is not show and tell wish time, Matt calls on a few kids and lets the others know they can share their wish after the show, and they do. Often as he packs the puppets, kids will approach him and say "Mr. Matt, I want an xbox," like he's some kind of puppet santa man. At the most recent library, Matt brought out bongo man for a few kids after the show. They all swarmed around and the youngest one shouted "jingo jingo" repeatedly, which I suppose was his closest approximation of the word "bongo". Somehow, this ended with all of them holding out their hands to be bitten by the puppet. Keep it weird, Austin.
Next on the puppet blog: more of here and then some of there.title song.
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