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Push play. I forgot that I used two types of ‘new’ creative picture taking at the rained-in part of PRTLS party. In case you missed the first one, make it BIG.

…everyone had to retreat inside as the water gushed from above. 

The great stuff about unfortunate events like this gave us a chance to recalibrate. We had to squeeze under shelter and get skin to skin. While the PRTLS crew and the house mates of this magical place had to hustle things indoors, everyone else stayed relaxed albeit increasingly chilled, in the cold sense of the word.

Aside from getting wet, the show went on. And after a brief transformation of the venue - agreeing to pick up all the household living room pieces into another space for band gear and a newly invented solutions and effort - the metaphorical and literal electricity began again.

For me, though, I had felt it was time to run back to town.

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Everyone was hoping for perfect weather for today’s backyard party. The forecast was hit or miss, and as it turned out, those of us who got up early to trek out of town to a surprisingly rural pocket of Austin, we were rewarded with a couple early sets the felt downright heady. 

Girlpool - a duo who live near blocks from me in Philadelphia but only met here in Austin - started first, and energy around the yard was a mellow high. 

While we filled out bellies with ‘portable pizza’, et aliae played us some perfectly elegant electronic that seemed to put out view of the darkening sky at ease. Perhaps too early. 

Tyler Andere, creative director of the PRTLS crew stayed calm. He knew that it wouldn’t matter what comes. Little did he know…