Lite + Brite: 39 Trashy Austin Events 9/8
Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.
This is a busy week. It seems like event planners were like, “Right, it’s after Labor Day, finally we can start organizing events because summer is over”—even though, to be clear, 1) summer does not officially end until September 23, and 2) IT IS STILL 105 DEGREES OUT.
Nonetheless, if you brave the heat, you shall be rewarded. Out there you can participate in a Pee-Wee Herman dance-off or a Jack Black-themed air guitar tournament. You can bounce literally or stylistically. If you go to the Austin Chronicle’s annual hot sauce festival, please be careful; do not eat one chip and die. I knew Star Wars had its own day, but this is my first time learning that Star Trek has a day, too. Apparently video games also have a day, which you can celebrate at a MarioKart tournament or a live rock performance of NES soundtracks. And of course you should come to our Thursday evening dance party in the dark, No Lights No Lycra! Scroll down for details on all these events and plenty more.
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Let’s do fun stuff!
—Leila + Brian
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OUR STUFF
Our next No Lights No Lycra will be next Thursday, September 14, with tunes from guest DJ Phildoesit! You can listen to a playlist of music from our last edition here or scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for a track listing.
No Humans Allowed’s cosmic journey through the space continued this week. The fourth dimension is time, and this leg of the journey took NHA through some mid 80s italo, library, and synthpop tunes about eclipses, interplanetary journeys, outer space matrimony, and class M planets. Listen to Cosmic Journey II on the KPISS archives, or scroll down for the full tracklist + art. NHA is live every Wednesday at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm.
What is No Lights No Lycra?
Austin’s twice-monthly, judgment-free, substance-free, high-impact dance thing in the dark. It’s a DJ night that’s not at the club, a workout that’s not at the gym, a personal meditation that’s anything but silent. It’s produced by us, your kindly L+B overlords, and usually one or the other of us is on the hook for DJ duties. Read more about us in the Austin Chronicle. You can listen the kind of music we play over on Brian’s Mixcloud.
EVENTS WE’RE EYEING
Friday 9/8
- HUMP! Film Festival at Parish
Titillating film fest spanning a wide range of sex prefs + kinks - Star Trek Day Party at the Ruiz Branch of the Austin Public Library
“Star Trek themed crafts, activities, + pastries” (Don’t wear red) - FunBox Opening Day at Barton Creek Square
“World’s Biggest Bounce Park” w/a very bouncy website also - Just Cos at Pershing
Live music, “captivating cosplay,” + collectibles - Now That’s What I Call Poo-Poo Platter at Elysium
Drag performers pay tribute to Barbie + the Eurodance era (90s) - Celtic Music Festival at Sherwood Forest Faire
Live music, Scottish highland games, artisans, archery, + mead” - Eastside Kings Festival across East Austin
Live music performances help preserve African American Blues, Jazz, + Gospel
Saturday 9/9
- Community Day at the Long Center
Live music, incl ballet, symphony + opera, also DJ, kids’ activities - Trash Makeover Challenge at Texas Disposal Systems Wildlife Ranch & Pavilion
“Amateur + professional fashionistas who use at least 90% recycled materials” - I Feel Like Bey at Dottiewood Studios
Bey-themed art, DJs, drag, photo booth, + themed drinks and eats - And Justice for Eddie at Kick Butt Coffee
“Burlesque + drag performers delving into the dungeons of fantasy” - PietschHouse Presents: An Eastside Evening at the Future Front House
See art, converse with Black cowboys, + watch live hip hop performance - Art Show After Party at Community Garden
Post-art opening party w/DJ + live music - Tree ID Lesson at Pease Park
For would-be tree bouncers and fans of knowing stuff about trees - Gothic Oddities Bazaar at the Glass Coffin
Vendors, themed drinks, goth music, + “haunted museum” - Texas Playboys Game at the Long Time
Charity baseball game raising money for UT Press - Project A² at dadaLab
Asian-Americans making live music + vending goods - Liberating Black Art Opening Reception at the Neill-Cochran House Museum
Party for the opening of exhibit celebrating artists of the Black diaspora - Kids Handmade Mini-Market at Austin Creative Reuse
Buy goods hand made by kids + live music and Hawaiian ice - Celtic Music Festival at Sherwood Forest Faire
Live music, Scottish highland games, artisans, archery, + mead” - Eastside Kings Festival across East Austin
Live music performances help preserve African American Blues, Jazz, + Gospel
Sunday 9/10
- Hot Sauce Festival at the Far Out Lounge
Brave the heat in more ways than one - Slam Portal at the Long Time
Our favorite interdimensional comedy pro wrestling event - The Bounce Motel at Austin Motel
“Celebration of movement, music + culture; an oasis of joy + gyration” - Splash Dance at Austin Motel
Poolside aerobics with Austin’s most creative aerobics instructor - Oita Japan Festival at the Asian American Resource Center
“Japanese food + drink, kids’ activities, cultural education” - Family Day at Umlauf Sculpture Garden
Activities like: sculpture scav hunt, seed bomb building, workshops - Cthonic Salon: Angels of Death at the Velvet Casket
Chat about “walking the line between the heavenly + the infernal” - Kids Handmade Mini-Market at Austin Creative Reuse
Buy goods hand made by kids + live music and Hawaiian ice - Eastside Kings Festival across East Austin
Live music performances help preserve African American Blues, Jazz, + Gospel
Monday 9/11
- Dam That Cancer at Lake Austin
Take in a giant flotilla of paddleboarders raising $ for cancer - Silent Book Club at Double Trouble
Silently read books together + optional sharing - ATX Short Film Showcase at the Spiderhouse Ballroom
The films are short, the filmmakers are Texan + of varying heights - (weekly) Hyperreal Film Club at Hotel Vegas
Watch a film called “Slumber Party Massacre,” which does what it says on the tin - Eastside Kings Festival across East Austin
Live music performances help preserve African American Blues, Jazz, + Gospel
Tuesday 9/12
- Bit Brigade at the Far Out Lounge
NES-inspired band provides a live soundtrack for game speedrunning - MarioKart 64 Tournament at Kung Fu Saloon
Celebrate video games by shelling everyone relentlessly in MarioKart 64 - ART Club Social Hour at Art Direct
Meet + mingle with artists + other artsy fartsy types - Eastside Kings Festival across East Austin
Live music performances help preserve African American Blues, Jazz, + Gospel
Thursday 9/14
- No Lights No Lycra at West China Tea House
Our dance party in the dark gets properly dark w/guest DJ Phildoesit - The Best of ATX Party at Springdale Station
Music, food, + vendors featured in Austin Monthly’s Best of ATX - Rocket Cinema Presents: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure at Ani’s Day and Night
Watch one of the best films of all time + Pee-Wee dance-off, food n bevs - Night of 1,000 Jack Blacks at Elysium
Drag kings tackle the many moods of Jack Black from Bowser to Tenacious D - Natural Rope Making at Buzz Mill Coffee
Look if you’re going to the trouble of making rope, make it naturally - Green New Theatre Symposium at the Vortex
“Performances, panels, walks, and gardening” centered around environmental justice - Lake Travis Film Festival at various venues in the west Austin suburbs
Film fest centered around the Lake Travis / Bee Cave area
No Humans Allowed 163
Cosmic Journey II
Part 2 of Cosmic Journey, the interstellar excursion we’ve been on, aired this week, filled with spacey synthpop, italo, + library music. Press play for songs about outer space matrimony, interplanetary journeys, eclipses, and class M planets.
Tracklist
David Van Tieghem – Number One
Karat – Der Blaue Planet (RFX Rework)
Blackway – New Life
Q – The Voice of Q
Anna – Systems Breaking Down (Luxxury Edit)
Jürgen Ecke – HAYH-HAYH
Electrik Funk – On a Journey (B.G. Baarregaard Rework)
Charlie – Spacer Woman
I:Cube – Hnt
John Cooper Clarke – (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space
Nini Raviolette – Suis-Je Normale
Software – Voice Bit
Frank Duval – Ogon
The Creatures – Solar Eclipse
Joël Fajerman – Racines Synthétiques (Boys from Patagonia Edit)
Brian Blackout’s award-winning, dodgy European news coverage receivingweekly robots-themed radio show on internet station KPISS.fm. Machine vibes 4 machines. Songs for robots, androids, mandroids, cyborgs, AIs, cylons, skinjobs, roombas, wifi routers, smart devices, anything colored Bondi blue, and virtual assistants. Humans not required. Broadcasts live every Wednesday at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm, with over 150 episodes now streamable in the archives on topics like and Beach Simulations, Roomba dance parties, undersea adventures + Cyber Texas.
No Lights No Lycra ATX 154
w/Brian Blackout
August 10th at West China Tea House
Listen to No Lights No Lycra 154
Tracklist
Kongas – Why Can’t We Live Together
Julien Love – Peace, Love, Technique
Claudia Telles – Foi como um Sonho (Patchouli Brothers Edit)
Khruangbin – Time (You and I)
Bee Gees – Night Fever
Happy Mondays – Step on
Flamingosis – Two Steppin’ into Fantasy
Talking Heads – Road to Nowhere
Pino D’Angio – Ma Quale Idea
Missy Elliot – She’s a Bitch (Big Ass Manatee Remix)
Louis La Roché – Do You Remember?
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Waffles – 007A
LCD Soundsystem – Tonite
Cathy Dennis – Just Another Dream
Apparel Wax – 005A1
Captain Hollywood Project – More and More
Basement Jaxx – Romeo
Junior Senior – Shake Your Coconuts (DFA Remix)
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – According to Plan
Romeo Void – Never Say Never
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
Blur – Song 2
The New Radicals – You Get What You Give
Home – All at Once
Justine & the Victorian Punks – Still You
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ABOUT US
How do we choose which events to feature?
Honestly, it’s pretty random. We might include anything in Austin that we, personally, would conceivably want to go to, generally excluding normal concerts, comedy shows, and movie showtimes because there are many other good resources for finding those. (We especially recommend Showlist for live music, The Darker Side of Austin for goth and metal stuff, and the 60+ Weirdest Things in Austin for exactly what it sounds like). This list is by no means exhaustive; it’s just stuff that caught our eye this week. If you have an event that you want us to consider including, send it over.
Who are we?
We make this newsletter. We put on No Lights No Lycra every second and fourth Thursday of the month. We do some other stuff here and there. We love going out to creative events in Austin, and we want you to join us. Visit us at liteandbriteatx.com, and support us on Patreon if you like what we do.