Thursday means “Trick-or-Treating” with Lori.  I realize that we are in a recession, but seriously, we were in a recession last year and I came home with  more loot.  What have people been spending their stimulus money on?

We started the day at the Paste party and grabbed a few izzes.  We hit Clermont (they usually have good shirts), Maggie Maes (Gibson Guitar and Minnesota Music), and came up empty handed.  Lori had some BBQ but the veggie options were few and far between. After that, I stopped by the Spin/Myspace Music loft to pick up pick up the party passes that M won.  Four parties in we finally scored some loot at the GHS Unwound party (beer, bag, and shirt) .   Since it was a nice day out, we decided to go to Cedar Street to see what the line looked like for the Filter party.  It wasn’t good.

I had never been to the IFC house so we decided to stop by to see if there was any breakfast or free swag left (No breakfast, but there was still swag.  Apparently they serve coffee all day and snacks pop up periodically).  Lori was still hungry so we headed back to Maggie Mae’s.

Our next stop was the Day Stage (BTW.  The Day Stage area is a nice place to hang out/nap.  There are bean bag chairs all over) at the Convention Center to see Frightened Rabbit.  Then went through the Trade Show to see if there was anything of interest.  We were also looking for more of the “skip to the front of the American Apparel Party line cards.”  M sent a text reminding me to check out the Banyan Branch party at the wine bar (free wine and snacks!).  we headed back to the Convention Center to use the restrooms and meet up with friends in the Trade Show.  We ended up making friends with a vendor and gave them advice on how to get into the shows at Stubb’s (FYI get in line early and bring a snack).   Pleasant surprise of the day: running into  the Minor Mishap Marching Band outside the Trade Show.

On the way to the Spain party Lori and I managed to score free cupcakes from Mad Cakes (all natural cuppy cakes, no HFCS).  We camped out at the Spain part for an hour or so (they had wine and food).  The plan was to hit the IFC house (for booze, snacks, loot, and cell phone charging stations) and then head to the Paramount for The Runaways (I wanted to see what they hype was all about). [The Runaways movie was not quite worth the hype.  I suggest netflix.  It was also a little weird seeing Dakota Fanning do drugs and get naked.]

I closed out the evening at the Converse Party. I met up with M and the Jew in time to see  Mayer Hawthorn & the Country, Passion Pit (DJ set) and a little bit of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.  Before I got there the Jew informed me that M was drunk and talking to Passion Pit in the DJ booth.  When we got home, I found out that the Jew was the drunk one and M had promised to make dinner for Passion Pit when they came to town in June.

Cost for the day: tips for bartender

Free: 1 beer, 3 glasses of wine, 1 mixed whiskey drink, iphone case, 3 shirts, and a shot glass..