Flickchart Highway Journey: Music to Music

We’re again on the Flickchart Texas BBQ Highway Journey. Final time, we coated a small city to the west of San Antonio. Now we head again up the street in direction of Austin to cowl our final spot within the state capital of Texas. There have been some nice BBQ locations in Austin thus far – how does the final one measure up?

La Barbecue is positioned in East Austin, like a number of different BBQ spots, however nearer to the river than most. There’s not rather more to be mentioned about Austin that we haven’t mentioned already in our 5 earlier visits; it’s hipster, it’s rising, and as we’ve seen, it’s residence to some nice Texas BBQ. Mix the central Texas locale with Austin cash, and that’s no shock.

La Barbecue is co-owned by LeAnn Mueller, a part of the well-known Mueller household that is likely one of the greatest names in Texas BBQ, and is at the moment run by pitmasters Francisco Saucedo and Brendan Lamb. It was beforehand run by John Lewis, who lower his enamel studying underneath Aaron Franklin of Franklin BBQ. Maybe you’re beginning to see how Texas BBQ is one large household. Lewis ran off to South Carolina to start out a Texas BBQ place there, so maybe those that reside within the coastal South will likely be fortunate sufficient to go to his place. La Barbecue initially opened again in 2012 as a trailer run by LeAnn and her brother John Mueller, however a spat between the pair led to John leaving.

This hasn’t slowed the place down, and it nonetheless carves out a spot within the Texas Prime 50 checklist. Smoking with the basic oblique heat-pit technique utilizing post-oak wooden, Saucedo and Lamb are serving up BBQ gold. Using USDA-prime beef, La Barbecue serves up brisket that stands with one of the best of them. Additionally they make beef ribs, sausage, pulled pork, in addition to numerous sides together with potato salad and mac and cheese.

I partook in a easy combo of brisket and a chipotle sausage, in addition to some potato salad. This was some incredible brisket with a pleasant succulent taste. Whereas each chunk wasn’t as flavorful as, say, Franklin’s, it was moist all through and by no means had a uninteresting or dry chunk. The bark was skinny, however completely flavorful with a pleasant peppery pop. The chipotle sausage, in the meantime, was additionally excellently carried out. It had simply the correct quantity of snap and spice to offer it a scrumptious chunk, although it could possibly be a bit of crumbly right here and there. The potato salad was a good mix of mustard and mayo and the BBQ sauce was a pleasant addition, although probably not crucial.

I award the brisket 4.5 slices out of 5, and the sausage 4 hyperlinks out of 5. I award La Barbecue 4.5 people who smoke out of 5!

Our closing movie that takes place within the Austin space is Terrence Malick‘s Music to Music. Although Malick shouldn’t be a local of Texas, he went to highschool in Austin and has set a number of of his movies within the Lone Star State. Music to Music revolves across the drama of the indie music scene in Austin with the primary characters caught in a spiral of affection, deception, and jealousy. Filmed within the metropolis itself and that includes cameos from many indie musicians who carry out in Austin, the movie does a effective job of capturing a specific scene and facet of Austin.

The movie itself is a combined bag on the entire. Malick’s route is understood for lengthy quiet stretches, close-up photographs of actors, and depictions of landscapes, and this movie has them in spades. However whereas Malick’s finest works use all of those methods collectively to convey a transferring mosaic of themes and deeper human moments, Music to Music struggles to attach these tissues. Whereas there are some first rate performances from a powerful ensemble forged together with Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, and Rooney Mara, their characters really feel too flimsy to ever construct any bigger level.

The concepts in regards to the battle and intertwining nature of affection and profession do try to make some kind of deeper level right here. There are just a few moments the place all of it comes collectively into one thing stunning. An element close to the tip the place Gosling and Mara reconcile on Enchanted Rock is a really transferring second that highlights one of many nice mountaineering spots close to Austin. However elements like these are few and much between, they usually don’t join into something actually cohesive.

Regardless of Music to Music‘s middling high quality as a movie, it’s a extremely appropriate pairing for Austin and Texas. It makes use of the Texan landscapes effectively to convey its themes of isolation, ardour, and love. Following musicians and people within the trade permits it to seize one other uniquely-Austin a part of the setting. Music to Music is a pure pairing for the undertaking.

Does anybody eat barbecue within the movie?

None.