SXSW '08 - Back from the grave

I'm certainly not going to write about my SXSW Music Festival adventure in detail. However! I will mention that I had 5 people staying in my one bedroom apartment, four out of the five weren't from America...so I got the thrill of introducing QUESO to people. That was amazing in itself. Favorite bands seen that I hadn't seen before, in order of favoritism: THE RIPPERS (Sardinia, Italy/Holy Shitsville), Gentleman Jesse and His Men (Atlanta), Tyvek (Detroit), Paul Collins and the BEAT (**NYC**; who played a show at my friend's barbeque. WHAT?), and The Okmoniks (Tuscon.)

It was 5 days of blurry vision, morning snot and drunken love of strangers that deserves a good send off into our memories. I was trying to think of an image that would capture the essence of the whole thing - when magically while watching a piece on Beerland (my favorite dive/ where i turn the sound knobs from time to time) the video paused for buffering and...VOILA! The perfect SXSW goodbye picture just lands on my already scattered brain.

So without further adieu, a big "LATER, BITCH!" goes out to SXSW 2008. See you all next year, but I won't remember it.




Okay, one more thing. If *I* were a news reporter, you wouldn't catch me in a stupid blue polo shirt. A) It's ugly. B) People might be confused that there is a new best buy in front of Beerland.



Until next time, if there is a next time.