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Saturday, March 16, 2013

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SXSW Friday: Mac DeMarco, White Lung, Chris Cohen, Marnie Stern, and more

Listening in on Mac DeMarco, White Lung, Chris Cohen and Marnie Stern.

Posted by on Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:18 PM

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At South by Southwest, it is easy to become desensitized to what in other situations would be considered rather remarkable. For example, on Friday I walked down a busy street, and a stage had been erected on a corner lot, and Kool Keith was on the stage, wearing a sequined scarf on his head, rapping crazy words about himself. I didn't even break my stride. Now, granted, I know that Kool Keith shows aren't that kool these days, but still.

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Friday, March 15, 2013

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SXSW Thursday: Medora, Metz and disruptive technology, or something

Wandering through the sights and stages of Austin.

Posted by on Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:46 PM

Once a regular house, now the Spotify house.
  • Once a regular house, now the Spotify house.
South by Southwest is not just about music, you guys. It is also about rich people who wear cosmetic eyeglasses and $140 plaid shirts and say words like "branding" and "crowdfunding" and "disruptive" with a totally straight face. I found this on the Internet yesterday, from the singer of indie-rock band DIIV (which is actually a pretty good band):

Here, the music comes last. 5 minute set-up, no sound check, 15 minute set. The "music" element is all a front, it's the first thing to be compromised. Corporate money everywhere but in the hands of the artists, at what is really just a glorified corporate networking party. Drunk corporate goons and other industry vampires and cocaine. Everyone is drunk, being cool. "Official" bureaucracy and all their mindless rules. Branding, branding, branding. It's bullshit... sorry.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

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SXSW Wednesday: Jim James is amazing, Foxygen is terrible, and some other things

Jim James is amazing and Foxygen is terrible in Austin.

Posted by on Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:47 PM

Where do you even start?
  • Where do you even start?
Do you use the Internet? Then you are probably aware that South by Southwest is happening this week in Austin, a city where Dumpsters are repurposed as advertising canvases. There is also a food truck sponsored by an NBC show called Hannibal. Laurence Fishburne is in it. If you are interested in tweeting about Hannibal, use the hashtag #hannibaleats, per the advertisement on the food truck. I am making fun of it, but the bahn mi tacos were really good! Recommended! On to the fest!

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

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SXSW Friday and Saturday: The War on Drugs; John Velghe; a gigantic stage designed to look like a Doritos vending machine; just wanting to come home

SWSW mercifully comes to a close.

Posted by on Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:39 PM

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The northbound 481 bus (they call it the Night Owl) that arrived at Seventh and Congress around 2 a.m. Saturday night/Sunday morning was like the last chopper out of Saigon — a very desperate, lawless, death-trampling type of situation. I made it on. Those who didn’t would have to wait at least another hour, or walk many miles, or pass out in a bush somewhere, or kill themselves — all options I was weighing.

It was St. Patrick’s Day, and the last day of South By Southwest, and a Saturday night, and everybody was drunk and angry and tired. Public transportation in Austin, at least during SXSW, is pathetic. It’s impossible to find a taxi. The buses run at infrequent intervals, and when you finally board them, they roll like snails. Fuck this place, I thought as we pulled away.

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South By Southwest 2012: Celebrity Sightings

Posted by on Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM

There is a decent chance the person I talked to was not Aimee Teegarden, who played Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights.
  • There is a decent chance the person I talked to was not Aimee Teegarden, who played Julie Taylor on Friday Night Lights.
I was running around downtown Austin with my eyes wide open all week, eager to spot an indie-rock A-lister or a Hollywood B-lister, or some nerdy tech kingpin. By and large, I was disappointed. But there were a few highlights.

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South by Southwest 2012: Taco Roundup

Posted by on Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM

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The taco is evolving in Kansas City — I am personally partial to the gourmet flavors being exported from the Port Fonda and Westport Street Fare food trucks, and El Camino Real in Kansas City, Kansas, and even the tacos that cost a dollar at Jalapeno’s on Mondays. But in Austin, Texas, the taco is something else entirely. It is ubiquitous and malleable, the foundation upon which meals and menus are built. I’ve been in Austin for South By Southwest for seven days, and I have eaten at least two tacos every single day. There were a couple of days where I ate five tacos. The only end in sight with these tacos is my imminent return to Kansas City.

Here are some brief thoughts on the tacos I ate in Austin.

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Friday, March 16, 2012

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SXSW Thursday: In brief

Posted by on Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM

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Have to run, but here are a few things I saw Thursday in Austin:

A shirtless man with short black swim trunks standing in the middle of the street, screaming at people who walked past and tugging wildly at his crotch.

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SXSW Thursday: Replay Records Showcase at the Longbranch Inn

Posted by on Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:28 PM

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Lawrence’s newest label, Replay Records, threw a killer party Thursday at the Longbranch Inn during the music festival of music festivals, South By Southwest. Five Lawrence acts and three national bands made up the bill; 15 pizzas made entrance around noon; drink tickets magically appeared in palms and became, with the help of several dutiful bartenders, beer. The crowd seeped in slowly, and pooled into a good mix of Replay regulars, Lawrence ex-pats, and people no one has ever seen before.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

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SXSW Wednesday: Fiona Apple, the ACBs, Haim, and lots of standing around

Fiona Apple and why the Austin music festival is like the Internet.

Posted by on Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:28 PM

We all wait for Fiona.
  • We all wait for Fiona.
Being at South By Southwest is like being on the Internet: There is too much information to process, you always feel like you're missing out on something better, and you are very rarely satisfied with where you are and what you have. So I guess SXSW is also like life, too, now that I think about it.

Yesterday (Wednesday) was my first taste of the overwhelmingness of SXSW, and I responded poorly to it. But I saw some things. Oh, I saw some things.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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SXSW Tuesday: The hunt for free things

Ringing ears and roaming the Tech Interactive.

Posted by on Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:16 PM

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My ears were ringing (and still are; getting kind of nervous about it) from Thee Oh Sees when I woke up Tuesday afternoon morning, and so I elected to participate in the tech — Interactive, they call it — portion of the festival. I combined that objective with finding free things to put on or in my body.

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