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March 10, 2006
I give thee, Austin
This post is called fortuity because my brother has given up on his fading, old 40-gig, non-video (gasp) iPod, which I have coaxed, at least temporarily, into operation.
While I initially set out to parse the 713 tracks made available by the SxSW organizing committee, I am comfortable in fearing I fell dramatically short of that goal.
I can list the bands that impressed me: The Capitol Years, Piney Gir, The Like, Mascott, 1986, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Andy Pratt, Black Lipstick, Born in the Flood, The Eighteenth Day of May, The Grates, The Love Experts, The Meligrove Band, and The Owls.
If you are a member of one of these bands – and are Technorati’ing yourself, congratulations for showing up on shuffle and bringing you’re A game.
Seven-hundred and thirteen! And, to boot, SxSW appears to be akin to a protest guaranteed to garner media coverage, even the uninvited are nobly bringing their vans down to play places to fill in the cracks, a la “free Mumia” in the midst of a anti-capitalism march.
This post comes from the air, Tennessee, according to the pilot. My Thirty Boxes calendar is quite full, and I haven’t even started thinking about how to spend the three precious nights (Wed, Thurs, Fri) of the music festival. Obviously, it makes sense, in a vacuum, to shoot for the Matador showcase, but the thorny issue of the entirety of Austin flocking to that showcase coupled with the disparity of admittance levels between my likely concert mate (me: badge, he: armed solely with charm) evokes the imagery of seeing a defeated Sisyphus (wearing a Cat Power t-shirt) nursing a beer three bars down.
As previously alluded, I will be focusing a large portion of my energies on work-related activities (this is the part in which I thank those Full-House-holding stars that I’m paid to take down the thoughts of interesting people and tell their narrative story (even in the age of blogs!) rather than salaried as, well, nearly anything else)). But, luckily those duties coincide with going out and meeting brands, bands, and the aforementioned people.
I shall hope to have some reviews and thoughts. I promise I won’t delve into food reviews (or March Madness-ledes) unless it is what you, the mighty MS.com readers, urge.
Too tired for Technorati tags.
Posted by Keith O'Brien at March 10, 2006 05:48 PM
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