Well, after waking up and checking my outgoing text messages from yesterday, it seems as though I spent most of the day, and all of the night, texting my boss about how I just want him to "understand me" and then saying, "Sorry, I'm on pills," while also sending message after message to my gf about how I miss her and just want to see her walk through the door. So I guess the theme of yesterday was SXSW EMOTIONS!Today is my last day here and if I even walk five blocks from my house rental to see something, I will be super proud of myself because I am pretty much just done with this. As is the case with every previous year, SXSW is fun-ish, but also a large ball of rotating pain and mental anguish. It has also, once again, confirmed for me that I don't like people very much. Here's some people I do like though:
Colleen Green played at the Hardly Art showcase, and although she didn't play my favorite song ("Time in the World") I loved everything she did play. We picked Colleen's album as the album of the month this month, and I was supposed to arm wrestle her after her set, but just bought a T-shirt and left instead, because, of course I did.
After the Hardly Art showcase, I went over to the Fader Fort because I thought there was some sort of music nerd BBQ happening, but I think I missed it. Instead of eating free BBQ, I ran around yelling "We're here to pillage!!!" I snatched up a free cotton candy, a free wine, and tried to hustle free Converse, but they weren't having it. I can vaguely remember talking to three or four people by the Converse section, but I have no memory of what I said to them. I also, on the way out, yelled to my friend "we should just pull some of the display sneakers off the wall!" And he was like "You can do that if you want to walk around with only one sneaker."
Our friends at Mint Records treated my travel family and I to lunch at Iron Works BBQ, and I sat next to Nardwuar, which felt fancy to me. I also managed to loudly drop the MF bomb in front of a child who was also seated at our table. It should be noted here, or I should say, I want you all to know, that the sunglasses in the above photo are NOT mine.
Bestial Mouths is a band I was just recently educated on, and I was super excited to see them perform live for the first time. They gave me an album, which I thought was very nice, and I bought a shirt. After this show, once I decided that doing shots and drinking an odd combo of cocktails such as peach schnapps and ginger ale, and an Irish coffee (WHAT???) everything became a blur. The last thing I remember of the evening is buying a sausage wrapped in a tortilla that some possibly homeless man was selling out of a cooler.I'm done. Shut it down.@WolfieVibes
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