March 2005 Archives

5 - Days spent in Austin for SXSW
33 - Bands seen
11 - Venues visted
1 - Miller Lites consumed
90 - Minutes spent standing in line to pick up my badge
1 - Times I decided to get a horseshoe tattoo on the side of my neck
1 - Times Wanda & Ms. Jen talked me out of getting said tattoo
46 - Degrees Fahrenheit when Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver performed OUTSIDE at Opal Divine's
4 - Lonestar beers consumed
1 - Ray Romano look-a-likes spotted at Guero's
250 - lbs. the driver had to haul around when Alex decided he wanted a pedicab ride
110 - Guestimated lbs. of pedicab driver who had to haul 250 lbs. of Alex
0 - Time spent at the Austin Music Awards since Wanda got banned
4 - Dollars required to withdraw money from the ATM
11 - Shiner Bocks consumed
1 - Times Turkish hackers with bad grammar sabotaged barflies.net
3 - Visits to Amy's Ice Cream
265 - Dollars spent on souvenirs
1 - Tequila shots consumed
2 - Servicepeople who hit on me while I was patronizing their establishments
632 - Number assigned to my minidisk recorder as an “official” SXSW Videographer/Photographer
3 - Cross-dressers spotted on Sixth Street
2 - Lip glosses included in the complimentary goodie bag from "Heidi's Night of Beauty"
3 - Margaritas consumed
355 - Days remaining until 2006 SXSW Music Festival

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So, we're back (ugh!) and I'm almost unpacked (ugh!) and I started the laundry (ugh!), took the moldy food out of the fridge (ew!) and I even went to work today (triple ugh!). Where do I begin? With the food, the drinks, the music, the sights, the sounds, the smells? Over the next week (or two) Miss Jen, Darlin' and I hope to put up our Best of SXSW, taking no prisoners, pulling no punches and mixing no metaphors. You'll get the best of the best and the worst of it all. You'll feel like you were there! (except your feet won't hurt and you won't have gained 10 pounds in four days).

As always, we took hundreds of pictures (literally) and it will take a while to sift through them all, find the best, and post them for you. Yes, Jen is still working on the bowling photos. And since I know this site is about more than photos (isn't it?) I'll have some extended thoughts over at the magazine as well. I hope you'll check back often.

- DJ Wanda

I've fallen and I can't get up!
Really, I don't enjoy laughing at other people's misfortunes, but this was funny. I was laughing with him, not at him.

One of the highlights of Austin was getting to see some of Jenny Hart's work up close and personal at the Yard Dog gallery in Austin. Of course, Jenny is the genius behind Sublime Stitching and my total crafty idol. So I was only too elated to get to stare at her needle work and see the intricacy, stitch sizes, color choices, and cleverness of it all up close. I took pictures. I drooled. I touched it (sorry, Jenny!) - the Yard Dog folks thought I was nuts.

When I need inspiration, I will come back to my shots of this amazing portrait in thread.

Lovely waitress at the Stuff/Spinart party. She was a popular gal, but had to remind the folks that even though the drinks were free, she worked for tips. As Alex Hernandez would say, "Here's a tip: stay in school. That way you won't end up a waitress."

The new face of rock n' roll? We hope not.
The triumphant return of Nine Pound Hammer at the Parish, Austin Texas during the Bloodshot Records showcase.

Miss Jen and Miss Wanda at the rooftop bar of the Speakeasy in Austin for the Stuff/Spinart party. The view was excellent, the music was good, the people were fun.

Photos by Ms. Jen's Nokia 7610 cameraphone

Wed. 03.16.905 - The day between SXSW Interactive and SXSW Music...

Sleep until 10:30am

11am - Hang out in 2nd floor lounge with The Brits, Dave Shea, Rob Weychert, and Jason Santa Maria until 1pm when they leave for airport.

1pm - 4pm - Lucky Laura and I go to the Whole Foods mothership new store. Completely overwhelming. Not so nice of an experience. Too many people, too confusing. It took Lucky and I two plus hours to negociate a grocery store...

7pm - Julie Wanda and Vicky Pepper arrived in the afternoon. We added Alex to the mix and we went off to Guero's for dinner. It was excellent.

9pm - Go with Wanda and Vicky to the Austin Convention Center to get Wanda's badge. Socialize with Maria from Arizona, Tantek from San Francisco, and others.

11pm - Wanda and Jen meet up with Alex at La Zona Rosa for Tift Merrit and Elvis Costello. Elvis was AMAZING. Good craft, good songs, great execution.

2am - Go back to hotel. Go to sleep.

5am - Wake up with a really bad tummy from dinner.

The Craziness Begins...

Wed 03.16.05 - At Güeros. Alex & Wanda laughing about Vivian, Alex's mom, going on the Backyard Babies' bus to deliver beer & thai food.

Spring Break in Austin, Texas. Computer Geek, Film Folk, and Music Spring Break!

I am blogging and photo-blogging the Interactive portion of SXSW over at BlackPhoebe (Yesterday through Tuesday). And next week, Wed - Sun, Wanda and I will be blogging the Music conference here at the Barflies.net News & Tidbits!

I have already met a barflies.net mailing list-er, Amanda Udoff, at a party last night.

In this weeks LA Weekly, they have a open letter to God, praying to help keep Indie 103 on the air.
What the FCC?, God Save Indie!" by Kate Sullivan
Indie will continue till about the end of March, the letter says, unless a miracle happens. . . Pray for Indie!!!

"Broadway will hear a new generation of songwriter in 2006 when Adam Schlesinger of the pop group Fountains of Wayne pairs with lyricist David Javerbaum, the Emmy Award-winning writer of TV's "The Daily Show," for the new musical, Cry-Baby.

Like Hairspray before it, the show (as previously announced) will have a libretto by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell, and is based on a film by John Waters. A spring 2006 opening on Broadway is projected.

In the 1990 movie, which has class-clash as a theme, a good girl representing the rich "Squares" in 1954 Baltimore is attracted to a motorcycle-riding, leather-clad bad-boy (then played by Johnny Depp), a member of the "Drapes" — from the other side of the tracks."

Read entire article HERE.

<3 AXF

So I found this link on apple and the Rhino Records website that plays old videos.
Classic Videos

I was a fanatic as a kid for music videos. I remember being really little and on Sat. mornings(I think), Richard Blade from KROQ had a show on channel 5 and I think it was called Video Beat. They would play Duran Duran, The Cure, Depeche Mode videos, etc, plus interviews too. Then I found out that he was doing a show on KDOC (A Orange County Channel, owned by Pat Boone) called Video One. It was the best and then it turned into Request Video in the late eighties/early ninties. They had Social Distortion play live and the Vandals, too. In the mid to late 90's Request Video signed off and I always wondered what happend to all those videos. Of course, I loved MTV when they played videos. I would come home everyday a 3 and watch total request live and then at like 5 PM Request Video came on. I was in heaven. . . Just Like Heaven!