new media in the house (in every house)
I’d already decided I wouldn’t be doing the SXSW music festival this year, an activity which requires standing on line for hours to be rewarded with free Lone Star and more standing while four kids from wherever go WAH WAH WAH into their microphones and someone is seriously playing the theremin. My taste in music is two years behind and my back hurts and I can’t be bothered. But then I got invited to do a panel for SXSW Interactive and ended up doing all the fun parts of SXSW — people-watching, hangouts, day party, night party — with more sitting in chairs overall.
- sweet panel y’all
Highlights: cool guys Tim and Ryan, kimchi tacos, BBQ and sweet dogs at Clay Smith’s, Diplo saying BLACKBERRY IN THE HOUSE at the Blackberry party, touring the DFW archive with the curator of the collection, sitting in the front row for Dave Foley and Michael Ian Black, driving a drunk guy away from 6th to Riverside in the back of my truck after he threw a wad of cash at me, introducing a New Yorker and a Seattleite to Rio Rita’s couches and cocktails, and generally feeling happy and grateful to live in Austin during kind of a strange time in my day-to-day. (AND I think I saw a yellow-rumped warbler, which really elevated this week from COOL to COOL +BIRD.) Now SXSW Music is starting and I’m all SXSWed out and ready to get back to work, which is perfect because there’s always work.
have you seen this bird? he is pretty
Speaking of new media, congrats to the awesome Ann Friedman, who was just hired as the editor of GOOD Magazine but will hopefully come back and see us in Austin more often than not.
