sxsw 2007...

What a fantastic amalgam of moments this was this year.
Ill try to make an impromtu list of things.....actually i think ill copy this others blogs list and replace the events, and add and subtract a few.

Best Show By Someone I've Never Seen: Has to be Kiiiii. These intensely crazy pop rap experimental japanese girls rocked the house like the Fresh Prince of bel aire.

Best Show By Someone I've Seen: Brother Ali. Saw him twice in fact. I think im convinced enough to buy his new album.

Best Party: The only one I went to of course was the David Cross hosted "mess with texas" party. It started off with an absolutely brilliant speech by andrew wk. After meeting them Brian Posehn and David Cross put on some hilarious stand up comedy. And all my "bored" friends left to watch some band called Polyphonic Spree.....i got really drunk alone.

Best Venue: Flamingo Cantina. I had never been there beforei liked the staging, being that it was open on two ends rather than one....and we were able to get very close. Risers on the side for other peeps....i was impressed. and the sound was good. Also...they had like 16 ounce red stripe....not that i got one....but i liked the option. But also I have to mention Visions....which gave me a vicious pat down each time i went in the place.

Worst Venue: Emos main stage....especially during the performace of Cage.

Best Celebrity Sighting: Slash. I gave him a high five thinking it was just someone dressed like Slash. It wasn't.

Most Nostalgic Moment: Seeing Rage Against the Machine sans Zach dela Rocha, play.

Best Food: I ate really cheaply the entire time.....i guess the best food i had aside from pizza and tacos....was tacos at "baby a's"

Most Heard Complaint: "This Line isn't moving." I guess I need to get a badge rather than wristband next year....or not.

Band I Wanted To See And Didn't: The Presidents of the United States of America. The line wouldn't move. Also the The Pippettes

Best Band I Didn't Expect To Like A Fuck Ton: The PPT. These hip hop guys that ransacked the ME television studio last year were really funny to me...i didn't expect their show to be as fun almost as the Gift of Gab/Lyrics Born w/ Galactic show.

Best In-Between Banter: Daughters. The lead singer speaks in drunken grunts inbetween spitting flem down his pants and licking audience members. it was awesome.

Scariest Moment: Joanna. Pretty much anytime I was around her in public places....or at amy's....or when she was driving wasted around a city she has barely been in.

Band I Saw But Shouldn't Have: CAGE. This was the worst fucking hip hop i have ever heard....with equally shitty fans.

Best Dressed: Kiiiii. Most colorful anyways....

Funniest Moment: Joanna calling me telling me she had been driving around austin for 3 hours looking for riverside....that was actually the funniest thing thats happened in awhile.

Weirdest Moment: When I predicted everything that would happen after some people decided to go hang out at the pool in amy's apt. "There they go...guranteed there will be somone that pulls a knife on someone....and there will probably be a sword....and then someone will be bleeding...and they will all rush back here all excited that their lives aren't boring"

Best Cover: Rage covering "this land is your land" on St. Patricks day...made me feel inspired.

Cutest Girl Band: I just realized Kiiiii was the only all female group I saw. they were hot.

Best Line By Someone Drunk Anywhere: Toss Up. Demetrios saying "i've got to put a cheese plaza in my bank roll....DON'T FUCK WITH ME!" or Joanna upon falling to the ground "you didn't catch me bitches!...im just posing....for pics...... now im squiggliinging my way around now....yall are bitches!"

Thoughts for Next Year: Go again....regardless of time and space. Also try not to make fun of joanna so consistently....