Initial list for SXSW

Below is a short list of artists I'd love to see at SXSW (schedule permitting). Naturally, the fun parts come from bands you've never heard of before. Hopefully there will be tons of them again this year.

If you have any suggestions on who else I should (or shouldn't) see, the full list of bands can be seen here.

Here's my list so far...

A Band of Bees (AKA The Bees)
The Apples in Stereo
Architecture in Helsinki
Asobi Seksu
Blonde Redhead
BORIS
Cold War Kids
The Dears
dios
The Enemy
The Fratellis
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
Junior Senior
Willy Mason
Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS)
Money Mark
Alexi Murdoch
Panda
Peaches
Simian Mobile Disco
The Stitches
The Stooges
The Sunshine Underground
Tokyo Police Club
The Walkmen

It's the most wonderful time of the year... blogging from SXSW

Since I told work I would blog from SXSW, I needed to start my own blog, separate from this one, to avoid imagry like the one seen above from last year. Work is, after all, paying for the whole trip. ( I love you guys! )

Starting March 13 you can see all the beer I'm drinking at SXSWing.

Hopefully I can get some video uploaded while I am there too, all starting in just about 3 weeks.

Maybe I can mirror my blogs on here too, we'll see.

SXSW 2007 - Here we go again.

I get into Austin March 13th, check back for my daily reporting on the festival!

Wise cows

These are a couple of cows I ran into on my road trip over the holidays. They live a wonderful life eating grass on the hills somewhere off PCH, around 100 miles north of San Francisco, along side the most beautiful coastline in the entire world.

With no McDonalds in site and bunch of Prius driving hippies for local residents, these ladies have little to fear.

As I got out of the car to snap this photo off them, they stopped munching their fresh green grass to give me a piercing, brown-eyed look which roughly translated meant, “What the fuck are you doing?”

These cows post an interesting question for me. What the fuck am I doing?