South By...too much!

I've made a major life decision. Your support is needed, thank you. This is the year I, Jamie Hellgate, will introduce myself to South By Southwest, the monster indie music festival that takes over Austin, TX every spring. Marie will be there to make sure I don't hurt myself.

When I first decided to go, I thought, "Gee, I'm sure going to see some neat bands." but now that I've taken the time to check out the full schedule, it's totally mind blowing how many goddamned bands are playing! How!? Why!? I get stressed out just looking at the roster. It's going to be fun, right? Where do I go? How do I make sure 1) we find the cool shows and 2) we don't attempt to get into the shows that are so rad that we'll never get in anyway?

I'll let you know how this goes...how many awesome or not awesome bands we get to check out. How much bad food we can eat. How many ways the phrase "south by southwest" is cleverly co-oped.

Really, I just hope we run into Dolly Parton.