Friday March 14th SXSW 2014, Meltdown day.
remembered to grab the camera, forgot to grab the battery from the charger, all this sxsw is starting to wear me down. how can there be more? (more crappy phone pics)
We were first in line for the Pandora Discovery Den party.
We noticed this guy dancing, on the outside of the venue fence, accessible only by the ditch. Security didn't like it, at all! But they couldn't get to him. They eventually did crawl down the ditch and back up. But this dancing guy wasn't having any of their stop nonsense. He just kept dancing and trying to avoid their grasp. It took three guys to eventually pin him down. but why?
Sons of Fathers really rocked the Shiner Saloon
SXSW is not a traditional music festival, where access is mostly equal and shows happen in a central location. SXSW events can be miles apart from each other and often require RSVP week in advance and/or standing in line. I make lists of potential shows and bands I might be able to catch, pages of info for each day.
and on this day, I had a group of friends come in town "show us the fun stuff". but they hadn't rsvp'd, didn't want to wait in a line and night parties are really hard to get into w/o a badge...
Then I was issued a lecture, something I posted to FB was deemed inappropriate (I realize I post innappropriate things, but I'm always happy to delete, my sense of acceptable behavior may not be the same as others, I'm not trying to be normal) anyhow... I might have been a bit frazzled and stressed out at this point of SXSW, the last two days had been exceptionally long and hard. THEN, I was mocked for it being my birthday... I QUICKLY decided I'd rather spend dinner with my wife. So I pulled a Cartman,. I stormed out in a big huf, walked from Rainey St to W. 6th, where my wife met me at Tapasita's
(I did appologize to everybody the next morning)
It really was my birthday and Tapasita's treated us well, as they always have. We really appreciated their effort to make it a special evening for me.