Liveblogging?: South By Southwest Day 1

Crash landing in my suburban hotel after a weird day of rushing, stressing, flying, and fighting with packer fans over “The Favre Move”.

So I’m at South By Southwest (or Douce by Douchewest, as one of my bosses calls it), for the first time ever.  To put it quickly (I need to get to bed …like now), South by Southwest is like spring break for the music industry.  Bands, panels, day-drinking, the whole nine.

I’m here to shoot bands for my labels – RCA, Jive, Columbia, Epic.  Today I schlepped a hundred pound camera around on a mad dash to find HDV tapes, barely making it to my only real assignment – a handshake party for the RCA artists and college marketing kids.  After some drunken interviews with our artists, we headed to a showcase, featuring the very same artists we interviewed.

Showcase was a total debacle.  They billed it as a hip-hop show…kind of, with our guys setting things up for a late night BUN B (the living half of the legendary UGK) performance.  Needless to say, the timing of the show COMPLETELY fell apart (as hip-hop shows are wont to do…they cal it “hip hop time” in the biz), and our guys didn’t go on until the crowd started chanting for Bun B to take the stage.  So our guys got booed offstage while their management almost got into fistfights over the situation backstage.  The boo-ing actually made them play harder though, so I commend them for it.  But Bun B was in motherfucking DALLAS the whole time, so no one would have seen him play, no matter how hard they booed.

Anyway, it was a weird day, and I’m looking forward to having things more planned out tomorrow.  Today was a mess, tomorrow will be better.  Also, Jordan (my label contact) and I got approached by a guy, appropo of nothing, who wanted to talk about how much he hated Brett Favre for switching to the Vikings.  He showed us his poorly sketched Packers tattoo and demanded that we film him ranting.  He was so pissed off and so huge that I was certain he was going to beat my ass for being from Minnesota.  He actually turned out to be really cool…and he demanded that I post his rant online so he can “blow it up on facebook”.  So…that will happen soon.

See y’allz tomorrow.

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