And now it’s time for bed. Wednesday’s update will come tomorrow night at some point. Or Tuesday during the day, if I’m too tired tomorrow. Have  a good night everybody!

Since I didn’t update SXSW on a daily basis, I’ve decided that the best way to do it is to break posts down by days. So I’m gonna start with Tuesday. That would be this post, just to clarify.

Before I start I just want to provide a little disclaimer. I’ve been drinking a tad bit. All this means is that I probably won’t revise my post in any way. And I’m pretty big on revision. So if I’ve misspelled anything, or if I’m rambling, or if a sentence I write makes no sense, you know why. Just wanted to put that out there. Ok. Moving on.

Tuesday. Kind of boring at first. Arrived in the afternoon. The music festival wasn’t starting till the next day, but I had some friends who were only gonna be in town for that night, so I tried to make the most of it. I got my badge with some friends, and ended up eating dinner with the people I’d be with for the week + a friend who was in town for SXSWi (the interactive festival). I took some time off after that, before hitting up some bars/dinner with a friend, Michael, who was in town to visit his sister, who lives in Texas. We had dinner at a pretty delicious Thai restaurant (I’m sure there was MSG in the food..it was too good) and went bar hopping. My night with them ended with me and my friend losing (miserably) to his sister at some hunting arcade game. Shows how good of a shot I am, even with all my video game experience. People in Texas really do know how to use guns, even in a virtual setting.  I tried hard to meet up with a couple other friends throughout the night as well, but I was so exhausted from being awake so many hours that I decided to call it an early night (being like 12:30AM). That’s about all that happened for the first night.

I did try to see Jakob Dylan for free at the Pure Volume House, but the line to get in was far too long, which was a pretty big realization for me. I was in store for a ton of free day parties, and not so many badge only night parties. If all the day parties were going to be that hard to get into, I didn’t really feel too excited. Why would I want to wait an hour to see a couple bands that I could easily see within the next year? Also, I was staying with some friends, but they had their own agendas, being different music tastes or work related requirements. So I was looking at a couple days of mostly alone time. And I am not good at making new friends on a moment’s notice, which was another concern of mine.

I was a bit worried till I got back to my hotel at around 12:45 and decided with one of the people I was staying with, to go to a bar around the corner of the hotel for a late night drink. That was when things really hit me. I’m in Austin. A pint of Bombay Sapphire Gin (top shelf) and tonic was $5. My god. So needless to say we got pretty drunk and called it a night. That, plus my other friends showing up to the hotel, wasted, really set my mind up for what was to come in the next couple of days..

That’s essentially the end of night number one. It was pretty mellow, but I still seemed to quite a bit. I got my badge, went to at least five bars, met a few people, got drunk, did a lot of walking, got more drunk, hung out at the hotel, tried to get prepared for the next day. And all on a day where I showed up in the afternoon and with no music to go see. If that was what I was in store for along with some concerts…wow. Things were about to get pretty intense. And, to a certain extent, they really did.

So yea..I didn’t really update this at all during the last few days, like I told myself, and the three people that are reading this. BUT. As soon as I go through all of the annoying tweets I made and try to piece together the craziness that the last few days were, I’ll write some things up, probably a day by day. How cool, right? Good. I’m glad we’re in agreement.