Oh lord. Nobody cares about my SXSW recap now cause I took so long. I had
to go and attend to some, um, business right after the event so I wasn't
around to report, but now I have some things to say. Okay --
1) Thanks to everyone for coming to the BBQ. How much does it rock to have
so many great bands in my own damn yard? It was really cool meeting some of
y'all that I hadn't met before. And then my pals Don, Linda, Meshel, Terie,
Andre, gawd everyone. All you guys -- you make SXSW for me. It's a freakin'
reunion.
2) Why have I not met Neil Weiss yet? I'm gonna kick his ass in the teeth
if I ever do.
3) I saw not a single band that I didn't know the whole damn week. This is
how lame I am. BUT, my world was rocked, as usual, by my main men the
Wacos, by bastard cousins Split Lip Rayfield, and by the sexiest men in
alt.country the Ex-Husbands.
4) Highlights included dirty dancing and planning new alt.country porno mag
with Neko Case, swigging Pepto-Bismal with a beer chaser onstage (punkrock,
y'know), tragically throwing myself at Joey Burns (what else is new), being
a part of the Pine Valley Cosmonauts thing, having my top during our
showcase stay up (the miracle of duct tape), debuting the new TMP Chad
Hamilton song over and over and over, and No.1 without a doubt: Sunday
night after PVC -- Kiss cover band Rip Destroy followed by Neil Diamond
cover band The Diamond Smugglers at Emos. One of the most fun nights of my
recent memory. Awesome.
Thanks to Stacey for putting up these fotos:
http://www.hellcountry.com/twangfluff/sxsw99.htm
But, my god, am I eating Jonny's ear in our pic? Good lord.
Were there any other picture sites that I missed?
Um, if anyone cares in Meat Purveyors news the new record has been moved up
two months, so a) it will come out the beginning of July, b) this month I
have no life as it has not been started yet, and c) could someone please
for the love of christ send me an album title suggestion that will beat
Jo's "When Chickens Cry." Please please please
Oh, last thing I swear then I will go back to lurking (I am _not_ an
"ex-P2'er" as recently described, I just like to watch) -- we're touring
the midwest with SLR in the Monsters (or Mutants) of Bluegrass tour June
16-27. As always, if you want info email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll
put you on the goofy newsletter thing.
xoxo,
cherilyn,
meat purveyor.
