Idolator
No Bathroom Line For Old Men
Adding to the "I'm missing everything" feeling provided by the fact that during SXSW every bar with 10 square feet of space turns itself into a temporary music venue is the ever-growing number of day parties, which are hosted by PR companies, blogs, hair products, and anyone else who wants to promote themselves along with the music they love. In the photos below, Andy Beta takes us through his final days at the festival, where he navigates long bathroom lines, celebrity spottings, and the strangely muffling racks of spangly cotton at American Apparel.
I hate to play the "I told you so" card — but here it is. When the Wall Street Journal has a front page story on the inevitable, ongoing clashes between SXSW
organizers and the promoters/sponsors of unaffiliated day parties AND a [a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/sxsw"]SXSW Blog[/a](with
predictably awful content) — and with reports from anyone who actually
attended that
Motorhead show (as Maura previously mentioned) few and far between, I
kind of have to feel repuidated in my decision not to attend SXSW this
year. Everyone just sounds hot, drunk and grumpy. Ah, just like old
times — only about a million times more crowded. [[a
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120546500941535975.html"]WSJ[/a>,
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