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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>, subscription required]