<![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:12:56 EDT Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:12:56 EDT http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4745566 @MTS: I admit, I have not read your recap yet. My bad! I shall do so now.

@Lucas Jensen: Dude, we need sit down and compare SXSW war stories sometime. There's always a lady getting decked on 6th Street, it seems.

@Maura Johnston: Oh, lady! You don't really expect me to preface every bitchy comment I leave with "present company excluded," right? That being said, I wasn't complaining about your coverage so much as the gratuitous hand jobs at the NYT, Pitchfork, Stereogum, etc. Where else am I supposed to complain about that shit?

That being said, next year, remember some of us actually do want to hear what bands you saw/liked/hated -- the void has a few inhabitants. And yeah, "too much musical theater training" pretty much nails what's wrong with Jealous Girlfriends.

In summation, I'm STILL waiting for a recap rec (besides Maria's). Come on ppl! I'm busy, I can't read all the dreck out there. Someone else do it for me. Seriously. I've got to turn around 1,000 pages this week in Quark and hire a new writer. And go to three shows. And design some shit. And organize a photo shoot WITH MUSICIANS. But enough about my personal life...

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:368673:c4745566 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:12:56 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4741749 @TheContrarian: aw. i am touched!! it was very nice to meet you as well, and i'm sorry i was so frazzled when we did say hello.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:368673:c4741749 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:36:32 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4741745 Not to sound defensive, but both the bands I wrote up this week were brand-new to me, as in never-heard-them-once-before new. (Kirsten Ketsjer were, in fact, recommended to me by Mr. Jensen above.)

And I would have written about the Jealous Girlfriends if I hadn't felt like taking Sunday off/I was kinda yawping into a void each time I recommended a band. (See semi-defensive statement above.) Also, I really wanted to like Grand Old Party, but the vocalist leaped the line between "kinda Karen O fierce" and "too much musical theater training" one too many times for me during their set. Which is too bad, because I love watching singers who drum!

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:368673:c4741745 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:36:10 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4740332 Trailer Park tacos sound awesome - best I had were the BBQ pulled pork tacos at Salt Lick...

Clevertrousers

]]> 33:368673:c4740332 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:16:01 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4738821 I went to meet you, Maura.

Mission Accomplished, as the monkey in the flight suit once said.

TheContrarian

]]> 33:368673:c4738821 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:18:13 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4737963 @kisskisskiss: The crowd at that party was CERTAINLY not there to see the bands -- in fact I dunno what rock they all crawled out from under... Arguably the most talented act of the bunch was L.A. singer/songwriter Meiko, but she played a short set and (I can't blame her) she bailed from the party early... Katy Perry was pretty good too.

owenmeany

]]> 33:368673:c4737963 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:44:51 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4737524 @arch05: Salt Lick. We went for gusto.

blackmailismylife

]]> 33:368673:c4737524 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:27:12 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4736940 @mackro: Gavin's been gone for 10 years now or so. I loved that convention. The Top 40 guys had great parties and we would sneak in and steal all of their food. Also, I got to meet the Spice Girls there and see Waylon Jennings play a show in a hotel conference room. So weird. I'm slightly nostalgic, despite myself, about the days when the music industry made money.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:368673:c4736940 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:04:03 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4736913 @MTS: @the rich girls are weeping: I saw a lot of fights, too. That was good. I saw a guy punch a "lady" in the chin, but I think she started it. Not that I'm endorsing lady-punching.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:368673:c4736913 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:02:23 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4735886 @the rich girls are weeping: Actually, Maura & I ran into a pretty great band happenstance called Bildmeister . I saw a lot of bands that I haven't seen before, despite being fans of their music, too.

MTS

]]> 33:368673:c4735886 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:22:11 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4735431 @Michaelangelo Matos: Wow, so PZ is actually Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins' older brother?

OK, disclaimer, I've never been to SXSW, but I have to give it credit. It basically has subsumed the combination of CMJ, The Gavin Report, and NXNW combined as far as consolidation of entertainment and industry trade shows.

I guess the followup question is: WTF happened to CMJ, Gavin Report, and NXNW? (rhetorically asking.)

mackro

]]> 33:368673:c4735431 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:05:17 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4734739 I have to say I was pretty puzzled reading this: [news.yahoo.com]

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:368673:c4734739 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:39:40 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4734566 @the rich girls are weeping: Ugh, way to be incoherent, sinus girl.

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:368673:c4734566 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:32:47 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4734493 @Lucas Jensen: You beat me to it, dude. I have yet to see a report from anyone who saw a band that they saw by accident who totally blew them away. I just keep seeing reviews of the same crap that I wasn't interested in seeing in the first place, which is mostly why I didn't bother going this year.

If anyone can direct me to some coverage roughly approximating something interesting, I would appreciate it. Did anyone check out SxS&M at Chain Drive? Catch the instores at End of an Ear? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Or was that where the locals, who frankly, I think, don't give a fuck about SXSW anymore, hid out? Any music bloggers catch that ad-supported music panel that supposedly caused such a riot?

Perhaps this is the year that big media outlets realize that sending reporters to SXSW has negative ROI w/r/t actual content produced. Just sayin'.

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:368673:c4734493 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:29:56 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4734400 @Lucas Jensen: You beat me to it, dude. I have yet to see a report from anyone who saw a band that they saw by accident who totally blew them away. I just keep seeing reviews of the same crap that I wasn't interested in seeing in the first place, which is mostly why I didn't bother going this year.

If anyone can direct me to some coverage roughly approximating something interesting, I would appreciate it. Did anyone check out SxS&M at Chain Drive? Catch the instores at End of an Ear? (Or was that where the locals, who frankly, I think, don't give a fuck about SXSW anymore, hid out?) I want more deets about that ad-content supported music panel that caused a dust-up. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?

Perhaps this is the year that big media outlets realize that sending reporters to SXSW has negative ROI w/r/t actual content produced. Just sayin'.

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:368673:c4734400 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:27:06 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4734096 @blackmailismylife: Where was said bbq from?

arch05

]]> 33:368673:c4734096 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:16:14 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4733404 I'm with you on the 'I'm missing everything' tip. Trying to actually cover this with daily wraps pretty much meant committing to one party/showcase, interviewing as many artists as you can and rushing back to the hotel to edit.

Missing out on local cuisine was the hardest part. I had BBQ once and zero tacos, but two nights of room service and one regrettable 7/11 hot dog experience.

blackmailismylife

]]> 33:368673:c4733404 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:08 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4733056 Trailer park tacos sound damned good, though.

Did the Perez show have anyone worth listening to other than Robyn and Dragonette?

Nunya B

]]> 33:368673:c4733056 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:35:46 EDT <![CDATA[The Last Day: When The Questions Posed Six Months Ago Still Linger]]> http://idolator.com/368673/the-last-day-when-the-questions-posed-six-months-ago-still-linger#c4732528 My problem with all of these coverage is that I saw great shows with enthusiastic audiences that weren't covered by anybody because they were missing the right type of hype or something. Anybody who saw Pattern is Movement or Megafaun or Kirsten Ketsjer the Rock Band at SXSW was as satisfied as those who stood in line to catch a 30 minute set from a band with Fuck in their name.

There are more than 20 bands at SXSW, though you wouldn't know it from the coverage.

Lucas Jensen

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