last night in an abandoned Safeway off the freeway at the Playboy party

yes i still love you. yes i will have more pics up later.

yes i saw dinosaur jr. right before jane’s and yes i also saw the Ancestors at room 710.

yes i will be interviewing Metallica on video for yr ass.

yes i will probably also get to interview The Grates on video.

no i cant believe any of this.

yes im starting to get tired. but its a good tired.

yes i have my pick of good free shows today over at pop n hiss.

They include:

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — 2 p.m., Emo’s Jr.
Great Northern — 2:20 p.m., Red Eye Fly
Those Darlins — 3 p.m., the Tap Room at Six Lounge
Razorlight — 4 p.m., Cedar Street Courtyard
Tia Carrera — 4 p.m., Room 710
M. Ward — 4:15 p.m., La Zona Rosa
Arc Angels — 4:30 p.m., Antone’s
Echo and the Bunnymen — 5 p.m., Stubb’s
Earthless w/ special guest J Mascis — 5 p.m., Habana Calle 6 Annex
Dixie Witch — 6 p.m., Room 710
Hypernova (from Tehran) — 6:30 p.m., Agave

Now my dilema is see Those Darlins and then Razorlight or write my Jane’s Addiction thing? If i dont do it now i wont do it, so write it is. thanks for the help!

but once that situation was resolved i saw juliette and the new romantiques who were pretty good. then i saw quiet company giving hugs. and i took pics of people on the street.

but the second best part of the first part of the day was walking past Daniel Johnston. i introduced myself, shook his hand, and told him how great he is.

before that i reviewed last nights show.

i found myself in a causecast march for the invisible children, and then i had a hard time using my iPhone so i went back to the room,

which was a great thing because i realized im seeing Jane’s Addiction tonight.

can you believe i almost forgot that?

a lot. so when i heard something evil wrap around the corner i followed it like a fat kid smelling brownies cooling on a windowsill

the band was valiant thor. i was in immediately. i didnt wanna leave. i didnt leave.

i wanted to see the Circle Jerks but then i thought, why? these dudes are kicking my ass like five times a second

then i saw a line forming across the way. the grates were going to play so i went in.

but first i saw a cool all girl folkie band out in the street

then i went back to the radio room. while waiting, there was another band in a tent in the back. a crazy guy singing. never heard of What Laura Said but they were into it and they were fun to photograph

somewhere in there i ducked out and saw the Von Bondies then ducked back

but then i ran back to see The Grates, who were amazing. of course. as always

Patience is now a blonde, and wore something from Raymi’s closet.

i doubt tonight will be as fun. how could it be? although on my short list of bands to see tonight are Juliette, Tori Amos, Lil Jon, The Ancestors, Hank IV, and Marching Band.

pa-rum-pa-pum-pum

hi this is the pepsi machine outside my hotel room.

why is it so useless?

because everything in it is $2 and it takes quarters only!

no dollars, no debit cards, no credit cards.

therefore no one ever ever ever ever uses it.

ok, now let me show you the longest lines in texas.

i even have video.

its all waiting for you over at the LAT music blog, Pop n Hiss, for ur bottoms

one of the nice things about this festival is you run into legends and doc is a sxsw veteran, but when i saw that he was speaking last week i didnt expect to see him last night.

hope your flight today back to harvard was fun!

right now im in a panel called Annoying Things Bands Do. music panels dont pack them in at panles the way interactive does. and there’s fewer panels. maybe the music industry is shrinking? maybe dot com people like to go to panels to learn all the different aspects of creating, building, marketing, and selling their stuff.

club owner on the panel: “i hire sweet, socially awesome people.”

fellow club owner: “and they’re sober.”

original club owner: “mostly sober.”

later:

“the opening band always gets screwed”

very funny and frank discussion. and theyre naming names

my short list is going to be on pop and hiss in a few minutes. but heres my super short list:

Tokyo Sex Destruction – 1pm – The Parish
Whispertown2000 – 1:20pm – Red Eye Fly
DD/MM/YYYY – 2pm – Day Stage Cafe
Yelle – 2:50pm – Maggie Mae’s
Quiet Company – 3pm – Taylor Acoustic
We Should Be Dead – 3:45 – The Parish
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – 4:35 – Red 7
Von Bondies – 5:20pm – Red Eye Fly
Matt the Electrician – 730pm – Gueros Taco Bar
M Ward – 9pm – central presbyterian church
Circle Jerks – 10pm – Emo’s
The Grates – 11pm – Radio Room
Juliette & The New Romantiques – 11:30pm – Emo’s
Carolyn Wonderland – midnight – Antone’s
The Bronx – 1am – Red 7 Patio

update: full shortlist up now.

crazy how fast it happened.

with guest star Irene from the Real World

medium sized room at the hilton half way filled.

rule 1. dont panic. “no matter how bad you think it is on valleywag, it’s probably not that bad.”

theyre now trying to define what is a scandal. “something that you dont want out there” “damaging” “damaging to reputation”

one company that was in a scandal bought up a lot of google keywords so they could explain their side and diffuse the problem or at least have a voice in the conversation.

now a british woman is talking about her british sex scandal.

blah blah blah i space out. they introduce a woman (pictured, in green shirt) who was in the Real World. she was the one who got slapped in the Seattle season.

“it kind of makes all the top reality show moments.” she says.

at the end of the day it’s a woman being assaulted.

“if you dont give them stuff, they cant make a story out of it.”

“the people who are going to love you will love you, the other people will believe what they want to believe.”

she regrets going on E! True Hollywood Story.

omg ive totally been cheating on you, busblog.

ive have been writing a little for the LA times blogs

they’re super lame stories, i blame the internet. i will be much better now for music. you’ll see

animals make their mark on sxsw – unleashed

#fakesxsw – technology

theres a photo essay one and one im doing with video that will probably be up today or tomorrow.

then comes the metal.

update: heres the photo essay, photos by kk+

dooce: my readers saved my life by suggesting that i go to treatment because of post-partum depression.

question: how do you keep making it funny. do you gravitate to more serious material

white guy: im done with serious material.

cox: heather’s

dooce: i walk away at 6pm, i dont write on the weekends, i don’t twitter on the weekends. i know people think i blog in my underwear, which is a nice image now that im 6 months pregnant. but creative work is extraordinarily exhausting. i need to have my brain breathe.

passiveagressive woman: could you speak about cashing checks?

dooce: i am ready for the bottom to fall out at any moment.

LOL: i think being frugal is really important. yay cat pictures. do people actually advertise on a blog with cat pictures? me and my wife are so frugal. we eat ramen and pet our dog all night.

cox: the only industry that has a more fuct business model than blogging is book publishing. at wonkette she got $12 a post. book publishing has set her free.