SXSW: Where time (and food) are in short supply

I honestly thought I’d be blogging every day from SXSW.

That’s the most laughable idea I’ve had in ages.

Since Friday, I’ve been in Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, which is hard to sum up in just one sentence: It’s a long-running music, film and nerd festival (the nerd track is loosely called “Interactive”) at which many of the things I write about overlap and converge (what a goddamn buzz word that is). I’m here to see bands, learn about Austin’s music scene, watch movies, go to panels and, well, write about them all.

So this is your fair warning. Coming soon: reviews of Some Days Are Better Than Others, a Portland-set movie about loneliness and the little things; Mr. Nice, about a Welsh drug dealer; and many other films, and an overview of what little of the interactive portion of the festival I saw (not little as in I didn’t care, but little as in the inability to see everything you want to see is a big part of SXSW).

The music portion starts on Wednesday, and while I’m going to miss the nerd crowd, I’m excited to see what happens when Sixth Street gets even more batshit crazy than it is already.

If you’re interested in the little details, you can follow me on Twitter at @theothermolly, which is presently half posts from panels and presentations, and half random commentary from the entire Austin Experience, which has, in the last few days, involved short Stormtroopers, cheap beer and a serious lack of breakfast tacos. Currently, it’s Shiner Bock and Jaron Lanier‘s presentation. Lanier just asked us all to experiment by putting the gadgets away, and I’m going to play along.

If you have any requests or suggestions — things you think I should do in Austin or things you want to know about from SXSW — by all means, leave a comment!

Someday, I may even get to eat some queso.