Titus Andronicus & A SXSW Wishlist

Titus Andronicus is a great young band gaining confidence. While I could not see the performance (best shot of my vantage point below), they were properly raucous and energetic for a free show. It is not difficult to imagine them blowing Ted Leo + The Pharmacists off the stage later that night.

Now, onto my own horrible mis-step. I did not, originally, think it was going to be feasible to get the time off of my day job to get down to South By Southwest. Imagine my surprise when I found that my workload had dwindled to nothing. So, if you could, let me live through you and tell me about these performances. Here is what I would have attended if I would have been in Austin for all the festivities:

Friday, March 12:

  2:00 PM Game On: Funding Gaming Start-Ups In A Recession

  3:30 PM How to Rawk SXSW Film

  4:30 PM The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Screening

  7:00 PM Kick-Ass Screening

10:00 PM Predators First Look w/Robert Rodriguez

11:59 PM Tucker And Dale vs. Evil

Saturday, March 13:

11:00 AM How To Make A Living As A Blogger (needed big time)

12:30 PM Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts

  2:00 PM Blow Something Up!: Live Action Special Effects

  4:10 PM Zombies, Vampires & Monsters: Fostering Loyal Genre Communities

  6:00 PM The People vs. George Lucas

  7:00 PM The Thorn In The Heart: Michel Gondry

  9:00 PM American Grindhouse

Sunday, March 14:

  1:30 PM The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Burger: George Plimpton

  3:30 PM Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop

  9:30 PM Elektra Luxx Screening

Monday, March 15:

12:30 PM Visual FX for Indies: Big Impact, Small Budgets

  3:30 PM Creating a Graphic Novel Hollywood Will Buy

  4:00 PM American: The Bill Hicks Story

  6:45 PM Lemmy

  9:00 PM The Annual Austin Chronicle Film Bash

Tuesday, March 16:

  9:30 AM 14,000 Songs in 28 Days: A Case Study

11:00 AM Music Licensing for Emerging Media: Apps, Widgets, Viral Videos

  3:30 PM Devo, the Internet and You

  5:00 PM The State of Music Blogs In 2010

  8:00 PM SXSW Film Awards

  9:00 PM SXSW Film Closing/Music Opening Party hosted by VH1 and YouTube

Wednesday, March 17:

12:00 PM Indie Record Labels At The Indie Village

  2:30 PM Martin Atkins & Whitney Francis

  3:00 PM Canadian Blast BBQ

  5:00 PM SXSW Interview: Lemmy

  6:00 PM One Night Only

  8:00 PM Melissa Auf der Maur

  8:45 PM The Walkmen

  9:45 PM Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

10:30 PM Motörhead

12:05 AM Andrew W.K.

wouldn't be going quietly into that good night

Thursday, March 18:

12:30 PM How to Make Money with Vinyl

  2:00 PM Merge Makes Noise

  2:30 PM Mac McCaughan & Laura Ballance

  5:00 PM Why Hasn't the Record Industry Sued Girl Talk?

  7:00 PM Gordon Gano and The Ryan Brothers

  8:30 PM The Besnard Lakes

  9:30 PM The Soft Pack

10:30 PM Drive-By Truckers

11:30 Band Of Horses

12:45 Broken Social Scene

Friday, March 19th:

11:00 AM Chicago Beats by Chicago.com /Music

12:00 PM SXSW Music Stimulus Party

  5:10 PM Jakob Dylan and Three Legs (Featuring Neko Case and Kelly Hogan)

  8:00 PM Thurston Moore

11:00 PM Cymbals Eat Guitars

  1:00 AM The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Saturday, March 20th:

  1:00 PM Stereogum Range Life

  2:00 PM SXSW Interview: Death

  3:00 PM Death

  8:00 PM This Will Destroy You

10:15 PM Titus Andronicus

  1:15 AM Fucked Up

Bands like Surfer Blood and Les Savy Fav were victims of inconvenient timing. Luckily, I don't have to worry about missing them for something else because I will be missing all of it. [sigh]