Holy fucking crap, I'm going to SXSW in March. Time off = approved. Interactive badge = purchased. Swanky room = reserved. Poverty = guarenteed! I'm so excited. I'm not sure if Wes or anyone else is going to be able to go…but I don't even care. I'm like…so damn excited. Can't. fucking. wait.
I decided to just attend the Interactive portion, cause…well, I can't afford to stay for the whole week to be there for the Music portion, and while I'd dig the Film festival, I'm more into Interactive. So if I got both badges, the Film would just go to waste most likely, and since I haven't really been saving up dollars for this, it's prolly bad to just throw them away on something I won't use. Better to be put towards the flight. Besides, I still get to see Henry Rollins cause his presentation is going to be available for Film and Interactive peeps. Woo!
Now, here's something that I'm a little worried about. Those of you who have known me for a while know the history of my birthdays. Meaning, they suck. They suck on a scale that you mostly cannot imagine. Like, the universe opens up and pours all its hate on me at once for an entire day. It rules! Then when the day is over, it goes back to hating me just like 10 times more than everyone else. Cause, you know, I'm the downtrodden and all. Anyways, I was born on March 15th. The Ides of March. How fucking ominous is that shit? So. Interactive is over on March 14th. I realized it's not safe for *anyone* to have me flying on my birthday. I mean, really. Me? In the fucking air? So. I'm staying an extra day. I'm just kinda…well…concerned about the type of tragedy that life will bring me in Austin…on my birthday. In the past, I've had the following: well, I was born through my mom's renal failure during a blizzard, way premature with both of us nearly dying, ice storms, blizzards, a car stolen by an ex, my parents forgetting a birthday, was forced to move due to impending eviction because the landlords wouldn't fix our moldy ceiling – during the move the moving company screwed us over and charged more than twice as much and my car died (this was last year), a girl I was in a relationship with decided to “forget” to spend time with me and instead go on a date with some other chick – same one who stole my car a couple years later, and hmm…I know something else happened. The freak tornadoes were during my high school graduation, they don't count, Anyways, my birthdays are bad. On a grand scale of badness. I had one really kickass birthday, and mostly that was just cause it was AcidFest 2001. When you take that much acid, and trip for that long, the birthday can't really hurt you. Hmmm….perhaps that's the answer. Find acid in Austin.
Yeah, that's totally the plan. Well, that…or peyote.