I have 14 days left until I hit up Austin for SXSW and within the last two days I have learned more about what acts I plan on seeing than I have since I bought the flight tickets.

A lot of shows are going on at the same time and I can help but wonder, how do all the folk who go to SXSW do it?  how do their weigh who they are going to see every day?  I want to see Screeching Weasel but just found out the Black Lips are playing a set right around the same time… 

Regardless, yesterday my fav female pal in Austin left me a voicemail telling me to RSVP for a free show that The Dead Milkmen were going to be playing. I about fell out of my chair the moment I heard her say that… 

Then looked at the website for Transmission Entertainment’s Mess With Texas 5th annual event and saw this line-up:

• The Dead Milkmen
• !!!
• Odd Future
• Surfer Blood
• The Dodos
• Ted Leo (solo)
• Thee Oh Sees
• Deer Tick
• OFF!
• Screaming Females
• The Strange Boys
• The Fresh and Onlys
• Davila 666
• Big Freedia
• Lemuria
• Dom
• Esben and The Witch
• Devin Therriault
• The Growlers
• We Barbarians
• EMA

Wow, just….wow!!!!!

I know what I am doing Saturday whilst in Austin now.

Sadly I am going to be missing the one and only Wu Tang Clan who play the night of the 17th…  Having seen them twice in my time, once with ODB himself, I think I will live, but I am always down to see some live Wu Tang.