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After last night’s lateness and today’s hotel check out-ness, I only have time to write one post before I have to get on my plane back to LA. Please forgive the shortness but the last night of South by Southwest for me here in Austin, TX was a late one … and it was awesome. After I finished blogging yesterday, I made my way to the closest Sonic to enjoy some amazing deliciousness to get my day started:

If Chick-Fil-A is my fave Southern fast food restaurant, Sonic has to be my #2. I LIVED for their Frito’s Pies back when I lived in Oklahoma … but they’ve since turned into Frito Chili Cheese Wraps — and they’re just as amazing. OMG, I could’ve honestly eaten 8 of those things but I wanted to munch on the tater tots and the popcorn chicken … oh and a large grape slush. It was so delish :)

So after I ate all that yumminess, I made my way downtown and met up with my friend Devin. We grabbed some drinks at the Shakespeare’ Ale House, got hit on by some drunk girls and got to talk music. I really wanted to see DJ Dieselboy but his performance was too close to Yelle‘s performance who was all the way across … so we skipped him to see Yelle only to find a massively long line. Devin only had a wristband so I waited with him in line and we determined that we weren’t going to get in. We cut our losses and got in line for Perry Farrell‘s solo show at midnight. The line wasn’t too long when we got there but the door people were telling us that they didn’t think anyone would get in cuz they had to fulfill a “guest list” which I understand is a no-no here at SxSW. A few locals in the know started complaining and magically they let the folks with wristbands in … Devin and I got a prime position right at the front of the stage. I kinda thought that all of Jane’s Addiction might perform but it turned out to be Perry, his small band and a couple of go-go dancers. Here are a few photos:

The show was just fun as hell!! Perry is such a happy man, his show was just really jovial and he was in great spirits. The whole place was a total lovefest. His performance ran a little longer than the usual 45 mins. cuz he did an encore of the Jane’s Addiction song Jane Says to close out his show. After the jump, watch video of that performance …

It was just a kick-ass way to end the night … and SxSW for me. Perry reached out and grabbed my hand, we had a moment … was really very, very cool.

After Perry, Devin and I made our way to the Red Bull Moon Tower party on the outskirts of Austin to nightcap it. After hanging out at the shinding the previous nights, I was looking forward to just chillin’ and checkin’ out a few of the bands scheduled to perform. For some reason, the cops decided that enough was enough and shut down the party before Erykah Badu could perform :( They let everyone stay to eat and drink so we did that for a while. The Red Bull party was very cool this year and much love goes out to Erika and Casey (Go Sooners!) for taking care of us.

SxSW is over for me … I have to check out of my hotel, turn in my rental car and catch my flight but I had such a great time here in Austin … I think I’m coming back for another go round next year :) I’m so glad I made a new friend in Devin:


Hopefully we’ll keep in touch so he can come visit LA so I can show him the hospitality that he showed me here in Austin. Much, much love goes out to the people of Austin … all y’all are the coolest people around. I had an absolute blast, I love you all and I hope to be back soon. Things here on the blog should be back to normal tomorrow morning … but I gots ta be out. Thank you Austin, thank you Texas, thank you South by Southwest!!!