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A Thought About….127 Hours

A Thought About….127 Hours

I saw it last week and found it very moving. You know when the helicopter comes at the end? I think that is what death is going to feel like.

My SXSW: 2012

My SXSW: 2012

Not SXSW No, no, no– I wasn’t being aloof, or contrary. I was the dark half of the moon. People in the throes of SXSW need a Not SXSW. Our house was Not SXSW. People landed on our porch at different times for cups of tea and clean toilets before heading off for more furore. [...]

My SXSW: 2011

My SXSW: 2011

2011: What SXSW? New things. Caffe Medici opened its downtown store, we were newly pregnant and newly car-ed. I ran my first little pop-up Etsy fair at Medici’s Guadalupe store. It was good fun but a little quiet. Everyone else was at SXSW.

My SXSW: 2010

My SXSW: 2010

2010: Breezy We invited Athlete to come and play our favourite coffee shop in return for spaghetti bolognese, proper British tea and showers. Seth and Bang played the porch one afternoon. We surfed the wave of people downtown. Good times with good people, this was possibly our favourite South-by.

My SXSW: 2009

My SXSW: 2009

2009: the porch We took it eeasy.  We chewed the cud with Mr. Matt Aqualung on our porch and I tried not to stare too much at his luminous limpid lunar skin.  Mark played a South by Southwest set beset by technical difficulties but it was beautiful anyway.  Matt Aqualung was also plagued by wires [...]

My SXSW: 2008

My SXSW: 2008

2008: Forget Everything but the Circus The year we tumbled and trapezed our way through SXSW. They came from near, they came from far. One came with half a beard; the left half.  We talked art and made it. Happenings-a-happening and people sleeping in every nook, cranny and loft of the house (and wasn’t there [...]

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