Less than 2 weeks until SXSW 2012...

SXSW is always full of excellent artists either on their way up or veterans testing out new music. It is also a marathon of rushing from venue to venue desperately trying to see all the bands that you marked in program guide as must-sees. By the end of the week, I usually look like death just ran over me.

Some of the new bands to me that I am hoping to catch are:
Alabama Shakes
Retro-Soul- Can you dig it?

Apparat
Dreamy music to get lost in.

Bear in Heaven
Indie pop to groove to.

Some that are not so new to me but so excited to see:
Juanes
Great Spanish pop but admittedly a lam video.

Fiona Apple
Beautiful songwriter with intense feelings.

Drums
Indie pop with serious Smiths influence. Love them.

In the next two weeks, I will probably be posting more as my excitement increases every day.

Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

 "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

I used to love this book. It's the complete romantic vision of writers in the 1920's living in Paris. Although Hemingway was a bit harsh in his judgment of his contemporaries. Bottom line, I loved his honesty or his version of it. I went through whole Hemingway stage in high school, not so much anymore but this book still remains as one of my Hemingway favorites actually only likeable book. I haven't read it in a while but I think it's about that time again.

This has probably been triggered by my recently seeing "Midnight in Paris" on dvd. Although, not my favorite Woody Allen film but I still enjoyed it. My heart still belongs to "Annie Hall." Owen Wilson's character felt very familiar and had a bit of Woody Allen impression to it but he was amusing. Marion Cotillard was pretty wonderful though, but she always is. I guess even Woody Allen has the whole writer in Paris fleeting fantasy.