{"id":957,"date":"2005-03-20T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2014.willolovesyou.com\/wp\/dev\/?p=957"},"modified":"2005-03-20T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T21:42:00","slug":"sxsw-coachella-toronto-and-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2014.willolovesyou.com\/wp\/2005\/03\/sxsw-coachella-toronto-and-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"sxsw, coachella, toronto and nyc!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m trying really hard this week to not be totally depressed that I&#8217;m not at <a href=\"http:\/\/2005.sxsw.com\/music\/\">SXSW<\/a>. For any of you that don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s like Spring Break for music nuts like me. How could I not be there!? AAAG! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/sxsw2005\/\">photos<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/sxsw05\/\">flickr<\/a> are slaying me. Those could be mine! Drinking a nice, cold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58944004@N00\/6794825\/\">Shiner Bock<\/a>!? Oh how I miss you, Austin!!!! <\/p>\n<p>Deal is, it just wouldn&#8217;t have been the same this year. I (somehow) didn&#8217;t have a crew of ppl to go with.. I mean, I knew some peeps going, but last year having my main squeeze, and best show buddy along for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willolovesyou.com\/2004\/03\/saturday.php\">a week of ridiculous fun<\/a>&#8230; there was just no way I could go there mostly solo. Even though something tells me I very well may could have met my future husband there. :p But hey! Obviously it wasn&#8217;t meant to be. So lover, if you&#8217;re out there resting up after your week of day in &amp; day out drinking &amp; seeing live music, and wondering where art thou your match is&#8230; I&#8217;M RIGHT HERE! Sorry I missed ya this year. <\/p>\n<p>Right, so.. I think that this leads me to how I&#8217;m SINGLE right now. Yup. Who knew, after my months of brownie-eating-movie-watchin&#8217; hermitsville healing my little broken heart that I&#8217;d actually be ready to scream that from the rafters, eh? Well, we all did, I guess. It&#8217;s hard to keep me down&#8230; and the silver lining of any dumb ol break up is that (thankfully) time heals. Eventually. And, slowly but surely, I&#8217;m getting there. Well, at least I&#8217;m getting out &amp; having fun! These last few weekends I&#8217;ve been having the time of my life, really. Besides the fact that for the most part I think dating is dorky and painful, it&#8217;s kinda fun having all those first date jitters, and meeting someone new and figuring out what they&#8217;re all about. People are fascinating, really. <\/p>\n<p>So speaking of&#8230; Guess what!? I went on a date lastnight! Well&#8230; &#8220;Drinks!&#8221; Which is like a date, but with that great unofficial caveat we could be like, &#8220;umm, ya &#8211; gotta go!&#8221; hahaa&#8230;  Suffice to say it all turned out better than I expected. I wasn&#8217;t that sure going into it, but instead of turning it down &#8211; I thought &#8220;aww what the hell, I&#8217;ll just go have some drinks, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be fun&#8221;&#8230; and the good news is, it was. So fun and good that we&#8217;re now going to the next step and *dun du dun dun!* having DINNER. hahaa&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Alright &#8211; so back to my <i>writhing in pain<\/i> over not being at SXSW this year. I was even, if I had actually gone, going to hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/2005.sxsw.com\/interactive\/\">Interactive<\/a> part, too. A ton of my geektabulous blogger pals were there. And the 4-eyed dorko within me is actually totally jealous seeing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58944004@N00\/6794760\/in\/set-169460\/\">sea of laptops<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.benbrown.com\/index.pl\/document\/44\">instantaneous relay of information<\/a> between participants. I wanted to be a part of that! <\/p>\n<p>BUT.. you know why it&#8217;s all OK? It&#8217;s all ok because of 2 wonderful trips coming up! <\/p>\n<p>#1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachella.com\/\">Coachella<\/a> baby!! My <a href=\"http:\/\/willotoons.fotki.com\/coachella_2004\/imgp2908.html\">show ho pals<\/a> ARE pulling through for this one, of course, and we&#8217;ve got a house booked and everything!!! Again, it will be different from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willolovesyou.com\/2004\/05\/photo-teaser.php\">last year<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/willotoons.fotki.com\/coachella_2004\/imgp2896.html\">love induced high<\/a>, but I&#8217;m open to the new and amazing experience &#8211; both from music and meeting kick ass people. It&#8217;s going to be great! And I&#8217;m <em>working out<\/em> so I can be all ready to wear <a href=\"http:\/\/willotoons.fotki.com\/coachella_2004\/imgp2916.html\">very little clothing<\/a>. VLC baby! I look forward to wearing VLC any chance I can get.. so give me 100 degree weather, and let&#8217;s peel it off! hahhaaa&#8230; I feel like I&#8217;m a VJ on MTV&#8217;s Spring Break or something right now so I&#8217;ll stop. <\/p>\n<p>#2. In May I&#8217;m going to Toronto and NYC!!! And if there was any way to make my &#8220;woohoo&#8221; about a million times bigger and stronger and louder to express myself here, I WOULD! Picture that, and a *gazillion* exclamation points! :) I&#8217;m f*ing STOKED to say the least! <\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willolovesyou.com\/2005\/01\/traveling-willsters.php\">a ton of places I want to travel to<\/a>, but NYC was at the top of my list of places I need to visit in the U.S., let alone all the jaunts I want to take overseas, so I am so thrilled to be finally getting there again! I have only been there ONCE. Can you believe it? And it wasn&#8217;t even as fun as I KNOW NYC can go off&#8230; so I&#8217;m really looking forward to being there &amp; checking out the music scene FOR REALS.<\/p>\n<p>So, itinerary is: I&#8217;m hitting Toronto first for about 5 days, where I will be put up and exposed to the glory that is The Big Smoke by the *ZAZZERIFIC* one &amp; only <a href=\"http:\/\/crippler.blogspot.com\/\">Kat the CRIPPLER<\/a>!! Which of course will include: shows, drinks and bellyaches from laughing our asses off! aawww yaaaa, zazz sistaaahs. <\/p>\n<p>Kat &amp; I have never met in person. She&#8217;s what I call a &#8220;internet friend&#8221;. And I have a few of you out there, you know who you are! But Kat &amp; I are convinced &#8211; as she said &#8211; we&#8217;re cut from the same cloth. The girl is into the same music, we both love to party our asses off and just from her writing, our emails &amp; IM&#8217;s&#8230; she cracks me up. She came to visit SF once but we missed eachother&#8230; and when I wrote about wanting to get outta dodge, she suggested I visit her and I said &#8220;I&#8217;m so THERE&#8221;! And, believe it or not, it will be my virgin experience in the fine country of Canada!! SWEET! Yes, I&#8217;m making my friendly relations now for when I need to flee our god forsaken (republican laden, bushf*ck&#8217;d) country. :) <\/p>\n<p>Alright, so after 5 site-seeing, show-goin, drink-drunken (and therin, hopefully not too hungover) days in the fine city of Toronto, I will be flying my arse down to NYC for another 5 days of fun in New York City!! And CHECK THIS OUT: My girls <a href=\"http:\/\/twobadapples.blogspot.com\/\">Jem &amp; Tania<\/a> are going to be there the same week!!!! waaahooooo!!! I get to experience the NYC music scene with my favorite show ho&#8217;s?! Maaan, someone is looking out for me. That is just TOO COOL! Plus, Kat has a wedding there that weekend, so she&#8217;ll be there&#8230; and I get to see my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smokeandashes.net\/\">Sarah<\/a> (and meet all her hott girlfriends :p) and my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/karriemyers.com\/index.html\">Karrie<\/a>&#8230; hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitney.org\/index.php\">museums<\/a>, I&#8217;m so excited! <\/p>\n<p>The coolest part is that I am so mobile with my business, so I can work from there most of my trip! So while I&#8217;m staying with Kat &amp; Sarah &amp; Karrie, and they go off to work &#8211; I can work, too&#8230; and then at night: WE PLAY! However, I&#8217;m thinkin there&#8217;ll be a good 4 or 5 days in NYC that I just allow myself a full force VK. Depending on how my workload is at the time &#8211; we&#8217;ll see! :) <\/p>\n<p>So yes&#8230; I&#8217;m not at SXSW this year.. but I&#8217;ve got some sweet trips completely dedicated to having fun and seeing music in other cities. And to that I say: aaaww. yaaaaa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m trying really hard this week to not be totally depressed that I&#8217;m not at SXSW. For any of you that don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s like Spring Break for music nuts like me. How could I not be there!? 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