5 SxSW Highly Useful Tips

Kate Bradley — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:19:10 +0000

… for those of you heading to Austin next couple of days:

1. For some reason all of the stores at the Austin airport have bankers hours and seem to be closed after dark. So forget grabbing a quick cup of coffee or a snack (if you’re the type who likes to head straight from the plane to the party).

2. It’s about $25 to take a cab from the airport to downtown. It’s a one dollar to take the Austin Flyer (the local bus). The express bus picks up on the baggage level, one-stop the entire way until downtown. From the taxicab area, walk 25 yards directly to the right, you’ll see the sign. Plus it’s not even really a bus… it’s more like a pretty trolley.

3. If you’re unlucky enough to be staying at a hotel near the airport, make sure you get the cell phone of the taxi driver who brings you there. Taxicabs are nearly impossible to hail during SxSW. But if you have the celly of your guy, you can make him your bitch all week.

4. Make friends with someone staying at the Omni. There’s a hot tub on the roof if you can grab 10 minutes to soak your feet (which will be throbbing from standing on cement all day). It’s worth it. Plus, killer view.

5. Don’t bother making any plans until you get here. Everything changes minute to minute. Flexibility is key. Make sure you’re comfortable ditching your friends if need be.

When you get here, find me:

@ THE iNSIDERS NETWORK Showcase:

Thursday March 18, 12P – 5P, 204 E. 6th St. (BD Riley’s)

Lineup: Karl Mullen, Seth Glier, Steve Poltz, Robert Deeble, Michael Miller, Roman Candle

Also, I’ll be on the SxSW Music Panel “From the Stage – An Artist’s Perspective,” discussing life in the digi-age:
Wednesday March 17, 3:30P – 4:30P, Convention Center

LETTERS FROM THE ROAD: Karl Mullen

Kate Bradley — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:16:56 +0000

Guest post this week from one of my closest pals, musician, painter, fashionista, and all-around wickedly wonderful guy, Karl Mullen:

Dear Kate,

Thanks for the request to be a guest blogger. This is my first …. though back in the late 70’s early 80’s as an illegal alien I played in the punk band Carsickness under the nom de guerre ‘Joe Bloggs’.

But that was old schooling blogging,……. ‘banging and shouting like a kid gone wrong’ ….remember Patrik Fitzgerald? I had his record which was LP size so we used play it at 33 speed until some sober guest read the cover and informed us it was to be played at 45.

Those were the days when we lived in the old Hare Krishna house in Pittsburgh and at least 4 bands rehearsed there….all at once. Which is how I still like to listen….. to many different styles at the same time.

Love the ipod shuffle …… the Sultans of Ping and then John Mc Cormac… Thin Lizzy to Moondog, Rachel Unthank to Midlake. Brilliant!

And in no particular order…. just shuffle.. here is just a few of the recent artists I’ve been listening to:

All the best, Joe Bloggs a.k.a Henry Flower

CUT THROUGH THE NOISE » Karl Mullen

5 SxSW Highly Useful Tips

LETTERS FROM THE ROAD: Karl Mullen