Overheard at SXSW 2011

#1:
Last night on 6th street, around 1am there was a giant robot. Ummm, yup.

“I like to party with Bacardi,” said the robot.

“That robot is kinda hot, I’d have sex with him. It?” very drunk girl

“Dude! That’s like totally like, a robot. Robots are real??” a dude who is not Keanu.

#2:
2 girls in ill-fitting tanktops: “See I told you we don’t need no black guys.”

Girl clearly in a band: “I only have enough money for food or for drugs. So…what do I do?”

Girl in the shop I buy glass bottle Cokes: “I only have enough money for gas or food.”

Girl on her mobile: “You want me to insert that where??!” Pause as she listens. “Well I can’t do that right now I’m out in public.”

#3:
Small child to his dad: “Papa…are we in Hollywood?”

2 girls walking past me: “As a boyfriend he’s good enough so I decided to give up drugs.”

Dude on a mobile: “I just spilled Starbucks on my lap, think I burned my wang, what should I do?”

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Regardless of who gets in at SXSW when it comes to the future there is much hope, progress and myriad possibilities.

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Not sure what SXSW is? To the Internet! Oh…wait, we’re already here. Wow, things are moving more rapidly.

So SXSW means South by Southwest. It’s in Austin, Texas. Really cool hip town (the whole town is a cool kids table).

SXSW is a film, interactive and music festivals extravaganza all rolled into 1 over 4 days in March. Over 2000 bands, I dunno how many movies, loads of parties and as for the interactive part all kinds of web creators, entrepreneurs, designers and other funky fresh individuals show up and tell us about all the cool stuff they are working on. It’s nuts, I’m just working on today, some of these people are like working on the future.

In 2007 Twitter was launched at SXSW. Coolness.

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