Are you retardedly jealous of everyone who has the dough-re-mi to skip work and go to SXSW? ME, TOO. Well, there’s a couple ways to partially alleviate this insane jealousy: 1) Listen to streaming SXSW performances on Minnesota’s The Current, on KEXP, and WOXY , as well as NPR.
BUT HERE’S THE NEWS THAT MADE ME POOP MY PANTS.
People who receive DirecTV can actually watch live performances from certain bands at SXSW!
POOP!
Now here’s the news that made me UN-poop my pants. Most of these bands BLOW. Here’s the DirecTV run-down (appearing on channel 101):

Thursday, March 15
The Lone Star Lounge: 5pm Razorlight, 7pm Marc Broussard, 9pm Brandi Carlile
The Bat Bar: 4pm Ozomatli, 6pm Young Love, 8pm Ian Moore, 10pm The Bravery

Friday, March 16
The Lone Star Lounge: 1pm The Buzzcocks, 4pm Rocco DeLuca, 6pm Pam Tillis, 8pm Annuals, 10pm Rachel Fuller
The Bat Bar: 2pm The Polyphonic Spree, 5pm The Oohlas, 7pm The Watson Twins, 9pm Peter, Bjorn and John, 11pm Aqualung

Saturday, March 17
The Bat Bar: 1:45pm Tiny Masters Of Today, 4pm Rickie Lee Jones, 6pm Bowling for Soup, 8pm Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., 10pm The Automatic
The Lone Star Lounge: 2:15pm Kraak & Smaak, 5pm Lee “Scratch” Perry, 7pm Jon McLaughlin, 9pm Stars Of Track And Field, 11pm Mando Diao

Now, I will happily illegally upload any of these live performances onto Blogtown if you so request. The question is: DO YOU WANT TO SEE ANY OF THEM?

Tips to Pop Candy!