And I’m not just talking about Cuba Gooding Jr. Austin is the “Live Music Capital of the World”. A lot of it is shitty music, but if you can filter through it all you can still find a good amount of high quality music. But if you want to listen to the radio, that’s a whole other story. The vast majority of it really does suck. It sucks on the level of Dallas radio or even worse, Oklahoma City radio (RAWK 100.5 THE K-A-T-T). But SXSW introduced me to one thing keeps me from killing myself at work - WOXY. WOXY is an internet radio station out of Ohio. OHIO. Everyone should listen to it. (on a side note, I’m having this weird deja vu about mentioning WOXY - if I have in fact already mentioned it, remember that I’m really tired and it’s past beer-thirty).

In other “Live Music Capital” news, I want to buy a new bass guitar. Not that I have a lot of time to play it, but I want one anyway. But I want it cheap. And I want it to have a story. That way, I can use it as my famous musician gimmick. I’m not talking a good story like it was handed down from generation to generation, something with a little more bite. I want the bass guitar that a struggling musician who moved here from Borger, TX bought when he first moved to Austin to follow his dream to be a successful musician. But since he had no skills he couldn’t get a job or a gig. He tried busking on the streets to make ends meet, but it just wouldn’t work. He borrowed money from his parents, who bought him an apartment and gave him some money to get him started on his music career. But instead of actually becoming a performer, he partied with a bunch of musicians, developed a nasty crack habit and was slowly deteriorating into a shell of his former self. His parents cut him off, he was evicted from his apartment and now he he’s back on the streets trying to find his next crack fix. That’s when I step in and buy his mint condition Fender P-Bass from him for $25. If you happen to run into this guy, give him my name, I’ve got $25 (in cash!) just waiting for such an occasion. Make sure the P Bass is mint condition though, I don’t want any crack residue on my new bass guitar, that’s just nasty.