Day 19

The urge to rethink a trip to SXSW 2009 is strong. Not so much that several purchases are coming up sometime soon, but more that movies and music are two of the things I already consume in the greatest quantities anyway.

I'd like to visit Austin and environs, but perhaps not when throngs of other people are doing the same. The majority of the bands will make it to Seattle within a year or two anyway, without impossible queues for entry. There are inevitably several films that won't see release, theatrical or DVD, for several years if ever, but they alone probably aren't worth the trip. And given that Cascadia has three film festivals anyway, adding a fourth to the calendar verges on overload.

How else to spend a week in March/April? The first idea that springs to mind is a second try at the trip up the West Coast that went somewhat awry earlier this year. Maybe a flight to San Diego, trains to Los Angeles, Monterey, and San Francisco, and then a drive back to Seattle by way of Newport.

Or perhaps I'll think of something else.