One of my best friends from college is from Austin; she moved back after college. She's been trying to get me to go there for SXSW...it's during my Spring Break, which is great! I've heard nothing but good things about it, and I actually applied to UT for grad school.

Re: cool!
 

holy shit, they seriously live about five blocks from my house!!!!
too bad i go to school 200 miles away.

Re: cool!
 

I KNEW IT!! I went to the Baylor/UT bball game a few weeks ago and we stayed at the Four Seasons (on San Jacinto) and as we were walking back to the hotel I was thinking, that dang house has got to be down here somewhere. Where else would it be?! COOLNESS

Johanna is/was a student at UC Riverside (not sure if she graduated yet) and yes, she was affiliated (she disaffiliated).

The pictures on the website someone listed on the thread are mostly from fraternity/sorority functions at UCR from the past 2-3 years.

This should be interesting...

I knew it. See the ftolowing conversation I had with someone tonight on a music website (reckless kelly):

lifesaverTX: so do they have the real world kids workign for SXSW?
SWTfan: no they are not working with us
lifesaverTX: or do you have to say that. hahha
SWTfan: no its the truth
lifesaverTX: just figured in austin they'd have
them doing one of 2 things; workign for
the legislature, or SXSW
SWTfan: well I can say they are doing
something with SXSW but not with our
office
lifesaverTX: hahhah. I knew it. hahhahahah

Ok what the heck is SXSW??

And I think Sacramento would be a great city to have Real World in. Great singles scene, nice bars downtown, its not really ghetto, its scenic etc.

South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc.) is a private company based in Austin, Texas, with a year-round staff of professionals dedicated to building and delivering conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals. Since 1987, SXSW has produced the internationally recognized Music and Media Conference & Festival.

As the entertainment business adjusted to issues of future growth and development, in 1993, SXSW added conferences and festivals for the film industry (SXSW Film) as well as for the blossoming interactive media (SXSW Interactive Festival). Now three industry events converge in Austin during a Texas-sized week, mirroring the ever increasing convergence of entertainment/media outlets.

In addition to the SXSWeek events, NXNW is a production of SXSW as well. In association with NOW, an alternative newsweekly in Toronto, SXSW is also involved in North by Northeast (NXNE), held in Toronto, Canada in late Spring.

About SXSW
http://2005.sxsw.com/about/?PHPSESSI...dcf26a9ada80a8

They announced the music schedule last week:
http://2005.sxsw.com/music/


Fun background on Austin that also applies to why it was picked for the Real World:

Why Austin?
The first South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival (SXSW) was held in 1987 in Austin, Texas. Despite the fact that Austin is not a major metropolitan city, the background and character of the city made it a perfect location for the conference. Austin has always been considered a fairly cosmopolitan town for its size because of the University of Texas, which draws people from all over the world. As home to the state government and Texas Legislature it has also always been a popular party town, with a reputation that goes back to the 19th century when numerous nightspots and bars were populated by General Custer's troops after the Civil War. These nightspots are located in the same areas where the 6th Street and 4th Street club and bar scenes now exist.

Austin's eclectic music scene goes back to early in the city's history (from Mexican, German and colonial origins) and encompasses a wide variety of music including country, folk, jazz, blues and rock. Central Austin boasts more original music nightclubs in a concentrated area than any other city in the world.

The classic problem facing Austin musicians was being isolated from the rest of the world here in the middle of Texas. SXSW was a way to reach out to the rest of the world, and bring them here to do business. To do that successfully, SXSW needed to appeal to people other than local artists whether they were from Austin, Ft. Worth, Chicago, Toronto, Munich or Tokyo.

National interest in SXSW was immediate. For years, music businesses on both coasts had been intrigued by what was going on in Austin. The cosmic cowboy, blues, punk and other scenes had already proven that Austin was a receptive place for bands to be creative. With SXSW, music industry executives gained a good excuse to come here.

International interest in SXSW began the second year due to many Austin and American bands finding their first success in Europe. Conversely, there was a lot of interest from SXSW registrants in the international bands who came to perform. SXSW offices were set up in Europe and Asia to help bring those cultures to Austin.

The music event has grown from 700 people in 1987 to over 8000 people. As Austin has grown and diversified, film companies and high-tech companies have played a major role in the Austin and the Texas economy. In 1994, SXSW added a film and interactive component to accommodate these growth industries. SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive events attract approximately 6000 people to Austin every March.

The goal from the beginning was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers, to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas. That continues to be the goal today whether it is music, film or the internet. And Austin continues to be the perfect location.

real world
 

i've seen the real world crew around downtown a lot...walking on the streets, getting lost, etc. it's pretty hard to miss the whole menagerie of people, cameras, microphones, etc.

and if you're in austin and wanna run into them, a sure bet is spill on 6th...they've been regulars there since filming began...

Re: real world
 

Fun article about where they have been spotted

The semistealth MTV production will flee Austin in early May, with the 16th edition of "Real World" scheduled to debut in June (new episodes air Tuesday nights). The young cast members might not have made a ripple in the majority of Austinites' lives, but they've made a big impression on night-owl hipsters, Drag dwellers and others.

A hotbed for gossip and actual info is realworldaustin.com, which gets 60,000 to 80,000 page views per day — more than 120,000 per day when the site launched Dec. 24, the day MTV announced it was coming to Austin. About 500 people are registered.

There has been Internet chatter about fights in bars, with regulars miffed that out-of-towners take up valuable space with their cameras and lights. And some Austin patrons don't like MTV folks asking them to sign waivers that could make them look like fools when the show airs.

Online testimonials are about evenly divided in their assessment of the cast. They're jerks, loud-mouthed drunks who never explore Austin beyond the bars on Sixth Street. They're full of themselves and never talk to anyone except each other. Or they're cool kids who have become victims of MTV's secrecy and the "Real World" bubble. They're sweet and sexy, full of personality.

Weekly sightings at UT's Department of Radio-Television-Film lend credence to the rumor that they are making a 15-minute documentary about a band at South by Southwest.

Anyone know who they booted off the Inferno last night? I mssd it and i really hope veronica got kicked off

aparently they went to see my dad's band sans cameras... guess their lives aren't taped all the time afterall.

It also could have been that the club wouldn't let cameras in. If I owned a club/bar, I certainly would not.

You ain't lyin!!! I'm not American, I'm a Texan. Don't you forget it!!!!!

Sadly, it was not Veronica. Jodie lost by a mile in a pretty easy inferno.

Having gone to school in Oklahoma, we made many the roadtrip down to Texas. I absolutely loved Austin. For the longest time I was wondering why they hadn't filmed in Austin, Houston, or Dallas--it's about time. I think St Louis would also be a great place--definitely a distinguishable city with the arch. It's got great nightlife as well as gambing on the riverboats. They just have to keep them away from the bad areas but that wouldn't be too hard.

That is going to be interesting. I had the opportunity to go to Austin with a group of kids when i was in high school, but I couldn't go. That season is going to be interesting to watch.

I always tell my family that if they really wanted to have a PARTY season with really no working (which is basically EVERY season of RW..lol) they should come down to El Paso. Right next to the border, bars open (in Mexico) 24/7....hell that's a story ready to happen.

But that would never work because 1. El Paso is too boring! lol
2. There have been over 300 women killed in Juarez (the city right across the border) and Sloppy drunk American girls seem like a good target....especially with cameras and expensive equipment. That screams out "hey rob me!" lol

Austin is gonna be good though.

Oh I know...that was pathetic. She really just gave up and let Veronica win. That was one of the easiest infernos to date and Jodie just let it slip out of her hands.

Did anyone see the spoiler tonight? :eek:

what fraternity is Wes in? He goes to ASU?

the 2 minute trailer about the show on mtv.com is pretty good.

http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/realwor...6/series.jhtml

well... i was disappointed by the beginning.
i will state clearly, we DO NOT have COWS in austin!!! ahhh... stereotypes frustrate the hell out of me. i drove by the house plenty of times, but i can't believe how amazing the inside was!!!

i also can't believe they made them climb those hundreds of stairs up to mt. bonnell to meet, ha!

crazy super dramatic, but a ton of my friends claimed to have hung out with them, so i of course have to watch to see if they're on.

favorites?

i watched and was midly amused. the guy from boston is definitely hot. i can already tell there is going to be some major rivalry between johanna and melinda over the attention of the males. these people seem like cookie-cutter real world types.

recipie as follows:
- 1 male who speaks his mind and likes to "rumble"(Wes)
- 1 sexpot female who of course, prefers to parade around naked if she could (Melinda)
- 1 really hot guy all of the girls fall for (danny)
- 1 outsider who is nothing like the rest of the roommates (lacey)
- 1 out of control drinker (johanna)
- guy who manages to get blamed for the problems (danny getting punched b/c they were looking for him) but is really just an observer (k)
- i can't even remember the last girl - but i think she's part of the recipie too

oh snap - is there no gay person this season?

,,,,

I PM'd it to you, I don't want to give it away in case someone wants to see the rerun. But I'm mad at it, this was some stuff. Is it just me or does stuff alwasy pop off on the second night in the house? It's almost like this cast is a remake of the Hawaii house. Ruthie=Johanna (the drunk) and Melinda=Amaya (girlie up in some guy's bed). I don't know, I'm debating on whether or not I'll like this season.

I missed it last night but have it on Tivo and hope to see it tonight. There is only so much that can happen in the house - there are bound to be repeats of "characters" and issues. The more drama you bring the more camera time you get for your career down the road.

I don't watch the show, but have seen one or two episodes in the past. Even at that, I will comment on the above.

Of course the seasons are alike.

It's called formula.

The shows I've seen always have a jock or two, a slut, a token gay and at least one minority who may be militant.

As I've said before, reality TV is a contridiction of terms.

There's nothing real about these shows. They have the "same" people (types) and the "same" kinds of drama.

They all are exactly what the producer has plotted out before shooting even starts.

Suggestions and selective editing create the rest.

See the other thread with the "review" of the Austin series -- it talks about many of the same things.

Debate: Did Danny deserve what he got?

I say yes.

Wes and Danny started the fight…“Lets go tackle that bleeping dude.” You started the fight and you lost. I have no sympathy for little wannabe tough guys who get their ass handed to them.

I AGREE! I was PISSED that he tried to put it on Neheimah(sp?). it's not his fault you got your face bashed in... UGH

I can't believe I missed the first episode. I totally forgot. By chance does anyone know when the re-run will air this weekend?

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So, a better question would be... "When won't it be re-aired?" LOL

Dee

thanks! surely, i can catch one of those times!

i dont think he really deserved it. no one deserves a punch in the face like that. the dude came pushing from behind as if he was trying to act all bad and be on tv. it was all johanna's fault. her drunk azz started the whole thing.

it seems to me like the producers are trying to make a love match from the beginning. danny meeting up with melinda at the mountain top and wes with johanna at the pier. then they have the outcasts greet each other first.

I watched the rerun tonight...well part of it...Dancing With The Stars was on too.

I think they only person that I like on there is Nehemiah. The rest are just sick, disease-spreading, dumbasses. I hope I don't watch this again.

I agree. In all fairness...Danny and Wes weren't going out looking for a fight. They went looking for Nehemiah to prevent him from fighting and all of a sudden all hell breaks loose. I don't blame Danny...if some guy starts pushing me around just for the hell of it of course i'm going to get upset and get ready to beat the f--ker up.

But did Danny deserve what he got? Heck no! No one deserves to get hit that severely that he has to get surgery to correct it (sorry to those who haven't seen it). I hope the guy who did it got arrested....they have plenty of proof to arrest him.

Looking at the first episode, i think i'll like this season.

real world austin
 

i totally don't think danny deserved to be hit. however, being a native austinite and frequenter of the warehouse district and 6th, i can absolutely see that happening and no one accepting responsibility and the cops ignoring it. i was in a terrible people stampede last year on 6th, was knocked completely unconcious and run over, and came away with a serious head injury. even though the cops witnessed it all, they didn't do anything. obviously it can be dangerous down there and these guys just didn't have any idea what they were getting into.

the thing that annoyed me the most was johanna trying to "apologize" to nehemiah later that night, stating she didn't even know what happened when clearly she started the whole ordeal! she seems to be totally aware that alcohol gives her a jekyll and hyde personality split, so why would it be so hard for her to figure out what happened...!

OH MY GOD! Poor Danny!
 

Did anyone expect the news that Danny just got from his father? I feel for him so much right now. WHen he called her four days earlier he didn't even tell her that he loved her back. (at least it wasn't shown) That is the stuff that eats you up inside. Believe me, I am speaking from experience.

I figured that's what it was from the previews. It still made me very sad though.

I knew it was bad news, but never figured it would be his mother. He can't catch a break in Austin. First the fight that his face lost, now this. Poor guy!