The boys at minorprogression are heading back to sxsw this year… but now it’s been announced that Todd P is throwing a rival party in Monterrey, Mexico as backslash to the over saturated sxsw… What to do What to do???
The natural inclination is to think that Austin will be much more willing to meet my needs. After all, Texas is a republic, practically it’s own country, full of amazing oil money and doesn’t believe in things like contaminated water and lots of stray dogs. I could easily spend the week with blurry eyed American kids, knowing I may get AIDs but probably won’t catch a parasite…
If I go to Mexico, I’ll have to “camp” (isn’t that just a term susan sontag discussed quite heavily??? i guess it’s also a verb???). I may get a parasite from the unsanitary situation all third world nations allow themselves to deal with… I’ve never ever left a first world country sooo i may have some eye opening experience that will lead me to need to see my therapist on a more regular basis.. The pro side – I’ll probably meet a lot of really hot latino boys and I’ll probably meet some really cool young American boys that “get me” and have read my books and think of me as a really hip performance artist that should move to sweden where I’d be taken care of and offered a sense of dignity…
what to do?? what to do??
Mexico is not a 3rd world country, Monterrey is actually hella fancy.
drag street view around on this map and look how like the States it is:
http://tinyurl.com/not3rdworld