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I woke up this morning and walked outside my hotel room in a stumbled daze (around noon) as you can tell by the sunlight and found two of the most amazing things on Earth next to each other. Fuze Beverage and Oscar Meyer Hot Dogs! Perfect, I knew this week at SXSW was going to be awesome.

Today we started out with some food at The Jackalope that is found right on 6th street. Judging by the pictures I took you wouldn’t think we left the 6th street area all day but I promise at some point we did something else I just cannot really recollect what it was…..

The registrants lounge was actually on 4th street if I recall and was right next to our hotel and the convention center. It was open in the afternoons and served free Fuze and liquor while also providing a place to sit down and listen to DJ’s.

We went ahead that night and did a time lapse on Sixth Street in Austin, Texas after it was closed for the night. Sixth Street has a crazy atmosphere and I never saw it deserted all week weather it was 6am or 6pm. It’s not the best place to find food however past about midnight on the weekends as I found out later in the week.

After some dinner and chilling out we went to meet up with Mike and his girlfriend at Emo’s. Emo’s is a huge spot with 4 concert venue’s that vary from indoor/outdoor and then across the street they have a huge tent setup that is the Emo’s Annex spot for concerts that is out on the street.

The first thing we checked out when we arrived was Dan Deacon from Baltimore, Maryland that Mike was a huge fan of. The concert was nothing I expected to hear! His music is a weird mix that really seems to flow together well and compliments video. This is one of the videos he played at Emo’s that night featuring the Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Then we snuck over Emo’s Annex across the street where the Lemonheads finished up a set. The crowd really seemed to love them! A very different style from the Dan Deacon video above as they were a very punk/rock/alternative style but it was a great performance none the less. It was the first time the Lemonheads played at SXSW. Evan Dando is the lead singer and is the only original member of the band that was formed back in 1986. They plan on releasing a new album something this spring it is rumored. That closed our night sometime around 4am and we headed to bed for the night.