Sorry to plagiarise the title, but there's something about Austin that makes us think of Dylan, both the good parts and the bad. If Austin were a person, we have a feeling that it would be a folk-singing kid from Minnesotta with a talent for songwriting. It also makes us think of Kinky Friedman, but we're not sure if that isn't just because he wants to live in the Texas Governor's mansion. Now there's a celebrity politician we would vote for. Of course everything we know about Austin we learned from Richard Linklater, Molly Ivins, and the few chances we had to get away from the convention center.

So Wednesday was our day to just hang out. Only a few geeks remained, and they were lost in a sea of pretty kids wearing ripped jeans and fauxhawks. Wenesday night is the official kickoff the music portion of the event, and even we had no idea the scale of the event -- we're talking over 1,300 bands all playing in a ten mile radius over five nights. Of course, if you got a spare DVD-R lying around, might we suggest you download the 2.6 gigabyte file of recordings from bands who agreed via BitTorrent?