Ladies and Gentlemen... The S.O.V.!

(This is from Saturday Afternoon, 3/18/06)
In the past three days, I have met and interviewed the following personnages and/or bands:

Lady Sovereign
Ramblin' Jack Elliott (for an hour, amazing!)
The Guillemots
Brazilian Girls
Martha Wainwright (incl. private performance of two songs!!!)
Bobby Bare SENIOR
Rhett Miller
Animal Collective
John Vanderslice (quote: "I like to have sex with children." He was totes kidding!)
Mates of State
Celebration
Emil of Serena Maneesh
Metric
Ultragrrrl
Ben from Band of Horses
Smoosh
Tim Burgess from The Charlatans U.K.

I also interviewed The Lashes and Nada Surf, but that almost doesn't count.

Celebrity encounters: Carl Newman from New Pornographers (mutual acknowledgement with eyes and hands), Britt Daniel from Spoon (handshake, brief, warm conversation), Harry Shearer (eye contact at airport), Neko Case (confession that she is my favorite singer, followed by brief conversation about our mutual friends), Ray Davies (firm handshake in hotel lobby, awkward recounting of our one prior encounter, 10 years ago, followed by his hasty exit).

And there's still one more night of SXSW to go!