Welcome to Austin, SXSWers!

First post in my Austin, TX series for SXSW

It's that time of year again.

The time of year where you stock up on your Adderall or Xanax or Xantac or horse tranquilizers and set your Facebook tagged photos to private.

South by Southwest Interactive and Film will be starting this Friday, with the music portion beginning next Wednesday.

What does that mean for you?

That means your chances of getting drunk with Bill Murrary or hooking up with a hipster from Brooklyn who is in a band with the words "bear", "deer", "neon", "gold", or "black" in it have just improved.

If you're new to Austin, here is a list of traits that make our town so unique. Come and join the fun!

1.) The entire city collectively waits with bated breath for the Groupon of the day.

2.) At anytime in anyplace, your chances of hearing New Order playing on the sound system are 2 to 1.

3.) We treat music festivals like national holidays (and we really don't have a choice).

4.) Overhear conversations that start with, (person looking at their Iphone), "Oh, looks like Brooklyn Vegan is following me on Twitter. Cool." (overhear= I said it yesterday).

5.) Facebook comments like, "There is a little kids choir singing Flaming Lips and Wilco at my place of employment right now."

6.) Every single person has a mustache and we have competitions once a month to see who has the best.

Photo by Alison Narro

7.) A 24 hour pecan vending machine in the middle of nowhere.

8.) We eat migas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and we can tell you exactly where in town the best migas are located.

9.) The rivers in Austin are made of beer and you can often find us knelt in the river bed, stuffing our goard like Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka.

10.) We quietly judge each other on the make of our bicycles and nothing else.

11.) The older and more worn your clothing is, the more street cred you have.

12.) We do a lot of our business out of Airstream trailers. Mostly for aesthetic purposes.