This article seemed appropriate after being on the SXSW diet (booze, booze, and more booze)… and the Zynthesis wine post I just did.  I’ve made the decision to drink rather than eat many a times, but it’s usually because I’m broke and I’d rather spend the money on getting a buzz.

With pressure on young women to drink but also remain slim, many are now swapping dinner for a large glass or two of wine.

Here’s a video montage of the Synthesis.net crew’s first day in Austin, TX for SXSW 2008. In it, you’ll see how shitty the outskirts out town are on the way from the airport to downtown, how badass Ironworks BBQ is, and how even on the night before the official start of the music fest, there are more parties and bad ass bands to watch while getting completely black out than you can shake a fucking stick at. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and you’ll be sure to be hearing, and seeing, a lot more of our SXSW 2008 coverage, including interviews, live show footage, drunken rambling and maybe lewd conduct. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

There’s something I like about Central Time. Being two hours ahead of the time zone we normally exist in for some reason feels right. So we’re sitting here in the lobby at the Four Seasons (which is quite comfortable I might add) finishing up some video editing from last nights opening pregame SXSW foray while ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons is behind me chilling at the bar having a morning beer.

As if it weren’t bad enough that every health guru on the planet decries the consumption of almost everything you’d ever want to eat as bad, but now some yokel has gone and ruined my new diet by slapping a name to drinking a lot and eating very little: Drunkorexia.

The subtle art of perfecting drunkorexia isn’t so tough, really. All you have to do is drink a ton of water during peak eating times (most of the time when you feel hungry, you’re really just thirsty. Try it out), then when you get off work or are in a dark corner of your office, start drinking. The water imbibed beforehand will hydrate you up and act as a nice base for the copious alcohol consumption you’ll indulge in for the better part of the night and wee morning hours. Once you get the alcohol hunger satiated, you are free to have a small morsel to whet the appetite: cheap pizza, a streetcorner hot dog, etc. Voila! Weight loss in extreme chunks! Just add cigarettes, some depressing rock music on the stereo and you’re on your way to heroin chic in no time!

Apparently, this new “trend” has been gaining attention in national media outlets. The report went on to mention other trends in the lexicon of eating disorders, none of which make any sense to me.

Me, I don’t like to be labeled, but let’s just say I haven’t not lost almost 20 pounds in two months by way of what experts are now calling “drunkorexia.” Luckily I now have a name to associate to my irrevocable happiness at the slender nature of my torso, but I imagine I’ll be giving it a rest now that it’s officially a “trend.” Fucking doctors…

To drink Bud Light beer to on Friday at 5:30 PM when you’re staring at a fucking computer for the 9th straight hour. Seriously if you didn’t buy this album in the fall of 2000 when it came out you missed some shit. Getting it into now wouldn’t really be the same, since the band kind of fucked off after this record, and the genre as a whole turned ghey real fast. It’s kind of like fucking some girl at your high school reunion who used to be hot in like 10 grade. If you weren’t there for the original, you’d just be fucking some ugly ass broad. But I’m high on sentimentality. Fuck with it.

…and check out the New Found Glory podcast at synthesisradio.net

Copy-Pasta courtesy of the New Music Tipsheet.

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Photo of the 2007 SXSW Synthesis / Drive-Thru Dayparty at Emo’s by Melissa Hellaver

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