Yes I agree. I am fucking stupid. My polls are fucking stupid. I know the siccness.net isn't centralized in Austin, but SXSW gets more than 75,000 visitors a year. That's a good thing for the Austin economy since we get a lot of visitors. But I can bet that the bigger cities in California wish they had a fest that had 75,000 people attend a year. It's just that ACL and SXSW don't pay musicians well.
There's a lot of huge festivals in CA. Bob Marley festival, rock the bells, electric daisy carnival, and probably 10 more that happen yearly that I can't think of off top. Just FYI.
Then you got trade shows in Las Vegas, which is 5 hrs from most big cities in ca. The porn conventions, the tattoo conventions, clothing conventions, etc.
Comic con in San Diego, although not music based, brings in more than that. A lot of musicians show up to comic con because of the exposure granted. Theres quite a lot in California going on yearly.
Sxsw is dope though, I've always liked it. But whether or not someone in CA shows up to sxsw is entirely up to them and it wouldn't matter if we wanted them to or not because 1) we more than likely won't be there and 2) it's not our career, we aren't their managers. It's up to you as a musician/artist to decide that, depending on how much you feel it may play into your advantage or possibly, if you just want a vacation and feel like going to something music based.
Anyways, like I said, just think out your polls. No one really cares that you do them, or if you don't, it would just be nice if they were more interactive and brought up something that interested the posters enough to have a opinion on, that's all I'm sayin gangsta.
And they don't pay well because it's to gain exposure, and that should pay off in the long run personally if you use it to your advantage. Things like that in CA come and go, due to violence in venues, etc etc. lots that plays into that.
I wish you well dude I'm just critical of things and you are no exception. My advice or opinions will help you at the end of the day.
You should do reviews on taco shops/taco trucks. Maybe ice cream trucks
I think you should review random ass shit. Like condoms. Or youtube videos. Just shit that people would get a kick out of and laugh. If you played it right, your ridiculously obvious/simple reviews would be more hilarious and could go far.
I have a 2 hour radio show where knock you off music-sonny Bo-mackalino were co hosting, if you like their music I'll find a mp3 of that radio show and send it to you. I would have put you on my radio show, you just need some direction in the things you do and they'd work out much better.
Toodeloo-keep rockin in the free world, mixerr.