Real World Austin
After more than 10 years of avoiding one of the most obvious locales for their hit show, MTV has finally decided to put seven strangers together in a house in Austin and see what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real (yeah right).
So you figure they will have at least one gay roommate because that is a prerequisite (this season's show in Philadelphia actually has two!). You figure they will have a token black person from the North who will be scared to come to Texas because he/she doesn't know that black people actually live in Texas. They will definitely have some stereotypical shit-kicker type from West Texas who seems like a racist simpleton but actually has a heart of gold and learns by the final episode to leave people of all races and sexual persuasions.
The cool part is that they will show the kids going to various music clubs and we might get to actually hear some cool bands along the way. The uncool part is that more people will learn that Austin is a great city and even more people will move there and make it too crowded for the rest of us to even think about moving there.
Any other predictions about the show?
And please no jokes about why a 37-year-old man is still watching this show.
What can I say? I'm old school.
So you figure they will have at least one gay roommate because that is a prerequisite (this season's show in Philadelphia actually has two!). You figure they will have a token black person from the North who will be scared to come to Texas because he/she doesn't know that black people actually live in Texas. They will definitely have some stereotypical shit-kicker type from West Texas who seems like a racist simpleton but actually has a heart of gold and learns by the final episode to leave people of all races and sexual persuasions.
The cool part is that they will show the kids going to various music clubs and we might get to actually hear some cool bands along the way. The uncool part is that more people will learn that Austin is a great city and even more people will move there and make it too crowded for the rest of us to even think about moving there.
Any other predictions about the show?
And please no jokes about why a 37-year-old man is still watching this show.
What can I say? I'm old school.
posted by cvo @ 1:04 PM
2 Comments:
At 4:41 PM,
R said…
Please join my cause. It's probably too late to save, but in our own small ways, each of us could prevent one or two more people from moving to Austin. Here is the drill: The First Rule of Project Austin, is don't say anything good about Austin. Don't lie, but don't volunteer anything good either. If anybody asks you about Austin, just talk about the traffic, about how uncool it is now that MTV is doing a show there, how expensive SxSW is now, etc. I picked up this cause from "Flea" of the Red Hot Chili Peppers when they were in town in around 91 or so. When a Chronicle reporter asked him about Austin, he said "It sucks, Don't move here!" It took me about a second to realize that he was acting as Guardian Angel for whatever was left that is cool in Austin. So tell two friends, etc., and we may yet prevent further Dallasification!
At 4:45 PM,
R said…
I should acknowledge James McMurtry as the other founding father of Project Austin:
I'm not from here
but people tell me
it's not like it used to be
they say I should have been here
back about ten years
before it got ruined by folks like me
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