2 Responses to “Affliction goes to SXSW in Austin, TX”

1. Mike Wilkerson - 2GuysTalking Says:
   March 30th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

   A couple of things here:

   1.) NOTHING that I see here makes me want to spend (what I think is) a LOT of money for clothing.

   2.) I’ve never been a fan of Jackass antics. My TapouT Caption Hunt reviews are a perfect sample. The more they got into life stories of the fighters and less into the game-playing-prank horseshit, the better the show got.

   3.) Alcohol + Guns + Fireworks = DEAD PEOPLE. While I haven’t seen any of the “show” or videos, the fact is that we’re literally talking about explosives, and things that will make you very dead, very quickly, on purpose or by accident.

   I don’t want to be the wet blanket of reason, but this isn’t anything in the sample I’d want youth to see to “emulate” and revel in.

2. Jim Says:
   March 30th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

   1.) NOTHING that I see here makes me want to spend (what I think is) a LOT of money for clothing.

   –It’s called ‘brand building’. That and they wanted to head to SXSW and wanted to take the tax writeoff for it.

   2.) I’ve never been a fan of Jackass antics. My TapouT Caption Hunt reviews are a perfect sample. The more they got into life stories of the fighters and less into the game-playing-prank horseshit, the better the show got.

   –Agreed, but keep in mind that this is a heavy metal band here. It’s basically the opposite dynamic from fighters–this is ‘training’ for them. And these are actually very tame antics.

   3.) Alcohol + Guns + Fireworks = DEAD PEOPLE. While I haven’t seen any of the “show” or videos, the fact is that we’re literally talking about explosives, and things that will make you very dead, very quickly, on purpose or by accident.

   –I have to disagree here. Alcohol + Guns + Fireworks = a weekend night in the south. If you haven’t shot off a bunch of fireworks in a trashcan, only to have drunken rednecks suggest that it wasn’t entertaining enough and that gunpower and lighter fluid poured over them and set off while one of them opens fire on the trashcan with an automatic weapon then, frankly, you haven’t lived. But then again, I need several fingers of one hand to count the people I know who have working belt fed machine guns prominently displaced in their living rooms. I scoff at the states who only sell fireworks near holidays when there’s an obvious need for them 24/7/365.

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