After a long talk with no one but myself, I’ve decided to go to SXSW. I’d already purchased a ticket to fly to the U.S. from Tel Aviv — a stopover in Istanbul for a TED talk was canceled when flights were halted — and when I return to Israel, I’ll need to quarantine myself for 14 days.
My Israeli mother is worried. Sorry, mom. SXSW changed my life. I remember applying for the first time in 2008 from an AOL account on my mom’s old laptop for my group project with C Rayz Walz.
We got in. On my first ever tour, I walked into my first SXSW event and was flabbergasted. During that trip to Austin, I met a group called the KNUX.
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