“BACK 2 LIFE. BACK 2 REALITY.”

In the past three weeks, I’ve been to Cleveland (to surprise my mom for her birthday), New York City, Buttfuck, New Jersey, and Philadelphia (for Rockstar Taste Of Chaos)  and Austin, Texas (for the SXSW Music Conference). I can hardly remember my own name, let alone what time zone I’m in. I just got back on Sunday from nearly a week in Austin and I’m almost too pooped to pop.  I spent most of my time seeing great bands, eating guacamole, walking up and down 6th Street, sweating, seeing bad bands, shaking hands, kissing babies, stepping over horse poop and stuffing my face with tortilla chips. I wrote all about it on Buzznet, but in…

I LOVE L.A.—NOT REALLY: PT. 2

I just got back from dinner with the fam and I am totes stuffed to the gills. Food coma in effect, ya’ll. However, I couldn’t take a trip on the snooze cruise without updating my trusty website. It’s been waaaaay too long. Freals. Let’s see… What have I been up to? Main, I’ve been traveling. At the end of February, I flew back home to Cleveland to surprise my mom for her birthday. Although it was a short weekend, it was awesome to see the rents and my besties Bridget and Rachel. Four days after returning from C-Town, I hoofed it to NYC for a week of meetings before I met up with the Rockstar…

More about Leslie Simon

Leslie is the author of Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks and Other Misfits Are Taking Over the World, out now through It Books. She is also the author of Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is the Senior Creative Director at Warner Bros. Records.