Welcome to the 24th annual SXSW awesome music and media thingy!! I can think of no better way to kick things off than to bring in the funny...

Comedian/writer Scott Aukerman is very funny. Helped make comedy at SXSW what it is today. Is one of the perpetrators of Twitflix.

He ate a salad today. Ate a sandwich yesterday. Has no plans yet for tomorrow.

Here's his most interesting...

The LP Questionnaire
Name: Scott Aukerman
Pro Wrestling Name: Uncle Cannon (which coincidentally is my pet name for Mariah Carey's vagina)

1. Pretend you’re 15. Name three songs you'd put on a mix tape for your girlfriend/boyfriend. It's 1986. I desperately want to impress my girlfriend/boyfriend by appealing to her/his asexuality. So I throw on a little Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want," Echo & The Bunnymen's "Bring On The Dancing Horses," and OMD's "If You Leave." Then she/he finds out it's not a mix-tape, but rather the Pretty In Pink soundtrack, and that my name's not Duckie.

2. Which evil villain would make the best President? Lex Luthor. He has the experience to do the job. He has the Kryptonite ring to keep any vicious aliens in line. He just needs to hop onto The Flash's cosmic treadmill, and breach the barrier from the DC universe and into ours.

3. What was your favorite cartoon as a child? George W. Bush!!! Am I right, motherfuckers?????? POLITICS!!!!!

4. What superpower do you wish you had? Invisibility, as long as my semen could be invisible too

5. What would the title of your autobiography be? Mahvelous! I know Billy Crystal already used it for his book, but there really is no other word to describe my life.

Pick Three
Broken Bells
Spoon
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Okay, maybe these are the ONLY acts I'm going to get to see, just because they'll be at Stubbs my one night off. See you there!

Pick Three - Doug Benson

I've been bugging Doug Benson to do Pick Three for a while because I admit I've had a bit of a crush on him ever since I started reading his movie reviews on BobandDavid.com. They are irl lol, you know what I'm sayiin'?

Benson once knocked Charles Barkley out of a poker tournament, was an extra in the Michael Jackson 3-D movie Captain EO and drank Tang with Buzz Aldrin. He told me, "I am a name dropper. Also, I like weed." That last part comes as a total surprise to me.

I was following a theme from his...

Pick Three
The Muffs: I really want to see The Muffs, because I have a crush on lead singer Kim Shattuck.

She & Him: I'm excited to see She & Him, because i have a crush on the "She" half, Zooey Deschanel.

Motörhead: And I'm looking forward to seeing Motörhead because - know where this is headed? Lemmy could crush me. He's huge! I met him once, and when we shook hands, it was like my tiny baby hand was in the middle of Lemmy's giant catcher's mitt hand.

I'm also looking forward to doing shows with my comedy pals Brian Posehn, Tig Notaro, Todd Barry, Margaret Cho, Eugene Mirman, Scott Aukerman and Maria Bamford, just to name seven.

It's all started hasn't it? It really has. The 90s have, anyway... I feel like Marty McFly picked me up in Doc's DeLorean and dropped me off in Seattle 1991 the way things look around here. I really thought there was a mustache explosion coming. How could I have been so wrong? If you've enjoyed Scott and Doug and I bet you have, you can also enjoy other awesome people right here, right now.

You can follow us on @sxsw and @mspark. That is the place for condensed good times.

Oh oh! The pandas called Instrumenti updated their LPQ/Pick Three - you can read it here

And speaking of pandas... I recommended them and some others on this week's edition of "Five Records You Should Be Listening To" on Nerve.com.

I take my aim and I fake my words, lp

Scott Aukerman photo by Seth Olenick
Doug Benson photo by Robyn von Swank