Eat to the Beat: Eat, Drink, Play

Good music, good food, good booze–Bacchus was onto something.

As the “recession” refuses to recede from our lives, not to mention constant terrorist hi-jinks and more wars than I can count (never mind the ideological/religious/sociopolitical details thereof), it’s getting harder and harder to knuckle down and tromp through life, watching yet another boring day tick off of the calendar. It all seems so pointless!

And it seems–for once–that my own sophomoric existential crisis appears to be in lockstep with a larger cultural shift: We’re moving away from “doing what’s expected of us” back to “doing what feels good” (though this ain’t the ’60s–hopefully we learned a few lessons from that rugged, patchouli-soaked ordeal).

So then, how is interest in high-quality fun manifesting itself in the culture at large?

Now we’ve got Viewtopia–an interactive reality TV/dining/musical experiment involving Justin.tv, Blip.fm, Whole Foods, SXSW, Wente Vineyards, kick ass indie bands (like The Antlers) and the resident oenophiliacs at In Vino.

The concept is to marry the three great reasons for celebrating life–food, music, drinks–in an interactive format so that even if you weren’t at Viewtopia’s inaugural session at In Vino last month, you could can eat and drink along interactively thanks to the glories of the world wide web. So stay tuned or join in.