There are two kinds of people who think it would be cool to move to Austin.

The first kind, which includes everyone from corporate suits to aspiring counterculturalists, is drawn to the new Austin, the Austin of the South by Southwest festival, of Dell computers, of fields of food trucks. The other kind of Austin aspirant is drawn to the old Austin, a lost Austin. We’ll call him Moon Tower Man.

As the name suggests, he’s usually a man, and he’s loved Austin ever since, in his salad days, he was entranced by Richard Linklater’s classic “Dazed and Confused.” That 1993 movie, set in Austin on the last day of school in 1976, stars gas-guzzlers and classic trucks, cruising to a soundtrack of Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foghat. It represents the old, eight-track Austin, and if you feel rushed by today’s sped-up, broadband world, this romanticized Austin of the 1970s seems like an antidote. Every time I see the movie, I want to move there.

That Austin is, of course, mostly gone, replaced in part by the new Austin. But the moon towers remain. As fans of the movie know, that night in 1976 is pretty lame until somebody — it seems to be Wooderson, played by Matthew McConaughey — pulls together a “beer bust” at “the moon tower.” Word spreads, and everyone assembles in the woods, under the bright glow of a tall tower with lights at the top. They drink, smoke weed, flirt, fight. A few teens even climb the moon tower. Of course they don’t fall. How could they? It’s a perfect night.