06.16
I was in car 22 to get into the music, art, comedy, and glow stick festival last Wednesday. I went with Ramzi and got to. I traveled 1000 miles according to google maps each way. I got to sleep in my old bed and recover my old space foam pad the night before heading down. We all had a great time.
Andrew Bird and Portugal, the Man were the best acts. The Daily Show gang was hilarious.
I went to in chronological order: White Rabbits, Portugal, the Man, People Under the Stairs, Gomez, Animal Collective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moe, TV on the Radio, Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Phish, Girl Talk, Bon Iver, Of Montreal, the Decemberists, MGMT, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Andrew Bird, Snoop Dogg, Neko Case, Phish, and Bruce Springsteen. In addition I went to two comedy shows with Christian Finnegan, Janeane Garofalo, Nick Thune, Arj Barker, and Pete Holmes and Rory Albanese, Kristen Schaal, Wyatt Cenac, Rob Riggle, and John Oliver.
For one week I only showered by rain, a dirty water fountain, and a shamwow – which does live up to its name. I don’t like Phish phanatics because many of them booed Bruce when it came out to perform with Phish at the last show of the festival. What the hell? Chill out. Phish went over that the best concert they ever went to was Springsteen, and then they boo the idol of their idol. There was also fog machines everywhere in the audience for the Snoop Dogg show. Neko Case did a duo with Triump the insult comic dog. Andrew Bird screwed up his loop machine four times in a row. Dosh was with him. I missed missing Elvis Costello and the E street band.
Oh, and I got to eat at a Jack In The Box on the way back up.