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Lost - white, partially transparent sport water bottle with black coachella logo. Dropped between water refill booth and restrooms in the entrance area, ~midnight Sunday. Anyone see it? :p

I can't stress enough how great it was to have rented a house with friends.

If you get about 8-10 people (maybe even as few as 6), you can EASILY find a house for rent that 1) will cost less than...

This year was definitely the year of gold lamme. *shudder*

My vote is for the 2 douchebag photographers that shoved their way past me during Portishead. "Don't push me, I've been working for 10 hours!!" Wow, work makes you an asshole? Maybe you should...

I was really looking forward to them and they ripped. Great show. And they prove once again the indisputable fact that petite chick + bass guitar = sexy. Every. Time.

I blew it (not during Prince) and saw other people doing it, but it was almost impossible to hear with all of the other noise.

As long as they aren't somehow made with bread, that's not an issue. As a matter of fact, you're pretty much required to get drunk, so as an extension of that it's practically a mandate to do drugs....

http://www.jenniegreg.com/Gallery/main.php?cmd=image&var1=Chicago+-+Oct+2007%2F040.jpg&var2=0_0Taken last October in Oak Park, IL.

It's obviously a combination of factors, but acid most certainly can trigger psychotic episodes and/or permanent psychological changes. My friend went from a little off beat with zero symptoms of...

Remind me again when they DO sound good? It ain't called the bread of affliction for nothing.

Where my Jews at?

It happened in '05, and it happened again this year, Coachella fell during Passover. No bread or bread-like products.

Of course, it's not like any of the food at Coachella is...

Crazy Diamond gets me every time. I have (had?) a friend whose story so totally mirrors Syd's (save for the internationally famous musical revolutionary bit) it's scary. Brilliant creative guy with...

Oh yeah, good call on Boingo. That was on my fantasy list as the requisite reunited big-name headliner. I saw their farewell Halloween show, as well as the Halloween show they ear before, and...

Woohoo, another Knife fan! Though we gotta stop holding our breaths as they're on a self-imposed 3 year hiatus. Although I'd settle for a visit from Coolof, Olof's solo DJ project.

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Don't know if he really qualifies as a douche, but he did have me wondering, "Where exactly...

Hey, at least yours was green. Other than me, I only saw one other dude wearing a green one. So I felt light slightly less of a tool (I forgot to pack my hat, so I was forced to buy one there).

Daft Punk was amazing, but in terms of spectacle, nothing holds a candle to the Waters show. Nothing. The very definition of spectacular. Others may have had him beat in other ways to other people...

Circulatory System
Of Montreal
The Knife
Man Man again
Holy F*ck again
Tom Waits

We hung out outside the tent for most of Spiritualized's set. That organ was mixed WAY too loud, completely drowned out everything else.

Toss up between Man Machine and "They know what is what, but they don't know what is what. What the fuck?"

They were high on my list of musts, but I had no idea they would be THAT good. Pure awesome.

It was nice in that it made the whole entereing/exiting experience feel like much less of a clusterfuck. No more "you made it through the chicks' line faster than the dudes you're with, but you...

This amused me, day 3, Sahara:

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So were the balloons being sold or was someone just handing...

Yeah, I'd be pretty surprised if someone else had that shirt.

Me on day 3:

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Me and my wife on day 2:...

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Never did get to the bottom of those.

Pink Floyd is political, has always been political, always will be political. They are one of the most powerfully moving anti-war voices we have and thank god Waters doesn't cave to idiots who tell...

Binoculars. Can't believe I never thought of that before.

Bring both of my illicit "professional" camera lenses in instead of just the telephoto (hah, if I tried to pass my camera off as...

The beginning of the set didn't grab me, so I wandered away. Listening to the recordings I wish I'd wandered back for the second half, sounds like it got much better.

I'll keep my air conditioned sleep, morning swims, and night time hot tub soaks at the house we rented with a bunch of friends. A little extra time in the car and a little extra walking is a small...

I was really looking forward to them, but was pretty disappointed. Maybe their set got stronger, but I bailed after the first couple of songs. Panda Bear sounded like crap live to me which was a...

Correction - I stopped a step early, that's $4million/day, so $12million over 3 days on tickets.

Actually, while $2/bottle is obviously a big markup over the outside world, it's the best deal on water going for any sort of venue, whether it's an outdoor concert or a club or a stadium. And kudos...

Hey, if you're that one girl. You know, the really cute one wearing next to nothing, oversized sunglasses, with a great rack, drop me a PM.

Our biggest snag was getting IN on Friday. We rolled in around 2PM and traffic was crawling on Monroe starting before Ave. 48. It took at least half an hour to go those 4 blocks.

But Saturday...

So it's not a particularly good photo, but considering I was about 300 yards back (just in front of the rear speaker tower), trying to hold a 200mm lens steady with no tripod and get the shot between...

Friday night after Fatboy Slim, lot 6 (off Monroe, closest to the venue) was at a complete standstill. We were parked further away in lot 5, and I was pissed off as people who arrived after me were...

I don't mind a complaint here and there. If something wasn't done right, then it wasn't done right, whether everything else was awesome or not.

The only thing that gets old for me is people...

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It lied.

No. Just off the top of my head, Franz Ferdinand. I'm sure others have.

I know, nothing worse than a band that gets people to dance. Worthless bastards have no business at Coachella.

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Holy Fuck
new Portishead
the rest of Man Man's catalog
Sons and Daughters

The last song of the first set was Pigs from Animals, not Sheep.

I gotta add Portishead to the list. I was purposely keeping my expectations low, so it was a beautiful surprise when she (and the whole band) got out there and blew me away.

I'll just wait for the Bootleg 2008 Bootleg Thread.

Impossible to actually rank these:

Man Man
Portishead
Roger Waters
Gogol Bordello
Holy Fuck
Lucent Dosier*
Sharon Jones
Sons and Daughters

Nope, I saw exactly what Not Afraid saw, looked like they were trying to get them off stage and then they crammed like 4 songs back to back to keep things going. I also saw people rushing the girl...

For total surprise, Holy Fuck. I hadn't really payed attention to them coming in, but we walked past the Gobi and had to stop. They proceeded to kick some serious ass. Brilliant show.

My...

Considering they said he was found unresponsive AT Coachella, then it probably had something to do with being at Coachella. But then, I'm no doctor.