Trying to get into Mum's amazing performance but getting distracted by a rather poopy odor....
Trying to get into Mum's amazing performance but getting distracted by a rather poopy odor....
Worst moment of Coachella 08? people skipping out on uffie!
coachella vet: 02, 03, 06, 07, 08, 09......
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I've successfully avoided having to crap the last 2 Coachellas. Behind the port-a-potties near the Sahara were a couple of trailer bathrooms which were actually fairly nice, especially since I just used the urinal. I never really had to wait in them and while the floor had a mystery liquid come Sunday, they weren't really gross at all. You people need to learn to avoid port-a-potties at all costs. My solution: eat once during the day and leave your second meal for very late at night so that if the urge to shit hits you, you can probably hold it off for the couple hours till you get back to the hotel.
Getting into a car wreck right as I got to Indio -- made the whole 3 hour drive safely and then cracked up my car 10 minutes from the festival! Luckily my insurance company was awesome and got me towed and a rental truck all within a couple hours, so I didn't miss much of the show![]()
Playing "shoulders" (a drinking game) saturday at about noon. I was planning to get in the venue at about 2 with enough time to spare to catch MGMT and anybody before them. i ended up getting really hammered (im talking hammered, like you can punch me in the face and i wont feel it. thats how drunk) and time flew by. I missed MGMT which i guess i missed out, but made it in time to see Cafe Tacvba. Me and my friend were drunk and we started moshing. Soon there was a mosh pit going on. It was really hot (not that it really bothered me or anything cuz of the alcohol) and i was so drunk i couldnt feel that i was getting dehydraded. After jumping around and going crazy for a while, I noticed something was not right when i started seing stars i felt like passing out and throwing up which is not a very good feeling. i took it more easy and one of the security guys was nice enough to give me half of his water. i got all the way to the front row to see Death Cab after Tacvba. I saw the whole Death Cab show but i only remember 2 of there songs. That show went by so quick!! after theyre show i started feeling like i wanted to pass out again because of the heat. I was so lucky that one of the crew guys was throwing bottled water into the crowd and i was lucky enough to catch one. i was so close to leaving the front row and to get water but didnt want to give up that spot and miss Portishead and Prince. That water bottle ended up saving my saturday. After enjoying amazing performances by Kraftwerk, Portishead and Prince, i started feeling so weak and my legs were even giving out on me and i had that weird chill down my spine and i was light headed like a bitch. I barely made it one of the stands and bought two gatorades and downed them both. 5-10 minutes later i felt great.
Lessons ive learned for next year
- yeah go ahead and get drunk but not too drunk in the day cuz it will catch up to you. I think i might have been close to being in bad condition.
-Never mosh being stupid drunk in coachella heat.
-If so, take a few gatorades with you so you wont lose a good spot to get water.
-Dehydration is a creeper when your drunk. Before you know it your already about to pass out. (And trust me. I can hold my shit.)
Last edited by bluemamba; 06-30-2008 at 01:07 AM.
Worst moment?
Having to miss Flogging Molly
American Bang- I was embarrassed for them.
No shit. I'm glad you just figured this out.
Here's alesson for you and all the other noobs: you can bring in sealed bottles of water. I filled my backpack with eight bottles of water and never once had to go buy water. I even ended up giving out bottles of water to a dude I thought was going to keel over and die.
Worst moment: Having to sit through the shitfest that was Diplo's set to have a good spot for Aphex.
Nothing about the festival itself was bad, I was just disappointed with the lack of cool band T's and fucking furious with the parking lot clusterfuck. Besides that it was smooth sailing.
leaving waters early to roll my ass off in the sahara.... but that was still good fun. i just wanted to see DSOTM
Did you know freedom exists in school books?
Do you know we exist?
Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom.
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle.
We're trying for something that's already found us.
We live, we die & death not ends it
Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws.
I will not go Prefer a feast of friends
To the Giant family.....and dont hate cus i cant spell the word CHIEF.
Did you know freedom exists in school books?
Do you know we exist?
Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom.
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle.
We're trying for something that's already found us.
We live, we die & death not ends it
Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws.
I will not go Prefer a feast of friends
To the Giant family.....and dont hate cus i cant spell the word CHIEF.
shitting my trousers every hour or so for the whole weekend. at least i could get right to the front of every set rgough. prabebly because i smelled a bit foul
Did you know freedom exists in school books?
Do you know we exist?
Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?
We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom.
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle.
We're trying for something that's already found us.
We live, we die & death not ends it
Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws.
I will not go Prefer a feast of friends
To the Giant family.....and dont hate cus i cant spell the word CHIEF.
Bring immodium next time.
upcoming
Bjork doing Biophilia, 6/2 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
Outside Lands, 8/9-11 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
--almost, almost, almost the real thing
How do you spell train wreck?
M.I.A.
Worst moment of Coachella 08?
When Jack Johnson was headlining friday night instead of Jack and Meg White.
Missing Erol Alkan after Boys Noize due to exhaustion... Uffie was the biggest waste of time over.... probably the worst concert ive seen in my life.... even more so than AvA and Bob Dylan.
Upcoming Shows:
Pitchfork Festival: 7/19 @ Union Park
Mountain Oasis Festival: 10/25-27
Bob Dylan suck live??
lol
/\ Bob Dylan is one of my all time musical heroes, I absolutely adore the man...but at this point, I honestly wish he'd retire from touring and live his life as the legend he is. The last few times I've seen him, it was painful and depressing as his voice is terribly shot and it sounds like a major struggle to force out each line. Many of the songs, you can't even recognize
'99-'11...
exactly... the show i saw, he played:
Cat's In The Well
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
When The Deal Goes Down
Watching The River Flow
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Tangled Up In Blue
Workingman's Blues #2
Highway 61 Revisited
Simple Twist Of Fate
Desolation Row
Summer Days
Like A Rolling Stone
All Along The Watchtower
the first 13 songs all sounded the same, then the only 2 songs that I knew, Like a Rolling Stone and All Along The Watchman were very unrecognizable, you barely even knew he was playing them. the music was in a diff key, his voice was horrible.... he had his back to half the arena the whole time....awful.
Upcoming Shows:
Pitchfork Festival: 7/19 @ Union Park
Mountain Oasis Festival: 10/25-27
camping security was so lame.....
can't the campers just have fun
felt like we all had a babysitter in the place