Friday, June 30, 2006
sasquatch - day THREE!!!
thanks for being so patient everyone!life is nuts. work is nuts. i am tired. i need some time in the woods.
and yes, the flaming lips performed "yoshimi." it is now the husband's favorite FL song.
last night i went to lola's room to see my new friend Bre's band Rye Hollow play . . . this other band called Damon Castillo played too . . . they basically rocked.
have i mentioned that the husband is currently taking a german immersion course at lewis and clark college and is only speaking german for 5 weeks?!!??!?! even to me! it's been interesting. and slightly frustrating. but also very good for our (esp his) language skills.
ok, on to day three:
woke up.
breakfast.
sponge baths.
VERY SUNNY DAY.
started the day off right with some arctic monkeys, etc . . .
J and R ditched us during Nada Surf and the Decemberists so they could go see some other band (i totally forgot who . . . sheesh) . . . but we stuck around at the main stage for them.
the nada surf bassist has these long beautiful dreads and played the whole show with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth
at one point during the decemberists, all the band memebers were lying on the ground playing their instruments.
the scenery was gorgeous: (get it? gorge? heh heh.)
sitting in front of us during the show was this family with an 8 year old son . . . they left him alone for a while and he was laying there on the ground holding a beer bottle and putting his mouth on it at times. not sure if he was drinking out of it . . . but i got a good picture of him laying on the ground, gripping the bottle. i didn't think i should put it on the web though . . .
so, then one of the highlights of the day:
matisyahu!!!
he was everything you'd hope for and more. so groovy. and lanky. and at ease with himself and his faith. a rainbow came out and he talked about how god made a promise and how we all make mistakes. he actually said that god made a mistake . . . huh.
he was basically an incredible performer. and all around awesome individual. :)
toward the end of matisyahu, the husband and i left the mainstage to see the headphones play:
when david was doing pedro the lion he used to have question and answer time . . . now with the headphones, he has joke time . . . he told the joke i told earlier about bees giving milk. if you missed it, scroll down . . . its there somewhere.
after missing damien jurado (we bought some ice cream and some vegetarian t-shirts and tried to avoid the mud) we got settled in for death cab for cutie.
the only other times i've seen them have been out of doors as well . . . i wonder if i will ever have an indoors experience with death cab. anyway, they never played "transantlanticism" for which i might be holding a grudge. but they did play "passenger seat" my second favorite song of theirs.
the funny thing was (i never noticed this before) is that he is constantly rocking/step-touching back and forth while he plays. even while he is playing the keyboards. sort of makes me have motion sickness. and it makes it hard to hear him when his mouth is constantly moving from side to side on the mic.
but i will say that it was wicked cool when they brought out another mini drumset and he and his drummer played together for a good long while. very cool.
death cab was followed by beck. the end all to the weekend. last day. last band. beck.
nice.
and yet again, i fell asleep. but i did not miss the tambourine song. the fact that they had marionette puppets (that looked exactly like them!) on a stage behind them acting out the entire show (and projected on a screen for us to see). they came out in bear costumes at one point and had a tussle. they had a "mockumentary" with their puppets . . . some video montage of footage they had taken during the day . . . at one point a puppet said "will you exfoliate my bicept?" okaaaaay . . . the part i did miss was when they brought out a table with place settings and played percussion on it . . . with the silverware and cups and stuff. wish the husband had woken me up for that!
since then, i have decided that i really really dig beck. should they come to town again, i will take a nap and THEN go see their show. love. it.
good music.
seriously.
i am sorry for sleeping.
please forgive me.
that night, we got back to camp and the wind was CRAZY!!! our tent would have blown over if it hadn't been for the fact that we had all the food inside it!
J lost all of her tent stakes and her tent blew over with her inside it the next morning while we were packing up camp!
here is our tent in the wind:
we almost lost the pirate flags i had attached to the tent . . . but don't be alarmed -- i salvaged them!
we drove home . . . stopping at an awesome rest stop where J rode one of those horses that you put a quarter in and it rocks forward and backward :) . . .
good times. good music. good friends. AWESOME bands.
what can i say? i was a happy girl.
and there you have it. i hope it was all it was cracked up to be for you . . . thanks for your patience.
next thing to wait for: pictures from my sister's wedding!
say it don't spray it 6:02 PM
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