Curds 'N Tunes
First I need to make an important correction to my previous post. There is no "America Beard Team", but rather the team is called "Beard Team USA". Phil Olsen is the founder of the team, and maintains The Beard Team USA Blog to update their efforts to all interested. You will notice that there is no entry for the competition in Saint Paul, which surely must be a whale of an embarrassment for the entire team from coast to coast.
I made the mistake of taking a look at the Lollapalooza website today. It looks ridiculously good and made me more jealous than ever. Here is a mock shedule of what I might have seen if I could have gone. Note: This is totally outrageous.
Friday
2:30-3:30 Eels*
3:30-4:30 Stars*
4:30-5:30 Ryan Adams*
5:30-6:30 Iron & Wine*
6:30-7:30 The Raconteurs*
7:30-8:30 Sleater Kinney*
8:30-10:00 DCFC
Saturday
12:00-12:30 Rainer Maria*
12:30-1:30 Nada Surf*
1:30-2:30 The Go! Team*
2:30-3:30 Built to Spill
3:30-4:30 Calexico*
4:30-5:30 Gnarls Barkley*
6:30-7:30 The Flaming Lips
7:30-8:30 The New Pornographers
8:30-10:00 Kanye West*
Sunday
Not totally stoked about the early schedule, so might rest up in the am
3:30-4:30 Andrew Bird
4:30-5:30 Shins
5:30-6:00 Of Montreal*
6:30-7:30 Wilco
7:30-8:15 Broken Social Scene
8:15-9:45 RHCP
*=artists not previously seen live
I cannot even fathom how good that must be. Right now as I am writing the palpable energy must be building for Kanye. Oh my goodness this is hard to handle. Here is a text message exchange that just occured.
gurs: golddigger!
turducken: Mayhem right now
turducken: Racounters and flips best ro far
I am too jealous for words.
My call schedule has limited me a bit in some of the concerts I have been able to see here in the twin cities. Call nights have blocked me out of Jens Lekman and Wolf Parade recently and I missed out on the Raconteurs because they sold out. I did catch the Futureheads last week who annihilated me in the best way possible. Very powerful yet friendly group. I met an entemologist at the show and that was a first for me as well.
The Decemberists and Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah are two upcoming shows that should be pretty good, but what I am most excited for is seeing the Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, and Magic Numbers together while eating cheese curds at the Minnesota State Fair. 4 for 1 Minnesota Special.
I am currently reading from Baseball Prosepectus' "Baseball Between the Numbers". Hopefully I can read a chapter tonight, and the chapter is appropriately titled "Is David Ortiz a Clutch Hitter?" Now, I know that a lot of people don't belive clutch-hitting exists, but Big Papi has to be an exception. In his brief interview after hitting the 3-run walkoff against the Tribe last Sunday he was asked how he does it time and tiem again. Big Papi responded, "Concentration." You gotta love him.
I made the mistake of taking a look at the Lollapalooza website today. It looks ridiculously good and made me more jealous than ever. Here is a mock shedule of what I might have seen if I could have gone. Note: This is totally outrageous.
Friday
2:30-3:30 Eels*
3:30-4:30 Stars*
4:30-5:30 Ryan Adams*
5:30-6:30 Iron & Wine*
6:30-7:30 The Raconteurs*
7:30-8:30 Sleater Kinney*
8:30-10:00 DCFC
Saturday
12:00-12:30 Rainer Maria*
12:30-1:30 Nada Surf*
1:30-2:30 The Go! Team*
2:30-3:30 Built to Spill
3:30-4:30 Calexico*
4:30-5:30 Gnarls Barkley*
6:30-7:30 The Flaming Lips
7:30-8:30 The New Pornographers
8:30-10:00 Kanye West*
Sunday
Not totally stoked about the early schedule, so might rest up in the am
3:30-4:30 Andrew Bird
4:30-5:30 Shins
5:30-6:00 Of Montreal*
6:30-7:30 Wilco
7:30-8:15 Broken Social Scene
8:15-9:45 RHCP
*=artists not previously seen live
I cannot even fathom how good that must be. Right now as I am writing the palpable energy must be building for Kanye. Oh my goodness this is hard to handle. Here is a text message exchange that just occured.
gurs: golddigger!
turducken: Mayhem right now
turducken: Racounters and flips best ro far
I am too jealous for words.
My call schedule has limited me a bit in some of the concerts I have been able to see here in the twin cities. Call nights have blocked me out of Jens Lekman and Wolf Parade recently and I missed out on the Raconteurs because they sold out. I did catch the Futureheads last week who annihilated me in the best way possible. Very powerful yet friendly group. I met an entemologist at the show and that was a first for me as well.
The Decemberists and Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah are two upcoming shows that should be pretty good, but what I am most excited for is seeing the Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, and Magic Numbers together while eating cheese curds at the Minnesota State Fair. 4 for 1 Minnesota Special.
I am currently reading from Baseball Prosepectus' "Baseball Between the Numbers". Hopefully I can read a chapter tonight, and the chapter is appropriately titled "Is David Ortiz a Clutch Hitter?" Now, I know that a lot of people don't belive clutch-hitting exists, but Big Papi has to be an exception. In his brief interview after hitting the 3-run walkoff against the Tribe last Sunday he was asked how he does it time and tiem again. Big Papi responded, "Concentration." You gotta love him.
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