To state the obvious: it’s not Coachella. At this point in my travels, Coachella remains the gold standard for concert festivals. Perhaps someday when I go to Leeds, Glastonbury, Reading, or the Fuji Rock Festival that will change. But for now, Coachella is the standard.
Don’t get me wrong: if they have Lollapalooza in Chicago [...]
I’ve posted my best Lollapalooza photos to my Flickr account. I’ve also typed in a few impresssions of the bands to support the photos. For the blow-by-blow, go check out the photos. Here, I’m going to get to a quick summary of the bands:
The Good:
The Redwalls were fun, The Warlocks were great, and [...]
Between the good points, the bad points, and a quick writeup of what bands I saw, this is going to be a lot of writing. So I’m going to write this over a few days. Bear with me. Let’s get started…
I have been through three truly traumatic things in my life. They are in no [...]
If you’re planning go to a few outdoor events, I cannot recommend strongly enough picking up a few collapsable chairs. I popped $15 for two chairs from Walgreens that morning, and it made all the difference in the world. Standing in the heat sucks, and sitting on the hard ground in the heat isn’t much [...]
Let me begin by saying that the Ashland green line stop looks like a lodge – full of rich, wood paneling. Compared to other el stops, the Ashland stop is the lap of luxury. But the plush comforts end there – there wasn’t even a Starbucks to be found on the way to the Festival. [...]
The wicked pisser about having a blog is this: there are a great number of things that happen in your life that you’ll going to want to bitch about. And unless you live your life like there are no consequences (did that for a summer once, and it’s a bad idea) you probably can’t write [...]