Music

My favorite place is growing up.

July 25, 2011

This post is almost two months old and has been sitting in my drafts, completed with the exception of a picture I didn’t have on hand when I wrote it. I forgot about it, it became dated, and it has sat in my drafts feeling sad and lonely. I made some minor changes to fix [...]

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Coachella 2011

April 27, 2011

I had this idea in my head that I could somehow formulate a cohesive post to explain this year’s Coachella experience, but when 75,000 people gather in the desert for three days with over a hundred musical acts and a shit ton of weird art, that idea is absurd. So instead this is just going [...]

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April Adventures, Part 4: a ferris wheel in the desert

April 19, 2011

In the days following Coachella each year, I am mostly just confused as to why I am not running around the festival sweating and dancing and smiling. I now get to spend this week wandering around LA (or mostly just the valley). I of course have endless feelings about all things Coachella (favorite place! favorite [...]

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Desert days ahead.

January 19, 2011

I have a post brewing all about snow and what an evil hedonistic bitch she is and how she is out to ruin me by closing my places of employment and killing me on my drive home, all the while being pretty and convincing everyone else that she is lovely and that I am in [...]

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Concert seat upgrades: success and failure and how (little) I have progressed as a person

October 2, 2010

Over the summer I had big plans to get a job in LA and finally come “home” after eight years of obsessing over my big tragic middle-class displacement. The abysmal economy and my complete ineptitude when it comes to the process of job hunting colluded to create a rather different outcome. Instead of living on [...]

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Lions, and Tigers, and Naps! And Gaga! Oh my! (Lollapalooza part 2)

August 14, 2010

After all of my whining I felt it was important to talk about how truly awesome Lollapalooza actually was. I love festival shows. There is certainly something to be said for seeing bands at smaller, more intimate venues, but there is something awesome and magical about the magnitude of festival shows. There are so many [...]

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Let’s just get my negativity out of the way so we can move on to why Lollapalooza was awesome

August 10, 2010

You know what’s really annoying? When people incessantly put down Thing A in favor of Thing B when other people have only experienced Thing A. With that in mind, I apologize in advance to any die-hard Lollapalooza goers. I also encourage any fellow Coachella fanatics to attend Lollapalooza at some point, just to experience it [...]

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