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jactradesSo, a bunch of things have occurred since we last talked, internet!
1. I dropped out of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
het_bigbang. *sadface* I probably could have pushed to get my story done by the deadline, but I'll be traveling during that week (on the Pacific NW Roadtrip of Awesome), and would really rather concentrate on having Fun Times than revisions. Plus internet access will be hella iffy - I think we'll be in the uninhabited northeast corner of California on posting day, and at Crater Lake the day before.
However, I still really love this story and will get it finished sooner or later. Preferably sooner so that I can stop hogging all of the library's Berlin Airlift books. (Also, historians, why do you hide all the hilarious stories in the endnotes?)
2. The husband and I went to Outside Lands with a few friends. Outside Lands is SF's music festival, smaller than Coachella, but with much better food. It was Abhi's first music festival, and so fantastically organized and with so many great bands (oh, the scheduling woes of three great bands on three stages at the same time) that I fear I've ruined him for anything else.
Friday
Food: Korean tacos, an organic peach, red velvet mini cupcake, Indian kati rolls, sweet potato tater tots, fried pickles. Kati rolls were the best (and like $8 for a big roll), followed by an even tie between the Korean tacos and the fried pickles.
Shows:
Lotus - a chill instrumental electric jam group. Good to get a light dance going to. I'd love to see them in a smaller club.
Foster the People, my favorite band of the summer. They were... decent, but lost a bit of momentum halfway through - probably because they only have one album out, and not all of the songs on it are good for playing to a 10k crowd. They did a fantastic cover of Weezer's Say It Ain't So, though, and had the entire crowd singing along.
MGMT - on the main stage, which I think was having sound problems. Or else they were just sucking it up live, which isn't exactly uncommon for them.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - they were having fun on stage, but I don't remember much else. So eh.
Big Audio Dynamite - sounded like a standard rock band, although I appreciated the mix of old & new.
The Shins - blew me away, and this wasn't the first time I've seen them live.
Saturday
Food: Malaysian chicken rolls, pulled pork sandwiches, mushroom sliders, and a gourmet strawberry & whipped cream funnel cake.
Funny story about the funnel cake: I queued up for it about fifteen minutes before a set started, and cleverly left my phone with my group in front of the stage. The main stage. The one with about 20K people dancing in front of it. *shakes head*
I ended up texting Abhi my location (from a kind stranger's phone), and sat down and ate that funnel cake by my lonesome self. You'd think the sadness of being lost in a crowd would dim the tastiness, but nope, it was one of the best things I've ever put in my mouth.
Shows:
Ana Tijoux - a Chilean/French female hiphop artist. Badass and wonderful, and I'm sure it'd have been even better if I could speak Spanish.
The Vaccines - completely lived up to my expectations, which were very, very high. Amazing energy on stage and had the crowd right there with them.
OK GO - the music was only okay compared to their studio work, but they get huge bonus points for playing a handbell song on stage, and wading out into the crowd for a couple of songs.
Arctic Monkeys - I was a bit distracted by the funnel cake debacle, but they sounded great from where I was sitting, drowning my sorrows in fried goods.
The Black Keys - the biggest question of the weekend was why do we not own more Black Keys? That situation has been rectified.
Muse - there's a reason they were headlining Saturday: Muse puts on a fucking fantastic show of lights and anthems.
Sunday
Food: more kati rolls, with samosas, fried mac & cheese, clam chowder (in a sourdough bread bowl, of course), alfajores with coffee, and more funnel cake. Oh, and we went to the Wine Lands tent in themorning early noon and tried out seven or eight different local wines.
Shows:
Junip - a Swedish folk rock band with an electric feel. The best completely-new-to-us find of the festival.
Grouplove - nice indie folk/rock band. Nothing special, but they were fun to listen to.
!!! - I dozed on the hill during most of their performance, but from the mass of people jumping in front of the stage, I think that was more due to my exhaustion than the band.
John Fogerty - fulfilled all of my cowbell desires. Gosh, I love CCR.
The Decemberists - were chill and perfect.
Arcade Fire - a great choice on the part of the organizers to end the weekend with.
And then I stumbled back to the car, slept on the ride back to South Bay, and had to go to work the next morning, bleary-eyed and still drunk on music.
3. We went to the SF Street Food Festival in the Mission last weekend, and I will not detail even more food again, but it was delish and I love this city and its wack-a-doodle chill folks.
4. If you got all the way through that, then you rock, and should fill out this meme I've genked from all over, especially if you're a new person!
1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4: What do you do with your (week) days:
5. What makes you happy:
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
7. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. A school subject/hobby/interest of yours and why you like it:
10. Favorite place to be:
11. Favorite lyric or quote:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Summer's winding down (or winter, if you're in the other hemisphere) - any fun plans on the horizon:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band:
4: A tv show:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you?
Edit:
5. There's a five that I forgot! I'm in the process of making a number of mixes for my best friend, who has been temporally transferred from her home in Bangalore to work on a project in England (somewhere... not London). Anyways, we're jogging buddies, and she's been having motivational issues, so I'm pulling together a bunch of fun songs to run to. One mix will be Bollywood, one will be dance/electric, one will be un-ironically awesome pump-it-up songs like Eye of the Tiger, and one will be indie-ish summer-y stuff. And maybe more, depending.
If anyone has song suggestions, they'd be extremely welcome. I'll post the mixes here once I get them all done. I've never really pulled together my running music, so this has been a fun process. (And also needed - see above for all of the nomnomnoming of unhealthy fried food I've been doing of late. But it's so worth it. *still dreaming about funnel cake*)
1. I dropped out of
het_bigbang. *sadface* I probably could have pushed to get my story done by the deadline, but I'll be traveling during that week (on the Pacific NW Roadtrip of Awesome), and would really rather concentrate on having Fun Times than revisions. Plus internet access will be hella iffy - I think we'll be in the uninhabited northeast corner of California on posting day, and at Crater Lake the day before.However, I still really love this story and will get it finished sooner or later. Preferably sooner so that I can stop hogging all of the library's Berlin Airlift books. (Also, historians, why do you hide all the hilarious stories in the endnotes?)
2. The husband and I went to Outside Lands with a few friends. Outside Lands is SF's music festival, smaller than Coachella, but with much better food. It was Abhi's first music festival, and so fantastically organized and with so many great bands (oh, the scheduling woes of three great bands on three stages at the same time) that I fear I've ruined him for anything else.
Friday
Food: Korean tacos, an organic peach, red velvet mini cupcake, Indian kati rolls, sweet potato tater tots, fried pickles. Kati rolls were the best (and like $8 for a big roll), followed by an even tie between the Korean tacos and the fried pickles.
Shows:
Lotus - a chill instrumental electric jam group. Good to get a light dance going to. I'd love to see them in a smaller club.
Foster the People, my favorite band of the summer. They were... decent, but lost a bit of momentum halfway through - probably because they only have one album out, and not all of the songs on it are good for playing to a 10k crowd. They did a fantastic cover of Weezer's Say It Ain't So, though, and had the entire crowd singing along.
MGMT - on the main stage, which I think was having sound problems. Or else they were just sucking it up live, which isn't exactly uncommon for them.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - they were having fun on stage, but I don't remember much else. So eh.
Big Audio Dynamite - sounded like a standard rock band, although I appreciated the mix of old & new.
The Shins - blew me away, and this wasn't the first time I've seen them live.
Saturday
Food: Malaysian chicken rolls, pulled pork sandwiches, mushroom sliders, and a gourmet strawberry & whipped cream funnel cake.
Funny story about the funnel cake: I queued up for it about fifteen minutes before a set started, and cleverly left my phone with my group in front of the stage. The main stage. The one with about 20K people dancing in front of it. *shakes head*
I ended up texting Abhi my location (from a kind stranger's phone), and sat down and ate that funnel cake by my lonesome self. You'd think the sadness of being lost in a crowd would dim the tastiness, but nope, it was one of the best things I've ever put in my mouth.
Shows:
Ana Tijoux - a Chilean/French female hiphop artist. Badass and wonderful, and I'm sure it'd have been even better if I could speak Spanish.
The Vaccines - completely lived up to my expectations, which were very, very high. Amazing energy on stage and had the crowd right there with them.
OK GO - the music was only okay compared to their studio work, but they get huge bonus points for playing a handbell song on stage, and wading out into the crowd for a couple of songs.
Arctic Monkeys - I was a bit distracted by the funnel cake debacle, but they sounded great from where I was sitting, drowning my sorrows in fried goods.
The Black Keys - the biggest question of the weekend was why do we not own more Black Keys? That situation has been rectified.
Muse - there's a reason they were headlining Saturday: Muse puts on a fucking fantastic show of lights and anthems.
Sunday
Food: more kati rolls, with samosas, fried mac & cheese, clam chowder (in a sourdough bread bowl, of course), alfajores with coffee, and more funnel cake. Oh, and we went to the Wine Lands tent in the
Shows:
Junip - a Swedish folk rock band with an electric feel. The best completely-new-to-us find of the festival.
Grouplove - nice indie folk/rock band. Nothing special, but they were fun to listen to.
!!! - I dozed on the hill during most of their performance, but from the mass of people jumping in front of the stage, I think that was more due to my exhaustion than the band.
John Fogerty - fulfilled all of my cowbell desires. Gosh, I love CCR.
The Decemberists - were chill and perfect.
Arcade Fire - a great choice on the part of the organizers to end the weekend with.
And then I stumbled back to the car, slept on the ride back to South Bay, and had to go to work the next morning, bleary-eyed and still drunk on music.
3. We went to the SF Street Food Festival in the Mission last weekend, and I will not detail even more food again, but it was delish and I love this city and its wack-a-doodle chill folks.
4. If you got all the way through that, then you rock, and should fill out this meme I've genked from all over, especially if you're a new person!
1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4: What do you do with your (week) days:
5. What makes you happy:
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
7. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. A school subject/hobby/interest of yours and why you like it:
10. Favorite place to be:
11. Favorite lyric or quote:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Summer's winding down (or winter, if you're in the other hemisphere) - any fun plans on the horizon:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band:
4: A tv show:
PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you?
Edit:
5. There's a five that I forgot! I'm in the process of making a number of mixes for my best friend, who has been temporally transferred from her home in Bangalore to work on a project in England (somewhere... not London). Anyways, we're jogging buddies, and she's been having motivational issues, so I'm pulling together a bunch of fun songs to run to. One mix will be Bollywood, one will be dance/electric, one will be un-ironically awesome pump-it-up songs like Eye of the Tiger, and one will be indie-ish summer-y stuff. And maybe more, depending.
If anyone has song suggestions, they'd be extremely welcome. I'll post the mixes here once I get them all done. I've never really pulled together my running music, so this has been a fun process. (And also needed - see above for all of the nomnomnoming of unhealthy fried food I've been doing of late. But it's so worth it. *still dreaming about funnel cake*)
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Date: 2011-09-01 02:18 am (UTC)