Coachellaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Full Blown Maximum Capacity Briming to the Brim of Unbridled Facemelting Fringe level Epicness. As usual.

Major highlights include:

The majesty that is Sigur Ros. Their ghostly crystalline brand of etheria melded beautifully with the setting sun. In case you haven't heard, magic is from Iceland.

Jamie Lidell's hilarious yet utterly soulful and unique one man extravanga. Well, two-man actually, props to his hype man for changing Jamie's clothes, wiping his brow, and keeping him just generally dapper and well received at all times.



Seeing this being projected on the main stage's massive screens was incredibly gnarly. 10 years later this (and Tool's other videos) are still mind-blowing. Maynard's between song rantings were also classic. Something about getting a giant ring with a gold nugget shaped like a piece of popcorn to punch you in the face with? Whatever you say buddy.

Getting lost in a sea of drones with Mogwai. The ebb and flow of their intensity was unreal, with sounds undulating between the purest of guitar tones to gigantic waves of completely enveloping sonic dissonance. They are unbelievably good live, making the whole experience completely awe-inspiring as well as intensely reflective.

Daft Punk. Oh...my...god. I literally was in a perpetual state of completely losing my shit for about an hour and half. The energy level in the tent was insane, the pyramid of LED's was completely awesome, and no joke, I probably thought to myself at least a 100 times, DUUUDE THEY ARE FUCKING ROBOTS!!!! NO WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!
Hands down, the most completely amped I've ever been from a dance act ever.

Even though the festival has reached critical mass, it still got turned out huge. Thankfully, I didn't run into nicole richie or ashlee simpson or anybody else excessively cringe worthy. The biggest celeb I saw was That Guy from Venice Beach with the Rollerblades and Turban who plays the Guitar. He was kind of incognito so I pointed at him and gave him a look like "wait a minute, are you not homeless and completely insane? You actually have the means to transport yourself off the boardwalk?." Apparently...

Point being, shit was still awesome.