Really good lineup and has surprised me that there is a music festival in Houston. Usually I have to travel to Austin, New Orleans, or Bonnaroo in Tennessee. Not being able to go to Bonnaroo this year I'm actually excited to go to this. Does anybody know if the Fancy Passes are worth the money. Cause it kind of shocked me that they are only 22 for regular and 50 for Fancy Pass. That is really cheap for festival passes. Also is this the second year and who headlined last year?
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GA8z7f7a2Pk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GA8z7f7a2Pk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Will anyone be willing to start one of these with me? Preferably during the Flaming Lips' or Ra Ra Riot's set?
Missing Houston best band, Inner Lights but phone calls are being made to Mr. Afra so maybe they'll get added.
I like how you also automatically assumed I was there to see BSS. I was shredding the Sword, maaaan. Anyways, Flaming Lips is the only band I'm really excited to see. Here's why: <object width="400" height="300" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/1243848429031" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/1243848429031" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="300"></embed></object> I recorded this on my iPhone this past New Years Eve in OKC. Talk about an emotional roller coaster.
Then you pride yourself on simply being a jackass when someone starts a thread about one of these festivals?
My girlfriend framed my Devin the Dude Summerfest poster from last year for me for Valentine's Day. I'm going to be sorely tempted to try boogie boarding down an entire hill of people during Municipal Waste. Guess I was the only guy 'round here to say "Oh sweet, the Cro-Mags!" when he saw this.
No. I pride myself on being a jackass period. Its not that I hate "hipsters" or more aptly the "scenesters" (i.e. people who think the amount of eclectic and obscure music they listen to is somehow directly proportional to their intellectual merit and also makes them more socially relevant) It is that I hate nearly everyone and everything under the sun. I've said it before, I do enjoy the Hipster crowd because they are misguided in some ways, but in others they really do understand more about life than 99.9% of the general population. I do enjoy someone who is able to hold their own in a conversation when discussing eclectic music, Baroque period art, Ashbery Poetry, and other forms of the aesthetics. These are enriching feats, which may appeal to the hipsters when they reach grad school and finally stop feeling the need to hardcore dance at their cousin's death metal show or refusing to listen to any band that has been on the cover of "Rolling Stone" or "Blender". As a writer, I would love to engulf the hipster philosophy into one great unabridged Das Kapital, that would give my life meaning, and probably start a revolution, but as it is... I'd rather just smoke pot and listen to Radiohead. This is the tragedy of my generation, too headstrong to accept the status quo, passionate enough to exclude ourselves from the Cable TV lifestyle, and ultimately too lazy to do anything really worthwhile until one day we figure out we're too old to change anything now, and its better to just grab that big piece of American Pie with everyone else before its all gone. What a shame.
