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Bonnaroo Report, Part 2

I blame listening to Hendrix for me actually having motivation to write something.

I left off last time with the end of Day 1, leaving out the stuff that happened along the way for my conclusion to the Bonnaroo Report.

I know, I should've blogged this a long time ago, but you guys should know by now I'm a lazy, lazy lazy lazy fuck. =)

So... woke up, had food. I mean, there's little to talk about there, if you were there, you'd understand that even getting food down the street was a fun thing to do, walking by all the stands, just soaking in the good vibes from people...

It was good.

Back at the car... something incredible happened... and Emily will testify to this:

Alien Floating Headcrabs Fly Over Bonnaroo To Chill

I'm serious... I have photographic evidence!

At 12:30 I split out to hit up the 22-20s. I don't remember what Emily was doing, I think she might've rested it up in the car, not quite positive. The weather was not the best... but when you're rockin out, really... rain is preferable to frying your butt off.

Actually, I'm pretty positive she rested it up, since I'm pretty sure she wasn't at the 22-20s with me.

So the boys from Britain were decent. Decent, but not fantastic.

I didn't go in expecting too much, but I was dancin it up a bit by now anyway.

Kings Of Leon came on about an hour after, so I had lunch between the 22-20s and KoL. Now... up to this point Emily and I both wanted to try the fries with cheese they had, especially since I told her the States didn't have poutines, and we figured it'd be the closest thing to a poutine over here.

They sucked.

They sucked terribly.

I went back to KoL... it was a pretty decent show, as much as you'd expect from KoL. Good sound, though admittedly (even by them) off tune at times, they were pretty cool. Surprisingly not much of a stage presence, though no one really cared.

I bumped into a heck of a lot of people from the day before. Twas' awesome, some fellow Canucks from Edmonton, a Korean guy with nice Minolta digi, and the girl that was beside me at Joanna Newsom said hi by bumping into me in the same manner as happened at Joanna Newsom, by accident the first time around.

I mean, it was a decent show... I had plenty fun especially since I was surrounded by cool people... But as I already admitted to someone who asked, I wasn't a big fan. I was, however, waiting to go see Rilo Kiley.

Now... those of you who remember my visit to San Diego remember I was very upset that I left SD just a few scant days before a bunch of my friends went to see Rilo Kiley. This was... what... two or three years ago. They liked their show so much (and it ended up with JohnKo flirting with Jenny Lewis, to hear it be told... lucky bastard)... they drove up to Pomona the next day to see them again.

Jealous, yeah.

If I had to sum up their show at Bonnaroo in one word:

HOT.

So hot, in fact, that I used up the rest of my 1 GB card shooting pictures of them and all of my half-gig card...

So here are a bunch of them. And by a bunch, I mean 28 of them.

Scroll down at your own peril.

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I missed one great shot I could've taken... I had been telling Em how I wanted to bring back the V-fingered peace sign... and Jenny gave us one as she walked off. This was, if I recall correctly, before the encore... but it didn't matter, I was out of shots anyway.

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot, I included a Jenny Lewis photo last time as a preview that I didn't put in this time... here:

Long, eh? But it's all good, because now I had to DELETE a few pictures to get in some shots of Sam Beam (of Iron & Wine) and there will be no more pictures after this.

I met up with Emily after Rilo Kiley, since she was there elsewhere in the audience... we grabbed a bit of food and went back to the van... then I went and hit up Iron & Wine... I do not think she came with me, but my memory could be a bit spotty.

What can I say about Iron & Wine... besides...

FUCKING AMAZING.

Sam Beam made it to my list of most coolest men ever. He was already pretty up there...

... but... the music... and the beard...

See for yourself: Awesome beardness!

The second picture is his wife, I believe. No lovin' for me, I spose.

Anyway, I went to a bit of Widespread Panic after, but not for long. The crowd was ginormous, and so I really didn't feel like staying.

Day three started really late. Woke up... had lunch, and talked to Emily for about six or seven hours... she was feeling kind of sick, so she stayed in the van the whole day, poor girl.

Guy next door offered us a discount on his sushi... his name was John... he was pretty cool. He also helped us jump our van, which was pretty damned necessary given that we've been opening and closing our power windows the last three days without once even turning on the car.

I skipped on over at six to hit up Modest Mouse. Free of a camera... Johann got his dance on. Admittedly, not at first. When I got to Modest Mouse there was this guy with long long dreads dancing it up like a madman, and it was... just awesome to watch. As I got on, I got the same way.

Those of you who've seen me dance know what I'm talking about. =)

After Modest Mouse, I pretty much quicktimed it over (in the rain) to the last 30 minutes of SuperJam... which was just... as the name suggests... one long, awesome jam.

Hence, much dancing. Went over to Widespread Panic, cut my way through the crowd... and drank a LOT of lemonade. Widespread Panic, being the last show (having played two other shows already the last two days) was CRAZY. Everyone at Bonnaroo besides those who'd left or needed sleep for the drive the next day was there.

I went nuts.

Someone behind me was like, "Someone get him some glowsticks!"

Glowsticks were thrown at my feet... and I had to relearn glowsticking in a very short amount of time. It wasn't the best... but it got the job done. I still had one of them... but it has now gone to my trashcan, since I have to move everything back to Ottawa and I really see no point in keeping an old glowstick

Glowsticks... mmm... it was hella fun.

Total, fucking nuts.

Stay tuned, I make no time promises, but sometime I'll write up a small conclusion to the Bonnaroo Report... about the drive there and the drive back. 1500 km in a day after three days of rockin is a hella feat. =)