Hearts to Beer Girl. She kept that can there for at least twenty minutes during the Arctic Monkeys set. This is a girl who clearly cares about her beer but knows how to stay just sober enough to keep it balanced. Go you!
Darts to those damn cheapskates running the Rock & Recycle Center. The idea is to get people to fill a bag of recyclables in exchange for a free shirt. What they don't tell you when you you pick up a bag is that you're expected to fill the entire giant bag, a task that is impossible unless you steal bottles and cans from the recycle bins. The bag in the picture is only half full! To make things worse, the friendly hippies at another tent told me that all those cans and bottles are just going to be turned in for more money than the shirt costs! They're profiting off of my dumpster diving!
Hearts to Santigold. This is a gal who knows how to put on a show. Probably my favorite performance, the Santigold show was enhanced by a friendly crowd, kickass backup dancers, and the hip old lady signing the concert for the deaf.
Hearts to the food, especially the watermelon. A giant, cold, delicious, $2 slice of watermelon was the best investment I had made in a long, long time.
Darts to Animal Collective. I don't care if you like them. Their show sucked. In fact, it was the only show I didn't enjoy. Their music is not that bad, but the choices they made for their Lollapalooza set were BORING, SO INCREDIBLY BORING. Most of the people around us were high as a kite and even they didn't seem to be enjoying the show very much. Shame on you Animal Collective. Shame.
Distance to Stage: ~1/3 of a mileHearts to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who were still able to put on an awesome, crowd-pleasing show even though I was so far from the stage that I had to squint just to see the big screens.
Expect more pictures and more feedback from Chicago. Plus, spiritspine has his take on all three days of the festival.
Thanks for the update, sir. It was informative and made me laugh. My review of your review is four and a half stars out of six and a half.
ReplyDeleteGreat picture up top by the way.