Boats, Music and Found Footage

We left Roseburg Thursday morning on route to the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington.

We took the scenic route. As it turns out...not all of Oregon is lush and green.

We discussed the term "angular guitars"; it refers to bands that sound like Fugazi...or possibly Stereolab.

We stopped at Stonehenge, located just across the Washington state line. The placards said it was built as a WWI (or possibly II) memorial. I can't say that I completely understand why you would build a cement recreation of a prehistoric stone monument from England to mourn dead soldiers from southern Washington State.

We stopped at a gas station and were surprised by the copious amounts of young people and cheap beer. Near the gas station was a shanty town of tents. We assumed that these were all people planning to attend the Sasquach festival as well.

It turns out this shanty town was not assembled for the music festival and was in fact set up for boat races scheduled for the following day.

We luckily decided against camping next to the camp site with a giant "BEER" banner.

We were awoken around 3 in the morning by a conversation that included the line "I like to read High Times for the articles".

The next morning we arrived at the Sasquatch campgrounds which were far larger but somehow seemed to be less...something.

The Blow (whom I have mentioned before) was pretty great, she had amusing story's to accompany her songs. I thought it was a nice spin on the singer/songwrighter + drum machine dancing-awkwardly genre.

Beer was $12 for a 16 ounce CAN of cheap domestic beer. thats 75 cents an ounce, we decided to stick with the free water.

Neko Case was good, there's not really much I can say. I think she played that one song...you know, that one that kind of sounds like that other one.

Electrelane (who were the focus of the of the earlier "angular guitar" discussion) were allot better live than they were on the album. A guy standing near me asked "what's the name of this band?" I told him "I think their called Stereolab", he thought this was much less hilarious than I did.

Ghostland Observatory was (insert expletive) awesome-tastic. We found out later that the lead singer is NOT a woman.

I think Grizzly bear was good. I'm not sure though because I was in line for the bathroom for 90% of the set.

I would be lying if I said that I didn't think the first song and the last song the Arcade Fire performed weren't the same song. I totally have a crush on one of the violin players though.

Bjork had a sweet laser show and was pretty awesome, despite her playing that awful song from her new album.

During the night I was not awoken by any drunken frat boys.

We decided against taking the scenic route home.

The un-scenic route is still pretty scenic.

During this Memorial day weekend; My Awesome Camera deleted three (3) different batches of photos, and I officially graduated from grad school.