hotter than africa

so lollapalooza was amazing. definitely one of the top 5 best weekends ever. Here's how we rolled (this post is probably not interesting or comprehensible):

Friday -

12am - Tim proposes taking his couch and stuff to Waterloo while Yudai has the van from work. I go along for the ride and very much enjoy laying on the couch in the back. We grab Perkins and get back around 6am.

11am - Wake up, run errands, Alex and I take beers to Tim & Yudai's then help move Yudai's stuff over to my place.

6pm - Bryan gets in, Tim leaves, Yudai finishes moving stuff.

9pm - Dinner at Mickey's

10:30pm - Dustin joins us for some suds

11:00pm - Alex & I head back to the apt.

Saturday

1:30am - The boys get back, Yudai cooks, we watch Lost In Translation (which Yudai translated...it ruled)

8:30am - Bryan & leave for Chi-town

9am - Bryan's first stop at Iowa 80

12pm - Pick up Jess & Marissa and head downtown

1pm - LOLLAPALOOZA

Trail of Dead was good, I got to hear one of their songs that I really like. They were very "rock and roll," they smashed guitars and yelled at us. They switched instruments (the mark of true musicianship) and there were 2 drum parts for one of the songs which was really nice.

Kaiser Chiefs were good - they let some random people sing a song which could have been dumb but the guy got really into it and you could tell that it was his dream come true. Honestly, how often do you get to see someone's dream come true? It was worth it.

Jess and I sang along to Dashboard Confessional (ain't no shame in it) which embarassed Marissa but it was good for her to see catharsis first hand.

Cake was awesome. We ran into Willis! Ha! They played too much new stuff but I'll forgive them. They're getting kind of old and sometimes I think John McCrea looks like my dad.

It rained a little during Blonde Redhead which was nice because that was about the time I thought I was going to die of thirst.

The Black Keys were nice but we left early to get good spots for =w= which we did.

We got to watch the Pixies set from afar which was quite nice. Then Weezer was good, they also played too much new stuff but our spots were good and even Marissa could see. She got filmed holding up my lighter which was also awesome. There weren't enough people who really cared to be there but oh well.

I couldn't comprehend the number of beer cups and water bottles littering the park after the show but it was all clean the next morning. I said "thank you" to one of the guys cleaning up and he gave me a look that transfered the guilt of anyone who has ever littered anything (alex) onto my conscience. We drove Ellen and Claire to Lincoln Park where they slept at some girl's apartment and got to show Bryan some more of Chicago at night (ie: stuck in traffic trying to get onto 90/94)

We got back and woke up Eli to welcome him back from Bosnia, slept, ate breakfast (Bryan got the 3rd degree from Jess's parents...then so did I "so angie, who is this guy...just friends?") then got back in time for the last couple songs from the Ponys. It was so hot we almost died. I didn't pee for like 24 hours, it was all sweat.

We took a break after Kasabian and walked to Subway for lunch (and air conditioning) and then walked to Millenium Park to cool off in the fountain and use toilets that flush. We tried to get rained on at Buckingham Fountain but it didn't really work. We got a great spot for Arcade Fire (Musicianship: 10, Stage Presence: 10, Number in Band: 9). They were so good! They definitely confirmed that real muscians wear vests/suits.

We also saw Spoon, The Killers and Derrick Carter. Death Cab for Cutie played Styrofoam Plates which was amazing. It was really good to see them but they really weren't the greatest live band. Oh well, it was sunset and beautiful and familiar.

Back to Jess's for the best shower ever, Fight Club and some thunder to sleep to. We woke up, played Dr. Mario, had lunch and caught Charlie and the Chocolate Factory before we drove back. It was very colorful and ridiculous but pretty great.

Eli hitched a ride back to IC during which the boys talked about music I'm not cool enough to know about, then Bryan just put up with Eli and I talking about people he doesn't know. Poor Bryan, we've really only hung out like 4 times and it's always been with people I'm really close to so he probably feels so uncomfortable all the time. I'm such a jerk, I suck at social interaction. So now it's over and I feel like summer is almost over. If this trend of annual summer concerts goes on, I'm totally okay with it.

whew.