what could i ever run to

i'm sitting here downloading jon brion music from the i heart huckabees soundtrack which jason schwartzman was in, who is also in shopgirl which i am watching right now while i blog about intonation, where i saw jon brion. when my life gets circular it kind of freaks me out. but i also kind of like it because it makes me feel a little bit "together" which is nice.

anyway. we went to the intonation festival on sunday. it was a bit of an ordeal (forgotten papers, working late, bad navigation, etc.) but we finally got going. eli and i wandered into an asian grocery store and found some snacks for the drive.

we found this soft white little pillow of something

it was filled with sweet red bean paste which was nice.
i couldn't really handle the texture of the white stuff if i thought about it too much.

pop! this one is grape. eli approves.
although he doesn't like grape stuff.

"choco taste creams" and sweet little rice cheeto things

coffee candies filled with sweet cream stuff.
we really just got it for the cool package.

they were a bit strong

we made it!
they look photoshopped into this picture but they're really not

There were these girls going around promoting different things from vendors but they never came to solicit our interest in their roller derbys or energy drinks. we think it was because of our blank stares, which we are demonstrating in the picture above.

jon brion was great and did a lot of sampling which is always very impressive.
he brought up a guy to play with him.
it turned out to be a heartbreaker (of the tom petty persuasion)

oh here's another one.

oh and then he was all "hey glenn, where's glenn? oh there he his. you can come on up and play now" and i thought he had met a fan who played drums and he was going to let him play on stage which was really cute. then it was glenn kotche from wilco. swoon.
i was really excited to take this picture for some reason.
jess and eli let me take lots of pictures of them doing funny things or just standing there, or doing whatever i tell them to basically. it's really nice of them.
this one makes me think that in like 30 years their kids will find this picture of their parents and love it and frame it and take it to college with them like the pictures jess had of her family when they were young.

which makes me want to make the colors super warm.
it also means i shoud print out a few dozen copies and make sure i always plant one in places where future generations will find them. like on the table in her parent's basement.

this lady was behind us during jon brion. when we moved to the other stage for robert pollard she brought her blankets and did the same thing right behind us again. very curious. although i daresay i would love to do that at concerts - find a way to be alone and enjoy the music in my favorite way (falling asleep to it)

hey there's eli.

a little bit cool

then we walked around and got food and it got dark. this was all during dead prez who was yelling offensive things...probably because we weren't listening to him. we bought some shirts and some beers and then the drunk dead prez fan came to stand (and by stand i mean dance obnoxiously and by dance i mean jump into me) by me. jess and i made up elaborate scenarios about me putting his hat on my head and dancing around with him and then stopping, throwing his hat in the dirt and punching him in the face. it probably would have been in his best interest. he needed to sober up.
(they weren't really wearing their sunglasses at night)
bloc party!
oh and then the drunk guys went away and the hyper tween bloc party fans sang (screamed) along to the two bloc party songs that get radio airplay. jess and i spent this time discussing how old we are because of how often we said "i just want to enjoy the music" and then we were tired

the end.

oh yeah, and then we drove home and slept and then i left for home and stopped lots of times for more starbucks.