my coachella reporting falls horribly short this year for a couple of reasons. first being that my camera has been broken for months and i have yet to replace it, so anything visual i have to offer would be that i’ve been fortunate enough to have handed down to me by my friends. second being that halfway through day two, jessica caught some sort of mean stomach flu — presumably from a malicious corn dog that snuck in with the otherwise quality festival food — which resulted in her throwing up for the remainder of the day and me keeping an eye on her, and both of us missing the latter half of the day, i.e. all the big acts like yeah yeah yeahs, go! team, tool, scissor sistors, what have you. bummer, huh? we found out later that stacy got sick too that night, zach and james both were ill on monday, and then i was blessed a full 36 hours later with my own vomitting fits tuesday morning. awesome!

nefarious viral plagues aside though the overall experience was still a great one, and i’m sorry my illness and business this week prevented me from sharing more of the details. if anything, the whole weekend was probably worth it to catch daft punk live, the definite highlight of the weekend (thanks to jen for the videos… huge files but you HAVE to see it). i mean, you really can’t beat some of the arguably best dance music ever made coming from guys in space helmets from atop a mysterious pyramid structure surrounded by LED light effects. other highlights were the magic numbers, bloc party, lady sovereign, white rose movement and for sure kanye west and sigur ros. eagels of death metal were fun but all their songs sound the same to me. phoenix sounded pretty flat live which is a shame cause i think they could have done much better if they tried.

needless to say after a weekend of heat, standing, noise, 50 thousand people, not showering, sleeping in hot tents, etc., this past weekend i was in more of a ‘let’s sit down and watch TV’ mood, so cinco de mayo was an excuse to have people over and play guitar hero, and the rest of the weekend was fairly low key as well. headed out to E3 though this week, so time to ramp up for more overstimulation and entire days spent on my feet!