Recounting my weekend at the block party in short:
- Friday was sold out, so I was there early but gave up all hope of seeing Yeasayer and went home. But later... a friend gave us a used ticket and we snuck in right as MGMT was going on - who would expect the traditional ticket swap to work so well? Alternative newspapers should rethink organizing music festivals. After seeing them I played around in Cal Anderson.
- There were no tickets to be had for Saturday either... so we stood at Shell and listened to a bit of Atmosphere. Then a savior came along and we followed him by running up a strange staircase in a Matrix-y office building, leaped up to a small roof, and climbed a few fire escape ladders on the sides of buildings to get up to an ridiculously awesome surface. One of the scariest things ever. Luckily getting down was easier. Played around in Cal Anderson again and made an enormous circle.
- Day three: I had tickets! Or at least a legitimate way to get in by volunteering for the Washington Bus and registering young people to vote. I did that for a few hours and then met friends and watched Real Estate & Blue Scholars. Was going to go on stage right before Dead Weather to throw out t-shirts and was stopped by no other than Jack White & his people. Still love him. Tough love.
So I went all three days and never bought a ticket! That was nice. It made for a very interesting weekend, and the volunteering was sweet; I might try to be a fellow with them next summer. Thanks to Stephen B for that one.
