It's not hot enough - let's clog our pores
I was hanging out at my friend Steve’s house when he mentioned he wants to go to Bonnaroo next year to which I said “why not this year?” I’ll tell you why not this year. At the time, it was less than a week away.
It’s completely illogical to go. I should be saving money and paying off the Jeep I just bought. I should not be taking the time off work. I should not be driving a gas guzzler for 12 hours. I should not be putting that many miles on the Jeep so soon. I should not be buying camping gear right now even though it will be heavily used later.
Sometimes, you just have to get illogical. I love a lot of the bands that are playing and I have a feeling I’m going to appreciate the crowd, the camping, boozing and the women.
I used to think my problem with going to places like Allegheny and Letchworth was that I could never seem to find friends that either had the money or had the time. If one had weekends off, they didn’t have the money. If one had the money, they didn’t have weekends off. When the opportunity came to go to Bonnaroo with somebody who had the time and money, I had to take it…it could be the only chance for a crazy weekend.
So I made my Bonnaroo schedule using this tool that puts the shows on a map that has a timeline slider. You slide the time and different shows/acts appear. If you see something you want to go to, you add it to your schedule that gets saved. Best part? It connects to Facebook and lala.com.
With Facebook connected, you can see which of your friends are going and can see their schedules. If you want to add something of theirs to your schedule, you can. When you don’t know what an event is all about, you can click on it, read comments, and…if it’s a music event, lala.com will let you play tracks from that artist. Pretty handy. You can check out my schedule here.
Favorites? Roger Alan Wade, Gomez, TV on the Radio, Beastie Boys, Paul Oakenfold, Triumph the Insult Dog, Bruce Springsteen, Ben Harper, Daily Show Correspondents, Snoop Dogg, Coheed and Cambria and Phish. Gotta see what the silent disco is all about too.
The drive is 12 flipping hours. The wait (to park) once you’re there has known to take 8 hours at times…sometimes emptying ill-prepared folks’ gas tanks. What the hell am I supposed to do for 20 hours in my Jeep? At least I can give other Wrangler owners Jeep waves. I downloaded the last five Howard Stern shows which are six hours a show.
I can’t wait!
