Friday, June 8, 2007

A Win-Win Situation

After the last post, we'd hate to leave the impression that our Sasquatch experience as a whole was 100% miserable. It was like low 70's at worst. It really turned out to be another fun road trip with friends and good music. So, even though the last post dripped with surrender, we thought we'd share a little photo log (with a touch of commentary) of the experience.

Saturday's highlights (for us, anyway) included Bjork, Arcade Fire, Electrelane, Ghostland Observatory, Grizzly Bear, and the Beastie Boys. The Long Winters probably would have been a highlight as well, though sadly we're pretty sure we spent that hour waiting in line for a couple of footlongs; which were worth EVERY minute.
Earlier that day, while enjoying Electrelane's show, Brandi spotted Napoleon Dynamite; or at least that's who we thought he was emulating 2 years ago when we saw him running past us at Coachella. As it turns out, it was Richard Parry of Arcade Fire. So we decided we'd pull out the camera (hopefully, without him noticing).

Not to be outdone, we were joined by another member of the Arcade Fire later on the same stage during Grizzly Bear. Win Butler! How cool are we? Two members of one of the biggest it bands in the world on two different occasions, gravitating right to us to enjoy two of the bands that we all think are pretty cool. These pictures are only slightly staged by maybe a few feet. (If you question just how close we were, Win wears a 36x36 dungaree.) With the exception of one annoying tall dude with a pony tail, no one even bothered them. Here's a shot of Brandi trying to kiss a rock star and Tim trying to find the aforementioned rock star in order to protect his honor.
The rest of the weekend was a bit of a blur, which is a surprise since we weren't even dropping "e" like Nate and Tonia. But who needs drugs when you're learning how to suck Diet Pepsi through a candy straw? (Is it just us, or is Nate pulling off a great Chris Isaak here?)

4 comments:

Dainon. said...

So awesome. And I'm 100% jealous. I would have killed to see Ghostland Observatory. How cool issit that you were mingling with Arcade Fire (more or less ... more less)? I always wonder what I'd do when in the vicinity of greatness. I think I'd do the same as you guys. Point and shoot my camera phone, followed by my running away, giggling.

Anonymous said...

ummmm those hot dogs look GOOOOOOOD!

brandi (and tim) said...

We were very tempted to approach Win and ask him to take OUR picture (not with him) - it seemed funny at the time, but now we're glad we didn't. And the hotdogs were SO good, especially when you compare them to the sorry excuses for hamburgers we "ate" the next day.

Laurie said...

You two are a rediculously handsome couple. Your baby is going to be equally beautiful, I'm sure of it.