Festival-stoked
Something I don't like about festivals in general is the way they divide up the good/similar acts, so that you'll buy a 3-day pass when they could've booked all the folk rock on Saturday and all the butt rock on Sunday. (That kept me from Sasquatch this year.) Something I don't like about Bumbershoot specifically is that it cost way too much when they upped ticket prices to $30 in '05, and now it's $50/day.
But! Advance tickets are $35 (and service charge-less if you get them somewhere in Fremont) AND I'll get to see all of the following on one day, while feeling like I missed nothing by not going Saturday or Monday:
SIFF fly films, Stuff White People Like live, some sort of Spencer Moody + poetry combo, "Flexion, a show that will stretch your perception of the human body", Best of Seattle Int'l Comedy Competition, SE Hinton, Eugene Mirman + mystery guest, Blood Squad, the Rockstar Energy Drink Vert Ramp (!), Patton Oswalt, MSTRKRFT, DJ Spooky, and/or The Helio Sequence.
And it's so well-scheduled that only the last 2 overlap. I can be doing something different and awesome, while drunk, all day, in the middle of a 3-day weekend. Yesssss.
But! Advance tickets are $35 (and service charge-less if you get them somewhere in Fremont) AND I'll get to see all of the following on one day, while feeling like I missed nothing by not going Saturday or Monday:
SIFF fly films, Stuff White People Like live, some sort of Spencer Moody + poetry combo, "Flexion, a show that will stretch your perception of the human body", Best of Seattle Int'l Comedy Competition, SE Hinton, Eugene Mirman + mystery guest, Blood Squad, the Rockstar Energy Drink Vert Ramp (!), Patton Oswalt, MSTRKRFT, DJ Spooky, and/or The Helio Sequence.
And it's so well-scheduled that only the last 2 overlap. I can be doing something different and awesome, while drunk, all day, in the middle of a 3-day weekend. Yesssss.