Today was the Shins show. It was excellent. The other two bands that played, Bishop Allen and the Decembrists.
   I knew the term "Decembrists" was a reference to a historical Russian dissidant group, but nothing prepared me for the playing of the Soviet Anthem in full before they took the stage. I nearly swooned ( Read more... )

This morning I had to be at the flagpole at 6am to go chalking for the Shins show.
   So I get there at six, and Courtbutt is like "don't you read your email??" and I'm like "uh, yea?" and she's like "the email said 5:30." I look around to see if there's some reason I'd have been better off waiting around for half an hour, but from the looks ( Read more... )