“this is a moon without a tide, we’ll build a fire in your eyes”

I love this. All 9ish minutes of it.

So it begins…

I have several obsessions in my life, one of the most prevelent being: Music.  And starting last year I discovered the phenomena known as the Summer Music Festival in the form of a festival named, Bonnaroo.   Oh. My. God.

I won’t get into the awesomeness of last years Roo, but I will get into the awesomeness of what this years Bonnaroo seems to have in store:

First: Nine Inch Nails is a headliner. AAAAHHHHH;LKJB; LAEJ KLJ j;lakjd flkjALKJDS;LK JFAD. Oookay, got that out of the way.  The word “excited” doesn’t cut it… Let’s just say I saw them once, then had to see them again (I had no choice in the matter, it just had to happen lol) and now AGAIN?! Except this time in Mega Format. WOW.  I am so so sooo excited.

Secondly: And this rivals the first: THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS.  I’m not sure that people understand my obsession with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.  I know the words to every single song (which is impressive considering most of the lyrics are indecipherable). I have a girl crush on Karen O (and Jenny Lewis, but I’ve already seen her twice with Rilo Kiley and she’ll be at Roo 09 solo, sweeeeet).  She’s effing CRAZY and their genre is “Art Rock.”  She dresses up in sequin leotards and headdresses and you never know what the hell she’s going to do live.  Speaking of live, in order to see them live you have to live in a major city like NYC, Chicago, San Fran – in other words…my chances of ever seeing them have been slim to none – UNTIL NOW.

Thirdly: I GET TO SEE MGMT AGAINNNN!!!!!  My greatest regret from last years Roo was that I didn’t fully appreciate MGMT, I somehow had missed that undercurrent of subculture, which is slowly becoming pop culture.   Anyway, I get a second chance, and it will be feeling electric, and being and indierokker, all in a 4th dimension transition.

Also, other acts I’m beyond excited about seeing are, in no specific order:

• Ben Harper
• Crystal Castles,
• Santogold (she is a goddess),
• Neko Case (did you know she was banned from the grand ol’ opery because she took her shirt off during a performance? hahahaha),
• Girl Talk (its going to make a fab early AM set),
• Okkervil River (like a wierd mix of The Killers and Iron & Wine)
• Andrew Bird (beautiful)
• Bon Iver (also beautiful)
• The Ting Tings (oh, we WILL walk)
• TV on the Radio (already saw them, but I have a suspicion every concert experience is different)
• The Mars Volta (honestly haven’t listened to a lot of their stuff, but I’ve heard good things)
• Brett Dennen (You’re coming this year Koti!!!!)
• The Decemberists (very interesting group and I <3 them, plus they’re from South Carolina. Represent. (yes I just said “represent”) )
• Merle Haggard (I mean…what? still excited)
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (saw them once before, but once again didn’t fully appreciate)
• Robyn (kind of like Katy Perry, but cooler – not on my MUST SEE list)
• Band of Horses (similar to Rogue Wave – who in my opinion was kind of boring live -, hopefully they’ll be more entertaining?)
• othersss, lots and lots of others

One of my favorite things about Bonnaroo…despite all these artists I’ve listed is the fact that you go and discover new music as well.  For example, last year I fell madly in love with Jose Gonzalez, The Swell Season, Battles and a few others – bands that I probably wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.

I can’t wait.

Here’ s a small sampler list of Previews for Bonnaroo 2009.  Hope you enjoy listening/watching as much as I enjoyed making it (I love lists of songs…obviously):

*Sorry about not having all the vids right here on the page. A lot of the embedding codes have been disabled. Boo.

“Electric Feel” – MGMT; this will forever be (in my mind) the ultimate song for Bonnaroo.   I mean, just watch the video and you’ll understand (I really want some of the radioactive shiny liquid stuff…whoa.).

“Untrust Us” – Crystal Castles; I mean. Whoa. Sidenote: They actually opened a couple of shows for NIN (actually so did several other ppl at Roo this year…hmmm interesting)

“L.E.S. Artistes” – Santogold; this video is genius. As is her take on music in general ( in my opinion)

“Survivalism” – Nine Inch Nails; Hope you survive the mud and madness that will occur when they take the main stage…

“10 x 10″ – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs; sample the maddness of a live YYY show.  Actually, to be honest, Karen O is kind of scary. Wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark ally, I would like to be her BFF though. lol …oh gah it’s going to be awesome.

“Great DJ” – The Ting Tings; just fu-uh-uh-uh-uhhn.

“Imitosis” – Andrew Bird; This was made to hippie dance under a shady tree.

“Staring at the Sun” Tv on the Radio; The feeling I get when I hear this song never changes. Ever, ever. EVER.

All right you have, fingers. Youtube the rest.

The Tabernacle

Chandelier from the Tabernacle, my new favorite venue in Atlanta, GA.  If you get a chance to see a show there you should definitely take it.  Dave, his cousin, and I went to see TV on the Radio there earlier this month.

There is no you, there is only…Trent (and his fantastic band)

Nine Inch Nails in Atlanta, August 13, 2008

P.s. Trent Reznor looked at me. True Story.

singer is a crook (ywooo-eh-yoo!)

Can i see this live again please? PUH-lease?!?! With my neon on and hands in the air….

The more I obsess about it, the more I realize the moment I saw this in concert currently ranks in top 3 concert moments…for serious…

People won’t be people when they hear this sound

That’s been glowing in the dark at the edge of town

People won’t be people, no

The people won’t be people when they hear this sound

Won’t you show me what begins at the edge of town

The singer is a crook

The singer is a crook

The singer is a crook

The singer is a crook

The kitchen is the cook

The scissors are the barbers

The singer is a crook

The chorus, full of actors

The chorus doesn’t matter

Back

So I’ve been a horrible blogger. Here’s my promise to update and give full details of my fantastic Roo experience (sans the rash I got on my leg from a wet sleeping bag…more details on that loverly event later).

Consider my ticket bought for next year.

planning ahead just a bit

So excited. seeing Radiohead in MAY (to far off) and working on getting to BONNAROOOOO!!! in tennessee. Can’t you imagine? 3 days of almost every artist I love…most importantly

SIGUR ROS

If you’ve never listened to sigur ros you are missing a truly amazing experience. love it hate it whatever. you won’t forget it. For example, one of the uses of instrument is the guitarist playing his guitar with a VIOLIN BOW, how freakin awesome is that? They’re a band from iceland and they’re amazing. In my opinion they’re music is based on pure movement, of the world, of people, of emotions, of thoughts…everything, it’s beautiful. AND I GET TO SEE THEM!!! They haven’t been in the US in like 3 years and they’re coming JUST for Bonnaroo! wow.

Anyway, going to bed, corporate america waits for no man (or woman, or me).

all i can say is from now on out I have a new mantra and it goes like this:

Radiohead, bonnaroo, sigur ros, radiohead, bonnaroo, sigur ros, radiohead…. and on and on.