Bonnaroo 2009 Recap
June 22nd, 2009 by
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I am now a Bonnaroo alumnus. My first music festival was a rip-roaring success, fueled by the sights, sounds and smells that can only mingle in a farm field full of hippies, hipsters, frat brothers and music fans of all stripes.
My list of acts I wanted to see was, in retrospect, naively ambitious. Stretched out supine on my floor with Dinky perched on my back, I envisioned myself skipping merrily from tent to tent, Pabst in hand and music in ears. As it happened, standing for hours on end hurt my back about as much as a 20lb cat sitting ...
I’m Excited for Bonnaroo 2009
June 9th, 2009 by
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Tomorrow, I head south to my first ever music festival: Bonnaroo 2009. Running from June 11-14, it promises to be a fantastic time. The forecast calls for plenty of lightning and high temperatures. As long as the music still happens, I welcome extreme weather. There are a few bands I'm particularly excited to see, some that I'm really looking forward to, and others that I'm merely intrigued by. With a few screenings of The Big Lebowski also on the festival schedule, it should be ...
Thinking Back to the Boatyard
May 6th, 2009 by
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Recent conversations and memory vacations have had me thinking a lot about the month following my graduation from the University of Connecticut in May 2004. That month was spent with my brother, Aaron, living on our newly purchased 40-foot Valiant sailboat in a Fort Pierce, FL. That description is, of course, misleading. Instead of rocking gently in warm Floridian waters to the mellow tones of Jimmy Buffett, we were holed up fifteen feet above the ground in a boatyard, buffetted by the hot, dusty wind that whistled through frayed rigging and swept between neglected hulls.
Mornings and afternoons saw us engaged ...
Where to Buy Zoot Shoes
May 1st, 2009 by
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