'squatch 08

This past Saturday, pals and I headed out to the Columbia River Gorge for Sasquatch Music Festival. Seeing a show at the Gorge is pretty amazing as long as the weather is nice and the music doesn’t suck. Besides, where else can you kick off summer by getting sunburned, drinking $12 beers, and seeing people completely high***?

Here’s my music lineup for the day:

1. Fleet Foxes (love)
2. Dengue Fever (ugh)
3. Beirut (good)
4. Joshua Morrison (eh)
5. Kathleen Edwards (good ol’ alt country, even if my eardrums almost blew out during the sound test)
6. Fleet Foxes (take 2, not as exciting— apparently the National was too depressed to play according to Rainn Wilson)
7. Destroyer (Dan Bejar, a.k.a purple shirt guy who sounds like A.C. Newman from NP, turns out he IS from NP. Duh.)
8. New Pornographers (Always great. How did the purple shirt guy get over here so quick?)
9. M.I.A. (So fun, how can you not love her?)
10. Okkervil River (I caught the tail end of this, and I had so much fun dancing like crazy on my own— this may have been the highlight of my day)
11. Modest Mouse (I wish I enjoyed this more?)
12. R.E.M. (definitely not wow; we wished we heard more classic REM, but it was getting cold and rainy so we decided to call it quits)