DoctorTeeth says, "Oh Sky Cake, why are you so delicious?"
It was kind of a gong show getting in (when we arrived the parking/camping attendants were just throwing people in wherever they could get them, extremely disorganized). And the camping area wasn’t exactly what I had expected: just enough room for your tent and your car, and maybe 4 or 5 square feet to sit down and try and set up some chairs/tables/campstove at. Maybe other people got better setups when they arrived, I don’t know. But the slight camping problems didn’t compare to the show.
Great shows from acts I was looking forward to seeing (R.E.M., Flight of the Conchords, The Hives), some surprisingly good shows from bands I didn’t think much about beforehand (particularly The Presidents of the United States of America), and some bands I’d never heard before but now really love (The Cave Singers, Rodrigo Y Gabriela). As for the comedy, while I didn’t get to see the Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s ASSSSCAT show, I did catch some great stuff from Rich Fulcher, Jerry Minor, Tim Meadows, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, Sean Conroy, and Matt Besser & Matt Walsh. I’m a little tanned, so my pale white complexion that I’ve been cultivating is now ruined, and I had 1 shower in 3 days, but overall, it was a great experience that I would definitely do again – depending on the lineup. (That 13 hour drive home was a killer.)
