Dude, I Was There

The more time passes, the more fun it is to look back at this.  My socks and underwear have finally dried out, although I don't think it's stopped raining since then. In any event, here's a good recap video of the weekend's event.

I Don't Care

Last night, t.v. person Stephen Colbert got punked by Daft Punk (they didn't appear on his show due to some contractual problem with MTV), so instead he did an episode looking for the proverbial "Song of the Summer" of 2013, and wound up settling for Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines.  Not a bad pop song at all, but frankly it isn't the music you keep hearing wherever you go, that you can't seem to escape, that's serving as the unofficial soundtrack for the summer of 2013. It's not the earworm that you can't get out of your head no matter how hard you try.  That honor has to go to Icona Pop and their song I Don't Care.  I can't seem to escape that song.

It isn't my kind of music at all what with its EDM beats and repetitious, girl-pop lyrics, but I have to admit that any time I hear it, my first reaction is always to play it again.  Every time.  I bet you've already watched the video above twice, didn't you?

I'll be seeing Icona Pop at Bumbershoot on August 31.  They're performing right after Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and before !!!, and if I'm lucky, I might be able to squeeze in a little of the second half of Gus + Scout's set immediately after Icona Pop.

Good luck getting the song out of my head after that.

I've probably billed more hours and made more money the past week that I did during the entire month of July, which is a statement both about how busy I've been the past week and how dismal July was for business.  During the weekend, I spent virtually every waking hour Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on my computer, tabulating and analyzing reams and reams of data until my head would finally collapse onto the keyboard.  Frankly, boring stuff, but the time was made more pleasant by streaming both Oregon's Pickathon and Chicago's Lollapalooza festivals, multitasking and virtually hopping cross-country between sets (and between spreadsheets). I finally finished the project this evening, and am glad to finally be able to get away from my computer station (but what, then, am I doing here now?).  

Here's Sharon Van Etten's set from Pickathon above, just one of the many highlights of the competing webcasts.

Suuns

Sound and emptiness.

Pickwick

Pickwick, the greatest band you've never heard of, have released a very special video for their song Santa Rosa.  I'm won't discuss it further because words simply aren't adequate to describe this.

I'll be seeing Pickwick on September 8, just a little over a month from now, opening for Neko Case at Portland's beautiful Pioneer Courthouse Square (aka Portland's Living Room) as part of MFNW.  They're on tour later this month and into the autumn, but so far don't have any plans to perform any closer to Atlanta than Washington, DC, so in the meantime we just have to content ourselves with this performance at Lawrence (Kansas) High School.