was on the phone with a friend of mine who was loudly bemoaning that his girlfriend and her friends had got tickets to cross the country and sweat and maybe die from the heat while watching rock bands from 50,000 miles away. I understand kids will be kids, but… you're talking to a guy who was thrown out of the cub scouts for taking the train on a hike. So let me tell you what I told him on the news of his dodging a bullet.
1. No relationship can survive so many days in the heat and desert. It will kill every ounce of romance: stuff that usally takes years to figure out will be there, for all to see, and all to sneer at.
2. You'll die from the heat.
3. Unless you drown in the rain.
4. And you saw Woodstock -everybody knows how that ends, right?
5. I meann really, $500 for a mud bath.
6. Oh yeah, you're not there for the bands are you?
7. I didn't see one I wanted to see I hadn't seen.
8. And much much closer. You think Giant's stadium is bad, try this shit?
9. Why? To see Radiohead? Please.
10. The only band I'm obsessed with seeing (again, but they broke up years ago) is Pulp.
11. And don't you worry child, they'll be making their way to nyc.
12. Though I bet we get stuck with fucking T6
13. And Coachella is worse than T5 on top of Roseland.
14. Claiming you've seen a band after catching em at Coachella is like saying you've been to the moon after seeing it through a telescope.
It sold out all six days in 5 hours and they can keep it