Chemicals Are Rushing In My Bloodstream
Current Song: "Babylon" -- David Grey
Well, we made it back from Lollapalooza intact, but barely. Some highlights:
*Fighting with Enterprise Rent-A-Car for more than 2 hours in order to get them to rent Meredith a car but to let me pay for it. We ended up getting it because we played the "I'm visually disabled and this is about to turn into a Thing" card.
*Paying really arbitrary tolls on the Illinois highway. Seriously, what's up with that random $1.60 one at the Belvidere Oasis?
*Making up our own Happy Hands dance to Lionel Richie's "Hello".
*Seriously hauling ass out of the endless maze of parking garages beneath Chicago to make it to Radiohead, taking a horrible wrong turn, and hiring a skinny girl with a bicycle rickshaw to drive us to the front gate so that we could actually enter the concert, not just stand outside listening to it.
*Fighting our way through about 40,000 people at Radiohead and still being about 30,000 people back from the stage. Entrance to the festival was capped at 75,000 per day and I'm pretty sure every single one of them was at that show. Also, Radiohead is fucking amazing.
*Driving for hours and hours looking for a place to sleep only to end up staying in a shameful but surprisingly clean motel just for access to the shower.
*Seeing DeVotchKa and Okkervil River pretty much back to back in two of the best shows I've ever been to.
*Getting medical attention for a very intoxicated fella and totally saving his life. Go Team Venture!
*Driving for hours to get out of the city only to somehow end up right next to Wrigley Field in the busiest part of town? Then we saw a skinny bicycle rickshaw guy freak right out about a taxi in the bike lane and try to come right into the car to kill the driver while everyone cheered him on. That kid was awesome.
*Finally going to sleep in a random residential neighborhood in a suburb, in the back of the car, only to wake up at about 9:30 AM to the sounds of some guy horribly verbally (and probably physically) abusing his child.
*Fighting the Kanye kids for space during the Gnarls Barkley show. Kanye was playing later that night at the same stage and a bunch of people were just there to hold seats. Also, a lot of them were wearing the Kanye glasses from that video and may I just say, no.
*Driving through an insane thunderstorm in Wisconsin at 2:30 AM, where the lightning went off about once per second and was so close that our hair was standing on end. That was some white-knuckle thrill riding, right there. Especially since we were in open country in an SUV so we were pretty much the tallest thing around.
There was a whole lot more, like when we got lost looking for the non-existent pedestrian entrance to the parking garage and risked our lives to run down the car entrance, or the delectable corn on the cob, or how there were a lot of failures of humanity at that park. And so forth. I don't know, ask me about it, I guess. Today is my first day back at work and I have an appointment in five minutes.
Well, we made it back from Lollapalooza intact, but barely. Some highlights:
*Fighting with Enterprise Rent-A-Car for more than 2 hours in order to get them to rent Meredith a car but to let me pay for it. We ended up getting it because we played the "I'm visually disabled and this is about to turn into a Thing" card.
*Paying really arbitrary tolls on the Illinois highway. Seriously, what's up with that random $1.60 one at the Belvidere Oasis?
*Making up our own Happy Hands dance to Lionel Richie's "Hello".
*Seriously hauling ass out of the endless maze of parking garages beneath Chicago to make it to Radiohead, taking a horrible wrong turn, and hiring a skinny girl with a bicycle rickshaw to drive us to the front gate so that we could actually enter the concert, not just stand outside listening to it.
*Fighting our way through about 40,000 people at Radiohead and still being about 30,000 people back from the stage. Entrance to the festival was capped at 75,000 per day and I'm pretty sure every single one of them was at that show. Also, Radiohead is fucking amazing.
*Driving for hours and hours looking for a place to sleep only to end up staying in a shameful but surprisingly clean motel just for access to the shower.
*Seeing DeVotchKa and Okkervil River pretty much back to back in two of the best shows I've ever been to.
*Getting medical attention for a very intoxicated fella and totally saving his life. Go Team Venture!
*Driving for hours to get out of the city only to somehow end up right next to Wrigley Field in the busiest part of town? Then we saw a skinny bicycle rickshaw guy freak right out about a taxi in the bike lane and try to come right into the car to kill the driver while everyone cheered him on. That kid was awesome.
*Finally going to sleep in a random residential neighborhood in a suburb, in the back of the car, only to wake up at about 9:30 AM to the sounds of some guy horribly verbally (and probably physically) abusing his child.
*Fighting the Kanye kids for space during the Gnarls Barkley show. Kanye was playing later that night at the same stage and a bunch of people were just there to hold seats. Also, a lot of them were wearing the Kanye glasses from that video and may I just say, no.
*Driving through an insane thunderstorm in Wisconsin at 2:30 AM, where the lightning went off about once per second and was so close that our hair was standing on end. That was some white-knuckle thrill riding, right there. Especially since we were in open country in an SUV so we were pretty much the tallest thing around.
There was a whole lot more, like when we got lost looking for the non-existent pedestrian entrance to the parking garage and risked our lives to run down the car entrance, or the delectable corn on the cob, or how there were a lot of failures of humanity at that park. And so forth. I don't know, ask me about it, I guess. Today is my first day back at work and I have an appointment in five minutes.
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