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Another year, another trip to the great Coachella music festival. Kat and I rented a place again but unfortunately many of the usual crowd didn’t show up so it was just the two of us going to the shows (although some friends did come out to enjoy the sun).

When we got to the place I cut my foot open running to turn off the alarm- there is this strange raised area in the kitchen area made of metal and I was wearing my Chacos. For a bit I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to walk and go to the shows at all but Kelly was able to patch me up enough to limp around.

This year they added a third day and between how tired we have been from work lately, how overwhelming a 3-day thing starts to feel and maybe just becoming a bit jaded we didn’t get to the first day until fairly late. Also there was my foot thing although its amazing how much faster I managed to move as we were getting close to the shows. I was a little disappointed that we missed the first half of the Jesus and Mary Chain set but the second half was really good and it was cool to see Just Like Honey and Reverence live, loud and with the appropriate piercing feedback.

After that we saw Jarvis Cocker. Jarvis is the Austin Powers of Britpop. He was funny, dramatic, and shook his butt at the audience. Overall a really fun set, and while it was slightly disappointing that he didn’t do anything from Pulp, his new material is really good.

Finally we saw some of Interpol. I thought they were good last year at Pitchfork but here on the mainstage I thought they were pretty boring. The stage was all black, there wasn’t much going on and the songs just seemed to drone. With two more days to go we headed out on the long hike back to the car.