Coachella!

In three weeks I will be heading to California for the Coachella music festival and I'm super amped about it.




Here is my list of the bands I want to see, in order of excitement:

1. Pavement.
Duh, I love Pavement and I have never seen them live and they are playing on my birthday! A big reason why I bought my ticket to the festival.
2.DEVO.
My blog is named for a DEVO song, my old ringtone was a DEVO song and if I ever got a tattoo it would be this:

I really love them and from videos I have seen their live shows are great.

3. John Waters.
I really have no idea what he will be doing there (possibly DJing?), but whatever it is I want to be there. One of the first records I had was the hairspray soundtrack, which I still listen to regularly, and in my dreams John Waters plays the music for all the fun parties I attend.

4. Beach House/Grizzly Bear.
A tie.

5. Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke, no Radiohead? I'm skeptical but still excited.


Yeasayer
She & Him
Major Lazer
Wale
Gorillaz
Phoenix
Yann Tiersen
Jay-Z
De La Soul
Gary Numan
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Yo la Tengo
Mayer Hawthorne
The xx
Passion Pit
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Avett Brothers
King Khan & the Shrines
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Sly Stone
Little Boots
The Specials
MGMT
Little Dragon
The Dead Weather
Hot Chip
Gossip
Vampire Weekend


Most of these bands I have never seen before so that definitely raises the level of excitement. I've been to a few festivals like this, where you camp out at the site but I've always driven to them and this time I'm flying so I'm feeling pretty nervous about having room to pack everything I will need. I will have to be super creative in my packing or wear like three layers of clothes on the flight.

West Palm Beach

Yesterday Natan and I drove up to West Palm Beach. We went to have lunch with his great-Aunt but decided to go up early to take advantage of being in West Palm Beach. I wanted to go to John MacArthur state park, I have wanted to go there for a long time but I'm never in West Palm Beach and it always seems somewhat silly to drive an hour and half to go to a beach when I live about 10 minutes away from the beach. Well, we ended up not going to that park unfortunately because we didn't have enough time so instead we just went to the beach at the end of Okeechobee Road. It was an extremely windy day and the water is still way to cold to go swimming, but it was really nice to walk around and I love being on the beach even if I can't go in the water.

Natan did put his feet in the water but it was too cold for me to even do that.


You can see from the trees how windy it was.

One of the condos on the beach, I really like the buildings on the beach in West Palm because they weren't giant skyscrapers that ultimately block other peoples view of the beach.


Me, I got to wear my new Sperry Topsiders, which I was very excited about. They are super comfortable and I really needed good walking shoes that I could wear at parks and beaches without worrying that they would get ruined. I got these at Ross for $20!


The skyline, it's crazy because even though it was cloudy and ready to storm the sun was still poking it's way through. Very typical of South Florida weather.



We saw this guy washed up on shore, it's a jellyfish but without the tentacles. I wasn't sure if it's only the tentacles that are poisonous so I didn't touch it.


I also found a toothbrush washed up onshore.


The wind made it difficult for the birds to fly so a lot of them were lined up and waiting to go.