the bonnaroo

i am posting in my new blog. how exciting. i always get butterflies in the beginning. this is the 3rd different blog host for me. hopefully things will stay cool between us and i won't have to break up with yet another. let's hope this time the relationship stands the test of time. wish us luck.

i am up at 3 in the morning and i have class tomorrow at 9am. the reason i am still up is because my roommate and the obnoxious college boys next door are over here running a muck. yeah, its good to be back in tally. at least i don't have to sleep in my car next to people who complain about how they might do better in school if they would stop free basing meth all the time. yeah, thats an actual quote from one of our neighbors at bonaroo, which i have decided to never go to again unless i get vip passes at least. yeah, it seems like it would be a blast, but unless you like hardly being able to see the stage and being around a bunch of poser hippies all day in the worst heat sleeping in your car while random people walk by watching you snooze, again in the sweltering heat then its not for you, trust me. i guess i'm not cut out for the bonaroo crowd. i like a more intimate setting where you can be close to the stage. i just decided that i don't like large music festivals. plus there was no way to ever get a chance to meet any of the bands because there's so much security and too many damn people. its a bit overwhelming. there was just so much stuff with all these different booths and all the bands i wanted to see playing at the same time at different stages. it was really frustrating. and our car was like a mile away from the stages so we had to walk forever just to get there to see whoever we wanted to see play. when there's so many people that you can't even see the stage i might as well go home and listen to the radio. all whining aside, which i did a lot of and still am, we got close enough to the stage to see Tom Petty so that he looked more like an ant than an ameoba. and a very stylish ant at that with a red shirt and black velvet jacket which he soon took off and replaced with a badass vest with a big cross in the back. but there were a couple big screens so the rest of us could see a little closer which was nice. MR. TOM PETTY ROCKED LIKE A HURRICANE. hehe, but really he did. he sounded amazing. he played almost all of my favorite songs and ended with a kickass version of American Girl. I LOVE THAT SONG. and to everyone's surprise STEVIE NICKS came out in the middle of the set and joined him for a couple songs and sang backup for "don't come around here no more".... he was so funny, he said to the crowd, "is everybody having fun at the bonaroo" it reminded me of when people say the walmart or something like that. it was kinda cute. yeah, he's definitely southern. but a hard rockin southerner. i almost spontaneously combusted when stevie nicks got on stage. i really went nuts. it was so surreal because i had never seen either of htem in concert and tom petty looked exactly like he does on tv. for some reason i thought he would look and act different in concert. differnt how i'm really not sure. he is the real rock n roll deal though. that was one of the best live shows i've ever seen. Tom Petty is way underrated i think. oh well, those crazy kids finally toned it down and decided to go to bed so i guess i will too. more on this adventure to come.