The next three days of Bottlerock

The next day of the concert was Friday.  On Friday I saw Andrew Bird, The Shins, and The Flaming Lips who were the bands that I liked the most before the festival began.  I remember before Andrew Bird got there it felt like my brain was being fried by the sun.  It was really hot.  Andrew Bird was great.  I yelled at him on stage, Andrew Bird, you are Great.  I thought, not right away, but many days afterward I sounded like Tony the Tiger.  I remember dancing enthusiastically to Andrew Bird trying hard to keep up with every note of violin.  People around me started dancing and one guy started to dance like me, kinda copying my moves and then we hugged and when I was done dancing I was very tired, just exhuasted.  At Andrew Bird there was this pretty girl who looked like a hippy, like a flower child with flower pants and a thing around her head like a cloth crown.  I asked her what her name was and she said it was Leigha.  She said she was named after the movie.  At the Shins this guy appeared out of nowhere when I was dancing and hugged me, then he said, everyone is my friend.  When I went to the Flaming Lips he appeared out of nowhere again and started dancing with the girl next to me who was very pretty and was hulla hooping.  I thought it was so strange how he appeared out of nowhere.  The next day I saw him again after I started tossing my water bottle high into the air and then catching it, he was sitting right behind me.  Actually when he hugged me and told me everyone is his friend it helped me because I was feeling like the loneliest person in the crowd, and when he said that I thought perhaps that should be my attitude too, that everyone is my friend.

I met a girl named Lydia and her friend at Martin Harley Saturday and then we went together to Sharon Van Etten.  I loved Sharon Van Etten a lot.  I didn't know who was Sharon because there were two girls who sang together in the band and both played instruments.  Then I ran into Maureen's neighbors Chuck and Sara (a different Sara) and I stuck with them for a bit but I wanted to see Bad Religion.  Chuck said he already saw Bad religion so we separated.  At times I thought Bad Religion wasn't very good.  I remember liking them a lot more a long time ago.  But I loved the title of one of their songs, "Fuck the Apocalypse, This is hell."  When I saw Iron and Wine I was dissapointed. It sounded so much different and worse than the CDs of theirs that I had.  It sounded so much different that I asked people around me if it was really Iron and Wine and both people that I asked said yes.  Avett Brothers played on a different stage than they were supposed to so I thought maybe they switched stages.

Sunday I saw this guy Eric who I saw the first time when I saw the Juggler.  He looked a lot like Steve Ross and also a lot like Jesus.  I talked to him and told him he looked like Jesus.  He asked what it was, and I said it's your face, maybe just the long hair.  I tried to talk to him about spirituality.  I said I hope we are eternal beings.  I said I hope we can reincarnate.  He said he hoped that too.  We went to see Rogue Wave together, a band he already knew about that he said he liked. I thought the singer of Rogue Wave had a great voice but I couldn't understand his words.  I lost Eric in the crowd for better or worse, whether he wanted to lose me or not I don't know.  I saw Grouplove after that and loved them.  I danced and I met some pretty women who were all friends.  One Was named Jaimee and her sister Joselyn.  Then there was a girl next to them who was very attractive.  Her name turned out to be Lindsay.  She looked like my cousin Allison Sparrow.  I told her she looks like my cousin Allison, and she said that's funny.  My cousin Allison looks a lot like Lindsay Lohan.  The Lindsay at the festival was very pretty and had blonde hair.  I was wondering hours later if there was a chance that it was Lindsay Lohan. 

So... I didn't have dreams any of the nights of the festival staying in John's brother's trailer. Dreams are often the best part of my 24 hour period.  But... the festival was like a dream come true.  I thought it was so funny that I saw someone who looks like Allison the last day of the festival, because her birthday is May 12, and in a sense it seemed like the festival went from my birthday to hers.  Much gratitude!