I have this blog entry that I wrote five years ago, recapping my experience at WZPL’s “Jingle Jam,” — a holiday concert featuring Howie Day, Maroon 5, and Jason Mraz. Go ahead. Read that roster again; I’ll wait.. . . . As if that lineup alone was not embarassing enough, the blog entry reads no different than a twelve-year-old reviewing a New Kids on the Block show in 1990, with lots of exclamation points and emoticons and *things encased in asterisks.* I’m much too lazy to search the archives (that was two blogs ago), but if you’d like the link, ask Bess Browning. She keeps it on hand to have a good laugh, she says. (EDIT: She may or may not have put the link in the comments.) Meeting Adam Levine and getting drunk with his band in some hotel suite was, at that time, dubbed, “LIKE, IN THE TOP FIVE BEST NIGHTS OF MY LIFE.” When I sent the link around to my friends, I figured we’d all chuckle for a minute and then forget about it. Oh no. My romp with these pop stars and my overly enthousiastic writeup gets mentioned on a weekly basis. If I go to a show or a party nowadays and mention the fun I had? Bess will quip - “Was it better than the Maroon 5 concert? That was in your top five best nights, ever.”
Har, har.
So when she asked me about my weekend at the Monolith Festival, I told her - “In the top five best weekends of my life. Better than hanging out with Maroon 5.” It was true, though. Really.
This would typically be the point in the blog entry where I’d start a narrative account of the weekend from the beginning, but I’m not. I took somewhere around 1,400 pictures, and I’m really eager to show some of the better ones to you. So I’m going to go about this in a somewhat caddywampus fashion.
One of the first bands I shot was also one of the most fun — Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. There are two things that are absolutely impossible to do during this set — 1) not smile and 2) stand still. You don’t care what they’re on, but you want some.
Janglin\’ — Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
MORE UNDER THE CUT BELOW…
Click here for the rest of the Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros flickr set.
September 16th, 2009 at 7:31 am
haha. No really. The Maroon 5 blog entry is my favorite. You can find that jem herehttp://www.blurty.com/users/wildchildnbloom/day/2003/12/11
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September 17th, 2009 at 10:52 am
I wonder if you could roll that dudes beard and smoke it?
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October 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 am
As a way to “stick it to the man,” I’m spending my morning reading your blog… Yes. I just wanted to let you know that the Jingle Jam 2003 was also *****THE BEST CONCERT I HAVE EVER SEEN*****. Only I’m serious. I always judge concerts by how I felt about them at the time, not looking back. Next time I see you, ask me about the Domino’s delivery boy who fell in love with me that night. But please don’t ask to see his photo.
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April 25th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
It is always pleasure to read your posts, will back here soon
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May 21st, 2010 at 5:12 am
O widze masz podobne zainteresowania do moich, fajna strona, zajrze tu jeszcze
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