 Okay, so I am now really looking forward to ACL Fest!
For those of you not in the know, The Austin City Limits Music Festival is a music festival that Austin hosts every year and has since 2002. I once got to go and sit at Sheryl Crow's table for the Sound Check Charity Event at the launch of ACL a couple of years ago, thanks to her fabulous booking agent and my BFF. I had just finished my chemo and radiation and they arranged for tickets, food and feeling groovy because I was sitting at Sheryl Crow's table. For the record, Sheryl Crow is hot! And, now that I think about it, the price tag was still on the bottom of her boot so she may want to chat with her stylist about that...and it was distracting the hell out of me during her performance but it was cool! ACL is cool!
Its 3 days, 130 bands on 8 stages and its cool, as in cool, but hot
and nasty and sweaty and crazy and stinky and dirty and hot and
sometimes...it smells like pee. Let's just say that my "very under
control" OCD goes into hyper drive and I do get a little overwhelmed by
the dust and the dirt and the heat and the people and, you know, there
are not enough disinfectant wipes on planet Earth to make me use one of
those port-a-potty contraptions at the STD central, Austin music
festival.
Seriously, why am I going to this? I would rather my intestines
explode in a great, fecal mass all over my Ezra Fitch's than use a
Port-a-Potty and I am remembering that they may be my only option. No
touchy the toilie. Wait a minute...
And, last year, there was a cloud of dust from the extreme heat and
lack of, shall we say, ground cover? I thought that the lung issues
alone would be enough to keep me away, if not the stink of the blue
cans-o-pee, but the ACL folks and the Austin city planners have
planned...and planned for grass. In the park. They've planted grass
where grass should be and so...wow...they must be really smart and my
editor really thinks I should go.
Where people pee in cans.
Standing cans.
Where there are no wet wipes.
So, I am going on the last day of the festivities. K.T. Tunstall is
going to be there and Muse and Ween, Sun Volt, Ben Harper, The Flaming
Lips, The Stills, Tom Petty, etc. etc. etc. No, really, I LOVE ACL! I
do, I really do and I will be interviewing artists, checking out the
shows and hanging with my friends, and writing it all down to share
with you guys next week. It's so cool to be a member of the press...and
I'm so excited to go that I wanna pee my pants.
I'm probably going to need to pee my pants because there are
port-o-potties and there is that little problem about heat and needing
to drink water to survive.
Without toilets.
...and sinks...
and soap.
Watch out for more coverage of ACL Fest 2006 on Quirkee.com
next week.
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