This weekend I'm going to be heading off, along with Kim and two friends, to the "Coachella Valley Music Festival":http://www.coachella.com/ thingy dealie. It's sort of Lollapalooza on steroids, or Burning Man but less dusty, or even Bumbershoot without all the rain. I'm currently "bidding on":http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6526713282 camping tickets for all of us, which will probably be a lot better than trying to negotiate the clusterfuck in and out both days. Granted, it's still going to be a clusterfuck with "all those bands":http://www.coachella.com/artists/, but hopefully a slightly more managable one. Plus, if we camp we actually get to "bring in food and water":http://www.coachella.com/camping/?onsite, instead of paying $8 for a bottle of water or whatever it was that caused the Woodstock riot a few years back. It's a lot of bands, and there's quite a few that I would like to see, but it sounds like it's going to be a really, REALLY big crowd, which always makes me a little nervous. I wish there was going to be WiFi there, but there ain't... so all my "pictures":http://flickr.com/photos/tags/coachella will have to wait until I get home to get uploaded.

*Update:* Well, I didn't win the auction for the tickets, but only because some fucking asshole bid me out of them, thinking they were tickets to the _event_! Um, $100 to get 4 tickets that cost $175 each? "If it seems to good to be true..." Fucker. Now the original seller is trying to sell them to me for a Buy It Now of $100. No way, not when individual camping passes are going for less than $20 each.