French Toast Breakfast
So Day Two of Coachella starts well with lovely sex and a shower and then I head into the kitchen to cook some breakfast. Cuz I be HUNGRY! I enlist Jocelyn to help me and we make french toast for all 6 of us. And coffee, lots of coffee! Then we all just get wrapped up in a lazy morning. We talk, I do designs on my fingernails using my MagiNails, then Yessi does designs on her nails and then we FINALLY realize the time decide to head back to the Festival. Again, after parking & getting through security we arrive on the grounds around 3pm! I can’t tell if we are losers or just GOOD at enjoying the evenings!
Mike & Jocelyn
By now we’ve got the bottle collecting down. See there is this recycling program where if you collect 10 empty water bottles they’ll give you an ice cold one for free. This helps keep the grounds cleaner as everyone is pounding down water cuz its 100 degrees, yes its April but its also the desert! And when buying one bottle water is $2 it can get pricey! But the beauty of the system is if you wait just a little bit when a performance is over you’ll have a HUGE selection of water bottles to scoop up & take to the recycling center. When the crowd clears out (cuz there is about 20 minutes between artists at any stage) the ground is littered with empties! And they expanded the recycling center so there was barely a line at any given moment. BETTER… I read the sign (on the last day so I wasn’t able to participate) if you collected 1,000 bottles you would get upgraded to VIP status. AND they let you create an account so you didn’t have to bring in it all in at once, you could dribble it in. If we don’t buy VIP for 2013 we might try this! Its probably pretty achievable by the end of the first day if you work it well enough.
Anyway.. so Day Two we just made it to see Awolnation. Who were, of course, absolutely fabulous. I knew every song cuz I’d been listening to their album on my iPhone at the gym since I saw them at the 98.7 Penthouse concert months prior. And we got there early enough to be close to the stage. Plus front man Bruno did what I’d seen him do in videos. He brought out a surf board and surfed the crowd… so much fun! I was happy we were to the left as I’m too short to help and didn’t want to mess with my manicure!
After that we wandered between venue checking out Tune Yards, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Feist & a few others.
But the highlight of the day was Radiohead. Oh. MY. It was … wonderful. By far the highlight of the entire festival actually, but at the moment of them playing it was incredible. Now Sex God is a HUGE Radiohead fan, but I wasn’t. Not that I didn’t enjoy their music, I just didn’t know much of it. So about 3 months before Coachella I downloaded their newest and their “best of” albums and began to listen to them. And I LIKED them! But hearing them live in the warm desert night with my flying Sex God dancing to the music and belting out the lyrics in a really loud voice it was just trans-formative.
Now I might blame that on the level of alcohol in my blood or the fact that we’d drunk so much water our electrolytes were shot, or maybe it was just an “experimental day” but even today, almost 2 months later, whenever my iPhone plays a Radiohead song I’m thrilling to it. It is NOW my music of choice, right up there with Incubus.
So Radiohead ends and we scampering off to meet with Will & Ellen & Cesar in the camping area. But they are gone or asleep so after we buy something from the ALWAYS open food area in camping we head to the car. The nice thing about getting to the car late is its pretty easy to find! But the bad thing is its difficult to remember how to get home! And on THIS for some reason our phones did NOT help. We ended up driving for almost an hour in a very large square until we realized we needed to make a left instead of a right. By that point I had pulled over to find a small secluded bush to pee in! Desperation! Brant had already had his moment of OMG! It’s pee or die but being a guy he was able to use a handy empty cup we had in the car! So WHILE I’m driving he’s letting loose into the cup but then he says, “Oh God… it never ends!” And he’s panicking cuz he’s filling the cup. So he has to clench/squeeze the flow to stop, rolls down the window & dumps the cup, only to “release” more into it!
I’m laughing so hard, but he’s all… “Keep driving!” while he ends up filling & dumping 4 cupfulls of pee! When we finally make it back to the Condo…. again… everyone is there and awake and telling the stories of what they saw. We join in and I make the mistake of drinking a Pepsi. Now THAT … on top of the Red Bull I’d had just before Radiohead and NOW I cannot sleep! I literally lie awake for 2 hours before giving up and get on my phone. I updated all the apps…. answered emails…. check out the free books…. and the game apps…. until about 8 am. Then I just jump in the shower wide awake and dead tired at the same time! Very strange experience!