ok… I cannot believe I’m this far behind in blog posts that I’m just now finding the time to write up my Coachella 2014 vacation! In 2015!! But if I don’t post this, I can’t post the 2015 Coachella vacation! Curse you Vortex of Age Timesuck!
Anyway… quick warp up of 2014. I was able to get the same condo in Indian Palms as last year, but wasn’t able to get my friends to help pay for it. Originally Tongue God was going to share the place with us, but he had a friend who let him use his condo in Palm Springs for free. Luckily for me I found substitute co-renters off Craigslist enough to help defer the costs. A very nice couple and a single girl for the hideaway couch. (Hi Shannon!)
Freddie and Mikee didn’t go… and while Cesar DID go, he didn’t room nor hang with us. We saw him in passing once. I could tell Sex God missed the crazy, hyper camaraderie of the younger guys but chose to stay with his waaaay too laid back girl friend! (What a keeper) Plus a few months prior to Coachella Sex God had been laid off and Cesar was from that old job, so AWKWARD. But Tongue God DID come for his first Coachella and brought his new girlfriend! He asked if we could play it like he knew me from a work friend and I was fine with that. No sense scaring off a friend’s love interest just because she’s Vanilla. (btw… a year later they’re still going strong which means either it’s real love or he’s slowing down.. and since he’s mid 50’s….
I wonder if a lover becomes an Ex lover does he lose his nickname? Thoughts to ponder)
It got windy
2014 was truly an Alt Rock year for Coachella. There must have been 15 bands per day that Sex God and I wanted to see. Evan at $30 a separate concert that puts Day One covering the costs of the 3 days of festival. It’s truly the best way to get ALL your concert going done for the year. lol. On Day One we saw, Ms Mr, Grouplove, Haim, AFI, Ellie Goulding, Broken Bells, OutKast and I think, Bastille. To be honest, I wasn’t the Bastille fan then that I am NOW and I may have just gone for dinner or ice cream when they were on! Bad, BAD Fangirl Heather! Worst part of looking back to previous Coachella years is the realization that the band you missed a year or so ago is not your all time favorite. It’s like I’ve always said, DON’T LOOK BACK!
Day Two was my 51st Birthday so I wore my new t-shirt. I got a lot of “Is it really your birthday?” and “Happy Birthday!” stranger-love all day and it was pretty fun. I only got one spank outa it! lol 
But then again, I spent most of my time sitting or dancing on the blanket Sex God lays down whenever we pick where we’re going to watch the bands play. The only exception to that is when we’re at the Sahara stage which is the House Music section. That place is straight dirt, packed and too loud for THESE old ears. Particularly after blowing my eardrum in a past Coachella! lol
We pretty much bounced from the Main stage to the Outdoor stage and saw, Cage the Elephant (watched him surf the crowd all the way to the camera set up… it was marvelous!) Chvrches, The Head and the Heart, Capital Cities, Queens of the Stone Age and half of Lorde. When she started babbling her life story halfway in the set, we left. And I will admit, I was exhausted by midnight when Muse came on. As much as I knew they would be fabulous, I’d seen them 3 times already and wasn’t in the mood to fight the crowd.
By Day Three I was already looking forward to the festival being over! I know! So bad! But there was ONE person I was excited to see and that was Frank Turner. He STILL is one of my favorite performers even though Sex God says his music bores him. Before Frank we saw Strfkr (pronounced Starfucker) and that was a truly entertaining show. The music was ok.. but it was the band that was really interesting. I mean… sumo wrestlers trying to crowd surf is something to SEE!
http://youtu.be/RGs8k-AKMgg
We missed the 1975 because of Frank, but I really wanted to introduce Tongue God to this man’s music. I’m sure I made a convert because he joined Sex God into the circling whirlwind in the crowd at the front of the stage! I know better than to enter THAT! lol We also saw the Naked and Famous, Neutral Milk Hotel, Calvin Harris, a bit of Lana Del Rey and all of Beck. Beck wasn’t bad at all… but the weather had really turned cold and windy with grit, and popcorn had popped off on of my back crowns! So I was ready to call the festival done by the time Beck ended! As much as it might have been fun to hang with Tongue God and his girl and drink, we scampered our poor butts home to fuck like bunnies in the condo.
Lusting this all weekend kind of moved me closer to “is this over yet?” lol
Once everyone was gone Monday morning, our true vacation began. But it wasn’t as much fun as it could have been. First up was finding a dentist to re-cement the crown. Then with Sex God losing his job he was under a lot of stress and doing his best to stay optimistic (his boss tried to claim they’d fired him for cause be we had text evidence they didn’t, but it delayed his unemployment) so while we enjoyed our time alone, I was still working here and there as needed remotely and Sex God was contemplating perhaps moving to Palm Springs and was doing a bit of job hunting while we were there.
In amongst all that Sex God gets an email that he won the 98.7 Alt Rock contest giving away the Weekend Two Coachella tickets! So he drives all the way back to Los Angeles and then all the way back to Indio and we spend a day on Craigslist selling them. It was a godsend for Sex God because it helped him make rent! Then by Wednesday I’m getting calls from the school that Luke’s behavior is alarming them. So after I talk to him over the phone we decide to cut our vacation short and come home early.
When the children need us, they need us. Vacation or no vacation.