{"id":3561,"date":"2012-08-14T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:28:18","slug":"coachella-music-fest-2012-um-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"Coachella Music Fest 2012… um… Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did I mention its also an ART Festival. This was a moving crane flower<\/p><\/div>\n

Well it took a bit of time but I finally caught up with my life to have a moment to write the Coachella blog. \u00a0AND that is WITH a part time employee to help out and children and interns! \u00a0For a bit there I was wondering how do I make this blog more than just a reporting of “we saw this…then we saw this, etc” \u00a0Then I realized this is ME we’re talking about.\u00a0 Of COURSE way more than that happened!!<\/p>\n

But let’s start at the beginning, which would be after Sex God & I dropped the kiddos off at school at 8 am.\u00a0 I had to pop into work to try and get ONE thing done.\u00a0 Sadly, that took way longer than it was supposed to and suddenly I find us more than an hour behind schedule!\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0 This tends to kick in my rush mode cuz I’m a bit compulsive about being on time for things.\u00a0 So I was maintaining my favorite speed and I’m NOT posting that online.\u00a0 But lets just say Sex God’s comment by the time we arrived was, “Whew!\u00a0 Its like riding with a professional race car driver!”\u00a0 He hummed “Go Speed Racer” half the drive!<\/p>\n

We got completely lucky at the hotel cuz our type of suite juuuuuust opened up when we got there so we got keys and were able to unload our stuff.\u00a0 Other people had to wait for hours.\u00a0 Mike and his troop were leaving much later than us so we left a key under the mat of the condo and headed out to the festival.\u00a0 And this is where having experience and a smart phone really helped.\u00a0 I KNEW we needed to hit the back entrance not the main entrance.\u00a0 The difficulty was just finding that working off memory which is a year old!\u00a0 But we got lucky and found it!\u00a0 I can’t tell you how nice it is to park on grass not dirt and be closer to the venue entrance!<\/p>\n

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Checking in on Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n

We spent the first day seeing what was the same and what was different.\u00a0 It took me a while but I found my favorite item, root beer floats, for sale at a booth in the expanded food area.\u00a0 Which I must say was amazing.\u00a0\u00a0 The food was expensive, as expected, but the diversity of choices were exceptional.\u00a0 Indian food, Chinese, cold sandwiches, pizza, ribs, roasted corn, veggie & regular burgers, Mexican… something for everyone.<\/p>\n

Sadly we didn’t get thru security before 3pm so missed 3 hours of bands but had plenty of time to saunter over and see Group Love.\u00a0 They completely lived up to our expectations… as in Wonderfully Fun!\u00a0 It was packed and hot and amusingly every so often the oxygen level would drop or raise!\u00a0 But we loved every minute of it.<\/p>\n

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Lit balloons on wire held by people floated the night sky<\/p><\/div>\n

After that we kind of wandered about, saw a bit of Arctic Monkeys, some Madness before parking at the Main Stage.\u00a0 Brant left me there to pop over to see M83 but said they weren’t that good after the one hit they played. \u00a0 Having seen Black Keys last Coachella we didn’t feel the need to “see” them.\u00a0 So I kinda hunkered down within sound range but back enough to lie down and well, I’ll confessed, I napped!\u00a0 Cuz I was stupid enough to go to the gym at 5 am that morning!\u00a0 Sex God came back from M83 & joined my nap, lol, cuz he’d been drinking all day.<\/p>\n

But at 11 pm the wonderful beat of Swedish House Mafia woke us up.\u00a0 And wow… that experience suddenly brought home to me the appeal of house music.\u00a0 There were few lyrics, just music.\u00a0 But it was PERFECTLY executed.\u00a0 It would change and build up and then crescendo and change and build up and crescendo… all in a way that did NOT seem repetitive or boring and made you want to dance and dance.\u00a0 Which we did!<\/p>\n

They were the last band of Friday and we left with the crowd and went to the camping site to look for Will and his group who were camping but couldn’t find him.\u00a0 Actually we DID find them but weren’t sure in the dark if it was them and the guys next to their site were all suspicious of us wandering around so we left and headed back to our condo. \u00a0 Turns out Will was there but asleep.. ASLEEP at Coachella!!\u00a0 Dude, get wasted at HOME… tix were too expensive to waste sleeping!<\/p>\n

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Freddie<\/p><\/div>\n

Once at the condo Mike and Freddie and entourage had just arriving also.\u00a0 (Again.. yay smart phones!)\u00a0 So we all stayed up and chit chatted and drank and crashed probably around 2 in the morning.\u00a0\u00a0 Reluctantly! \u00a0 But by 6 or 7 am my mind is up.\u00a0 Languid and easily dozing in and out, but once my mind is up its only a matter of time before my stomach wakes also.\u00a0 Of course, not before I “awaken” the libido of Sex God… although not too much!\u00a0 I send him off to pee first!!\u00a0 I’m THAT kind of a considerate girlfriend!<\/p>\n

Drama of that First Day…. getting texts from Luke that he’d forgotten his key & I was on the phone & texting trying to solve his problem.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After 30 minutes we settled on Grandma leaving work early & getting the spare key at her house.\u00a0 She was going to pick him up anyway for the weekend so it worked out.<\/p>\n

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