{"id":4321,"date":"2015-05-27T11:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T16:48:21","slug":"coachella-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=4321","title":{"rendered":"Coachella 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"053\"<\/a>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!\u00a0\u00a0 In 2015!! \u00a0 \u00a0 But if I don’t post this, I can’t post the 2015 Coachella vacation!\u00a0 Curse you Vortex of Age Timesuck!<\/p>\n

Anyway…\u00a0 quick warp up of 2014.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Luckily for me I found substitute co-renters off Craigslist enough to help defer the costs.\u00a0\u00a0 A very nice couple and a single girl for the hideaway couch.\u00a0 (Hi Shannon!)<\/p>\n

Freddie and Mikee didn’t go… and while Cesar DID go, he didn’t room nor hang with us.\u00a0 We saw him in passing once.\u00a0 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!\u00a0 (What a keeper)\u00a0 Plus a few months prior to Coachella Sex God had been laid off and Cesar was from that old job, so AWKWARD.\u00a0 But Tongue God DID come for his first Coachella and brought\u00a0 his new girlfriend!\u00a0 He asked if we could play it like he knew me from a work friend and I was fine with that.\u00a0 No sense scaring off a friend’s love interest just because she’s Vanilla.\u00a0\u00a0 (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….<\/p>\n

I wonder if a lover becomes an Ex lover does he lose his nickname?\u00a0 Thoughts to ponder)<\/p>\n

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It got windy<\/p><\/div>\n

2014 was truly an Alt Rock year for Coachella.\u00a0 There must have been 15 bands per day that Sex God and I wanted to see.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evan at $30 a separate concert that puts Day One covering the costs of the 3 days of festival.\u00a0 It’s truly the best way to get ALL your concert going done for the year. lol.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Day One we saw, Ms Mr, Grouplove, Haim, AFI, Ellie Goulding, Broken Bells, OutKast and I think, Bastille.\u00a0 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!\u00a0 Bad, BAD Fangirl Heather!\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It’s like I’ve always said, DON’T LOOK BACK!<\/p>\n

\"030\"<\/a>Day Two was my 51st Birthday so I wore my new t-shirt.\u00a0\u00a0 I got a lot of\u00a0 “Is it really your birthday?” and “Happy Birthday!” stranger-love all day and it was pretty fun.\u00a0 I only got one spank outa it!\u00a0 lol\u00a0\u00a0 \"029\"<\/a>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.\u00a0 The only exception to that is when we’re at the Sahara stage which is the House Music section.\u00a0 That place is straight dirt, packed and too loud for THESE old ears.\u00a0 Particularly after blowing my eardrum in a past Coachella! lol<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 When she started babbling her life story halfway in the set, we left.\u00a0 And I will admit, I was exhausted by midnight when Muse came on.\u00a0 As much as I knew they would be fabulous,\u00a0 I’d seen them 3 times already and wasn’t\u00a0 in the mood to fight the crowd.<\/p>\n

By Day Three I was already looking forward to the festival being over!\u00a0 I know!\u00a0 So bad!\u00a0 But there was ONE person I was excited to see and that was Frank Turner.\u00a0 He STILL is one of my favorite performers even though Sex God says his music bores him.\u00a0\u00a0 Before Frank we saw Strfkr (pronounced Starfucker) and that was a truly entertaining show.\u00a0 The music was ok.. but it was the band that was really interesting.\u00a0 I mean…\u00a0 sumo wrestlers trying to crowd surf is something to SEE!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/RGs8k-AKMgg<\/p>\n

We missed the 1975 because of Frank, but I really wanted to introduce Tongue God to this man’s music.\u00a0 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!\u00a0 I know better than to enter THAT! lol\u00a0\u00a0 We also saw the Naked and Famous, Neutral Milk Hotel, Calvin Harris, a bit of Lana Del Rey and all of Beck.\u00a0\u00a0 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! \u00a0 So I was ready to call the festival done by the time Beck ended!\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

\"Lusting<\/a>

Lusting this all weekend kind of moved me closer to “is this over yet?” lol<\/p><\/div>\n

Once everyone was gone Monday morning, our true vacation began.\u00a0 But it wasn’t as much fun as it could have been.\u00a0\u00a0 First up was finding a dentist to re-cement the crown.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It was a godsend for Sex God because it helped him make rent!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then by Wednesday I’m getting calls from the school that Luke’s behavior is alarming them.\u00a0 So after I talk to him over the phone we decide to cut our vacation short and come home early.<\/p>\n

When the children need us, they need us.\u00a0 Vacation or no vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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!\u00a0\u00a0 In 2015!! \u00a0 \u00a0 But if I don’t post this, I can’t post the 2015 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naughty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}