{"id":4124,"date":"2013-07-15T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:13:25","slug":"coachella-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=4124","title":{"rendered":"Coachella 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well April rolled arou\"\"nd and my Coachella vacation was upon me.\u00a0 And this time I was determined it was going to be SPECIAL<\/strong> cuz I turned 50!…<\/strong>on the first day of the first weekend and not only was Sex God going with me and spending an entire week in the condo… but Tongue God was going with us.<\/p>\n

We did everything right.\u00a0 All parties carpooling with us came over Thursday night for an early start.\u00a0 I had arranged for someone to cover me at work and be with the kids on nights when I had all three.\u00a0 The food for the week was purchased and packed and we left RIGHT on time!<\/p>\n

\"Sex<\/a>

Sex God, Cesar and I … on the road!<\/p><\/div>\n

And on the way there Tongue God calls to tell me his daughter (who is also on depression meds) is having a melt down on him going for the weekend.\u00a0 He got an emergency apt with the shrink so we all crossed his fingers he’d still make it.\u00a0 Sigh… he did not.\u00a0 Paid for ticket in hand he had to just toss aside. \u00a0 So I didn’t get my “walk around Coachella with two men on my arms” 50 year birthday celebration that I’d wanted.<\/p>\n

What I DID get was my wonderful Sex God for an entire week.\u00a0 3 days of relaxing music with sooooo many of my Indy Rock bands there wasn’t a moment I wasn’t enjoying seeing a new band play my favorite songs.\u00a0\u00a0 Or loving seeing an old band play!<\/p>\n

\"Cesar<\/a>

Cesar wins Best of Hair & earns the nickname Princess by the amount of hair products and shower time.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Day One we saw Modest Mouse, Of Monsters and Men, The Neighborhood and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. \u00a0 And the highlight of that day was Blur.\u00a0 I’d never really seen them nor known a lot of their music.\u00a0 And I liked them!\u00a0 The day itself was pretty relaxing.\u00a0 All of us spending most of the day decompressing from the journey, from work, from life in general.\u00a0 The way you should when you’re on vacation.<\/p>\n

On Day Two we kind of wandered more but we did see Franz Ferdinand and The Postal Service.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We really enjoyed Violent Femmes.\u00a0 They’ve always been Sex God’s favorite band and they were thoroughly energetic live in concert!\u00a0 We did a bit of dancing on the grass with them because we kind of lazed about listening to the band before them. \u00a0 On that day I also discovered the coffee flavored ice cream… yum!<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This guy sat on my hand for 10 minutes!<\/p><\/div>\n

On Day Three we’d almost had it with the weather. lol\u00a0\u00a0 Breezy is nice, but strong winds picking up dust from the desert is no fun!\u00a0\u00a0 We managed to see Social Distortion & The Lumineers.\u00a0 But the highlight was my favorites, Vampire Weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Silly losers were over at the Wu Tang Clan stage (where the crowd looked very scary!)\u00a0 so we were able to get real close & STILL have plenty of room to dance.\u00a0 Oh they didn’t disappoint one stitch!\u00a0 Rostram lost weight and looked great.\u00a0 Ezra was sporting the sexiest Cub hairstyle!! \u00a0 I just wanted to fuck him right there on the stage!\u00a0 I’d have thrown a bra… if I’d been wearing one.\u00a0 And Chris Baio STILL does the<\/strong> BEST bass guitar geek dance I’ve every seen on stage!\u00a0 I sang myself horse & danced to keep warm cuz that wind was getting colder as the sun slowly set!<\/p>\n

We ended the night huddled in the largest Beer Garden overlooking the Main Stage to watch Red Hot Chili Peppers.\u00a0 I’m a so-so fan of RHCP but Sex God loved them so we were staying for him.\u00a0 By now the weather was a full on icy cold dust storm!\u00a0 The band started up a tune everyone knew and it was all I could do NOT to laugh.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone around us began singing the well known song and singing so loud that no one could hear the performance of the band!\u00a0 As soon as all the memorized lyrics were sung THEN I could hear the band sing the rest of the song… until the chorus!\u00a0 We lasted three songs and called Coachella over.<\/p>\n

At which point we began the hilarious trek through car camping to the parking lot.\u00a0 INTO the wind that was picking up speed and more dirt from the desert.\u00a0 Covering our faces as much as possible we were laughing and joking as we saw the wreckage that was the camping site.\u00a0 Tents and canopies down EVERYWHERE or rippling in shreds.\u00a0 As a matter of fact we had to dodge the poles of one canopy that gave up the fight and tumbled with the wind toward us!\u00a0 I wanted to take a pix of the pup tent we saw plastered sideways on the chain link fence, held there by sheer wind force, but at that point we were desperate to get to the car!\u00a0\u00a0 Tanks and short and flip flops do not much protection make!<\/p>\n

Cesar had a friend driving from LA to pick him up & take him home so\u00a0 within 30 minutes of making it to the car we bid him adieu.\u00a0 We had energy for a quick shower once in the condo before we collapsed.\u00a0 That Monday we would begin our REAL relaxing vacation.<\/p>\n

But that’s another blog ;D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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