Coachella: Live blog!

Soap’s intrepid explorer, Ellsworth, is at it again. This time he’s heading west for some little music festival. Supposedly, it’s gonna a be a pretty good time. So good in fact, that Ellsworth has decided to blog live in the form of text messages. Oh, it should be noted that he doesn’t actually have tickets yet

(All times EST)

Thursday:

17:08 - Barely made it to airport care of nyc public transit. Now safely in the buxom (sp?) of virgin america. One of the dudes from the national is reading the Times next to me. Saw it on their guitars, confirmed through quaint conversation. Seems more interested in rising prices of domestic food stuffs than chatting. That’s ok. Pulling out of gate. Cocktails soon.

17:13 - Last pre- cali update. According to the guy next to me, M.I.A is also on my flight. If I meet her, I will bring up that rainy miami day we saw her three Conferences ago when she wore a sonic the hedgehog shirt when I thought that we were in love…

23:45 - After a totally manageable flight, arrived in LA, one tearful french movie (diving bell), two mini bottles of wine, and five episodes of top chef later. Clean yourself up ellsworth. Now curbside, pretty close to MIA and crew, a sea of psychadelic tights and guitar hero accessories…

Friday:

16:46 - Runs for liquors, groceries, and ice are now complete. The pool even has this charmingly distracting fountain-like water feature. The desert looks like some martian landscape, with the exception of all the 50’s ranch mansions…May try and snag weekend passes off some pr coachella dude. Aphex twin??!!1!

19:12 - A resourceful gf and generous friends made possible tickets for todays show. Aphexxxxxxxxxxx jfjrjkjehbhe

21:13 - Coachella by private charter. Missed cut copy, too hot. Too damn hot. Hoping for some sort of vip shenanigans (sp?) to roll in with the crew I’m with. Goldfrapp maybe? Well see….

Saturday:

14:14 - Made it to the festival after some lingering by the artists entrance. Drank all we could in vip area, then met up with people at goldfrapp. We came in late and were in the back, in sum, rather unmonumental. Headed over to see aphex twin, and Holy shit. Started funky, throwback hip hop and r and b, then started speeding up, increasingly more acid until it was a full blown idm glitch insaneo parade. We watched most of his set, then wandered back to vip for cocktails and pizza and a bus back to palm springs…

18:40 - At the anthem pool party. palm springs is in full effect. Think tommie sunshine is djing? His model wife stands right next to him in the booth. Heading to the festival at some point, trying to make it by 6 for hotchip.

Sunday:

19:46 - Coahcehlla, jesus. The dirt, the people, the organization. No words. At the anthem mag party in thois sort of tropi cal oasis. This may be the best pary of the fest. Finally overcast, finally good music. Claude von s playing now, I guess we missed mandy by an hour. Tommie sunshine is lingering by the decks, along with erol alkan, haven’t seen erol play, hope he steps it up.

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