Ground Zero....COACHELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL

Ground Zero....COACHELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL

Sorry that the bloggin’ has been sporadic. We have been busy preparing our lives, our car and our business for the impending three-month road trip we are about to embark upon. This has consisted of tying up lots of loose ends, endless meetings and never-ending errand sprees throughout the city. We headed into the desert today equipped with our new tent, our new walkie talkies, a lot of water and a shit load of sunscreen. We have volunteered out time to help our friends at Global Inheritance out. They are going to be responsible for all the recycling at the festival and we are going to be their loyal slaves. If you still don’t know who Global Inheritance is (www.globalinheritance.org), they are the non-profit organization that we are donating five dollars of every “SUPPORT GLOBAL COOLING” t-shirt to, which we will be diligently peddling on the campgrounds at the end of the long days.

L.A. has been good to us and we have to give a huge thank you to our most gracious and generous hosts, Marge and Tollie. We hope we haven’t been too much of a burden and that our late night returns from promotional activities haven’t disturbed your sleep.

For those of you interested in what we’ve been up to the past few days, it’s been interesting. Sunday night was quite a spectacle, as we were invited to the rehearsal of an avant-garde circus named Lucent Dossier (www.lucentdossier.com), who will be performing at Coachella. While Bridget photo-documented the experience, Sean became uncontrollably lost in what he was witnessing.


Here is what he scratched in the journal during the rehearsal:
LIKE WATCHING A TRANSFORMATION FROM NORMALITY TO PURE, UNADULTERATED MYSTICISM
I’VE NEVER SEEN PEOPLE TRANSFORM THEMSELVES SO PURELY
IT’S LIKE WATCHING A COMPLETE METAMORPHISIS OF THE MIND BODY AND SOUL
THE CREATIVITY LOOMS THROUGH THE ROOM LIKE A HEAVY FOG
TRANSFORMED MY PERCEPTION OF ELEGANCE AND SELF-EXPRESSION
CAN’T HELP BUT STARE IN BEWILDERMENT AND VISUAL SATISFACTION

Upon reading this the next day, Bridget added in the journal, “Yikes. I’ve lost him.”
Ok, maybe Sean HAS completely lost his mind.

The following night (that would be Monday for all the slower people out there) we went to a VIP party above the Roxy in Hollywood. This was supposed to be the after-party for the Black Crowes, but they never showed up, being the uber-cool rock and roll band that they are. Despite the lack of rock and roll stardom, we had the chance to examine a new breed of “saurus” found in abundant numbers throughout Los Angeles, the hipster-saurus Rex. The hipster-saurus Rex tends to linger in dark bars and are easily identified by their pale, emotionless faces, and their refusal to smile. Most hipster-saurus Rex wear dark clothing, chains, studs, tattoos, piercings and make-up (males and females alike). They are rarely seen during light hours of the day and never socialize with other breeds of “saurus”. Just a quick note to Still Standing. the band playing at this party: You should consider spending less money on black bandanas and hair gel so that you can buy an original sound.

COACHELLA (www.coachella.com) starts Saturday and assuming our swanky little new Verizon wireless internet adapter gets service out there in the desert, (which it does because we are currently posting this blog from our campsite—inside the festival grounds). Right....here:


We will be keeping you posted with our adventures, t-shirt peddling stories, hippie-saurus rex sightings and rockstar interviews.

Oh, and by the way, if you are one of our friends and haven’t bought a “SUPPORT GLOBAL COOLING” shirt yet, you aren’t our friend anymore until you buy one.