As a perpetual long-distance observer, I think what I'll miss most about no swankers attending this year is the Annual Coachella Fashion Show photos.

:(

I was hoping the twitpic stream would fulfill that. So far not so much. Those 2 I posted have been the most interesting.

Actually, I almost posted another pic of some rather interesting towels...but it turns out to be a promotional gimmick, so meh.

I see nothing

And I even tried pasting the addy into the address bar :(

Yeah, sorry about that, I hadn't yet realized that the links I was grabbing were dynamic. Here's the shot:

Holy Hell! Lucent has outdone themselves yet again!

Jealous - just green - maybe lightening in a bottle

Fashion Show entrant #3

It's nice to know The Specials still rock.

I am seriously impressed with this "live" stream on Facebook. I was skeptical, it was billed as "live" and that it is not. But I dare say it's better than live. It's actually produced very very professionally, captures the pace of the day surprisingly well, and, combined with the day of twitter feed watching, I successfully felt informed about what was going on through the day. Like, next best thing to being there.

That probably has a lot to do with the fact that, except for one omission the acts they've been showing (they only showed a subset) have been the ones I would have chosen to see.

And, it also helps that they've all rocked. And much to my surprise, rather than feeling bummed or jealous, I've just been thrilled that Coachella once again rocks, and that I at least got to get a glimpse into it.

Well, maybe it's a good thing we didn't go, with 75K in attendance word is Coachella's been a huge Clusterfvck this year. Our friends gave up after 4 hours trying to get from their Hotel to the venue - they sold their tickets for the remains of the weekend and are just kicking back in Palm Springs instead. Reading the Coachella boards their story is not uncommon with 6 hour waits getting in and hour + waits getting out. Apparently the tents are at capacity as well making stage hoping difficult if not impossible.

I will miss seeing these bands, and of course Lucent Dossier, but it seems they hit some serious snags this year. I have to wonder if all the new housing around the venue has disrupted the normal traffic control, which always has been annoying in the past, but still tolerable.