Sasquatch Festival
 

If any of the PNW contingent is free on the weekend of May 26, in the mood to trek to the city of George, WA and want to make me excruciatingly jealous, the Sasquatch Festival is for you!

High on the jealousy list: Bjork, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Polysonic Spree, and Ghostland Observatory (currently blasting).

Grumble. :cheers:

VERY nice line-up.

If you're jealous you must never have been on the drive to the Gorge. Or sat in the line.

We've driven to far-flung locations, including outdoor places in freezing cold and indoor places in sweltering heat. We've waited an hour to park and hours to get in (I think I've blocked out the worst of our waits). We've sat on wet cement floors and dusty desert, coming home with either an awful cold or dirt in our lungs.

All totally worth it. :)

I went to the Gorge once. For some reason, they decided to have the festival in the usual parking lot area - no great view. I have not forgiven them.

Woah.

And here I thought we were going to talk about people dressing up in Bigfoot costumes.

ETA: Awesome freaking line-up, though. I'm totally jealous of anyone who gets to go to this.

It must be a good line up. I've heard of two of the bands that GD mentions.

Hmm, considering how popular a band has to be to make it onto your radar...that's usually a sign of a bad lineup. But this seems to be the rare exception.

Which two, btw. Going on the, "Would my parents recognize the name?" theory of popularity, I'd guess Bjork and Beastie Boys?

Yep, I was even aware enough to know what you meant by Beatie Boys (technically the Beatie Boys are the males from my step-mother's family).

My only personal experience with Bjork is Dancer in the Dark (which I enjoyed very much) but I have friend who completely swooned last time she performed in San Francisco. 35 year old male fans swooning for any musical act is absurdly funny to me.

I saw the Beastie Boys on Letterman a while ago promoting some concert gimmick they were doing giving audience members cameras. I had heard of them before that but that appearance was where I learned they are white.

Let me rephrase: Those must be big names since I've heard of two.

Me, I'm totally into the Polysonic Spree... ;)

In the end it still means almost the same thing.

The Gorge is kind of cool, but one of the BIGGEST pain-in-the-asses venues around. For attendees, anyway, and I can't imagine it's that much fun for the acts. Still, I'd like to go to this. Can't go, but I'd like to.

Thank you, fellow Washingtonian, for backing me up on that one.

I've never been to the venue, but anything that involves getting within 100 miles of Ellensburg can't be a good thing.

Though if they'd succeeded in building the airport and bullet train from Moses Lake to Seattle the venue likely would have become much more convenient.

Moses Lake? Oh, you mean Moses Hole!

(Astute observation regarding Ellensburg, btw).

I actually have family I've never met in Moses Lake so I must pretend to at least some respect.

Amusingly the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce still mentions the bullet train proposal and that it simply on hold. There can't really be people who still think it might happen, can there?

They're in cahoots with the Liberty Lake Light Rail folks. I suspect they hold their meetings in a bar somewhere in Sprague, or maybe George.;)

Sigh. This is what happens when I post jealous.

Nah, probably Washtucna ;)

I've been to Ephrata, on purpose. I liked it.

My parents once took us on summer vacation to East Wenatchee.

I believe there is now precendent for suing parents for traumas inflicted in childhood.

Though I love that there is an East Wenatchee. Kind of like saying South Central BFE.

Prudence, when you graduate you can sue them!;)

I thought this was going to be like the garlic festival or something, and then I was going to make a crack about how good the Sasquatch ice cream is.

But it wasn't.

But the ice cream is good.

I was once in Ellinsburg when the wind stopped blowing.

All the cows fell down.

Alaspoorme, if I didn't have very important plans that weekend I would be very tempted. :)