Sunday

[ateolf]

when we woke up we went to this little place we saw near the Chinese Theatre that has gyros...it was quite quite tasty...then we returned to Amoeba for reasons mentioned in a post yesterday...next was the FUN task of catching a bus in LA on a fucking sunday...we waited like half an hour and a bus on the route we need came, we started to get on but it was only going to Fairfax (a few blocks down) and turning around...WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!? so we wait a while more and finally a fucking bus comes and we get to UCLA only a little late...we were able to catch the end of the first band's (Black Dice) set...they were quite good, a bit like Flying Saucer Attack...i had planned on getting there quite early to maintain a spot right in the fucking front so i could lean against the barrier for 8 hrs or so for Sonic Youth...we were able to get pretty close, by the time SY was on i had worked my way up to only having 2 ppl in front of me...oh well...public transportation in LA is partly to blame, i guess as us taking too long doing crap is as well...another surprise was Mike Watt's Secondmen, as you can guess, a bit of a Minutemen "tribute"...they were REALLY fucking good...they did some other covers as well ("Three Girl Rhumba," "Ex-Lion Tamer," "Caroline Says Pt. 1," and "Venus" as well as others i didn't recognize...old LA punk i guess...) and finally, of course, was Sonic Youth...my favorite show of the festival...they were just fucking great...they mostly played their new stuff...it's REALLY REALLY REALLY good...i guess i'll do more detail in my artpunk post, but i'll also mention they did "She Is Not Alone" for the encore and it was one of the best things ever...i'd heard about it doing it live a little while back and having changed it some, but finally hearing it...holy fuck! it's even better than the album version...fucking amazing...while waiting, i belive before The Dead C came on, David went to the merch table to get shirts while i saved his spot (which is a sucky thing to do standing), i got 2 SY shirts...he also got red cherry "licorice" stick things so we wouldn't starve in the hours to come...sweet...we didn't have to wait so long for the bus that night...