Comments on: Back and Forked

By: bluebird of doom and gloom

bluebird of doom and gloom — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:01:00 +0000

wow! sounds like you had a great festival . sounds like i should have been at pitchfork instead of latitude, mais c’est la vie. i love wandering around festivals, losing all my friends, being pleasantly surprise by new things, underwhelmed by others, and endlessly entertained by the crowd. seems like you had a marathon of that. you’d probably enjoy bonaroo too- i’ve never been, but one of my officemates worked a bit there and got his own personal golf cart to drive around the massive site, and one of my contractors went with a caravan and a group of tenters to set up near him. cheers to seeing lots of good music in the summer sun!

By: Ignatius

Ignatius — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:24:00 +0000

My attempt was to show alternating perspectives in each paragraph at first in a set pattern then higgledy piggledy. One was mine and the other me 20 years ago or so. As I expected they differ as much as they are similar in experience and musical appreciation which also reflected the mix of artists and attendants.

I enjoy this festival because it affords me a chance to see a lot bands that are either favorites, I have passing interests in or have never heard of in one shot. The pains of dealing with the masses and enduring the elements over three days is better for me than going to club shows to see the same bands that probably won't play Houston anyway.

As far as Boris, I did say they were the token metal entry and the shredding comment was from Arturo/Ignatius past. But I still stand by both.

By: John Cramer

John Cramer — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:53:00 +0000

I generally balk at the concept of festivals to begin with too, and this post isn't helping. Though I maybe wouldn't mind a Public Enemy show, I surely would hate it in that environment. And, surrounded by so many other bands I'd rather fuck a bum than see (save for Boris), I'm glad your rundown of the show took the place of my ever wasting my time being there. So, I guess thanks of some sort are in order.

Wednesday's right, you do alternate with paragraphs that praise something and then rail against it. Did the acid ever wear off? I'm not getting it either.

Is Boris really metal? In a sense I suppose so.

By: Wisconsin Wednesday

Wisconsin Wednesday — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:22:00 +0000

I think there's a theme Carlos. I don't know what Ignatius is up to but the first paragraph of each section seems to differ greatly from the others. Also, as an eye witness, I can tell you that the poster and the narrator did not equally imbibe (unless Ignatius was stock piling PBR's under his futon).

I can also tell you that Pitchfork is not your typical madhouse festival. It's ten thousand mild mannered collegiate types - kind of like a giant Students Against Genocide gathering or something.

I didn't see one altercation at the event nor even one vomit into a trash can. Conor saw somebody accidentally spill somebody else's beer. The victim then poored the rest of his beer on the offender. But that encounter ended with a handshake and monetary compensation (weird).

Thanks Ignatius!

By: Carlos Anaconda

Carlos Anaconda — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:08:00 +0000

I am confused. Is that first paragraph something someone else said? is it sarcastic? I have no idea how these festivals work and extremely disconnected from the indie rock scene (i pressume thats mainly what this fest is about), so maybe that’s not helping me, but it seems from teh first paragraph you don’t want to go the first day, but then you went and were totally looking foward to all of it? Like i said I’m confused.

At any rate, that sounds like a total bad acid trip scene to me. Thanks for reinforcing my total lack of interest in going to megafests. And I mean that earnestly, thank for braving the madness and reporting back so thoroughly.