OK, so I'm still obsessed with Josh Ritter. They just published the schedule for Bonnaroo and Josh Ritter is one of the first artists on the first day. WOO-HOO. Dave Mathews plays until midnight on Friday and The Mars Volta plays from midnight-4AM on Friday night/Saturday morning. Check it out here http://www.bonnaroo.com/2005/ at the schedule link on the artist lineup section.
Here's a link to a video of one of my favorite songs. The video itself is pretty bad--some art school attempt to make a boring visual subject look cool through odd lighting and focus techniques. But the song is GREAT!!! "Kathleen"
Some of my favorite lines from him are...
"All the other girls here are stars, you are the Northern Lights."
"Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied."
"oh the heart has no bones you say so it won’t break
but the purpose of loving is the pounding it takes"
"don’t stand so close to me
don’t be another tragedy
I’ve burned everybody who had a hand to lend
a man burning at both ends"
"I’d rather be the one who loves than to be loved and never even know"
"I’m singing for the love of it—have mercy on the man who sings to be adored"
T minus 30 days until Bonnaroo 2005!!!
Bonnaroo 2005!
Last night, I discovered another Bonnaroo artist I'm excited to see--Josh Ritter. I heard him doing music for a movie about surfing the Poraroca--the almost endless waves that form at the mouth of the Amazon. I don't really like the song they use in the clip but the surfing scenes are incredible. Here it is--
Crazy surfing on Amazon waves
I like this song much better--
"Come and Find Me" by Josh Ritter
and the song "Man Burning" and "Snow is Gone" are reallllly good.I cannot wait until Bonnaroo. Relaxing, camping, listening to GREAT music with most of my family (sorry, Claire, but you're not ready for this) and two of my best friends...what a great way to spend three days. Josh's web site says he'll be performing on Friday, June 10 in Tent #3 (wonder if that's the "This Tent", "That Tent" or "The Other Tent").
I cannot wait for the movie Lords of Dogtown to come out. I will be in the theater on June 3 at the first showing to see it.I saw the previews for this movie and it took me back to being 14-years-old and a scruffy, tomboy surf-girl/skateboarder trying to keep up with the boys in the neighborhood. I freaked out at the movie theater watching the previews when I saw one of the characters with the skateboard deck I always wanted--"Dang, he's got the G&S that was so cool while I was stuck with the crappy Proline!!!"Maybe I'll try to look up some of my old surfer and skateboard buddies to see if they want to go. AND, I'm taking Amy's skateboard to the skate park to see if I can still do a 540 on the half pipe and come out fakey.
