i didn't see as much as i could have. i got sick. i'm an old lady and need to go to bed before one every night. it was still one of the best weekends i've had ever! father/daughter experiences to the max.

• white rabbits
• chairlift
• katzenjammer x2 (favorite)
• tift merritt
• the dirty projectors
• st vincent
• santigold
• yeah yeah yeahs (favorite)
• al green (favorite)
• tv on the radio
• david byrne
• jimmy buffet (favorite)
• alejandro escovedo
• heartless bastards
• allen toussaint
• booker t and the dbts
• bon iver (favorite)
• jenny lewis (favorite)
• wilco
• bruce springsteen and the e street band (favorite)
• mike ferris and the roseland rhythm revnue
• 6th ward allstar brass band
• andrew bird
• snoop dogg (favorite)
• phish (favorite)

and so i remember months later:

• getting pulled over by an undercover policeman with a dog in the backseat of his car asking us if we had "marijuana meth x crack cocaine lsd"
• having the best food ever ... never will i ever go to bonnaroo without vip and a vip meal plan
• puking in front of fifty plus people in line for the shower ... and puking during santigold. too much smoke, too much heat.
• crying first when i had to leave my front row seat for santigold and second when my digital camera deleted 150 pictures and i had to use film for the rest of the weekend... thank you, ben and jerry's.
• al green in general
  • "can i get a witness out here"
  • "i dont know who you are but i love you"
  • drinking gatorade
  • dancing boys
  • "dad i think he is going to have a heart attack" "dad i think he's going to pop his hip out of joint dancing" "dad i think he's going to break his leg jumping around like that"
  • dancing with roses and throwing them to the crowd
  • "i see all these guys in yellow shirts out here. we ain't gonna hurt nobody! we came here to love!"
  • "i just wanna get down from here" "i wanna come down there and dance with you all"
• not being able to breathe while being sucked into the vortex aka the pit for bruce springsteen
• being inches away from bruce springsteen on multiple occasion
• bruce singing santa claus is coming to town
  • "it's too fucking hot for santa!"
• this guy passing out right in front of us during bruce springsteen
• karen o crashing a guitar
• jenny lewis jumping with excitement when elvis costello walked on stage
• snoop dogg and my dad not being able to handle his hilarity
  • "this is the most entertaining thing i have seen in so long" "look at all the pot smoke coming off of the crowd!"
  • "smoke weed, motherfuckers!"
  • "throw your motherfucking hands in the air!"
  • "tennesseeeee lemme see yo bounce"
  • "everybody put your middle finger out like this and say 'fuck da police fuck da police'"
    • "now real low, man, real low! tha police are comin, be quiet, man! for real turn that shit down! ... aw man fuck the police, turn that shit up!"
  • "we got any sexy ladies here? where my motherfucking dogs at? anybody wanna get fucked UP?"
  • anybody in the hooousee got love for snoop dawwggg?"
  • "we all got mad love for tupac"
  • "work this gangsta shit"
  • "tupac rest in peace my niggaahhh"
  • "let's add some motherfucking fun to this shit now"
  • "this shit only gonna take four o five minutes"
    • "west side represent like a motherfucker"
• jimmy buffet covers van morrison... and sings a lot about pirates.
• crazy ass dancers at allen toussaint, especially the old guy.