The Lifesaver

Can't stop listening to these.

1) O.N.E. - Yeasayer (everyone needs to hear this immediately)

2) Audience - Cold War Kids

3) Sigur 6 - Sigur Ros

4) Everything is Everything - Phoenix

5) Something to Look Forward To - Spoon

6) Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand

7) Vacationing People - Foreign Born

8) Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend

MGMT - Congratulations, out April 13.

I guess they were going for the "Tom and Jerry on acid" look.

TICKETS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED!

The festival had an interesting ticketing system. Essentially, the earlier you purchased the tickets, the cheaper they would be. Mine cost around $235 for 4-day passes, which at first glance seem outrageous. But the passes for the Baltimore Virgin Festival two years ago cost around $250 altogether, and that was only a two-day festival.

What frustrates me more than anything are the service fees that are tacked on to the price of the tickets: $31 total for service fees, facilities fees, money that goes to government of Manchester, and mailing fees. Maybe a few dollars is okay, but more than $30 is utterly ridiculous. And then after all that nonsense, the website asks you to donate for a greening initiative to help the environment. Do they really thing I'll give to charity after charging $30 bucks for virtually nothing?

But thats another issue. What I have to worry about now is learning how to pitch a tent. Maybe I should have been a Boy Scout.

The lineup was finally released Monday, and after looking over the hundred or so bands, I'm excited as ever. While I hoped for the Arcade Fire to show, the headlining spot for the Kings of Leon and an appearance from the Black Keys made up for it. And with this kind of festival, I'm sure I'll enjoy all the lesser-known bands that you can't even make out because the font size is so small.

Hopefully buying tickets in a week!

:( The lineup announcements have been postponed until next Tuesday, so Wikipedia has been proved wrong yet again. But Oscar noms did in fact come out this morning, and to add to my disappointment, (500) Days of Summer received no love whatsoever.

Bad day.

The lineup is released tomorrow, so EEEK! To add to my excitement, Oscar nominations come out at around 5:30 AM. My favorite movie of the past year, I hope (500) Days of Summer gets some love. An original romantic comedy, who would of thought that was possible.