ACL, Day 2

The Line Up
Fitz and the Tantrums  Cee Lo   Tv On the Radio  Stevie Wonder

Celebrating the first rain fall in months... we were a little wet and frizzy, but definitely not complaining!

Fitz and the Tantrums, baby! 

Really glad I have a picture of 'Blow up cactus wearing shorts' flag as well as 'Googly eyed friend with lei', because they were hidden gems of the festival flags, to say the least. 

Oh you know, just minding my own business, enjoying the show and then guess who shows up? Christian Bale, love of my whole life, looking so serious and aloof just the way I like him. I pretty much lost my luggage when I spotted him and tried the 'frantic waving in a crowd of thousands of people tactic', but he was too focused on some distant horizon to notice me. Perhaps it was the cameras in his face, we'll never know. Anyway, he was there and I was there, and that random guy in a bandana was there, and that's all that matters.

TV On the Radio

I spent most of Cee Lo in line for the port- a- potties, texting back and forth with my sister and Tanya and Carmen in hopes of finding my way back to them in the crowd. Thankfully, the TV on the Radio fans were pretty obliging...

Success!

 

Unfortunately, Stevie Wonder was really quiet (due to a blown speaker or something)... and also just generally kind of weird. At one point he wanted us to do this audience participation thing, which you can't blame him for as there were about 50,000 people there, way too tempting...but he kept saying something along the lines of 'errrrrrbody layout except Steeevie, errrbody layout... errrbody layout 'cept Errol, errrbody layout.' 

Vagaries are not your friend when instructing the masses, Stevie. 

On the upside, we finally met up with Hillary and Erin after two days of texting back and forth! Thumbs up indeed. I cannot even begin to imagine what people did before cell phones at things like this... 

So, in the end we made the most of standing in a field listening to what sounded like a recording of a person who sounded like Stevie Wonder by starting a full-fledged booty shaking dance party- it was the perfect way to spend way a Saturday night in Austin!  Perhaps Zilker Park should look into expanding into the club scene.