PRIMAVERA SOUND

Get your Coachella fix without being in California.

Hello

What is Primavera Sound? My answer, a Spanish version of Coachella that rivals the Californian music festival by it's sheer number of musical acts.   It may not have the trippy shit everyone loves like color changing balloons or that huge cube thing, but the location is incredible and beautiful Barcelona is a must visit city (pictured below).

Everything so far is just cool, let's take a look at the line up:

Aias (SPA) » Ainara LeGardon (SPA) » Animal Collective (US) » Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (US) » Arto Lindsay (US) » Autolux (US) » Avi Buffalo (US) »  Baths (US) »  Battles (US) »  Belle & Sebastian (UK) » Berlinetta (SPA) » Big Boi (US) »  Blank Dogs (US) »  BMX Bandits (UK) »  Caribou (CAN) » Carte Blanche (FRA) »  Caspa (UK) »  Cloud Nothings (US) » Comet Gain (UK) » Connan Mockasin (NZL) » Cults (US) » Cuzo + Damo Suzuki (SPA/JAP) » Dan Melchior und Das Menace (UK) » Darkstar (UK) » Das Racist (US) » Deakin (US) » Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 (NZL) » Deep Sea Arcade (AUS) » Del Rey (US) » DJ Shadow (US) » DM Stith (US) » Ducktails (US) » Dúo Cobra (SPA) » Echo & The Bunnymen performing Heaven Up Here & Crocodiles (UK) » Einstürzende Neubauten (GER) »  El Guincho (SPA) »  El Mató A Un Policía Motorizado (ARG) » Emeralds (US) »  Explosions In the Sky (US) »  Factory Floor (UK) »  Fernando Milagros (CH) »  Field Music (UK) »  Fleet Foxes (US) » Ford  Lopatin (Former Games) (US) » GAF (SPA) » Gang Gang Dance (US) »  Girl Talk (US) »  Glasser (US) » Glenn Branca Ensemble (US) »  Gold Panda (UK) » Gonjasufi (US) » Grinderman (UK) »  Half Japanese (US) »  Holy Ghost! (US) »  Incarnations (US) » Interpol (US) »  Islet (UK) » James Blake (UK) » Jamie XX (UK) »  Jason Collett (CAN) »  Javiera Mena (CH) »  John Cale & Band + BCN216 perform PARIS 1919 (UK) »  John Talabot (SPA) »  Julia Kent (CAN) »  Julian Lynch (US) »  Kode9 And The Space Ape (UK) »  Kode9 Burial Set (UK) »  Kokoshca (SPA) »  Kurt Vile & The Violators (US) »  Kyst (PL) »  La Célula Durmiente (SPA) »  Las Robertas (CRC) »  Les Aus (SPA) »  Lichens (US) »  Lindstrom (NOR) »  Low (US) »  Lüger (SPA) »  M. Ward (US) »  Male Bonding (UK) »  Matthew Dear - Live Band (US) »  Me And The Bees (SPA) »  Mercury Rev perform Deserter's Songs (US) »  Mogwai (UK) »  Money Mark (US) »  My Teenage Stride (US) »  Nisennenmondai (JAP) »  No Joy (CAN) »  Nosoträsh "Popemas" (SPA) »  Odd Future (US) »  Of Montreal (US) »  Oneohtrix Point Never (US) »  Ornamento Y Delito (SPA) »  P.I.L. (Public Image Limited) (UK) »  Pájaro Jack (SPA) »  Papas Fritas (US) »  Pere Ubu plays "The Annotated Modern Dance" (US) »  Perfume Genius (US) »  Perrosky (CH) »  Phosphorescent (US) »  Pissed Jeans (US) »  PJ Harvey (UK) »  Pulp (UK) »  Rubik (FIN) »  Salem (US) »  Seefeel (UK) »  Shellac (US) »  Simian Mobile Disco (UK) »  Sonny & The Sunsets (US) »  Sufjan Stevens (US) »  Suicide (US) »  Suuns (CAN) »  Swans (US) »  Tannhäuser (SPA) »  Tennis (US) »  The Album Leaf (US) »  The Annuals (US) »  The Birkins (SPA) »  The Black Angels (US) »  The Car Is On Fire (PL) »  The Fiery Furnaces (US) »  The Flaming Lips (US) »  The Fresh & Onlys (US) »  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (US) »  The Monochrome Set (UK) »  The National (US) »  The Soft Moon (US) »  The Suicide Of Western Culture (SPA) »  The Tallest Man On Earth (SWE) »  The Vaccines (UK) »  The Walkmen (US) »  Thelematicos (SPA) »  Toundra (SPA) »  Triángulo De Amor Bizarro (SPA) »  tUnE-yArDs (US) »  Twin Shadow (US) »  Ty Segall (US) »  Warpaint (US) »  Wolf People (UK) »  Woody Alien (PL) »  Yuck (UK) »  Zurych (SPA) »


WOW, I may not have enough money to go to the whole music festival, but they are selling one day passes and   Saturday is looking pretty good right now.  If you have any doubts about going, here are a few music videos from some of the acts that will be playing.
 

OFWGKTA

CASPA

BATHS

EL GUINCHO

CARIBOU

Get your tickets before prices go up and maybe I'll see you there.

TGIF

-gonz

hunting and gathering two thousand eleven

A lot of change has happened since I left Menifee. I went to school in Santa Barbara, picked up some new hobbies, and met some cool people. Recently my lawyer signed my lease for my place in Isla Vista next year. After discussing the building, backyard, and other important things about the place, I couldnt help but think about all the fun shit I want to do in and around my future new home.

It was after imagining all the stuff and things I would like to have in my new home, I realized I'm turning into a dirty fucking hippie. I've been denying a lot of things about myself, but after the new year and some guiding words from a friend I'm slowly coming to accept these things.

For example, I recently decided to stop washing my hair with shampoo and conditioner. I don't know where I got it from, but the whole natural remedy thing seems to be making a lot of sense lately. I mean, why do we use shampoo and conditioner anyways? The only people that tell us to use them are our parents. I guess commercials suggest that we need them, but they never say that anything bad will happen if you don't. It might be strange that I have been paying so much attention to my hair, but after coming to spain and understanding that I will never see anyone from here ever again (if i dont want to) that I can do weird shit and not care. Growing my hair out is one of those weird things. Another is practicing for mustache march. Im training daily and hopefully i'll be ready for game day/month, we'll see. Enough, back to turning into a hippie. I've decided that I want to build a tipi.

According to my lawyer's plans for our house, we're in for some fun times. I'll be living with 2 of my best friends, this girl who is an art major, and hopefully next to the rest of the OK CHALET crew. I'm also considering living in the tipi next to the vegetable garden and composter. Maybe I'll do it for a cause like saving saving sharks or ferris. That's kind of a wild idea, but so is living with Deanna. I'm an only child so living with people other than my parents is different. That aside and on top of all the summer activities like finally buidling a quarter pipe, though exciting, will all be dwarfed when I reunite with my woman. Ive missed her so much and she's been manhandled by too many guys while ive been gone, she's a slut. But it's ok babe, I'm comin back and Im going to shred the shit out of you. Peter's going to take pictures (if he still has his camera) and it's going to be nasty. Nos vemos pronto Pacifica.

Jump on my stoke wagon because this is the year of "fuck yeah" moments. I cant tell you how many ive had today, but I can tell you the last two: the first was discovering that the cheapest sushi restaurant in Granada is right across the street, the second is buying my plane ticket to Africa. I've decided that if I make it back from Morocco, I'm making it a life goal to visit all of the continents. Antarctica is a stretch, but maybe I can be buried there? Who knows.

I'm also stoked about 2k11 because supposedly next year is the end of the world. F the mayans and the rapture, I hate that looming thought of the end. Can you imagine living during the cold war? f that too. My roommate David gave me an idea today about how we could go about living if it was in fact the end of the world. We could go crazy, take out a loan for a shit ton of money or find some way of getting lots of money and live like it's the end. Living like every day is your last day even though it would be next year sometime. Being the fuck yeah year, that sounds sick. But i hope it's not the end and i also hope our president isn't the antichrist. We all know he bumps slayer in the oval office when hillary isn't around, but cman, everyone's got their fix.

A couple things to look forward to:
1. new mix ft stephen hawking
2. sayin fuck yeah (a lot)
3. the TIPI
4. updates on how disgusting my hair is
5. Music profile on Daedelus & Caribou
6.
7. SOUP :)
8. other cool shit on here

Also, make some new years resolutions if you haven't already. Try setting your bar a little higher or a lot higher if you suck. Mine are to get better at spanish and be a better amigo. With that said, you should be a better friend and help me buy tipi material. Oh! I almost forgot that i might get a dog, fuck yeah moment right there. PEACE white man.

-gonz

SOUP

by CVLT

rule #1 there are no rules
***hint - assholes always earn more points

☝ Kissing a random girl +2
☝☝ if you get herpes from that kiss/girl +30
☝ Saying 'fuck' every other word in a conversation +15


☟ Wearing a condom -5
☟ Saying 'cute' -5
☟ Being hungover and throwing up -30
☟☟if your eyes water or you cry as a result of spewing -50 you suck