where is my mind?

Hello from Bonnaroooooo!!! Got here safe and sound tonight, with a couple bumps along the way. The drive was nice... got pulled over somewhere in Tennessee and got a speeding ticket (oops... sorry Mom!) Also, someone gave me super secret backroad directions into the festival and I ended up getting a little lost (don't worry, this happens to me every year). Luckily, in the middle of nowhere I came across a small convenience store and met to young hippie kids who also had super secret backroad directions in. They knew where they were going and I followed them.

When I got to the media compound (the place where I'm staying), I met up with a couple friends and was off to go see my first show. Vampire Weekend was playing just before midnight. If you don't know who Vampire Weekend are, they've received a massive amount of hype this past year. In fact Spin magazine named them "the best band of 2008," when we were just a couple months into the year. I've always thought they were a little over rated, but I gotta say, their live show does not disapoint.

Here is the first of many crappy pictures I am sure to take over the weekend. This is Vampire Weekend taken from a nice little spot I found on the side of the stage:

Also, on my way out of the tent I saw Janeane Garofalo... I'm not kidding. She was performing at the comedy tent earlier this evening. She was very short and was walking very fast. See the blur with the backpack on, on the left side of this photo? That is her.

One of my favorite things about Bonnaroo is all the grafitti on the walls here. I will leave you tonight with one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my last 3 years here at Bonnaroo:

I promise to write a lot more tomorrow and post a lot more pictures. Bonnaroo has only just begun!