bonnaroodiculousness

so this whole bonnaroo thing is coming up. and by 'coming up' i mean the $270ish tickets have gone on sale and people have begun to plan and pay and plan to pay. while i have never been before, a drunken night of f.e.a.r. 2, killzone 2, and reinventing scott stapp at the top of my lungs had me convinced that a 700 acre farm in manchester shared with a few hundred thousand of my closest non-showering friends was the best idea since a second joystick. now don't get me wrong, i am going, i will have a hell of a time, and i am extremely excited, but what i'm pressing myself for is to understand why i'm excited.

first there are the bands. although the beastie boys are a staple of the hip hop movement and i really like the sabotage music video, i'm not terribly excited to see them "play" on stage. i hate bruce springsteen, end of story. i do like to listen to phish, but i must say i no longer partake in the mota that originally made them so appealing. as for most of the rest of the bands, (and i have listened to just about everyone that is posted as playing) they're good, but nothing i'd beat up my father for tickets to go see.

when all is said and done i think the reason i am so unnecessarily excited about spending 4 days in a field in the middle of tennessee is the chance to get away from sitting in my apartment and driving the 2.2 miles to and from work every day. it's something new, something out of the ordinary, and something that is easy to get excited about; not necessarily because it is the bees knees of concerts, but because it is an event that is known to get people excited. i think at this point i'm rambling and redundantly saying the same thing over and over again (eddie murphy in the barber shop in 'coming to america' saying "ahha") but my point is that although it may sound backwards, sometimes you just need to latch on to something and make it exciting instead of waiting for something exciting to come along.