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Since I’m in these list moods nowadays, I’m going to conduct my review of the My Morning Jacket show I saw last Saturday at Langerado in the same fashion as I’ve been expressing my random and often scattered thoughts….fuck traditional form (that’s right grammar Nazis)

1) First song in set: "One Big Holiday"

...I would’ve posted the actual video, but I found this fat guy playing the song badly pretty entertaining...

2) Its funny, if you drive two counties north of the unnecessarily hectic craphole known to many as Miami, things seem to mellow. Or at least seem significantly less pretentious. Or maybe things just felt that way being that the Langerado Music Festival attracts hippies like normal people to soap. Throughout the three day festival, sandwiched between endless jam bands, hula hoping, and the erection of hammocks in trees -



- were a handful of live performances by innovative artists such as Cat Power, Girl Talk, The Hold Steady, Band of Horses, and The New Pornographers, which made all the hemp worth it. Unfortunately, I missed all of these bands in order to see My Morning Jacket, because those bands were part of the Sunday lineup and MMJ were playing on Saturday. See, tickets were mad expensive and to go to the festival for more than one day ticket prices became even more ridiculous - which was a good thing being that the festival wasn’t uncomfortably crowded. I also got my tickets as a Christmas gift, which means I got to go for free, which can also be my objective in point #2, PLUS I just re-read this paragraph and I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. How do you like that for a transition?

3) The weather was perfect. Kudos (ugh, I just cringed from typing that word) to the planner of this event. She (I’m assuming it was a female, because women are simply more kickass) obviously understood South Florida’s wily weather patterns; 70’s, pretty much cloudless, and breezy. Did you have the same spectacular weather Austin, Texas South X South West? Looks to me like you had some rain……………that’s what you get fuckers

4) Unlike many shows I’ve gone to in my life, the initial pre-show packing of the crowd was actually pretty pleasant, or was as pleasant as it could be. I was actually able to sit, sprawled out on a blanket, without any outside nuisances (I.e. flying beer bottles, brewing mosh pits) - other than some ‘shrooming hippy in a skirt and a basketball jersey who walked by me and said “I don’t know you, Izz, izz, izz, izz, izz” and then ran away. AND I didn’t have to stand and dance behind some insanely tall and rude guy to catch tiny, fleeting views of the band. I could actually sit down, relax, and watch. It blew my mind.

5) My Morning Jacket did not disappoint
a) They performed EXTREMELY well – I actually shed a tear during “Steam Engine” which has never EVER happened to be during a show before. It was actually kind of embarrassing.

b) They didn’t try to “rap” (yes, I know an antiquated term) with the audience. Other than a brief reference to a hot air balloon ride they took earlier that day and how it was “fucking crazy” the band just played, and played, and played for over an hour.
c) Was one of the only shows I’ve been to where I didn’t have the thought “Fuck, is this shit over yet?” AND I’ve had that thought many-a-time, even when I’ve been at shows that I’ve actually enjoyed. Sometimes enough is enough, but with MMJ, it was never enough.

6) What I thought was going to be a very awkward experience, being that I went to the show with my ex boyfriend, ended up being a pretty rewarding experience. And I’m glad I went with him because he introduced me to the band and It Still Moves, in my mind, will always be the unofficial soundtrack of our relationship.

7) Random pictures:





Me trying to fit in with the hippies


Juan trying to fit in with the hippies who were grooving to hip hop - and I'm totally not lying.


Best picture we could get of the My Morning Jacket performance


...cause we are

8) Last song in set: “Anytime”

Again, I found the above clip amusing.