CO-CHELLER

As a result of my friends being several factors of ten more awesome than, say, yours, I will be attending this year's Coachella festival this weekend, or as I like to call it, "Two straight days of avoiding She Wants Revenge at all costs". Right now, my to-do list is looking like this:

SATURDAY
1. hey, Celebration!
2. it kinda sucks when your most anticipated band is the second one you're going to see, but there's White Rose Movement at 1:50
3. haul ass over to see the Walkmen, who, as long as they don't mangle "The Rat" and "Louisiana", will be more than fine by me
4. kill time until 4:10 for Animal Collective
5. fight my way through the crowd to get as close to the stage as possible for Kanye (note: he goes on right after Common, so for once my fistmanship should win out). Thank Jebus for the simultaneous booking of Kanye against My Morning Jacket.
6. probably head over to see TV on the Radio and check out a little bit of Ladytron's set
7. hurry over to catch The Juan MacLean despite actively liking a grand total of one of his songs ("You Can't Have It Both Ways")
8. Endure the Audio Bullys for however long before DAFT MOTHERFUCKING PUNK takes the stage to close out night one. Make spurious allegations regarding the sexual predilections of the concert organizers for putting the Rakes on elsewhere at the same time.

SUNDAY
1. uh, Be Your Own Pet? Giant Drag? The easy answer is probably Gabriel & Dresden, but it'll be ass-early in the afternoon and I will be, in the interest of discretion, "not on".
2. meditate on the comparative stackedness of day 1 by comparison before Phoenix takes the stage at 4. Stay for Jamie Lidell.
3. hustle over to Bloc Party, thereby conveniently avoiding both Sleater-Kinney AND stellastarr*
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, believe it or not. I remain convinced that "Gold Lion" will prove to be a magnificent indie-rock campfire singalong. Also "Maps".
5. wander around aimlessly during the deadest few hours in concert history
6. make way towards the Go! Team
7. flip the fuck out for the Scissor Sisters despite being booked against both Art Brut and Michael Mayer. Regret nothing whatsoever by missing Tool

Feel free to hip me to anything I shouldn't miss; y'all know my US indie steez is woefully palsied compared to its UK counterpart. Also feel free to stop by and say hi; I'll be the guy in his mid-twenties who looks like he enjoys music.