So, it never stopped raining. From the second I took my first shoe-covering puddle step in the gravel lot, my entire body was drenched from top to bottom. Boms and I trudged through the wet passing idiot-crazy teenage girls walking barefoot and stoned-out baby boomers wearing tiedye shirts and khakis rolled up to the knees. Freezing.

We made our way to the pit after a $27 meal of pizza (hers), cheeseburger (his), fries and a soda. Endured the set from Liars - young, immature, new-Radiohead -influenced: hard to imagine what or where they’ll be in a few years, if anywhere at all. And then…

Rows of vertical lights come down like a neon jail cell cut-out and the band takes the stage to the fanfare of single, high-pitched, electronic notes played in sporadic succession. The tone of the first note to the set-opener is unmistakable.

Some specific comments:
Jigsaw - I was marveling at TY’s guitar playing. He reallys holds the song together (no wonder they had to soundcheck it 4x)
15 step - Nothing incites crazy white-people dancing quite like this one.
Nude - 6/8 time signature, orange lights, green video screen, endless rain. You do the math.
Weird Fishes - TY gets up from the piano after Pyramid Song, shakes his hands violently and says “well this next one should warm up the hands a bit, yea?”
Idioteque - First song off Kid A, I retract my previous statement about crazy, white-people dancing.
Videotape - Surprisingly loud. Loved it.
Paranoid Android - First real buckwild reaction from the entire audience. Kept it going with Just, great singalongs. (I hate people who sing along at concerts BTW)
Everything in it’s Right Place - OMG. Power.
Bangers - TY plays a tiny drum set in sync with Selway.
Karma Police - “So, Capitol Hill, huh? Those people have really fu*ked up haven’t they?” Cue the Am.

Believe it or not, I left early. Do I regret it? No. My extremeties were frozen numb and my feet were beginning to grow algae. Walked out to the sound of Fake Plastic Trees which was quite fitting.

Greatest show I’ve ever experienced. Worst concert experience of my life. I hate it here.