365 project:"the kids dont stand a chance"

71.

artist:vampire weekend
album:vampire weekend

i am a very stubborn person in every aspect of my life, and so when it comes to new music, i have a really hard time accepting other people telling me that i need to listen to something (which i know is very ironic because I'm the first one to push music on other people) so the whole vampire weekend thing is still a bit of a mystery to me.

i was down at bonnaroo with some of my friends from college, and we had set up our campsite and decided to head over to centeroo to see what was good. we had been over there for a while, and decided to go settle in near one of the stages, because there was this band playing opening night that Chris thought i NEEDED to hear. he seemed to think that id be in love with them and that i would be very angry at myself if i didn't see them. we all sat down on our blanket, some members of the group took part in some of bonnaroo's delicacies, and we waited.

we were back rather far from the stage, so i couldn't see the band that well, but i remember that it was dusk and that i danced my booty off. i was just so into these dudes on stage, and it became the most important mission for me when i got back to jersey to buy their CD. (this wasn't hard at all, i picked it up in target on sale for 9.99. yes, that is a strange thing to remember, but don't judge.)

i listened to this CD nonstop for about a month. i forced this band down everyone else's throat. (everyone else being Nicole, really, because Mandy was with me and most of my other friends live in Internet-land so they weren't close enough to be forced into listening.) Nicole actually really liked it, and still plays it all of the time, while I've grown bored of it ages ago and really haven't paid much attention to it in a while.

one other notable story about this CD is that for a while it was the go-to soundtrack for any of the random nonsensical road trips that Nicole and i would find ourselves taking. i remember once instance with a bicycle helmet that i wont go into further here, but you can imagine that when it comes to me and an ill-fitting child-sized bicycle helmet, humor ensued.