This
weekend is the Coachella Valley Music Festival, the equivalent of
heaven on earth for cutting-edge music lovers. The following is an
uplifting tale about the five people you meet when you get
there. Feel free to forward it to everyone in your address book so they
can print it out and put it on their refrigerators for daily
inspiration.
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN COACHELLA
- A Member of Polyphonic Spree
…Or
so they claim. All you know is that a sweaty, bearded man is waving a
tambourine in your face, prancing about in a white tunic with precious
else underneath. You ask him where the falafel stand is. He stares at
you, blissfully blank-faced, then responds in song, screaming “Sun,
sun, sun! Up, up, up! It’s a big, big, big sun and it’s rising up, up,
up!” You walk away, confused, annoyed, and still hungry.
- Andy Dick
Stumbling
away from a Chemical Brothers performance in the 120-degree Sahara
tent, you seek refuge in the zen-like oasis of the VIP section. That is
when you meet Andy Dick…Or so they claim. All you know is that a
sweaty, bearded man is waving a tambourine in your face, prancing about
in a white tunic with precious else underneath. He then stumbles off to
hotbox a Port-o-Potty, licking Seth Greens face on the way. A drunken,
barbituated Mischa Barton stops screaming at her boyfriend long enough
to say, “God, how embarrassing.”
- Your Ex
And
goddamnit they look fucking hot and who the fuck is that bitch they are
with and why of the 30,000 people walking around this gigantic polo
field did you have to run into--“Oh! Hey! Yeah! Great shows… Better
than last year? Oh, ha. No, I doubt that. Well…uh… Maybe I’ll see you
at Bloc Party later? Right. Ha ha. Well, see ya…” They walk away. You
decide to skip the Fiery Furnaces, they bug the shit out of you anyway,
and you make a beeline for the beer tent.
- The Most Beautiful Human Being You Have Ever Seen In Your Life
A
short time after the sun has descended to just above the mountain range
surrounding you, and the sky has turned twenty shades of rose and
violet, and a warm wind blows against your skin, and the little yellow
pill with a picture of the Tide logo on it has been swallowed and
digested, and the first strains of your favorite band come sailing
through the towering speakers, you see them: The Most Beautiful Human
Being You Have Ever Seen In Your Life. And you wonder if they know it.
And you wonder what it would be like, to be with that person, forever.
And even if you never speak one word to them, you realize something:
you have never been happier in your life.
- That Dude In The Parking Field You Recognize From The Beginning of the Day Who You Think Parked Near You
Towards
the second hour in the search for your car, you move past the denial
and anger stages and enter a third, more accepting stage where you
realize you will be spending the evening sleeping in a field full of
screaming drunk people and cars. It is at that moment that you see him:
That Dude In The Parking Field You Recognize From The Beginning of the
Day Who You Think Parked Near You, who at this moment also happens to
be The Most Beautiful Human Being You Have Ever Seen In Your Life. You
call out to him. He remembers you. It is him. You ask him if he knows
where you parked. He does. Minutes later, you find your car. You
apologize to your car for having earlier called it “A Motherfucking
Black Honda Civic, the World’s Most Non-Descript Piece of Invisible
Shit,” and you caress the dashboard as its dependable engine fires its
pistons, carrying you safely back from where you came.