Sunday, August 13, 2006 -- 1:49 PM

Dear Diary

It's nice to be back in Washington State. It's nice to relax and unwind, although I haven't been doing much sleeping. Yesterday was Endfest, and I saw the Subways, Mars Volta, Wolfmother, and the Chili Peppers. All in one day! Good music, good company, and good food, by which I mean good cigarettes. Other food was too bloody expensive.

The Subways were good, probably the most energetic band of them all. At one point the lead singer climbed up the side of the stage and onto the overhang and just chilled out. They also had a really hot bass player. Wolfmother was pretty good, but kind of silly at the same time. It's hard to take them seriously, partly due to the lead singer's unusually high/singsong speaking voice and interaction with the audience (apparently they actually took Kurt Cobain's spirit and turned it into Wolfmother. I guess they did that when I was looking at the freakishly hyper kids sitting right in front of us, because I missed that. I'm sure it was something to see.), and partly because they had a definite classic rock image in mind that they were trying to mimic. I don't appreciate that.

Mars Volta should have been good, but I couldn't hear the lead singer's vocals, and someone threw urine on the stage, and one of their amps blew. They were pretty pissed.

The Chili Peppers were awesome. They played more of their old stuff than I thought they would, which made me happy. I was a dissapointed in their audience interaction though; all they really said was that they were pissed off at the guy who threw urine on Mars Volta, and that Washington was a beautiful state, which is actually kind of obvious to most people. The music was good though.

Tomorrow it's Pike's Place Market and the Seattle Underground, and from there who knows.