Okay, we all knew the cel phone video of Prince doing “Creep” would show up on YouTube at some point so here it is (courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan).

Tom said the MMJ set went okay, but someone told him that his ass looked huge on the giant monitors. How I wish I’d been there to see that. And David Hasselhoff (and his black eye). Tom gets to have all the fun!

I’ve been to Coachella once and it was grand (Underworld! The Chemical Brothers!). However, I confess that I was not entirely sober. Now that I no longer imbibe, I have to say that standing in 103 degree heat in the desert sounds rather like hell on earth.

That said, I got super wistful when I started reading about…

The National

and The Verve

Also, Tom told me that Portishead was amazing.

I hope you had a smashing time out there in Indio (if you went) and if not, now we can pretend we were there.

I actually will be sweating it out at Bonnaroo so I’ll have first hand accounts of how I can’t stand the heat (but stole Kirk Hammett’s fork. Again!)

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It’s really early on Monday morning. Why am I awake?! lp