#37 - Buy a nice camera

I guess i should consider this complete as well. my initial thought was for a real deal manual camera, which would go along with #38, but this is sufficient.

I spent my last few dollars until my paycheck(basically what was planned to be my rent money if i don't get paid ontime) to get this camera, but i deemed it worth it to take with me to bonnaroo. most of my pictures didnt come out all that great, but it was nice to be able to do it anyway.

the camera itself is a canon powershot sd1000 digital elph. and the only feature people recognize is that it has 7.1 megapixels, so most shots are pretty clear. i'll blame my grainy concert shots on the massive amounts of dust and proximity from the stage.

#16 - Buy a pair of nice running shoes

I almost forgot about this item. I got the shoes about 2 weeks ago and have only been able to use them twice so far. I think I would really benefit if i wore them in a little though, since my last run stared to rub my toes a bit more than i'd like and was close to getting some of those nasty blisters between the toes.

in any case, they are some slick asics get-1120's. i really like their shoes, they always fit nicely and i know i can run these suckers into the ground like the last pair. if i keep running at the pace that i have been at, and would like to stay at, i'll probably need a new pair or two before the end of my 1001 days!

#57 - Attend a 2 day or more music festival

So bonnaroo it was! I spent June 14th thru the 17 down in Manchester, TN having the most wonderful time and listening to some excellent music! we arrived around 830pm on thursday, and after setting up our tent and such, we started our experience. Thursday night we caught a few acts from about 10ish until about 230am. Friday and Saturday ran from around noon until 230-3am music wise, and sunday started at 1pm and ran us until we were ragged at 1130 or so at night.

Pictures that i took can be found here

edit: i never really felt like updating about this in my journal (surprise!) and now it would we weird to try and track back


The groups that we saw while we were there were:

thursday-

1. mute math
2. lou donaldson and dr lonnie smith
3. the whigs

friday-

1. james blood ulmer
2. uncle earl
3. hot chip
4. the roots
5. tool
6. superjam (john paul jones, ben haper, and ?uestlove)
7. sts9

saturday-

1. regina spektor
2. the hold steady
3. keller williams
4. the police
5. the flaming lips

sunday-

1. john butler trio
2. wolfmother
3. the decemberists
4. north mississippi allstars
5. the white stripes
6. widespread panic

this item gets the distinct honor of being the first fully completed item on my list!