Change of Plans (part 1)

There is so much to do in L.A. in the next few months that I don't even know how I'm going to do it all.

Next month is the HEAT Music Festival, which is held on the UCR campus. All students were given one free ticket, so I stood in line for nearly three hours to get it because I thought that this was the only day that they would give away tickets. A week later, I have discovered that free tickets are still available without the long lines. The line-up isn't very good, but it's music and it's free, so I'm going anyway. The bands that are playing are: The Crystal Method, Atrak, Shiny Toy Guns, Sick Puppies, New Boyz, Steve Aoki, Far-East Movement, and Taking Back Sunday. Taking Back Sunday is obviously the big headliner, and I was never really a fan of Taking Back Sunday, but I did like a few of their songs that were played on the radio in the past, so hopefully it's still a fun time with friends.

Coachella is also coming up and Aaron is trying to hook me up with a ticket or two so that I can get in and hopefully bring a friend. There is no doubt about it: I am DEFINITELY missing school that Friday and going for all three days. (My 'F' key keeps sticking. This sucks.) The line-up is amazing... the headliners almost every night is someone that I have been dying to see. If Aaron can't get me in somehow, I think about it like this:

The festival costs $300 ($269, plus tax). I can go for three days and see about twenty bands that I WANT to see, plus get to know some new bands that I have never heard or seen before. If I went to go see the bands that I want to see at Coachella individually (at the Wiltern, the Fillmore, different venues in L.A. and San Francisco), it would end up costing me the same amount, if not more, to see only a few of those bands. It sounds like a deal when I think about it that way! So hopefully all works as we are planning it to work. If not, we're going to have to figure this out quick, as April is fast approaching.

Another thing: I am probably not coming home for Spring Break. Spring Break is only a week long, but I was planning on taking a bus or even an AIRPLANE from Ontario to home, or Kat was planning on going to San Francisco so I was going to bum a ride there from her and then get home somehow from there (a lot easier than getting home from L.A.).

But, as it turns out, Aaron is going to be playing SXSW with Aaron E, Ariana, and Jason, and they will also be playing another show the Wednesday of Spring Break in L.A. So, the new plan is for me to try and stay at someone's house in L.A. (Joel's, if someone is going to be home while others are at SXSW, J.P, if/when I ask nicely). I'm going to figure this out. Then, hopefully, I'll be able to go that show on Wednesday, and then have a few days to hang out with Aaron in the L.A. area before heading back to school for the last quarter of my first year.

Everything is going by so fast. I'm already almost halfway through Winter Quarter and I feel like I've only been here for a week. Time seems to be speeding up, but maybe it's just because I'm using more of time instead of just sitting around doing a whole lot of nothing.

Well, this is just the first installment. I've got to get some homework done, but I'm going to be writing more about this schoolweek sometime this weekend.

:)