So Kyle and I were both at the Pitchfork Music Festival this past weekend but we both experienced completely different festivals. I experienced Saturday in the day of a normal everyday schumck that likes to sweat it out with all of the hipsters, hippies and hard core musical fanatics. I believe a new scent of "collective human odor" was created on Saturday...look out Old Spice, I think we have the new overpowering item for the marketplace.

All in all, I was very happy with the performances. I saw Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend, part of Dizzee Rascall and !!! and Animal Collective.

Fleet Foxes were the first band of the day for me when I got to the fest at approximately 2:45. They started off their set with a very mellow, acapella tune that made the entire festival hush to a silence. It was a crazy, surreal moment to have a festival that quiet for a performer. That just went on to show you how good these guys are and how they bring folks along for a musical journey with their rich harmonies and melodies. I was quite impressed. The only flaw I found was that their set was not very organized and they had long pauses between songs which kind of annoyed my short attention span.

Next was Dizzee Rascal. He was the only rapper of the day and he is British. Oh yeah and he has GREAT abs..like washboard abs. This guy must do about 300 situps a day. He also liked to call the audience MotherF----- a LOT. I lost track after we got done with the first song and we had already hit 20 (I'm that big of a nerd that I was counting). Yeah, but he does have the #1 hit song in the UK right now. Congrats to him for that.

NOTE: The Fleet Foxes lead singer is a Vegan who enjoys Vegan Ice Cream. As I got done with Dizzee, Nate and I went looking for some food and came across a Vegan Ice Cream booth. The employees went on to shout with glee, "Hey look everybody the FLEET FOXES like VEGAN ICE CREAM!" Yeah, that was a big shocker.

Vampire Weekend were the reason why I went to the festival. They were AMAZING. Super tight 45 minute set of straight pop/rock songs. My favorite song was a B-side I had never heard but it had a nice little trippy "apple" drum machine beat to it. It made me bounce with glee. Yep, I was full of glee.

!!! were crazy and very charasmatic but not my cup of tea. The lead singer was very...interesting. He liked to shake it. But every song kind of sounded exactly the same to me so I stayed for about 15 minutes and then went to check out flatstock posters.

The headliners of the night, Animal Collective, is what my buddy Nate the Greek came to see. He loves their sound of experimental samples and loops. It is definitely an acquired taste...kind of like asparagus or beer...something you typically don't like the first 20 times you listen to it. I have to say their live show was AMAZING. They had synchronized lights and just TONS of energy. I was not really a fan but I have to say that I am now. No words can really describe their show. The people behind me were high on something other than life and they kept oooooing and ahhhhing because the spectacle was just crazy. I couldn't imagine seeing them on anything...it would probably be sensory overload. The bass was so loud that my body vibrated with the music. Someone said to us when we were leaving that it was a "spiritual experience that made you question your own existence." I wouldn't go that far but it was definitely some nice icing on the cake of a great day.