Luke and I at Bumbershoot

Bumbershoot., originally uploaded by ckeech.

So Lukas and I went to Seattle for the long weekend to go to a very fun music/art/everything festival called Bumbershoot. We are lame and did not bring a camera to take photos, but, thanks to Ye Olde Web 2.0 I found this one on Flickr...not only is it of the festival, it is of us. Sitting and waiting for New Pornographers to start. Good Times...well, this moment really depicts a pretty hot, rather boring time, but Good Times overall.

One of the funnest parts was going to see the Blue Scholars (the wonderful hip-hop group we mainly came to Seattle for) at a huge Mainstage show with about 20,000 people and then going to a small club afterwards and seeing the same guys perform, along with lots of other extremely talented friends of theirs, for about 40 people. Of course, most of the 20,000 peeps out at the Mainstage were there waiting for Kanye West, who came on after the Scholars. But still, the hometown group rocked the crowd just as hard as Mr. West - even managing to get a sea of people in a stadium two-stepping in sync.

Also - if you have never seen Jamie Lidell live (I hadn't even heard of him before Bumbershoot myself) and you get the chance, DO IT. My God, that man can work a stage. He came on in a full trench coat and ascot-like thing and proceeded to strip down to a gold-sequined tuxedo jacket with full tails while crooning the most soulful songs I've ever heard out of a white boy and pumping hot beats from all kinds of machines. Good man.