5:30pm: Feeling extra blessed being at Austin City Limits, ACL, again. Chris, Gabrielle’s boyfriend makes videos for C3- the company who puts on the festival- so he was able to get us weekend passes. THANKS CHRIS. It’s a warm 90 degrees outside, the sun is shining, it feels like it is still summer here.

6:00pm: Tame Impala is playing on the main stage. Emily, Caitlin, Gabrielle & I are having a hard time getting past the “chair zone” to get anywhere near the stage. The “chair zone” is anywhere past the “no chair zone” which is labeled by signs about 75 yards from the stage. Chairs are really popular at ACL because it’s a very family friendly festival, which means lots of older people, and older people love chairs. Sitting is fine. I love sitting, but it’s just a big waste of space and makes it impossible for people to walk anywhere.

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Also the thing that really made me annoyed was most of these people had created little chair camps with 6-10 chairs and almost every fucking chair was empty. So there would be like 2 people in a space that had have held easily 10-15 people. All the chairs made it almost impossible to walk anywhere. Making things worse, people had even gone as far as to wrap caution tape around their chair areas creating little chair forts. CAUTION TAPE. It was absolutely ridiculous. Do you even like Tame Impala? Do you just want to see the Foo Fighters? Get out of the way!!!

6:20pm: I continue to get super annoyed because people in the chair zone are pissed people are trying to walk through their chairs. Their indignation makes me even more upset about the chairs. CHAIR PEOPLE YOU’RE IN THE WAY.

You’re taking up like 3 times the space of a person. I hate you all. If you want to sit don’t go to concerts. We all paid the same amount of money to be here why do you think you’re entitled to savsies for your 10 best friends? Why do you get to waste space? Because you have chairs? Fuck your chairs.* If you want feel entitled to space; do it the American way and pay for it by buying a VIP or Platinum ticket.

7:00pm: Huge crowd for Austin native Gary Clark Jr. What a handsome man.

8:00pm: Disclosure!!! Love Disclosure. This is my third time seeing them and those little British brothers are adorable. Caitlin & I are just grooving and grooving while everyone stares at us confused. We are sober and just super into Disclosure. No one is really dancing though and we dance super crazy. I have been asked while stone cold sober dancing if I had drugs to sell because I dance so crazy people assume I am on drugs. Nope this is just the blind confidence of four years of art school dances.

9:30pm: Foo Fighters have the crowd going wild. I am not a huge Foo fan but like the rest of the world I knows their hits. Since Dave Grohl’s leg injury earlier in the tour, he is performing in a big throne custom made for him. A giant tricked out chair. He is LITERALLY king of the chair people.

Dave Grohl has always seemed to me like the guy who is everyone’s best friend. He’s just a smiley dude playing smiley dude songs to other smiley dudes.

Even with this injury he still is a super compelling performer. If I didn’t already know his leg was broken I might not have guessed. I was singing along to songs I didn’t even know I knew.

I think what we can garner from this music video is Dave loves Dave.

*If you’re sitting in your chair and being a polite human and leaving space for people to walk then this is not an issue but everyone was being a grade A jerk here. Also for people who actually have mobility problems there is an accessibility viewing section.