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Artists I got to see:
Animal collective!
Devotchka
Bon Iver!
Mos Def
Passion Pit
Blind Pilot
Crystal Castles!
Nine Inch Nails!
The Murder City Devils
St. Vincent
Erykah Badu
Santigold!
Gogol Bordello
Fleet Foxes
Deerhoof
Girl Talk!
The Knux
(The ! indicates they were especially awesome.)

Things that happened:

walking on the way to the venue I hear "Carissa!" turn around and see Chelsea, a girl I went to school with in fifth grade. she gave me a big hug and it was cool.

applaud with thousands as the clouds finally gave us a short break from the intense heat of direct and prolonged sunshine, and accidentally yelling at the top of my lungs, "Yes! The shadows are covering the sun! Thankyou SHADOWS!!!!"

neighboring tent partying as the sun is rising and the bitter bitter sleep deprived anger a few hours later, attempting to wake them up by yelling next to their tent about the loud obnoxious people. i don't think it achieved anything, but it felt great to allow for a bit of vengeance.

thrashing and singing along to nine inch nails.
holding up a lighter to the last song by nine inch nails and quickly pulling my hand down, and telling the stranger beside me, "that hurts". he replied, "yeah." we're so hard core...

watching an enormous guard struggling with a tiny but determined young guy trying to weasel his way from his grip. i was convinced somebody was going to get hurt, and i think everyone else who stepped back a good ten feet did too.

passing along crowd surfers at girl talk.
dancing like upright sardines at girl talk, literally body contact on every side.

looking down to a few people crouched down in the pit beside us, watching them dip their fingers in tiny bags, rubbing powder on their gums. that was new for me--didn't really think i'd ever see someone doing coke.

there's more, but that's a good gist of the weekend.

nine inch nails, santigold, girl talk, and crystal castles were the highlights for sure.