all photos by: Dakota Fine and Alyssa Lesser and Nicole Aguirre and Lexie Moreland
all words by: Svetlana
So, yeah, sure it was kind of cloudy for the first 3 hours of Band Camp on Saturday. No Big Deal. We listened to Sonic Youth's new album (out tomorrow on Matador), made guitar necklaces and sand along to Nirvana pretending that we were in Seattle in 1992. Then come 3pm and the first rays of sun that started burning through the clouds the bands took the stage AND KILLED IT. If you missed it, you missed out. If you decided to brave it, we love you and thank you. All 90s covers all day. Spiritual Machine kicked things with some Beastie Boys, FFFever played both Sonic Youth covering Beach boys, Heartshaped box AND Spoonman (with Adrian from EXACTLY guest vocalling AND spoon playing), US Royalty brought us Oasis and Pearl Jam and worked Smashing Pumpkins so hard a fuse actually blew out, Laughing man did both Joy Division AND Tribe Called Quest, Casper Bangs banged out some very nice Sonic Youth memories on an ukulele, Last tide fuzzed out the whole pool and Stuart Lupton showed up last minute and brought down the house with his set of well, everything that is good.
In between we played Exactly MCed extreme twister (with increased difficulty and obstacles), swam around on the Millenium Falcon inflatables and I somehow managed to get sunburnt even though it was a little cloud AND I was fully clothed.
The party does not wait for weather.
SEE YOU EVERY SATURDAY.
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photos by Alyssa:
and now some by Dakota:
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some awesome shots from Nicole:
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and now some by Lexie, a little late in but totally worth the wait:
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God loves a cheerful giver.
DUDE:
http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/photos/photo/3605671557/DF0966SummerCamp-119.html
too good and too cute
i mean, without stipulation.
i love babies.
i swear, if my babies ever stop being sick, we fully intend to come to this.
hey why do you guys put some fotos in multiple times? is it on purpose or what?
John Thornley: Back Row-I can't HEAR YOU!!!!!!!
That little guy is the cutest everrr
dakota--really great photography!!
there is coloring at these events? that changes everything.
I am gonna have to make it to one of these pretty soon
Great pictures! I"m really gonna have to make my way out here soon.
hey BYT aficionados. my favorite wife and I just moved to WDC from LA about 6 weeks ago. she's a bigshot public radio honcho, and i'm writing my first book, at last, on the road to abolishing nuclear weapons forever. we got a humble little coop in SW, just five mins from the CapSky, so I discovered it early on. And I've been sitting poolside, sitting and writing, sitting and thinking, sometimes just sitting, and i'm there one saturday, and all YOU characters show up, with noise, raucous behavior, many distractions.
I wrote some of my best stuff that day.
thx!
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Tad Daley, JD, PhD, Writing Fellow
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
(Nobel Peace Laureate Organization)
www.ippnw.org, www.daleyplanet.org
Author: APOCALYPSE NEVER: Forging The Path To A Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Forthcoming from Rutgers University Press January 2010.
"From the moment I picked up your book until the moment I put it down, I couldn't stop laughing. Someday I intend to read it."
-- Groucho Marx on S.J. Perelman's first book
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