Saturday after LiB

Summer kicked off with a whole lotta music.

All sorts of faves from LiB:

• Sofi Tukker: Did you all watch White Lotus? Cause we did.
• Meute: Odesza-like brass band. I’d first heard their cover of You & Me back in 2018 when it went viral, and couldn’t believe that an 11 piece brass band was able to nail the bass synths. Most of their live music was more rhythmic, less melodic. I think they wrote it?
• Daily Bread: CEO’s find, Pretty Lights-esque twang.
• William Close & the Earth Harp Collective: hundreds of yards of taut wires made harp, and the music made us cry.
• Beats Antique: their show has come so ridiculously far, it was a true spectacle.
• ZHU
• 070 Shake: tripped out on The Pines, which riffed on Where Did You Sleep Last Night, a folk song Nirvana covered on unplugged.
• Purple Disco Machine: Woogie had a bumping funktion-one setup. Groovy.
• Ben Boehmer: I’ll admit I wish Boehmer would’ve performed his Cappadocia Cercle set, but I still dug his DJ set.

CEO and I also went to see Jamie XX and LCD Soundsystem at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater. LCD Soundsystem was a full band and majestic and post-modern.

Exercise

I was thinking of jogging at LiB, but ended up relaxing during my down-time. Next time I would like to at least do body-weight work-outs. Not jogging, though, was a good thing: energy is a limited resource at these festivals.

So, in other words, I had a light week of lifting. To compensate, I’ve been on it every day since getting back and I am seeing improvements. Unsurprising lesson: a light week is far better than a skipped week.