I’ve been thinking about going to one of the music festivals this summer. All the ones that I saw near here were happening either a little too early (May/June) or a little too late (October). Plus, the lineups were pretty good, but there were only one or two artists that I really wanted to see at each event.
A week or two ago I found out that Pearl Jam was well on their way to finishing a new album and were rumored to be going on tour and also headlining Austin City Limits Music Festival this year. The ACL people didn’t want to confirm that Pearl Jam would be there, but they said it was the worst kept secret around. I went to the website and saw the bands they had confirmed so far. I put that with Pearl Jam and I decided that I need to book a hotel room right away, which I did. The official lineup came out around midnight this morning. It is great!
- Pearl Jam
- Dave Matthews Band
- Beastie Boys
- Ben Harper and Relentless7
- John Legend
- Mos Def
- The B-52s
- Sonic Youth
- Coheed and Cambria (don’t know much about them, interested in hearing them)
- The Virgins (a band I recently discovered)
- Lily Allen (I keep hearing her name, don’t know any songs)
You can check out the complete lineup here.
The festival takes place Oct. 2-4. Austin, here I come!
Yesterday, I got an email from the Justice Department about the postal employee who stole one or more of my Gamefly and/or Netflix rentals. Last summer I found out that she plead guilty to 1 count of Delaying or destruction of mail or newspapers and 3 counts of Theft of mail matter by officer or employee. She’s finally been sentenced. She got 1 year and 6 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release. Her fine is $0.00. Well, that’s the end of that. It’s been interesting getting updates while not really being involved.
I’m still with Sprint for now. I’ll wait until the end of my contract and decide on something then. I had a hard time making a decision on whom to go to. It takes me a long time to make decisions like that and I came up with reasons not to switch to each of the other major carriers available in this area. I’ll deal with it later.
For a few days I was getting a lot of messages and emails from Sprint. The tone made it sound like I didn’t need to call back unless I had other questions. My guess was that they were feeling bad about how much they had screwed up. I finally called back and they basically offered to let me take as long as I wanted to on paying that balance. I’m going to go ahead and pay it all at once when my bill is due. I’m not as angry as I was, but I’m still not happy.