Treasure Island: The Butter

So I planned my move to Southern California around the Treasure Island Music Festival. I have never been to a major music festival and after seeing the line-up I knew this was the one for me. It was insanedible.

Knowing that I would be driving down to and through San Francisco it meant that I had to do a lot of soul searching and by soul searching, I mean downsizing. That was hard. I got rid of nearly half my stuff just moving from college, but now I had to make it all fit into the back of my 1995 Ford Escort Wagon. This was no easy task. Then again, there were a few items (such as a bottle of Log Cabin Syrup, or 2 dozen pairs of straightedge scissors, or a t-shirt with a cowboy and his horse drinking from the same trough, caption reading "Best Friends) that would suggest downsizing was still a viable option.

Thus I scrapped and scrapped and dumped and pawned and gifted and re-gifted and stuffed that car like a turkey for twelve. I even fit my 8' carved wooden statue from Borneo in there! So the girl and I sat off for the show the night before the concert and drove for 12 hours to get to the gloriousness that is San Francisco.

Along the way I had an epiphany... in the seven years of ownership that I had on my car I had yet to name the beaut. And around 3am, just after crossing Grant's Pass (a real mammoth of a mountain pass) her name came to me. LOLA PEPITA ESTEBAN RUIZ. She'll kick your ass any day. She's bad like that.

In honor of this moment I decided to make a playlist of the show that inspired the trip that would henceforth conjure up the name of names for my queen of cars. Here are some of my favorites from the show.

Tracklist:
1. The Management (MGMT) Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix)
2. MSTRKRFT Breakaway (Feat. Jahmal from The Carps)
3. Girl Talk Hands In The Air
4. The Brazilian Girls Last Call (Disco Pusher Remix)
5. Passion Pit Sleepyhead (Joel's Inch From The Edge Of The Bed Version)
6. Federico Aubele Su Melodia
7. Dan Deacon Slow With Horns/Run For Your Life
8. Murs What Do You Know?
9. The Decemberists The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
10. Beirut La Llorona
11. Grizzly Bear About Face
12. Yo La Tengo Gentle Hour
13. The Walkmen On The Water
14. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Beat (Health, Life and Fire)
15. Vetiver You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix)
16. Tommy Guerrero Falling Awake
17. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Home

Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. I
Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. II