nanafish goes to lollapalooza chile

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nanatod said:

Time to wrap up lolla chile:

Because Kanye isn't setting the world on fire, although the audience seems to know every word, I eventually decide to call it a day. Once again, I take the two subways back to the hotel, but before I do, I buy a bootleg shirt that the better half has promised we would bring back for one of the workmen who work for her social service agency, and before I do, I meet two women from australia, who were the second group of people (after yesterday's notre dame kids) who had horror stories about the 2 or three hour wait at the will call line on the first day of Lolla Chile. I'm thinking to myself, if that had been me and the better half, we would have completely been bummed out, but also maybe once the people realized that the will call line wasn't moving, they should have bought "new" tickets at the door, and then just attempted to get reimbursed for the will call problem from the promoter(s). That way they wouldn't have missed four hours of show.

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nanatod said:

hansford said:

it just took me 5 seconds to type "title track to nothing's shocking" into google and find out one doesn't exist.

the computer I was using in Chile had a spanish language keyboard, in addition to being very slow. The times that I was on the computer was usually right before going to the show (and not wanting to miss anything) or else right before I and the better half were going to go somewhere [on her agenda]. Plus I was trying to handle e-mails relating to my work at the same time. You'll just have to take my word that I was under the gun, and i wanted to get as much written as possible when it was freshest in my mind.

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nanatod said:

I still had Monday to do none lollapalooza things in Chile. Better half and I went again to the free continental breakfast buffet in the hotel, just as we had done the past two days in the mornings before lolla, but bh and I agreed that I could leave before bh was finished to attempt to do two things: go to Ripley's (which the concierge said opened at 9 am) to get extra clothing (I had packed way too light, so that there would be enough room for bh's stuff in the luggage), and maybe to get a haircut.

I didn't follow the concierge's suggestion to use the hotel barber; instead, I went back to the old neighborhood south of the hotel, and in the atrium next to the gunshop (described in saturday's pre-lolla activities) next to the alley with hole in the wall eateries and shops, checked to see which of the three barber shops was open. only one was lit up, and the sign said closed, but the barber was there, and between my passable spanish and his passable english, and ID cards I had had taken after prior haircuts, I got my haircut in an old fashioned Chilean barbershop. I did pay the barber twice the posted price for the haircut, and it was still more or less a bargain compared to Chicago. By then it was 9:15 am, and I ran to Ripley's department store.

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nanatod said:

Ripley's didn't open at 9, or at 9:30 like one of the security people said, but at 10. Also, the Ripley's where the tickets were bought on Friday, I found out did not have a mens clothing section. that was at the ripley's three blocks away. The staff misdirected downstairs, and then directed me correctly to the 2nd floor, but the second floor staff spoke no english, but I finally was able to make purchases anyway. By the time I got back to the hotel, bh was extremely worried, because she thought like I did initially that Ripley's opened at 9.

When I got back to the hotel, I typed yesterday's posts, but then the bh came down to the business center, because we had to leave for her shopping excursion.
We then grabbed a cab hired by the hotel to drive us to the upscale Providencia neighborhood where the bh shopped in a semi-private establishment (the equivalent of buying directly from the manufacturer or a wholesaler in the U.S.) for accessories for her family. I was a little nervous about the whole adventure at first and spending such money, but was re-assured later in the day when we learned that [retail] stores charge significantly more for the same items.

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nanatod said:

We then checked out of the hotel, stored our bags there, and took a walk to a neighborhood, which was very artsy, featured a restaurant row of places to eat, and that was near the Catholic University. Of the dozen or so restaurants on the street, we first tried one with a patio where we were ignored by the waiter, and then we went to the Argentinian restaurant a half block away, that did not have as nice of a patio, but had a real nice inside space. Also, while walking the neighborhood, we learned that we were a block or so away from the supermarket we shopped at on Friday, and that we had not realized at that time that the market was more or less walking distance from the hotel. If we had known, bh would have made a second trip there, so that we'd have food and drink after lolla without having to attack the minibar or order pricey room service.

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nanatod said:

After lunch, we walked around the neighborhood south of the hotel, and had drinks at a restaurant located off a side street. We grabbed a cab to the airport which is on the other side of town, and when we got there, found that we could not check in our bags for an hour and a half. People lined up anyway, and we talked to a recently retired couple from the Washington DC area who had spent 3 weeks flying to Buenos Aires, going to Patagonia, flying to Easter Island, and then returning to Santiago. In the interim, the line kept getting longer for our flight.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a group of five or so people, one who apparently had a guitar in a case and another who was wheeling a rectangular trunk that probably was an amp. I saw the lolla chile wristbands on one or two, so I asked which band they were. They were THE DRUMS, and they were flying on an airline we weren't flying on, and they were very unhappy with the airline they were flying on. I indicated that I would have seen them the night before if the cops hadn't closed off / monitored the small amount of people allowed into the tech stage to prevent overcrowding.

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nanatod said:

Still later one of the band members and one of the Drums' support staff indicated to me that they would be playing Chicago Lollapalooza 2011, and I added that information today to the lineup forum. I saw them again after going through security and to my gate, and a fourth time (but didn't say anything) when I went to get a bottle of water, and when they were eating at the airport's Ruby Tuesdays.

In the delay before the flight took off, I talked to yet another couple who were in will call on Saturday for a number of hours, and I talked to a woman who assisted with travel arrangements for some lollapalooza acts. The latter was disappointed in finding out that there was a Ruby Tuesday around the corner, because she had just finished eating at a different airport restaurant which served her food she did not like.

After hours on the plane, very little sleep, and a wait in Atlanta for the chicago bound plane, we finally got back to o'hare very early this morning, then home, and both me and the bh went to our workplaces.

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nanatod said:

getrowdy said:

Where are the photos you promised Nanafish?

they're in reedeeda's neighbor's digital camera, which is still at my place. we have to get the camera back to her on the southside, so she can upload them. or, I guess we could get the camera to you (since you live close), and you could upload them for us.

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nanatod said:

Frame for Lollapalooza Chile poster bought yesterday evening, and framed poster is now on living room wall. Better half is e-mailing me zip file with 100 lolla chile photos in it, so I'll post all of them here (except for the ones with better half in them) in a little while.

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nanatod said:

Five_Hole said:

So what does this poster look like? I can't find a listing for it in the usual places I look.

It's got an animated rendering of the park, parque o'higgins, with an anthropormorphic dome stage, and an anthropormorphic amplifier. The lineup is in black print at the bottom, with, of course, The Killers, Kanye and Jane's in the top line.

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nanatod said:

hansford said:

you really need to toss these pics in a photobucket account

I used to have a photobucket or flickr account some years ago. I'll create a new one today, but the bh must be having an especially busy day, because she hasn't sent me the zip file yet.

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nanatod said:

The pictures were e-mailed to me in "shutterfly." Copied and pasted into my computer, then uploaded to a new flickr account.

Should I just post the link to the flickr account, or should the close to 100 pictures just be uploaded here one by one?

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nanatod said:

I hope this works: www.flickr.com/photos/61723759@N03/

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nanatod said:

got to go back and change the privacy settings on the 100 or so photos.

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nanatod said:

Driftwood said:

98 - what is the "for Pulp" tag mean? I don't get it.

It's a street sign, saying that the name of the street is "Claudio Gay."

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*aplausos*