deep fried frenz

today me mat and michael went back to the festival for reggae day. we had two objectives: see stephen marley and eat lots of food. we did see stephen marley, and we ate a funnel cake, but everything was way too expensive, and we didn't eat as much food as we anticipated. when funnel cakes are 8 bucks, you don't even want to ask how much real food is. at least the funnel cake was very tasty and filling. i didn't even eat half of it and i was done, but now i feel sick. then again, the sickness could also be attributed to the terrible air quality. if you thought jam day had a lot of smoke, you forgot what reggae music was about.

on the way to the festival, we were surprised to see there were way more people on the field than there were for jam day. i know stephen marley is pretty big, but i didn't know he'd draw that much more of a crowd than the roots. of course we heard a bunch of bob marley covers (but we didn't hear "jamming"). but the real highlight of the show was definitely CAPLETON. at first we were a bit confused when stephen marley was coming on at 5 considering the festival ends at 7. either he was gonna have a 2 hour set, or some other guy was the real headliner. so we hear the name capleton floating around, but don't know who the hell he is. after rummaging through some records (finding a "phoney phranchise" vinyl for $1) and going to all the stores, we hear stephen's set end, and head over to see who this capleton guy is, and how he could possibly be bigger than stephen marley. so after sitting in anticipation for about 30 minutes, capleton comes out looking like a cross between eddie murphy in delirious, afrika bambaataa, and elephant man. already, we could tell this was gonna be worth the wait. so he starts performing, and we realize he knows about 3 words in the english language: rastafari, peace, and UCLA (which was by far his favorite). for the next hour or so, capleton proceeded to put on the most energetic performance in the history of the world. he jumped around the entire time, came up with at least 15 different dances, and shouted at everyone in languages that nobody understood. it was amazing. if this man were to create an aerobics workout, no doubt you would lose at least 20 pounds, learn how to speak/understand Jamaican dialect, and start putting sticks in your mouth every day.

after the whole festival, we ate and stuff. later we watched pirates of the caribbean. during that whole time, i got absolutely no work done, and now i'm even more behind than i thought i could be. but it's cool, andrew lee is here and maybe when he's bored i'll have him do some of my work for me. he can give it the berkeley effort.

i suppose that's enough for today, sleep sounds nice.