Weekend Agenda: Get off your butt, people
Look, it’s the first week of summer (American summer, that is). We told you already about Folklife, Sasquatch [1][2][3], and SIFF. We told you about the Beastie Boys sekrit show tonight. Denny just told me Critical Mass is riding out of Westlake at 6 (meeting at 5:30).
The weather this weekend? Yeah, it might spit a bit on Sunday (Folklife weekend and all), but partly cloudy and upper 60s is mighty fine weather, thank you very much.
So let me be perfectly clear:
YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY ZERO REASON TO BE AT HOME SITTING ON YOUR BUTT THIS WEEKEND.
Get up! Grab your blanket and hit on hotties while swooning to Arcade Fire at Sasquatch! Dance like a fool with the patchouli wearers and banjo pickers at Folklife! Get down with the Beastie Boys! Try to decipher a foreign language film at SIFF! And if none of that floats your boat, be like me — plant your tomatoes! Stain your sideboard! Unpack your moving boxes!
And if that STILL doesn’t float your boat, well, take this really, really NSFW musical advice from Jonathan Coulton.
GET UP PEOPLE! THREE DAY WEEKEND IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN THE WORLD WHEN IT’S NOT RAINING!! WOOHOO!!!!
True. If your indecisive, you can register online and pick up shifts to volunteer your time at some of these places around seattle using shiftboard ( like SIFF, folklife with bumbershoot or KBCS). Simply register and confirm your time and place. If you like and want to support KEXP, register and pick up shifts for the pledge drive too which starts next week. The KEXP volunteer website is at: http://www.shiftboard.com/kexp/ and one reel (which does Bumbershoot and 4th of July at Lake Union) is at http://www.shiftboard.com/onereel/.
You have no excuse! it looks like you get tickets to events for volunteering at siff, and bumbershoot (one reel). SIFF will be going for the next month so they need all the help they can get… Like dylan sez — get off your butt, have fun and help support these organizations!
Here’s that link: Did I forget to say that THE SIFF SHIFTBOARD ROCKS!. They are planning a big volunteer party for everyone after the festival (and i’ve heard alot about their parties). I’ll be the guy in the pink underwear.