The summer festival season is almost over (though RS.com will still be live at this weekend's Outside Lands event, as well as Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot and others down the road), and having attended two of the bigger events myself and edited much of the rest of the content on the site, I feel as though I've seen every set in every field in every city in America. There are a whole bunch of patterns that developed and observations I made on the ground that didn't have any room in the blog posts themselves. Luckily, all of my leftover thoughts can live here — think of them as the demos and b-sides of the actual posts. Enjoy!

• One of the most amazing moments of Lollapalooza was when I was walking to see the Black Keys and saw Jason Segal. Upon further inspection, I realized that it in fact was not Jason Segal, but clearly a gentleman who had decided that looking like Jason Segal was a good idea. He clearly wanted everybody to think he was Jason Segal. A strange choice.

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Tuesday night, as the sea of Rolling Stone staff headed out to see Bob Dylan in Brooklyn or Radiohead in Jersey, I took the road less respected to see Good Charlotte, Metro Station and Boys Like Girls at Roseland Ballroom. A band I once defended as "blink-182 with talent," Good Charlotte was a fun, dependable act that somehow earned a place in my heart through a childhood of budgetless but respectable Warped Tour performances and ambitious, borderline nonsensical tour couplings (Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveShow Tour? Srsly?). But never in my 22 years had I seen GC like this.

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About three-quarters of the way into the Police concert at Madison Square Garden last night, I was thrilled to see that Sting’s management had finally received the countless text messages, voice mails and e-mails I had been sending since last Friday. You see, it was a week ago that VH1 Classic had broadcast the Hard Rock Calling festival – featuring a heavily bearded Police frontman.

I begged and pleaded with the management office to alert Sting to my dilemma. I had tickets to see the Police’s final show (ever) in a week, but I couldn’t bear to see the erstwhile Gordon Sumner perform his greatest hits while looking like Grizzly Adams. Could they please entice him to lose the hirsute look for the upcoming August 7th concert? To my grave disappointment, despite opening the show with a thunderous version of “Sunshine of Your Love” and following it up with an NYPD band-backed version of “Message in a Bottle,” Sting was still sporting the beard.

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There's a big event this weekend. Sure, Lollapalooza is in Chicago, but in New York my favorite wrestling promotion Ring of Honor is staging their "Death Before Dishonor VI" show on Saturday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. I recently had the opportunity to talk to Jimmy Jacobs, one half of the Ring of Honor tag team champions and a guy whose character should be familiar to anybody who has ever shopped at Hot Topic or attended the Warped Tour.

When did you first get into wrestling? I can't pinpoint it down to one exact time. I know I was a big fan when I was in the 1st grade. I went to a WWF show and bought a pair of Brett Hart sunglasses and told everyone at school the next day that Brett gave them to me in the front row.

When did you decide to try to break into the business? My older brother broke into wrestling in about 1998. I was 14. I was always a follower, so I just hung around with him and helped do whatever I could at shows, like set up ring or set up chairs. After about a year, one of the guys trained me and I was all about it. I have no idea why, but here I am I guess 9 years later. I really have no idea why I thought it would be a good idea at 15 other than the fact that I was a fan. But, I guess we all want to make a living doing what you like. I'm fortunate to be one of the minority that actually does.

Have you had to hold down a lot of other jobs while you've been wrestling? When I started, I was still going to high school. Then I was moving furniture from about 16 to 19. Then I started going to college. And then, the day I realized I’d probably never have a real job or go to college again was a great day in my life.

What happened?

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