
Rock Daily asked The Office star and Kanye West karaoke adversary Rainn Wilson to be our Sasquatch blog correspondent. Here’s his experience at Washington’s Memorial Day weekend fest — and for more Sasquatch coverage, click here:
Rainn Wilson, international superstar celebrity icon, reporting from the Sasquatch music festival at the “Gorge” in George, Washington:
I love the word “gorge.” It reminds me of “gorgon,” “gorgeous” and “engorged.” Three of my favorite words.
I was there promoting my new movie The Rocker and one of those crop dusting planes kept incessantly circling the festival with a “Rocker – August 1” banner. I mean incessantly. I apologize to all concertgoers for the dizzying ubiquitous ness.
There is a specific breed of northwest rocker and rock fan. Unlike the pale, skinny, black jeans and ’80s stud-belt-wearing junkie look of the East Coast set, the northwesterners are a scruffy, cordoroy-wearing, unkempt thrift store crowd of music nerds. Henceforth they shall be known as “nwerds.” Pale, yes. But not junkie pale. TV-watching, basement, rainy Seattle pale. There’s a difference. And they’re a fleshy lot too. I fit right in.
Beards, by the way, are the new flannel, the new grunge. The new “I sooo don’t care how unstylish I am that I have ceased grooming” look.
These are my people, my tribe of nerds and I had a f***ing BLAST!!!
I got to meet many of my favorite bands and had lovely chats with some of my favorite bands, the National and
Cold War Kids and Rogue Wave. I got turned on to many new bands like What Made Milwaukee Famous, and Seattle’s own Blue Scholars. Modest Mouse had everyone jumping and twitching!
R.E.M. (Rapid Eye Michaelstipe), pelted with rain, put on a great, lean, hard-driving show. I realized as I stood there with all these teenagers that I saw R.E.M. 22 years ago in 1985 where they played in a weird auditorium at MIT and blew people’s minds. No one did rock & roll like they did back then. With such mystery and intensity and poetry.
Why, oh why did the Cure insist on doing its sound check at 6:30 AM???!!! I’m not making that up. I was in a nice hotel next door but there were like 17,896 music nerds camped out in the wet field next to the venue and I guarantee you every single one was cursing out Robert Smith and his guyliner.
For those about to rock, I salute you. Even the nwerds.
Rainn
[Photo: Getty]

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