Here’s a story I’ve been meaning to post. I was on the film crew at Pitchfork Music Festival a few weekends ago and they’ve started posting video online. This one is The Jesus Lizard, known for dangerous moshpits and a lot of stage-diving, spitting and other punk antics.

My good friend Isaac Gale was operating the camera here, center stage barricade, and I was assisting him (We were switching off all weekend). When I saw the first beer bottle thrown and land on the stage,  a feeling came over me — I knew I was going to be the one to get hit. Sure enough 2 songs later, I felt a crash against my head and looked down to see a shattered vinyl record! My ear was bleeding and since I can’t see my own ear I was admittedly a little worried at the site of blood on my hand. Not to mention, my head really hurt. The nice people at the first aid tent cleaned it up and it really wasn’t too bad, just a cut and a bad headache. I was really mad though until I went back and the security guards presented me with my trophy — a Michael Jackson Thriller record shattered in about 30 vinyl shards. I’ll post a pic of it soon. R.I.P Michael.

UPDATE: It appears as though Pitchfork changes their embed codes at their will. The video you’re viewing probably is not the one I inteded to embed. I guess I wouldn’t expect anything less from the ever-so-pompous and “too cool for school” Pitchfork.