Should we? Shouldn’t we? The last few years we’ve been anti-Coachella due to the massive overload of annoying people and less than impressive lineups. Personally, we prefer the good old days when Coachella was only 2 days, tickets were like 70 bucks a pop and you could check out Tool or Bjork with room to stretch out on the grass because it was never sold out. It used to feel like a privilege, lately it seems like a circus.  But this year’s lineup has us contemplating the road trip to Indio to revisit the hype.

PROS vs CONS… COACHELLA ‘09.

Pros:

Morrissey. In the flesh.

VIP bathrooms – short wait, not as stinky.

Optimal 3 day tanning session.  Also, rare opportunity to wear next-to-nothing and not look slutty.

Hearing some of our new and old musical loves like Henry Rollins, Ida Maria, the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, TV on the Radio, X and Gang Gang Dance.

Eating gas station candy and In-and-Out for the ride there and back. *Double-double animal style, please.

Seeing a real-life Beatle is like something historical you’ll brag about to your kids. There’s only like two left so see them while you can, right?

Cons:

20,000 sweaty hippies and hipsters complaining about no cell-phone service.

Waiting half an hour to use the nastiest port-a-potty you will ever witness in your entire existence. (No pooping, wait until you return to hotel room).

Seeing Morrissey is cool, but not that cool when you’re really seeing him on a screen above the stage b/c he’s ten thousand people away from you.

Steve Aoki’s headband.

What doesn’t belong in this sentence? Paul McCartney, the Killers, the Cure.

Running into Drew Barrymore or Cameron Diaz trying to work their ‘youthful indie cred’. 

It’s hot. Like really freakin hot.

*We still can’t decide if Amy Winehouse is a pro or a con.