Street Team weekend fun!!

"All the time while ya' lookin' away There are things you can do, man There's things you can say Undo the, the ones you regret When you're spending today Get your gaze out tomorrow And come what may, because…."

Ahhhh The John Butler Trio’s “Better Than”. One song I will definitely drop whatever it is I am doing and leave to go watch JBT sing this song on Saturday night. Very excited.

I’m just packing things up to go home for the day when a few things happened:
1. I was thinking in my head the street team supplies I needed to snag up before leaving.
2. Putting stuff away that I won’t need until next week
3. Pulling out some brochures I made earlier…AND THAT’S when it happened.
I was pulling out a stack of 15 or so brochures made out of rather thick paper and slllliiiiiccccceeee. Got the inside of my knuckle on my middle finger. I hate paper cuts more than a lot of things, clowns, snakes, bad drivers…they’re bad. So I now have some tissue taped (yes, as in scotch tape) around my finger right at the knuckle and it’s making it exceptionally hard to type. So short and sweet this one will be.

You already know what I’m listening to right now…the above lyrics have been running through my head for the last 3 months…ok, really the last 30 minutes. But they’re amazing, as is the song, as is the entire CD really. So check it out.

I know how excited you all are to find out where we’re going to be this weekend. And when I say we I mean me and a few fellow MMMF Street Team ladies. Well search no more. We’re going to head out to the Tempe Arts Festival on Saturday. So look for us out there from around 10 to 2…we’ll be wearing our sweet blue Street Team shirts you see above. THEN….after hanging out on mill for a couple of hours we’ll be making our way over to the Tempe Music Festival so be sure to keep an eye out for us there too!

Alrighty I’m outta here.
Remember to come hang out with us this weekend!!!!!!!

One Month Out

So this weekend, whilst taking flyers to a few local stores around the valley with one of my trustee Street Teamers, Jamie, I realized that the Festival is almost a month away…and my breathing sort of paused for a minute (notice that I capitalize the word Festival…ha. I don’t know if I’m the only one who does that, if I was told some time ago, or if it’s common knowledge to capitalize words when referring to such greatness...?) Anyway, so I sort of stopped breathing for a half of a second and got really excited. Now when I get excited I tear up a little, which isn’t good when driving so I immediately ceased the excitement and continued the flyer-dropping-off endeavor.

But now. It’s officially one month away. (To anyone who is working on this Festival and is reading this and is reminded of that very fact - please pause, take a deep breath…and get excited!!) and to those of you who, in one month, will be waking up (possibly with a bit of a head ache from watching Gov't Mule the night before and most likely NOT getting to bed at a reasonable hour)…get even more excited. Wow – just writing that made me think of last year and how much freaking fun it was, I can’t wait! My buddies and I thought about camping this year, still might actually. We’d just make sure to keep our tents tied down REALLY GOOD. Why would I be such a stickler you ask? Well last year we had what some would call a “microburst” pass through and try to take everything with it. I have lived in Arizona for my entire life and never have I experienced such a thing and let me just tell you that “little microburst” wasn’t so little. The Southeast has hurricanes, the Midwest has tornados and we have “little microbursts”. Ok, I realize that it didn’t compare even slightly to the catastrophes in other parts of the country, but it really was crazy…take a little looksey. And either hope that it doesn’t happen again this year...or tie everything down and enjoy it!

So new little ditty I'm going to try = what I'm listening to right now: Toubab Krewe - Bamana Niya. I think it might be one of my favorites from them. Yea. Probably my favorite.

right so it's time to stop blogging and do some real work...and i'm out.

Intern-ly Duties

So. Part of my intern-ly duties include organizing a Street Team. Last weekend we went to the Great Arizona Beer Festival. Two of my street team buddies wore our awesome street team shirts and partook in the joy that is sipping on lots of different yummy beers. (I say again…what a lucky intern am I??) Anyway the beer festival was great and there quite a few people who came up to us and ask what we were doing and who we were representing (which was, well, the point). We were giving out some of our MMMF info cards with our cute buttons on them and all of the sudden we were looking at some of the people getting down (keep in mind this was towards the end of the beer festival…hence some heavy duty jigging going on) to the band and we kept seeing buttons pinned on people’s shirts! We hadn’t given out too many and came to find out that the Sierra Nevada beer tent had the buttons all over their table as well! So…yay. We were excited that people were wearing them and started pinning others we were chatting it up with. Pins galore! I think the Street Team going to try to go to a spring training game soon – going to really up the pinning process!
Oh and also- we just got in our other cards which will have sweet guitar picks attached to them! Fender (one of our big sponsors) hooked us up with thousands of picks and we got our cute little logo engraved on them. So let me tell you how excited I am to attach all of them to our little info cards…very =).
Anyway I’ll keep you posted on where our Street Team will be and maybe you’ll get lucky and be pinned by some pretty rad people!

On a more serious note (not really but we can pretend that I occasionally am serious) we need some more volunteers. Like whoa. Well kind of…we’ve gotten a ton of interest for the morning and afternoon shifts but not so much for the evening/night shifts. So come on people lets get cracking and sign up to volunteer. Last year I volunteered all day and night so I’ve come up with a list of why I liked the volunteering-by-night a little better:

1. You get your ticket whenever you arrive so you get to hang out and get some sun all day while jamming to some bands you may or may not have heard of, but will most definitely enjoy.
2. You don’t have to work whilst sweating your arses off in the middle of the day.
3. You can chill in one of four shaded recycle stations, basically your own private cabana…or help end the night silently in the Silent Auction tent, merch, or with tickets…when it’s not a million degrees out.
4. You still get to watch the headliners while hanging out with other sweet volunteers under the stars.
5. Did I mention that it won’t be crazy hot when you’re working?

Now after reading that list don’t you want to just hurry over to the Volunteer sign up and sign up? Good. Because we’re looking for volunteers from 5ish to 10ish in pretty much all areas. You’d still get your free ticket and be able to hang out and watch all the awesome daytime acts…you’d just have to report back for your evening shifts…and not intoxicated… cause then we would just have to turn you away and that makes us both sad. So go sign up. MC (Meet MC. Another one of my trusty co-workers. likes: Good 'n Plenty candies and napping on the couch. dislikes: driving in the snow and is overly talkative when she gets nervous) MC's is the volunteer coordinator and will hook you up. so let her. It’ll be awesome I promise.

Hopefully you’re reading this and getting more and more excited for what’s coming in 38 days!!! (the festival. sheesh.) but for now it’s time to go do some more of my intern-ly duties (I’m aware that’s not a word but I think it’s too funny not to say again). Wahoo for burning cd’s for our media kit.
Toodles.

A Day in the Life of an MMMF Intern.

After hitting snooze a couple of times I drag myself out of my warm comfy bed (why is it that you’re bed becomes 10 times more comfy when you actually have to get out of it??) Like everyone else I fight my way down the 202 and then breathe a sigh of relief as soon as I get to the joy of the (usually) open 51 and head to the office.

After dishing out the greetings to all those I see I head to my desk which has a big giant window that I love (what a lucky intern I am?) I adjust the blinds according to the weather, if it’s overcast or raining I’ll open them wide, otherwise they stay down and cracked. My cubie thinks I’m nuts. I tell her it’s going to rain just about every week. She’s stopped believing me. Speaking of my cubie I may as well introduce her as I’ll probably have plenty to say with her involved. Meet H. She’s pretty much the work horse of the festival (the figure of speech kind of horse of course). We all work for her, essentially. H has brown hair and loves music and wheat thins.
There are a lot of people I work pretty closely with everyday, so I’ll introduce them as the stories occur….

But for now. maybe you’re wondering why I’m discussion such boring topics as what I do on a daily basis when there are FAR more important things to be talked about. Like the lineup for example. It was silly of me not to mention them right away but as you continue reading…you’ll figure out that that happens quite often. So unless you somehow missed all the references to visit the MMMF website last time (I can see how that might happen considering I only put the link in there once. Or maybe twice…) and you somehow didn’t spend hours ogling how wonderful our webpage looks or jumping at the chance to find out who’s going to be there, I’ll tell you:

Friday the 25th of April the lineup is as follows:
Gov’t Mule
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Grace Potter & Nocturnals
the subdudes
Steve Reynold’s Band
Mikel Lander & Meredith Moore w/ friends

Saturday the 26th looks a little something like this:
John Butler Trio
Blues Traveler
The Wailers
JJ Grey & MOFRO
Toubab Krewe
Peppermint James, Mojo Farmers,

Michelle commented on the first entry asking who I recommend you DO NOT MISS.
And aside from the first answer that comes to my head “DO NOT MISS ANY OF THEM” I basically have a steady rotation of all of them in my car. There’s one song in particular that I just can’t help but dance to...no one can! Check out The March by Robert Randolph & the Family Band. It will seriously make you dance right out of your shoes! It was the number one played song on a recent road trip I went on…we definitely got our work outs in to that song! You can also check out our IMix with some choice songs from the bands coming to the Festival this year…so take a little look-see!

Ok. This entry just crossed the “too-long-for-a-blog-entry” line.
So until next time…I’m out.