DC Earth Day Festival: Rainy and Useless

I went to the Earth Day Festival this afternoon, and I think it's safe to say that it both sucked and blew. After being crammed into the metro with a bunch of obnoxious high-school brats, I basically had to stand in the rain while the atrocious O.A.R. finished their acoustic set (because playing a Bob Dylan song on a Taylor 410ce while looking like a total frat-boy choad will make girls like you).

After that, Umphrey's Mcgee came on and tried to be Phish, but without the humor or musical talent despite the fact that their lead guitarist was pretty good. After a rain delay that wouldn't have not stopped far better bands (read: Slayer, who in fact rained (possibly) fake blood on their stage while playing), I came back out only to sit through Warren Haynes being boring and playing a U2 song. After another rain delay, they canceled the whole thing before any of the bands I wanted to see (The Roots, Talib Kweli, Thievery Corporation) could play.

Combined with the patronizing attitude of the announcers, a lack of scientific facts about global warming, a failure to realize that the solution is not nearly as easy as celebrities say it is and the sheer number of people there made this Earth Day festival suck (note: I do believe that global warming will kill us all, but I also believe that most festivals like this have no real understanding of the problem and what it will take to solve it).

Also, I can't hear Ed Begley Jr. talking without thinking of when he was on the Simpsons and drove a car powered by his own sense of self-satisfaction.