Most photographic band: The Shins

Least photographic: Beck and Trey Anastasio (wouldn’t stand fucking still!)

Best songs:

“The Engine Driver” - The Decemberists

“Caring is Creepy” - The Shins

“Some Devil” - Dave Matthews

“Bathtub Gin” - Dave Matthews and Trey Anastasio

“Girl” - Beck

“Jimi Thing” - Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds

“Know Your Onion!” - The Shins

“July, July!” - The Decemberists

“Psycho Killer” - Steel Train

Best T-Shirt Sayings:

“Buy Domestic (with a large weed plant on the front)”

“My liver is evil; it must be punished.”

“Enjoy weed (in the Enjoy Coke logo)”

Front: “I only came for Dave.” Back: “Davegoose 2005”

“Eat Bertha’s Muscles”

Best People:

Tim- the amazing Deadhead photographer from Colorado who rode his motorcycle all the way to Vegas and said two nights before he’d had “The best night in Utah of my life.”

Andrew- the very sweet photographer from Wyoming who brought long underwear because it was snowing when he left Jackson Hole.

Reagan- the kickass female photographer from “Spin,” who had only been working for “Spin” for one day.

The taxi driver who told us that Cal was a better school than Stanford and more respected by companies hiring employees.

The drunk woman in her ‘50s from North Carolina. She was in Vegas by herself, it was her birthday and her drunk friends kept calling her and she would make a huge show of hanging up on them. She also told us she’d give us a dollar if we asked the cowboy standing a few people up in line from us where he was going. And she informed us that we would find a new man in four minutes, so don’t worry about the bad ones that get away.

Stevie- One of the Big Hassle PR guys who saved our collective ass and provided one of the most entertaining 11:30 p.m. phone calls ever.

Trey Anastasio- for being way too cute and sweet. Neither one of us knew much about him going into the festival, and we both left with a large crush.

Bed-Bugs Lady- At the first HoJo a woman was complaining that there were bugs in her bed to the desk clerk.