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Of course, the main thing for me was the music. I had to see Trey Anastasio play on Saturday, though I was going to miss a pretty good sounding reading and fundraiser by Dave Eggers & Co. (including Daniel Handler and Deathcab for Cutie). I hear it was a hoot. Well, it'd been five years since I got my phish fix, too, damn it.

This is the foundamental problem with attending any large multi-stage music festival: You have to choose. Bumbershoot boasts like 11 stages, so you are constantly nagged by the feeling you are missing something better when you are at a perfectly good performance.

シアトル最大の芸術祭で、スペースニードルのあるシアトル・センターで毎年９月第一週末に開催されます。１１ものステージでいっぺんにコンサートやリーディング、演劇、コメディー等が繰り広げられ、外では土産物や屋台も出るので、とてもじゃないけど見切れません。どこへ行こうか迷っているうちに半日はゆうにつぶれてしまいます。

Anyways, the two standout shows for us were the Decemberists, who took the main stage on Monday afternoon under beautiful weather, and Kinski, who came on later in fancy EMP sky lounge with laser lights and big projector screen.

メインはやっぱり音楽。ポートランドのThe Decemberistsというバンドと、シアトルのKinskiが良かった。同じくシアトルのMercirというエレクトロニカのバンドも結構面白かったです。僕は実はPHISHの大ファン（だった）なので、土曜日には一人でTrey Anastasioのコンサートも見てきました。久しぶりだったので感慨もひとしお。写真は無いけど。

Kinski's main guitars (or was it the effector) broke, and the poor man had to improvise with his voice in the last couple of songs, but their playing was rock solid and arrangement impeccable, that we came out with huge grins.

Kinskiは、ノイズ系のバンドでニルヴァーナとか居た頃からやってるベテラン。豪華なステージでライトショーをバックに華麗なステージでした。途中でギターが壊れちゃって声でごまかしてたのはご愛嬌。

There were art exhibits, too. We enjoyed the rock poster exhibition (dubbed "Flatstock") a lot, but there were pretty interesting modern art installations, too. Japanese artist Miyooon's "cells" was a lot of fun. There was a sound-art themed room with loads of installations incorporating sound or noise. You could spend all day just checking these out.

もちろん、芸術祭と名うっているくらいだから、アートのインスタレーションもちゃんとあります。日本からもアーティストが来てました。写真は自然をテーマにしたインスタレーションの一部と思われる、植木鉢少女。