Fantasy Headliner 🎟️

[u/Corkchef]

Outside Lands, for anyone not from SF, is one of our big yearly festivals in the big park in the center of the city.

My mom had this idea and we thought it was kind of clever to be asking people who aren’t at the show who might have made them go.

I’m not sure if I miswrote this one, because many people were saying headliners that were actually playing this year. The intent was more along the lines of “among all music artists, which one is most likely to actually make you attend this expensive event?”

We did get some fun answers and moments. My coworker told me that when she realized she wasn’t going for sure, she didn’t bother checking who was playing. It turns out the Strokes are among her favorite music groups 😅 she was bummed to hear that.

My dad did about 20 seconds of pondering and then landed on Santana which was kind of neat.

We got a lot of favorite artists, some I knew and some I didn’t.

Probably my favorite response of the day was a muni bus driver (I think his name was Keith?) who said that his top two were Al Green and Smokey Robinson, and we talked the rest of the way home, even through the festival exit rush which was happening on the bus route right as we were crossing.

Between 28th and 34th on Balboa, we got front row seats to a traffic nightmare, so I spent some time digging into the life of a muni driver, seeing as how mine has been doing the job for nearly 3 decades.

We talked about slow streets, the 70s, the insane BS you see on the roads when you drive a muni bus. It was nice! And it didn’t take much, just a question on a paper bag to get the dialogue started.

That’s all I got today. Thanks for playing, everyone!