Inspired by the twitter hashtag trending on 8/22/2012

This is roughly chronological.

Music

1. The Statler Brothers
2. New Kids on the Block
3. Perfect Gentlemen (yes, I remember what band opened for NKOTB twenty years ago)
4. Live
5. Buffalo Tom
6. PJ Harvey
7. Poe
8. Mighty Mighty Bosstones
9. The Slackers
10. Wesley Willis
11. Barenaked Ladies
12. Henry Rollins
13. The Smashing Pumpkins
14. Pedro the Lion
15. Yo La Tengo
16. Ani DiFranco
17. Blues Traveler
18. Counting Crows
19. Soul Coughing
20. Luscious Jackson
21. Cibo Matto
22. 311
23. Dave Matthews Band
24. David Garza
25. Noe Venable (yep, and I remember someone who opened for Ani 12 years ago)
26. Ben Folds Five
27. Elliott Smith
28. Tori Amos
29. Iron & Wine
30. Violent Femmes
31. Radiohead
32. Willie Nelson
33. The Fifth Wheel (woo Cleveland-area shows in the 1990s!)
34. Bernadette Peters (in Gypsy October 11th 2003?)
35. Andrew Bird
36. Final Fantasy/Owen Pallett
37. Sufjan Stevens
38. Fleet Foxes
39. Bright Eyes
40. Yo-Yo Ma (twice in one day in Swasey Chapel at Denidoo)
41. Tegan & Sara
42. Mates of State
43. Damien Rice
44. Indigo Girls
45. Arcade Fire
46. Magnolia Electric Co.
47. Jenny Lewis
48. Of Montreal
49. Cat Power
50. New Pornographers
51. Girl Talk
52. Lauryn Hill
53. Outkast
54. The Roots
55. Rusted Root
56. Wilco
57. Gin Blossoms
58. The Dodos
59. Beck, wait, have I seen Beck??
60. Glen Hansard
61. Telekinesis
62. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
63. Garbage
64. Fountains of Wayne
65. Neko Case
66. Rage Against the Machine
67. Sea Wolf
68. The White Stripes
69. Bob Dylan
70. Spoon – right? I must have.  You can’t live in Austin for 4 years an avaoid them.
71. James Brown
72. The Moldy Peaches
73. The Breeders
74. Vampire Weekend
75. Bjork
76. Robert Plant and Alison Kraus
77. Ben Harper
78. Fastball
79. Alana Davis
80. G Love and Special Sauce
81. Erykah Badu
82. Jamiroquai
83. Sheryl Crow
84. The Offspring
85. Korn
86. Bush
87. Everclear
88. Ice Cube
89. Moby
90. The Chemical Brothers
91. Fatboy Slim
92. Kid Rock
93. Wyclef Jean
94. Alanis Morissette
95. Limp Bizkit
96. Brian Setzer Orchestra
97. Everlast
98. Jewel
99. Dear lord – did I freaking see Creed??
100. Red Hot Chili Peppers
101. Muse
102. My Morning Jacket
103. Robert Earl Keen (in concert and at a WWDTM taping)
104. Lucinda Wililams
105. The Decemberists
106. Regina Spektor
107. Preservation Hall Jazz Band
108. Foo Fighters
109. David Byrne
110. Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
111. The Swell Season
112. Gillian Welch
113. Okkervil River
114. Asleep at the Wheel
115. Octopus Project
116. Menomena
117. Hooray for Earth
118. Surfer Blood
119. Modest Mouse
120. The Monkees
121. KC and the Sunshine Band

Speakers

1. Bill Clinton
2. Sean Astin (remember how he randomly opened for that Hillary rally?)
3. Barack Obama
4. Dennis Kucinich
5. Jerry Seinfeld
6. Jim Bruer
7. Paula Poundstone
8. Roy Blount, Jr.
9. Peter Sagal
10. Ira Glass
11. Sherman Alexie
12. Carl Kassel
13. Charlie Pierce
14. Kyrie O’Connor
15. Amy Sedaris
16. Molly Shannon
17. Julie Andrews
18. Nick Hornby
19. Clinton Kelly
20. Dick m-f’in Goddard (wut wut Cleveland!)
21. Jeff Kinney
22. Angela Davis
23. Ken Burns
24. Garrison Keillor
25. Jarrett J. Krosoczka
26. Dan Savage <3<3<3
27. Tiffany Shlain (so so good)
28. Jeff Jarvis
29. Will Shortz
30. Dave Isay (of StoryCorps)
31. Oh god . . . so many more

I’ve also seen every college football and men’s basketball team in the Big 12 (the 2006 – 2010 version), half of the American League (MLB) and a smattering of the National League, a handful of NBA games featuring the Cavs, and I saw a Nuggets game in Colorado.

I met the Snapple lady.

I saw Macauley Culkin’s doppelganger at Speak in Tongues in Cleveland.

And once I had a conversation with Clinton Portis on the street in DC without realizing who he was until I was a block away.