

Stan and Christina
Part I: Stan The Hollywood Bowl: iconic, awe-inspiring, almost laughably behemoth. Before August, I had experienced this dazzling monument to musical giants past and present only once. Radiohead released In Rainbows in October of 2007 and a few months later began to tour the album, a side dish to a helping of optimism so seismic that America was positively high from the tectonic rumblings. 2008 was electric with expectancy. We were a nation hungry for change, for light, for t