ACL

It was October, and October meant one thing and one thing only to me: Austin City Limits. Unfortunately, I hadn't been quick enough in procuring passes, so while everyone was driving up to Austin, posting Instagram pictures of the crowds and the stages, I was stuck at home, trying - and failing - to distract myself.

So instead, I settled for the next best thing. YouTube was live-streaming select concerts on the website, and, as it turned out, one of those concerts was that of my favorite band in the world. So I clicked on it and watched.

It wasn't the same. There was no screaming crowd next to me, jumping to the beat of the music. There was no one, nothing around me except for a glowing computer screen. But it was good enough.

I watched concerts all weekend long, one after the other.

Next year I'm planning on going, on being one of those people in the crowd that I'd seen in all the videos I watched that weekend. But even if, somehow, things don't work and I'm stuck at home once again, I know that there's another way I can be there.