You may love or hate Jim Pollock, but I've decorated my living room around him.

Michael found a horrible version of the 20th Anniversary montage that was shown at setbreak at Phish's 20th anniversary show (natch) on You Tube today. It's like one of those bad bootlegs from China: someone with a shaky handheld videophone trying to tape what was shown on a larger screen (and it comes with all the ambient noise, bad color, and poor zoom skills that you'd expect from shit like this). I can't in good conscience re-post it.

Of course I loved every minute of it.

It's fantastically indulgent. Made by Cactus, it's the ultimate insider's guide to Phish, and if you don't already know and love the band, this certainly isn't going to change your mind. But for those of us who did, it's really, truly lovely. I often feel that despite all the amazing things that I've done and experienced since the boys broke up almost 2 years ago my life hasn't been quite the same. Watching the video of their high (and low) lights since 1983, I know it hasn't.

URGH.

Anyway.

In the spirit of celebrating what I loved about Phish, here's a song that inspired one of my favorite moments ever at a Phish show. Alpine Valley, 2004, standing in the line for the womens' bathroom after a ripping set, the two girls ahead of me were engaged in an animated discussion about that night's show that proved for once and for all that Phish girl phans are as hardcore as anyone else. "Funky fuckin' Bitch, man!" the girl ahead of me said, "Funky fucking Bitch!"

"I know!" her friend responded. "I haven't seen that in 89 shows!"

Funky (fucking) Bitch, indeed. Enjoy.