I’d seen this thing called Taco Cannon on the schedule, but I guess I didn’t really believe it was supposed to be literal. “What does it shoot?” I ask our photographer, Daniel, as we walk to see it for the first time. “Tacos, man, fucking lunch!” he answers.

When they roll the Taco Cannon out, it’s like you’ve temporarily entered another plane of existence. The thing looks like a military weapon, made up of something like a dozen or fifteen black barrels that look like they could launch missiles as well as lunch. About twenty people flood the stage. “Who’s ready for tacos?” some dude asks. Another waves a flag that says “Come and take it!” Everyone onstage is dancing to house music that’s blasting over the PA. There’s also someone in a “Twinkie the Kid” costume — which is a giant smiling Twinkie with a cowboy hat on — accompanied by a bunch of Hostess reps throwing free Twinkies into the crowd in between volleys of tacos. (Free Twinkies are a recurring and welcome theme of the weekend.) I wouldn’t say it’s aggressive necessarily, but people don’t mess around in their attempts to catch a taco each time the cannon jettisons a bunch out over us. One guy is holding a skateboard above his head, trying to bat them out of the air, and I just can’t see anything good coming out of that situation. After the Taco Cannon is over people start to enjoy their spoils as A$AP Rocky’s “Fuckin’ Problems” plays over the PA. A girl around two years old is pirouetting next to me, which at first I think is hilarious and then I realize it’s also a little dark.

After the Taco Cannon I move to another stage and run into Ned Russin, an old high school friend of mine and the bassist/vocalist for Title Fight. He tells me about how they ask artists if they want to participate in the Taco Cannon. “They come up to me and they’re just like ‘Do you like tacos?'” he begins, “And I’m like, ‘Yeah, man, I like tacos!’ And next they ask ‘Do you like shooting?’ ‘Uh, to be honest, I’m not really into shooting.’ ‘Well, how do you feel about SHOOTING TACOS?!’ I don’t know man, it sounds a little weird.”