Before we launch into the next exciting round of "name that jam-band," let me attempt to describe how completely freaking huge the layout around here is. Here:

It is really freaking huge.

See what I mean? First you have the Polo Field, which is about equal to four football fields end-to-end in length. Right next to this is Lindley Meadow, which is also about four football fields long. And next to this is Speedway Meadow, which is around five football fields lengthwise. And if you want to see Band A play at the Land's End stage in the Polo Field, and then see Band B play the Twin Peaks stage in Speedway, you're going to be walking the equivalent of nine or ten regulation size football fields to get there. And you're going to have about five or (if you're lucky) 10 minutes to do it, in most cases.

There is almost nothing here that doesn't take 10 minutes to walk to from any other thing.

Now back to the music. After a first day that mainly revolved around a pair of megastar acts (Beck, Radiohead), Saturday (8/23) showed San Francisco's Outside Lands [ tickets ] flexing its diversity muscle with an eclectic schedule that featured everything from avant-garde banjo players ( Bela Fleck [ tickets ], backing Abigail Washburn with the Sparrow Quartet) to local Marxist rappers The Coup [ tickets ], along with natural man Devendra Banhart [ tickets ] expanding his basic hippie repertoire into something resembling Frank Zappa playing surf music.

If that's not enough vive la difference for ya, noise-rockers Liars [ tickets ] are due up next on the solar-powered stage in Speedway Meadow. Earplugs not included.

PS - Devendra's "special friend," Natalie Portman, sat five feet behind me during his set. She likes chocolate-covered pretzels and "beer-soaked marshmallows," apparently, and yes, her dog is pretty cute.

Additional Outside Lands coverage:
Blogging Outside Lands, Day 1: Black Mountain, Carney
Blogging Outside Lands, Day 1: Radiohead, Beck

Outside Lands coverage from L.A. rockers Carney:
Video Blog: Carney at Outside Lands in San Francisco (No. 1)
Blogging Outside Lands: Carney arrives
Video Blog: Carney at Outside Lands in San Francisco (No. 2)