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Burning Man 2009: anyone going?
onewheelwizzard:
Are you implying that finding half of these things to be patently absurd is part of being an adult?
Someone around here has that C.S. Lewis quote in their sig, I don't want to dig it up.
Sox:
Sorry guys, I dressed up as a hippie and molested JC at some point in his youth. I didn't foresee this.
est:
I don't have a very good opinion of Burning Man. I hate festivals in general, too many drunk/drugged out dipshits in attendance. I don't have any problem with drink/drugs, but I definitely have a problem with dipshits, which is exacerbated by them drinking/doing drugs. Whenever one of my favourite bands is attending a festival out here I groan a little because the chances of them doing a side-show is generally pretty limited and that means that if I want to see them I have to pay something upward of $250 per ticket (because asshole scalpers always buy up all the tickets and resell them at ridiculous prices) and mingle with a throng of drunken fucking redneck bogans who are there more for "the atmosphere" and getting drunk/out of their gourds and behaving like fucking morons together so I can perhaps watch a set by the band that I want to see that will probably be under an hour long.
Going kilometres out into the middle of a desert sounds like a bad idea in the first place. Going out there to hang out with a bunch of drunk/drugged up hippie dipshits makes it sound like one of the most unbearable fucking things I could ever imagine.
Zingoleb:
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--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 14 Jul 2009, 14:34 ---Someday, I'd really like to.
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Is that you, Local Teen?
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Wow, I was eight when that article came out.
Hat:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 19 Jul 2009, 12:31 ---
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 19 Jul 2009, 01:16 ---i was there to 1) drink and 2) watch elvis costello and iron & wine and neko case and loudon wainwright and okkervil river and king sunny adé and a bunch of other acts which is like way more ideal than getting high, sitting in a field and trying to pretend that what you're doing is remotely worthwhile
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Worthwhile things to do at Burning Man:
Watch the sunset
Have a cup of coffee at a diner
Chill out at a bar
Cook a hot dog using a solar-powered oven/death ray
Skydive
Build a massive arch out of bikes
Play with fire as much as you want
Race a spider mech against a 15-foot solar-powered big wheel
Have a dance party on a giant flaming duck
Activate two massive Tesla coils and stand between them
Defeat your foe in the Thunderdome
Make peace with your inner demons in a sacred temple of forgiveness, and then bear witness to the ritual immolation of said temple and the release of all karmic debt deposited therein
Dance Dance Immolation (ok this one's kind of frivolous)
Whatever the fuck you want
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Burning Man: Get high, indulge all your hedonistic tendencies and psychic baggage using fire and the sun!
Actually that sounds pretty great, but to be honest it just sounds like a prolonged bush doof in a much more hostile environment so I would probably not bother.
I mean there is that point at a bush doof where everyone realises they've been there for 24 hours and they're started to develop weird tics as a result of the sheer quantity of drugs they've taken and people kind of take stock of how ridiculous it all is and go home to work on whatever giant laser shooting robot they'll be bringing to the next party.
Basically I am saying that the impact of people doing hallucinogens in the same place for 2 weeks or however long this thing goes for is probably pretty intense and my ability to juggle archetypal ritualism degrades rapidly after the first 24 hours of drug abuse.
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