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Post by Britney's_Fears on Jun 23, 2009 7:40:32 GMT -5
So I'm packing my campsite up Monday morning when this dude walks up to me and says "Hey man I'll give you this necklace if you take me somewhere."
I said, "Where are you headed?"
He said, "I don't care anywhere but Bonnaroo."
I said, "Well where are you from, I might be headed that direction."
He said, "Where are you going? I don't care where I go."
I said, "I'm headed to Georgia, I go right through Atlanta."
He said, "I have family in GA that'll be good, I don't really give a sh!t cause I'm just gonna curl up on the ground and die wherever I go. Dude my friends f--kin' flaked on me bigtime man. It's because I'm a Freemason and they just don't f--kin' get it! I'm only 19 years old man and I've already celebrated my dad's birthday with him 45 times today."
I said, "You celebrated your birthday with your dad 45 times today?"
He said, "Yeah dude, can you believe it?"
I said, "I'd really like to help you but all of my stuff takes up the cab of my truck and I can't carry passengers."
Then he left.
Now I am more than willing to help anyone out but something wasn't right about this dude. My internal alarms were ringing left and right. I was thinking "one d0se too many".
Yeah, Monday morning... I was hitting the portajohn in Jeff Spicoli before tearing down and packing to leave. There was a guy, barefoot, quite perturbed about some broken glass in the gravel road. "Typical," he said, "look, it came from Walmart," looking at the plastic bag laying next to the broken glass. I started to help him pick up the glass shards.
He started ranting about the environmental problems associated with glass. I said glass is environmentally benign, eventually becoming something very similar to sand. I said the problem is broken glass is dangerous if you're barefoot, and asked him where he put the broken shards. He pointed to a small pile of glass over by the portajohns.
I said piling it there doesn't solve the problem of people stepping on it, and I walked over to some recycling cans to dump the glass I collected. Then, he started thinking tangentially, and said we should make it visible to people. He sat down in the middle of the road and started to arrange the broken glass and small pieces of trash into a mandala. As he became absorbed by his new task I quietly backed off to continue with my business.
A Thieve's Parade 2/24 Conspirator 2/26 Kevin Smith 3/11 Keller 3/17 Papadosio 3/18 JJ Grey 3/25 Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer 3/26 Toubab Krewe 3/27 O'Death 4/11 Budos Band 4/22 EOTO 4/28 Summer Camp 5/6-29 All Good
I ended up giving 3 sketchy people a ride back to Nashville. Two went to a irport, but one I had to drop off at at a Cracker Barrel. Man they were some weird folks
I ended up giving 3 sketchy people a ride back to Nashville. Two went to a irport, but one I had to drop off at at a Cracker Barrel. Man they were some weird folks
I gave a nice dreadlocked guy a ride to Baltimore for his next festy -he was sitting beside a guy wanting a ride to Atlanta. My hitchhiker bought a fake roo pass on the internet and only saw one show. He's meandering to all the festys this summer. It wouldn't be my lifestyle, but to each their own.
Plenty of other straggler types asked for for liquids on Monday morning -I was more than happy to give them a beer/water/gatorade. Makes me wonder if I interacted with the kid who died. I'm always a bit saddened to see the lost souls wandering around after a festival -also makes me feel grateful and grounded for what I've got.
Amazing: Phish, Bruce, Amadou & Mariam, Vieux Farke Toure, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Wilco, NIN Good to great: Animal Collective, NIN, Jimmy Buffet, King Sunny Ade, Tobacco, MGMT, Passion Pit, Kraak & Smack Glad to have seen: Oakenfold, Grizzly Bear, Beastie Boys, of Montreal, Snoop Dogg
Post by lyricaldedd on Jun 23, 2009 11:10:49 GMT -5
The people behind us left all kinds of food and various items behind. It was crazy to see all the seemingly lost souls scavanging their campsite. Some dude actually picked up a half drank bottle of OJ that had been in the sun for days and drank it. I couldn't imagine living like that.
I ended up giving 3 sketchy people a ride back to Nashville. Two went to a irport, but one I had to drop off at at a Cracker Barrel. Man they were some weird folks
You should have seen them, they were wooks for sure ;d
You should have seen them, they were wooks for sure ;d
Yeah, I know. You gotta be careful out there man. You never know what crazy fool you might be giving a ride to or getting a ride from
Just for the record, I did feel like a wook on Monday morning. I know I woke up still feeling the same as I did the night before, which is not all bad.
^ i'm probably missing some kind of inside joke gere but LMAO@ the mental image of a wook wearing a tent like a sarong. actually in my head it was more diaper-like. HA
Seeing the people that were sticking around on Sunday night was actually the reason we decided to pack up and leave after Phish and not to stay until Monday morning. There were just to many F-ed up people wondering around for any of us to feel completely safe... Now this is not a bad thing, just something no one in our group felt like dealing with.
Seeing the people that were sticking around on Sunday night was actually the reason we decided to pack up and leave after Phish and not to stay until Monday morning. There were just to many F-ed up people wondering around for any of us to feel completely safe... Now this is not a bad thing, just something no one in our group felt like dealing with.
Sorry if I was one of those sketchy people who made you feel unsafe. I'm really not as bad as I look.
Seeing the people that were sticking around on Sunday night was actually the reason we decided to pack up and leave after Phish and not to stay until Monday morning. There were just to many F-ed up people wondering around for any of us to feel completely safe... Now this is not a bad thing, just something no one in our group felt like dealing with.
I feel ya on that (that's why they call it Spunday), but the Sunday night afterparty is always a big plus for me. I wouldn't necessarily worry about personal safety. . .
The people behind us left all kinds of food and various items behind. It was crazy to see all the seemingly lost souls scavanging their campsite. Some dude actually picked up a half drank bottle of OJ that had been in the sun for days and drank it. I couldn't imagine living like that.
my apologies as well with the spunday business... i know i was walking around looking like a total hot mess, it took me about three days to really shake the bonna off me...
it was a combination of substances, amazing shows, lack of sleep, lack of food, and wayyyyy to much fun...
i couldn't wipe the fucking smile off my face for at least a week no matter how hard i tried!!! ;D
The people behind us left all kinds of food and various items behind. It was crazy to see all the seemingly lost souls scavanging their campsite. Some dude actually picked up a half drank bottle of OJ that had been in the sun for days and drank it. I couldn't imagine living like that.
SCAVENGAS
In retrospect, the orange juice was probably my biggest mistake of the weekend. But there are lessons to be learned every year.
my apologies as well with the spunday business... i know i was walking around looking like a total hot mess, it took me about three days to really shake the bonna off me...
it was a combination of substances, amazing shows, lack of sleep, lack of food, and wayyyyy to much fun...
i couldn't wipe the smurfing smile off my face for at least a week no matter how hard i tried!!! ;D
THIS. got the live phish torrent from friday night and burned it to a CD driving to work tues morning. tears in my eyes
Post by 811942891995 on Jul 14, 2009 18:30:00 GMT -5
i been to every roo so far and while its always fucking crazy amazin i have noticed more and more skeevy weirdo people each year! ya! they always been there in force....and an important part o tha roo experience....and maybe its just tha type or degree of kook but it there numbers do seem to be gettin kinda outa hand!
Seeing the people that were sticking around on Sunday night was actually the reason we decided to pack up and leave after Phish and not to stay until Monday morning. There were just to many F-ed up people wondering around for any of us to feel completely safe... Now this is not a bad thing, just something no one in our group felt like dealing with.
my apologies as well with the spunday business... i know i was walking around looking like a total hot mess, it took me about three days to really shake the bonna off me...
it was a combination of substances, amazing shows, lack of sleep, lack of food, and wayyyyy to much fun...
i couldn't wipe the smurfing smile off my face for at least a week no matter how hard i tried!!! ;D
THIS. got the live phish torrent from friday night and burned it to a CD driving to work tues morning. tears in my eyes
There were some sketchy folks no doubt, but everything was going dirt cheap
We ran into quite a few very pleasant people monday morning tho, including a glass maker and a traveling monk who heard my camp jamming and came buy to sell books and played us a song on the guitar It wasn't bad. He said he used to open for Jason Mraz. Who knows?
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
