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Post by dysonsphere on May 1, 2011 12:13:01 GMT -5
2-300 will just about cover me, festival-wise. Cab fare, t-shirt, meal a day in Centeroo, corn. My needs are simple, and if I need more, I'll have a couple cases of Hamm's.
I have been to almost every Bonnaroo and never once bought a t-shirt.
You don't understand it? A lot of people like momentos from events they go to. I've never bought a shirt from a festi either, but i get it... And I've bought posters which is like the same thing.
I have been to almost every Bonnaroo and never once bought a t-shirt.
Well, I've never bought an official shirt... the one Bonnaroo shirt I have I got for 5 bucks on the last day in 07, bootlegged, and I couldn't pass it up. Love the shirt, to this day, it looked better than any I saw being sold in Centeroo
Post by icantenough on May 1, 2011 15:35:14 GMT -5
to me, buying a t-shirt is like getting an autograph, or taking a picture of yourself using that same rehearsed, plastic smile that adorns every other picture you took of yourself.
sure, I understand it, but i don't get it. maybe i am cynical and pretentious, but it all seems like so much effort to catalogue your experiences to use at a later time as proof you in fact experienced it. ok, so you are just buying a shirt. why that shirt?:
1)"because I like the design". fair enough. a very good reason whose only criterion is to satisfy an aesthetic preference. I have no problem with that.
2)"needed a shirt". again, a very good reason... one based on utilitarian criteria.
3)"i have a collection". not as good as the first two, but you have a tradition that you created to uphold and I ain't going to shit in your cereal over that.
4) "as a memento". eh... does your memory really need that kickstart? couldn't any other tangible item be used as a memento. Have you thought it out so much that you are erring on the side of caution that years from now, when you are peaking in your mid-life crisis and the world has beaten you into becoming your parents or living in some suburbanite purgatory, you rifle through a dusty box in the attic and reminisce about that person you used to be? you do get points for having a well thought out plan at least.
5) "i want people to know i was there". No one will truly own up to this last one, but 9 times out of 10 the other reasons are used to mask this truth to others and more importantly... yourself. (If you haven't leno'd me by now, get your clicking finger ready) the t-shirt has now become part of your plan to overcome a lack of social tact. it is a tattoo for people who don't like needles. something you employ to ensure that you are perceived by others the way you wish to be perceived... which is often a much more awesome version of yourself than you know is true. it all reeks of being an attention-seeking self-involved whore.
but why do I have this bitch about it? who the fuck am I to judge how you make friends?
I honestly don't care if you are one of the aforementioned whores. good for you if you found your niche.... your plan of attack on the world. but don't sit there and tell me that you are expressing yourself, or act like buying the shirt is anything other than the beginning of a disgraceful campaign to have people find you interesting.
Post by DunderMifflin on May 1, 2011 16:23:52 GMT -5
Way to go off on a rant on the subject of social norms and t-shirts. While I too like to take a deeper look at events and life choices, I don't read too much into people's purpose for purchasing t-shirts. I will now criticize every person who buys a shirt at the largest outdoor musical festival that only occurs once a year.
The people who buy shirts should spend their earned money on a more nobler cause even though they're attending a festival and spent over 200 doll hairs on a concert ticket. Shame on them. They've should've donated money to save the polar bears.
Way to go off on a rant on the subject of social norms and t-shirts. While I too like to take a deeper look at events and life choices, I don't read too much into people's purpose for purchasing t-shirts. I will now criticize every person who buys a shirt at the largest outdoor musical festival that only occurs once a year.
The people who buy shirts should spend their earned money on a more nobler cause even though they're attending a festival and spent over 200 doll hairs on a concert ticket. Shame on them. They've should've donated money to save the polar bears.
in my defense i was somewhat provoked into that diatribe. I am all for dissent, but do it in a way that creates substance rather than asinine braying.
LOL its a tshirt its not that serious. I find it hard to believe you dont own at least one band shirt or any shirt with printing on it for that matter
nope. probably all stems from reading carlos casteneda at a young age. i think the most advertising-y my clothes get is some true religion jeans my GF bought me and a Shure grease monkey shirt that came with an endorsement deal.
and back to the topic... I make sure I have a little extra cash to slip to the port a potty cleaners who will get a nice clean and fresh place for me first thing in the morning.... Kind of like the Bonnaroo version of tipping the Maaitre d at a restaurant for a good seat.
LOL its a tshirt its not that serious. I find it hard to believe you dont own at least one band shirt or any shirt with printing on it for that matter
nope. probably all stems from reading carlos casteneda at a young age. i think the most advertising-y my clothes get is some true religion jeans my GF bought me and a Shure grease monkey shirt that came with an endorsement deal.
Thats a lot of strong words for someone who doesn't care.
send me that algorithm you've been working on. I haven't been able to figure out an equation that accurately depicts the subtle relationship between the amount of words and units of caring. I'm probably not accounting for weak force or some shit.
and back to the topic... I make sure I have a little extra cash to slip to the port a potty cleaners who will get a nice clean and fresh place for me first thing in the morning.... Kind of like the Bonnaroo version of tipping the Maaitre d at a restaurant for a good seat.
Thats a lot of strong words for someone who doesn't care.
send me that algorithm you've been working on. I haven't been able to figure out an equation that accurately depicts the subtle relationship between the amount of words and units of caring. I'm probably not accounting for weak force or some Leno.
Way to go off on a rant on the subject of social norms and t-shirts. While I too like to take a deeper look at events and life choices, I don't read too much into people's purpose for purchasing t-shirts. I will now criticize every person who buys a shirt at the largest outdoor musical festival that only occurs once a year.
The people who buy shirts should spend their earned money on a more nobler cause even though they're attending a festival and spent over 200 doll hairs on a concert ticket. Shame on them. They've should've donated money to save the polar bears.
in my defense i was somewhat provoked into that diatribe. I am all for dissent, but do it in a way that creates substance rather than asinine braying.
strive to be interested, not interesting.
Here is to the tshirt hater. A guy who tries to "wow" people with his lovely (which it is) vocabulary and his philosophical ideals whilst trying to hide the fact that he probably never put his ideals into action. He is more than likely spending the days spitting phrases how the world is nothing but a commercial society of instant gratification whilst pretending that he is better than the rest.
I will be bringing about $250 or so. Roughly $75 on food in Centeroo throughout the weekend, another $75 or so on beer/corn, with the remaining $100 split between a souvenir t-shirt, a few golf cart taxi rides if I get stuck in BFE, tips for bartenders/food servers/taxi drivers/performance artists/etc, and just some random expenses here and there that always seem to pop up. Although it's pretty frivolous, I may need to budget $20 for a foot massage too - I got one from some place in Centeroo in '08, it completely renewed my energy and made the rest of the weekend so much more enjoyable.
To answer the original question, I'm bringing about $250 spending money, not including $300 for gas. I made $570-something in a kids consignment sale last month, and it went straight into my roo fund!
I'm thinking that will be more than enough to cover food, cab rides and a shirt or something. I don't drink beer or eat corn (am I even allowed to post here after saying that? ) so that'll save me some money.
Post by icantenough on May 1, 2011 20:46:26 GMT -5
yeah, you nailed it. you should see my don some spectacles and birkenstocks with sandals while i pad around the metaphysics section of Books-a-million just waiting to berate the first person that picks up a book on lucid dreaming. after a while i start gathering a crowd, and to really bring the point home that I am better than everyone, i start to give an unabridged lecture on quantum mechanics.
why do you have to get personal about this? because my broad brush got some paint on you? ad hominems are the refuge of morons... you are probably better than that. but keep speculating about my ideals and conviction if you want... but the only thing you can do after that is call me a doo-doo head, turn off your computer, and kick your dog.
) so that'll save me some money.
