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Post by cheeky resurrection on Aug 9, 2007 18:06:01 GMT -5
As if you're the only person where you live that has the same mindset as many people (at Bonnaroo) do? I feel like i'm waiting for 'roo to come so i can be with like-minded people and feel "at home" for lack of a better phrase..... Kinda gets me down.... not to put a damper on things.....just a thought.
Post by crazykittensmile on Aug 9, 2007 19:01:19 GMT -5
i live in a big city so i totally miss the small community feel of bonnaroo for the rest of the year. i still talk to strangers, even though half of them look at me like i'm completely bonkers. but bonnaroo.... there's nothing quite like it. and it's why i keep coming back for more.
I feel like that too, Cheeky. I think alot of it has to do with the region of the country we live in. I just moved to TN from AL where I was born and raised. It's hard to be a free thinker when there's a church on every corner your neighbors are 85% conservatives. I'm still getting snide comments from my co-workers for going to bonnaroo. I find comfort in knowing there are 80,000 other 'rooster out there living their daily lives too. It's like we all have the same thing in common that our co-workers, etc. aren't in on. And to be honest...I don't want them to be. They're just not cool. I can't wait til next year, I look forward to it every day.
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Holy sh*t ... what a ride!"
It's hard to be a free thinker when there's a church on every corner your neighbors are 85% conservatives. I'm still getting snide comments from my co-workers for going to bonnaroo.
LOL! Ditto! Except I'm still here! The co-worker thing though...I'm getting it in spades because I actually got called FROM work AT 'Roo...and ended up having to log in with my laptop from 'Roo because there were so many problems at the office. You want to talk about snide comments..."While you were up at that Hippie Festival doing <insert immoral/illegal activity of your choice here> and everything was going to hell...." Uhm...yeah....and I was on VACATION and apparently NO one else knew how to fix it??? But of course they don't see THAT side of it.....
Of course they don't! I work with a bunch of rednecks who's idea of a good time is going to the tractor pull or up to murfreesboro to eat at hooters and are trying to buy up every tacky peice of crap with the number 08 on it because they LOOOOOOVE Earnhart Jr. I'm sure you're familiar with the type. Thinking of bonnaroo keep me from telling them to kiss my hippy ass every day of my life. But I don't. That would be bad karma after all.......right??????
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Holy sh*t ... what a ride!"
LOL! Hmmmm......don't know that they could stick you with bad karma for that one.....I know I couldn't ;D I have to deal with them on a regular basis too so no way I could make you pay for it! As a matter of fact I'm gonna give you GOOD karma just for THINKING of telling them to kiss your hippy ass! Too cool, and too funny!
I hear you....it's a LOOONG time till next Roo....at least I have VooDoo to look forward to in a couple of months tho It's not 'Roo, but its NOLA and Rage....two of my OTHER favorite things!
Post by oleander124 on Aug 10, 2007 7:32:48 GMT -5
I feel your pain, too. I drive past the Bristol race track every single day during the week and am constantly reminded of all the Bubba's where I live. I wear tye-dyed bandanas every day to work and have my nose pierced...I'm sure I stick out to people here. When I first moved here I hated it, but I've grown to realize it's not THAT bad...still bad, but not as bad as I thought it was. What really bothers me is when they force us to listen to the "inspirational" channel on XM at work. We listen to a different channel each hour, and sometimes that channel makes it's way through. I don't think religious music is appropriate at work because I don't share the same beliefs as most of the people who work here.
I get religious emails from one specific coworker...also get stupid emails about the war...this one girl sends me the most ridiculous and stupid emails I have ever seen. I haven't told her to stop because I can't wait to see what will top the other emails. She knows I'm not Christian. She also knows I don't support the crap she does because when she sends me an email full of lies, I send her a link to prove that what she just sent out is wrong. She continues to email, and so do I.
I realize it's me and my boyfriend (and family of course) that really matters in my life. I try to enjoy my time at home and not think about how different I am where I live. Oh well...
Post by cheeky resurrection on Aug 10, 2007 11:06:46 GMT -5
lucyfred said:
I feel like that too, Cheeky. I think alot of it has to do with the region of the country we live in. I just moved to TN from AL where I was born and raised. It's hard to be a free thinker when there's a church on every corner your neighbors are 85% conservatives. I'm still getting snide comments from my co-workers for going to bonnaroo. I find comfort in knowing there are 80,000 other 'rooster out there living their daily lives too. It's like we all have the same thing in common that our co-workers, etc. aren't in on. And to be honest...I don't want them to be. They're just not cool. I can't wait til next year, I look forward to it every day.
Exactly! Not that I judge them for the way they live their lives, or condem them for it.... It just saddens me ya know. Well obviously you do know or you wouldn't have replied. But like you said, I also find comfort in knowing there are 80K+ roosters out there dealing with reality just as I am. I guess inforoo is kind of like my home away from home. What eeks me probably the most is, like strum said, the pure resentment for everyday kindness. People being unappreciative or offended by small acts of kindness....its really actually surprising.
My wife went in '05 with a "friend" from work. This "friend" was totally unprepared for Roo (though we had spent 6 months telling her about it) and freaked out the first night. Needless to say, they got back to work and my wife has been ostracized for going to the "druqk festival" in Tennessee ever since. Luckily, I work with a bunch of cool, blue-collar folk who could care less what I do with my spare time.
Post by soundtribe_junkie on Aug 10, 2007 12:45:07 GMT -5
Yep, for people that havent ever experienced something like a great 'show' type atmosphere, its very hard for them to get what all its about. Im just truly grateful dead that I ever found it when Jerry was still doing his thing.
My sis and I are Bonnaroo-ers and the biggest battle we fight (although we're grown-ass women) is with the parents thinking we ought to be doing something else besides seeing 'that music' b/c we're too 'old'. What the hell is that supposed to mean? How narrow minded! It really pisses us off, and we cant seem to change their minds, so we dont.
Post by trippindaisy on Aug 10, 2007 22:45:31 GMT -5
Totally!! I work with a bunch of people my age, that grew up in the backwoods of TN and love country music. Most of the younger people I work with like rap and R&B and just have no concept of what Roo is about.
Even my fiance doesn't really get it - he loves music but it's not a passion for him like it is for me, although he does get the mindset.
YES!!! All the time!! Not just with the random people you encounter from day to day, but I'm quite different from most of my friends and family. I love them all, and we get along well, but I just don't get that united feeling spending time with them, like I do with the general crowd at roo!
Post by cheeky resurrection on Aug 11, 2007 23:15:31 GMT -5
Wow i'm glad i'm not alone..... I really thought it was just me there for a little while. Its like being totally in love with someone you can only see once a year.
Wow i'm glad i'm not alone..... I really thought it was just me there for a little while. Its like being totally in love with someone you can only see once a year.
You just totally explained how I feel about bonnaroo. Karma for putting into words for me, Cheeky.
Just thought I'd add this to the strange comments :
I get alot of comments on my bumper sticker. People come in my office (customers, etc. people who don't work with me) and they envariable ask me if that's my car outside. It's not a hippy car, I swear. It's not even finger-painted. It's a teal green chevy malibu. Then they mention my bumpersticker, mostly negatively. I've been called subversive for having it by co workers. Here's what my bumper sticker looks like:
Can anyone tell me what is so subversive about PEACE????
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "Holy sh*t ... what a ride!"
strumntheguitar
Bleary-Eyed Bonnawook Sir Strum, Master of Rum
Post by strumntheguitar on Aug 13, 2007 17:25:15 GMT -5
I know the feeling lucyfred. I occasionally will take my guitar to a local coffee shop and play outside, sometimes with other people. I never expect to get "tips" or anything from customers walking by, but one day a business-suited man walked by and looked at my guitar case and said "boy, your music sounds great but I refuse to give you any money cause it'll literally go up in smoke with all those drugs you kids do"
such an awful assumption... apparently people can't play guitar in public just because they want to anymore... here's what my guitar case looks like:
edit: picture's not working for whatever reason... will upload one later. but to get the point across, it's covered in "hippie stickers" :-p
I have to say that I really do think about bonnaroo every single day since I've been back from that wonderful place. I try every day to bring that feeling back of what i had when I was there and i how wonderful I felt being in that atmosphere and around all of you! I truly feel that bonnaroo changed my life. I know, it may sound crazy to some, but it did. I know that I've become a better person because of it, and I'm greatful for that every single day. I can't wait for next year to have an even better experience and meet more awesome people and have the greatest time of my life. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!! ;D
Post by cheeky resurrection on Aug 21, 2007 10:29:07 GMT -5
lucyfred said:
cheeky said:
Wow i'm glad i'm not alone..... I really thought it was just me there for a little while. Its like being totally in love with someone you can only see once a year.
You just totally explained how I feel about bonnaroo. Karma for putting into words for me, Cheeky.
Just thought I'd add this to the strange comments :
I get alot of comments on my bumper sticker. People come in my office (customers, etc. people who don't work with me) and they envariable ask me if that's my car outside. It's not a hippy car, I swear. It's not even finger-painted. It's a teal green chevy malibu. Then they mention my bumpersticker, mostly negatively. I've been called subversive for having it by co workers. Here's what my bumper sticker looks like:
Can anyone tell me what is so subversive about PEACE????
Wow thats pretty crazy I have the same sticker on my car...my green car.... your car looks green in the picture put i can't really tell....what side is it on?
I was confronted by my co-workers recently about my car's sticker. They're all Dems and wanted to know why I (also a dem) had a 'W - the president' sticker on my car... actually I think what they said was 'What the hell, Sera? That's so not like you... we were really shocked.'
No, what's shocking is that I've worked here for a year and a half and apparently they noticed it at the beginning and hadn't felt the need to say anything, just quietly judge. It's also shocking that not one of them actually read the sticker, which says 'W - the warlord' and has two big oil tower thingies at the tops of the W.... therefor it's mocking the original W stickers... morons.
i miss the solidarity. What's great about Bonnaroo is that it's unsaid that when you pull up to that (massive) line to enter, you leave your problems and bullshit there, if you have any left from the drive to get to TN.
I had the genuine vibe that everyone was my brother and sister out there, and i was fearless.
One of my favorite things about Bonnaroo is that, for me, it's incredibly easy to tap into the rebounding energy that constantly circulates throughout the farm. It's that energy that enables me to not only drive home after hours and hours of good times, but to feel good days and days after the festival.
You can't put a price on recycling that kind of possitive energy back into your community.
Post by cheeky resurrection on Aug 22, 2007 10:33:57 GMT -5
mantaray said:
i miss the solidarity. What's great about Bonnaroo is that it's unsaid that when you pull up to that (massive) line to enter, you leave your problems and bullshit there, if you have any left from the drive to get to TN.
I had the genuine vibe that everyone was my brother and sister out there, and i was fearless.
One of my favorite things about Bonnaroo is that, for me, it's incredibly easy to tap into the rebounding energy that constantly circulates throughout the farm. It's that energy that enables me to not only drive home after hours and hours of good times, but to feel good days and days after the festival.
You can't put a price on recycling that kind of possitive energy back into your community.
Absolutely!!!!!!!! Karma to you for putting my thoughts into words!
Post by changedman on Aug 22, 2007 21:39:25 GMT -5
I have to reply to this!!!! Hope I dont get bad karma for it In response to most of these replys I must say I was one of those people who turned the other way from Bonnaroo for the last five years. I live 20 minutes away and have never been, never wanted to go and made fun of my co-worker who went every year. Well this year after 5 years of badgering the daylights out of me, he convinced me to go. Long story short, he works for a vendor every year and gets a free pass so I had him sign me and my wife up to work a beer booth for 4 hours on Friday night, so we could get our free tickets. Alls well, so far, we drop all four of our kids off at their Grandmas Friday afternoon and head straight over to the vendor sign in to get our passes (Keep in mind Im still hesitant about doing this, so Im going in with a bad attitude). We go in the trailer, the looks our names up and we are not on the list for Friday, we are on there for Saturday and Sunday. I say a few cuss words and leave slamming the door (I felt bad afterwards, cause I realize its not the girls fault, shes just reading off the list she has). So I call my buddy up who is already inside and tell him they will not let us in, screw Bonnaroo were going home. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO MAD IN MY LIFE!!!! Anyway kids are gone for the weekend, so me and the wife are laying around in the pool Saturday, she tells me shes going to go to her job that evening and that she would not be going to Bonnaroo with me. I told her no problem I wasnt going to go anyway, I was still mad. After laying around in the pool awhile, I decide im going back over there and see if the girl who I was so rude to would let me have my armband. I show up at the trailer about 4 and she marks my name off and gives me my armband. The van takes me in the back way and drops me off next to the back of the mainstage and I comence to make my way in. Once I got past the WALL I was in the mainstage area looking at Ben Harper sing like there is no tomorrow. I stood there for a minute thinking what in the world am I doing here by myself. Screw it, the only way to experiance this is to jump right in there with all these people. I just want to say Next to my children being born, this was the most exciting day of my life. I had the absolute best time you could possibly have, I cant stop thinking about it, I read these boards everyday, Im already planning on the kids being gone that weekend next year so I can go back. So to all you veterens out there I APOLOGIZE!!!! I will never put down something I havent experianced again. I will be a faithful attendee fron this year forward. I may even have a pool party on Wednesday before, just so I can meet everyone on here. If youve never heard the song Solsbury Hill-Peter Gabriel, do yourself a favor and when you get to Bonnaroo next year, right before you drive in the gate, play that song.......It will leave goosebumps on you, I promise. I would live in that field if I could, there is definately something magic there!!!!!!
If youve never heard the song Solsbury Hill-Peter Gabriel, do yourself a favor and when you get to Bonnaroo next year, right before you drive in the gate, play that song.......It will leave goosebumps on you, I promise.
Love that song!! karma dude! And let me know where the pre-party is for next year...I'll be there....I'll bring homemade salsa and cheesecake! ;D
Hey, there's something to be said for being a damn dirty hippie
Or a "damn librul" if you live in my state
I love it, my sorority sisters give me so much shit for going to a 'hippie music festival' but I don't care. I wouldn't have it any other way! I miss Bonnaroo and can't wait till 08.
Uhm...yeah....and I was on VACATION and apparently NO one else knew how to fix it??? 
But of course they don't see THAT side of it.....
Too cool, and too funny!
It's not 'Roo, but its NOLA and Rage....two of my OTHER favorite things!
