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Post by nodepression on Apr 15, 2009 18:00:06 GMT -5
I've had this recurring bonnadream where I have tickets to go, but I never make it to the festival and I'm pissed off about it. The last one I had was I got to the festival, but the only act I saw was Umphrey's McGee whose guitarist was dressed in a red lizard costume. Than as soon as I saw them I had to leave and I was left to roam around the campgrounds which were for some reason on my high school baseball field which is 800 miles away.
i had a dream last week about bonna, a nightmare really...
so we get to bonnaroo (our third) and have an awesome spot so we set up our really great campsite and decide to take an afternoon nap to get ready, so we lay down and then i wake up and it's sunday night and we've missed almost everything, i was crying and crying and running around trying to find a schedule book to try to get at least one show in, but for some reason everyone was packing up.... and i just cried and cried and cried... awful really.
it kind of actually happened last year not quite to the same extent, but we fell asleep after pearl jam and we were waiting for our third crew member to come back so we could get ready for saturday night shows and she saw us sleeping and thought we had some alarm set, and laid down as well and fell asleep and then i woke up and kanye was playing gold digger, and everything we had just set down under our canopy (we thought we were far from done for the night, but we had just set it all down for a "minute") was stolen.... it was tragic. not the missing kanye part, but all our stolen cameras and money.
Every Roo dream I have always involves me missing Friday late night shows or waking up sunday and realizing I missed everything. One time I was hanging out with Bob Dylan all Friday. We went to a dairy queen and he got up on a table and started yelling and I was thinking, "I missed Phish for this?" and I got really pissed and headed back to the farm. I have also had at least four dreams where I get on stage and jam with Claypool. Once he handed me a bass painted like an American flag and we thrashed for a really small AARP crowd.
The cover of night concealed our arrival. Excitement turned to fear and ultimately disappointment as I realized that my ticket was not in my possession. Dejected and sulking I found myself weighing my options, the return trip down the long lonely road home or giving the gatekeeper the slip. There were no cars, everyone walked to Roo, no one was driving; the streaming lines were nothing but bumper to bumper people. As I approached the turnstile entrance I reversed course and started walking back to get my ticket. I decided the honorable route was to make the trip back home. When I got to the edge of the tree line and began to cut through the woods my eyes began to barely make out something unnatural in the distance. There, shrouded in the dense thicket of the trees was a huge house, dingy and poorly lit as if begging to go unnoticed. I walked up the steps to the wrap around porch, which creaked as if it had been there for centuries, and found the entrance located in the back of what appeared to me to be the house from Beatlejuice. Upon entering all fears were calmed and all dejection relieved as I was welcomed with a pint of beer and an array of various ingestibles. Ahhh, my Bonnaroo friends. The strangest of friends, the friendliest of strangers.
The moral of the dream is also the reason I go every year. You are never alone at Bonnaroo. We look after each other. Offer water when needed, food if you are hungry, and revel in each others happiness.
Sometimes I have a nightmare that I'm going about my usual daily business, and then I get that weird feeling that I'm forgetting something only to realize that I forgot bonnaroo was that weekend and I've already missed the first 2 days. Scary stuff haha
in my last roo dream, every one was having a wonderful time until suddenly mass pandemonium struck. turns out the insane clown posse was terrorizing roo'ers. i woke up screaming.
my reason for going to roo. to get away from the icp.
Post by krunchykat on Apr 16, 2009 20:21:43 GMT -5
I had a dream a few nights ago that I was walking thru centeroo to go see NIN. There were very few people around and all of the vendor booths were empty. I walk around a corner and there is a stage with like 100 people in front of it sitting in metal folding chairs. On the stage is Trent Reznor, sitting on a throne with a bunch of dj crap in front of him. But Trent was actually a chubby, ugly dorky dude wearing big glasses who was just sampling bad music. I was so upset that Bonnaroo was such a flop and that I had wasted my money and time to be there.
I'm glad to know this would never happen in real life!
3/24- The Greenhornes 3/31- Queens of the Stone Age performing Queens of the Stone Age. 4/27- Arcade Fire w/ The National 5/19- Primus 6/09-6/12- Bonnaroo! 6/13- Ray Lamontagne 7/04- Florence and the Machine with fireworks.
Sometimes I have a nightmare that I'm going about my usual daily business, and then I get that weird feeling that I'm forgetting something only to realize that I forgot bonnaroo was that weekend and I've already missed the first 2 days. Scary stuff haha
2/5- Papadosio 3/3- MUSE 3/12- John Mayer 3/19- The Werks 3/31- Passion Pit 4/18- Ben Folds 4/20- Against Me! 6/10- Bonnaroo 6/30- Eric Clapton and Roger Daltrey
Post by DrJohnMadeBonnaroo on Apr 27, 2009 13:48:42 GMT -5
I've had two in the last couple weeks. Both have involved HUGE HILLS. The hills in the first one were insane. Like nearly vertical.
Last night's I was there with someone I barely know.
Found ourselves in some sort of VIP area off to the side of one stage. There was a passage to the pit up front. I told my friend, "hey, find the line that moves the fastest" so we flashed our GA bracelet at this girl with a quick moving line and she let us through. to the photographer pit for a few minutes before some huge guy asked us to leave.
Then we stood right outside a tent with a show going on. There were staff checking everyone for contraband on the way in the tent. This one really old hippie tied bottles of highlife to his back and tried to sneak them in but it was so obvious because the bottles jingled so loudly when he walked.
There was barely anyone in tent only. Those there were being hassled by the horse people.
Post by c234567892 on Apr 28, 2009 14:02:41 GMT -5
Last week I had one of the weirdest 'roo dreams i've ever had.
My friend and I drove all the way there and realized we forgot to bring water. So we're in line and we dont want to get out of line to go to wal-mart. We ask someone where to get water and he's just like "dude, buy some at the water store. it's right on the side of the road coming up". And to our surprise we come upon a water store. We were set for the weekend.
And then once we got our spot and camp set up we walk to the stages but Centeroo is on ashpalt in the parking lot of a strip mall. And I'm arguing with myself over which band to see because 2 of my must sees were playing the same time. I got so mad I decided to not even go in and I just sat at camp all weekend and drank the water I got from the water store.
Last night, I dreamed I was chilling in a lobby/airport terminal, not sure which, right before Bonnaroo. There were a bunch of peple just hanging out because it was snowing outside so we couldn't get to Bonnaroo. I'm not sure where we were but it wasn't Tennessee... I think maybe it was Colorado.
I started talking to these two guys sitting next to me and it turns out they were Girl Talk and Animal Collective (yes, AC was just one person). I pretty much told them what songs I wanted to hear from them and they said they would play them all just for me. Then I made the mistake of telling Girl Talk that I was in love with Andrew Bird and that once he saw me in the crowd, he would want to marry me. GT said he was going to tell Andrew what I said and ran off with Animal Collective's iPhone to call and tell him.
Post by shagadellic on Apr 29, 2009 11:09:19 GMT -5
Lastnight i dreamnt i was at bonnaroo, but couldn't go into centerroo until i moved my canadian uncle's recliner( i have no canadian family) once i got that done it was 1030 at night on thursday and it was bright as day.....the really horrible part is Lazytown was playing on the what stage, and were scheduled to be the only band on the what stage that weekend.
I had a great dream a few weeks ago. My Roo buddies and I drove down to Manchester so I could show them exactly where the Farm was, what it looked like, etc (we were allowed to go in and walk around in this dream). We brought our tent so we could do a dry-run on site and it turns out, they were letting people set up camp this far in advance, so we found a huge oak tree to make camp under. We went wandering around after we set things up, only to return and find a make-shift video store had been erected on our camp spot. They were pretty mean about it and made us take our tent down and give them our shoes.
And I had another dream last night, but this one was much nicer This one didn't involve Bonnaroo itself as much as it involved Inforoo. A bunch of us inforoosters were living in one giant house. We all slept with our windows open at night, and some wiley wook snuck into our giant Inforoo house and stole our Roo supplies right outta our Roo piles! They left a trail of D batteries out the window though, and someone (I think it was Britneys_fears though I have no idea who he is/what he looks like) was getting ready to chase the wooks down when I woke up.
Post by chelseaistalkative on May 11, 2009 17:31:27 GMT -5
I had my first dream of Bonnaroo last night. It wasn't very detailed since I have never been to Bonnaroo before..All I remember is that there was a strange crazy plot to the story and a tent....and Girl Talk playing awesome music inside the tent... haha
I had a really badass Bonnaroo dream last night. I'm at the Which Stage and it's sunset; all the sudden Thom Yorke comes out with an acoustic for an unannounced solo set. He opens with a cover of Bon Iver's "Flume". It was awesome!
How come Bob Dylan never visits me in my dreams...
I've had only one Roo dream and it was just last week. I dreamed I missed the Wilco show because I was scheduled to work my volunteer shift then. This is my one real life fear about this Roo. But I still woke up feeling good and excited about Roo. You know you're in for a good time, when even if your worst fear comes true, you know you'll still have a good time.
I have them a couple of times per week now and usually involve me at Bonnaroo and realizing it's Saturday evening and I still don't have a schedule and I don't know who's playing and have missed everything so far. They're pretty much all like that!
Post by awolfatthedoor on May 16, 2009 22:41:13 GMT -5
I had a weird dream a couple nights ago where I ended up wandering away from What Stage because I was disappointed that Creed was playing and headlining. I was wondering why I even went to that show in my dream, and I decided to wander around in Centeroo. I thought I heard Morning Bell being played from some tent that I didn't recognize. I went in and it turned out to be the rec center at my school and I knew for sure that Morning Bell was being played. I went down to see who was playing and it turned out it was Radiohead or actually it was just Ed and Thom and I was really confused. I couldn't believe they were playing roo unannounced and without 3 of their members. Morning Bell ended and I was so incredibly psyched that I decided to yell out for Burn the Witch, which is some unreleased song that has never been played but the lyrics are up somewhere on Dead Air Space. And Thom stopped what he was doing and looked at me for what seemed like an eternity and just started berating me for having the balls to ask for that. I left crying and then I woke up. Sorry that went forever but I thought the dream was crazy.
I wish I would have some Bonnaroo dreams. I only seem to have trippy obscure dreams about running away from dinosaurs through elementary schools and bodysurfing half-pipes naked on the beach and zombie attacks in abandoned Russian ghettos. Never anything fun, other than the odd sexual dream. I would settle for a Bonnaroo sex dream... or even running from dinosaurs naked at Bonnaroo...
Wow I posted that last night and last night I had my first Bonnaroo dream!!
It was fairly strange: I appeared to be at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but I knew it was actually Bonnaroo and was super stoked. I went to some weird store to buy some Roo gear and got this crazy jacket with a thousand little attachments and pockets and stuff. Eventually I went to "Bonnaroo" in the streets of New Orleans and was having a great time when I realized someone was being chased down an alley so I proceeded to follow, which led to a long side-dream about helping these people shoot it out with the mafia, Bob Saget, and the police. Eventually we won or got away and I was all like "HOLY HELL I MISSED BONNAROO!! NOOOOOO!!!" But then I realized that I just missed part of Thursday night and was super, super stoked that there was three days of Bonnaroo left. haha
"We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five. "
I was so upset that Bonnaroo was such a flop and that I had wasted my money and time to be there.
This one didn't involve Bonnaroo itself as much as it involved Inforoo. A bunch of us inforoosters were living in one giant house. We all slept with our windows open at night, and some wiley wook snuck into our giant Inforoo house and stole our Roo supplies right outta our Roo piles! They left a trail of D batteries out the window though, and someone (I think it was Britneys_fears though I have no idea who he is/what he looks like) was getting ready to chase the wooks down when I woke up.
