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nodepression
Bleary-Eyed Bonnawook Inforoo's Waffle Czar & Baron Von Hipster
Post by abrakapokus on Jun 20, 2012 12:51:40 GMT -5
Doesn't Coach have free showers and not the camping is much better not to mention the weather fairer? I dress better at Moog because I can, at Roo I don't have time/want to pretty up. I have too many shows/friends to see.
Bonnaroo: Where you go to get away. Coachella: Where you go to be seen.
Disagree entirely. Why do you think people at Bonnaroo wear ridiculous costumes in 90 degree heat, or stupid looking speedos, or a freaking plastic viking helmet? To be noticed, to get attention, to be featured in camera shots on the webcast, etc. It's just as much of a "LOOK AT ME" plea as people dressing "trendy" at Coachella.
-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
nodepression
Bleary-Eyed Bonnawook Inforoo's Waffle Czar & Baron Von Hipster
Doesn't Coach have free showers and not the camping is much better not to mention the weather fairer? I dress better at Moog because I can, at Roo I don't have time/want to pretty up. I have too many shows/friends to see.
The weather's usually pretty rough, high 90's but pretty dry. Free showers have to help as well. Not to mention a much smaller percentage of attendees camp.
I wasn't trying to make an indictment on the Roo crowd, I wear a band t-shirt and shorts every day at Roo or Coach, I just thought it was funny walking around at Bonnaroo and noticing the differences between the two festivals crowds.
I wasn't trying to make an indictment on the Roo crowd, I wear a band t-shirt and shorts every day at Roo or Coach, I just thought it was funny walking around at Bonnaroo and noticing the differences between the two festivals crowds.
You are forgetting about the Juggalo influx at Roo .Especially when you are walking around Roo after midnight.
Doesn't Coach have free showers and not the camping is much better not to mention the weather fairer? I dress better at Moog because I can, at Roo I don't have time/want to pretty up. I have too many shows/friends to see.
At a festival like Moog, I need to put on makeup and blow dry my hair to show all of you that I can sometimes clean up all nice like The one thing that I disliked about meeting people at Brunch was that you all met me in my dirtiest, ugliest state! I swear that I can look better than that!
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
To me, wearing something noticeable isn't to be like "look at me", but to have some fun with what you are wearing and, yes, creating a way to make friends and conversation. I can't believe some of you view this as a negative thing. If you go to Bonnaroo wearing a "stupid speedo" or a viking hat (which I find hilarious and awesome) that's a display of your personality that you can't just display in your daily life. One of my favorite parts of Bonnaroo is dressing silly! Bonnaroo is supposed to be a place where you are free to be yourself and people are supposed to appreciate you for that. I can't believe how judgmental some of these responses are. If a dude wants to wear a speedo at Roo (or a viking hat), more power to him, in my opinion.
I wasn't trying to make an indictment on the Roo crowd, I wear a band t-shirt and shorts every day at Roo or Coach, I just thought it was funny walking around at Bonnaroo and noticing the differences between the two festivals crowds.
You are forgetting about the Juggalo influx at Roo .Especially when you are walking around Roo after midnight.
Post by kikosanchez on Jun 20, 2012 13:58:23 GMT -5
This reminds me of my first Roo when I had a campmate that was a tv host(ess). She literally spent half her Roo in our canopy trying out makeup and different clothing pieces/accessories on, all the while asking her friend how each combination looked. It made my gf and I nearly puke, the thought of wasting a music festival caring about how you LOOKED and for what? She was there with her husband who is a real festie trooper. All the meanwhile he was out doing things. What a waste. The 4 days of the year you can literally bask in dirt and go without judgment and you would pass that up for makeup???
You are forgetting about the Juggalo influx at Roo .Especially when you are walking around Roo after midnight.
Wait, there WERE Juggalos at Roo?? I want pics!
I was intrigued to watch youtube videos from The Gathering of the Juggalos yesterday. They are the most sketchy/trashy looking people I've ever seen. They seemed quite nice and jubilant, but foulmouthed and sketchy to the core. Their culture also seems misogynistic to the extreme, which bothers me greatly.
I can't believe some of you view this as a negative thing.
Not really much negativity here about it. Nodepression said he doesn't really get it but didn't really say it was a bad thing. Juggs was just trying to say that there's an attention-seeking element to it, even though it's different from Coachella.
I'd agree. For the most part people are just doing things to be silly but there definitely are people who do it just to get some attention. For the most part it's harmless and fun and first-timers can go home and tell their friends "Oh man! I saw a guy dressed like Space Ghost who was partying with a dude in neon underwear on 2 foot stilts with glow in the dark paint on his chest". I know that I found it really interesting my first year.
To me, wearing something noticeable isn't to be like "look at me", but to have some fun with what you are wearing and, yes, creating a way to make friends and conversation. I can't believe some of you view this as a negative thing. If you go to Bonnaroo wearing a "stupid speedo" or a viking hat (which I find hilarious and awesome) that's a display of your personality that you can't just display in your daily life. One of my favorite parts of Bonnaroo is dressing silly! Bonnaroo is supposed to be a place where you are free to be yourself and people are supposed to appreciate you for that. I can't believe how judgmental some of these responses are. If a dude wants to wear a speedo at Roo (or a viking hat), more power to him, in my opinion.
Ah, I get it now! That guy in the insanely stiflingly hot banana costume isn't wearing it so people will take pictures, or so he'll get on the monitor, or so people will think he's TOTES CRAZY BRO, but because it somehow increases his own enjoyment of the festival! I don't know how I missed that.
...yes, people wear these things because they enjoy them. But to act like it's all for this solipsistic, "I feel better when I wear my banana costume" nonsense is pure tripe. It's for attention, pure and simple, and because people enjoy getting that attention.
Note: there is nothing inherently wrong with this. But it's pretty much the truth.
^^ Wait a second- who are you to say that? Every individual is completely different. Some people really will do/say/wear things for the pure sdatisfaction that it makes them feel good. Not ALLL, but some, so don't go grouping EVERYBODYYYY that dresses up into one category, because that's incorrect sir.
^^ Wait a second- who are you to say that? Every individual is completely different. Some people really will do/say/wear things for the pure sdatisfaction that it makes them feel good. Not ALLL, but some, so don't go grouping EVERYBODYYYY that dresses up into one category, because that's incorrect sir.
What makes them feel good about it? Do these people sit around their house in a banana suit or gorilla mask, all alone? Somehow I highly doubt it.
They feel good about it because of the way other people react to it. I have yet to see any other explanation that is even remotely plausible.
What if they do? Who's to say they don't? Does it maybe make them weird, ya probably, but hell- some people are happy doing all kinds of crazy crap, and you're gonna sit and tell me that you think not ONE person in the world does it out of shear satisfaction?
Maemae basically said what I was trying to. I wasn't trying to split any hairs. I just don't think that people who dress up and have fun doing it should be pigeon holed as attention whores. They are just trying to party and have a good time like everyone else.
Ah, I get it now! That guy in the insanely stiflingly hot banana costume isn't wearing it so people will take pictures, or so he'll get on the monitor, or so people will think he's TOTES CRAZY BRO, but because it somehow increases his own enjoyment of the festival! I don't know how I missed that.
...yes, people wear these things because they enjoy them. But to act like it's all for this solipsistic, "I feel better when I wear my banana costume" nonsense is pure tripe. It's for attention, pure and simple, and because people enjoy getting that attention.
Note: there is nothing inherently wrong with this. But it's pretty much the truth.
Solipsistic!
First schadenfreude, now solipsistic. We're like Merriam-Webster today.
The one thing that I disliked about meeting people at Brunch was that you all met me in my dirtiest, ugliest state! I swear that I can look better than that!
but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal. 
