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hello all! it's me, checking in on what's going on here in internet land. i spilled beer on my laptop (again! but this time i did it and not my roommate) and have since then been on a computer break (now my days consist of drinking warm beer, smoking weed, watching old simpsons episodes with the commentary and masturbating to the one porn dvd i have. so what has happened in the last few weeks? any new interesting members? fun topics? gossip-worthy scandals? i will be leaving for burning man sunday and will be spending my whole week living in a 21 foot geodesic dome in the desert with friends and many more strangers. for those of you who don't know, burning man is an annual music and arts (and much more) festival that takes place in nevada, usa. the biggest difference is this is an entirely non-corporate event - sales involving currency of any kind are disallowed. so you have to bring EVERYTHING you are going to need for a week: shelter, food, water, drugs, art, costumes... for the week that burning man occurs, it's location, black rock city, goes from being a desolate desert landscape (affectionately known as the playa) into the third largest city in nevada (47,000 people attended last year). so yeah, it's going to be fucking epic. an entire city that is one big party for a week straight. this is my first year going. any there any past or current burners here at xlt? let's hear a shout out! i suppose that would be all, i wish you peoples the best in life (well, not all of you, there's a few who i would like to see go down in "when flanders failed" style) and love, i suppose. |
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Enjoy! B) You will meet some very cool and strange people there. |
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"it's location, black rock city, goes from being a desolate desert landscape (affectionately known as the playa)" my ears are burning |
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hedph, swift and nigel are there then im def in !!! xlt smash & burn party bitches' |
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how i would to travel there,the USA* hope enjoy,i will make similar things here on EUROPE watching some olympics on CHINA,aawhhhhh... |
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it is 2 am here and we have yet to pack up our truck so that we can leave at 7 in the morning. i am so tired from moving things and want to sleeeep but i have to spend the next two hours packing a truck full of shit we need to live on. i'm gonna be a mess tomorrow. woo. |
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oh and btw that's, "so that we can leave at 7 in the morning to drive for 7 hours." yes! |
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haha thad i was joking about how i'm a playa |
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just bear in mind that you're going to one giant drug orgy in a nation that wants to fuck you for it. be careful. |
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two rubbers then? |
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you gotta double-bag that shit. |
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holy shit that was nuts. best fuckin city ever. |
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seen pictures and heard reviews on the television, looks fucking amazing, would love to go, always wanted to go to burning man, since the early days. you gots pictures - |
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only a few, just 360 panoramics of our camp monday morning as well as the inside of our done. i figured anything i needed to revisit would be available on flicker soon enough. the best part is the conversations and the people you meet tho. for example, the department of public works are some of the coolest, nicest, yet most intimidating people i have ever met. They exude this aura of pure badassedness, but are still absolutely approachable in nearly any situation (in black rock city at least, in the default world, who knows). for example, this guy slim, who i met on my first night in, which would technically have been early tuesday morning (after having waited in line for over six hours because a day long dust storm shut down the entrances to the city), talked to me and two friends for about 20 minutes at the top of the man. he was the greeter for the structure and was talking to every single person who made their way up to the best vantage point in the entire city. seriously, this guy had to have talked to at least 100 people per hour. saturday afternoon we randomly saw him again, ran up and said hello. he immediately recognized us and even remembered two of our names! (he missed mine, naturally tho. because, well, it's nils.) we chatted for a while since, he asked how my first burn was going, and then we parted ways. you can see slim in all his man building bad ass, as well as the most bad ass of all larry harvey the founder of bm, and a couple of the art structures which were scattered around href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/26/burning-man-art- the mostly empty 10 to 2 o'clock area of the city here: target=_blank>http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/26/burning- buil.html" man-art-buil.html more stories to come, if you want. or if i continue drinking and enjoying having a computer again. and believe me, all one can do after burning man is talk about burning man. |
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ah fuck, i'll fix that link for ya: |
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keep talking burning man, sounds amazing ! :checks out pictures: :) Keep it up YO! |
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I saw this one art project, that was 2 semi-trucks taken apart and put back together, some 50'+ high, so cool. And my 2 year old loves semi-trucks, so he got a kick out if it also. The dust storms look crazy, are they as bad as they say- |
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yeah, that piece, along with quite a few other regular larger art projects, did not make it to brc this year due to high gas costs. but harvey announced during a conference at bm that he has some plans in the works for some year long installations at black rock, which will hopefully cut down on those kinds of cut downs. more stories in a few once i finish copying music from an external hard drive and am somewhat less fumingly aggrivated with windows vista (just installed today because i am borrowing a laptop WHICH DOESN'T EVEN HAVE XP DRIVERS. AT ALL. ANYWHERE. ON THE INTERWEBS. it's fucked, mang. |
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so tell us a little bit about your outfit there.. |
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well the goggles and bandanna are essential attire for surviving out in the desert for any period of time due to sporadic and often brutal dust storms. the goggles serve a pretty obvious function, and the bandanna goes over your mouth classic cowboy style to prevent you from getting a lung full of playa. the worst storm was sunday night, immediately after the temple burned, a solemn occasion which is highly contrasted with the bombastic hooting and blaring rave from all directions during the burn of the man the night before. my friends and i ventured over to the other side of the city, but in the midst came across a solitary, very shallow dome, from which the most cacophonous noise was emanating. we decided we had to investigate, and found a group of people in a circle banging on some crude wooden stringed instruments, with some guy obviously tripping on about 20 different hallucinogens sending all of the sound through some kind of delay filters using what im guessing was some infrared interface. when we left, we were suddenly alone. the dust was so thick there were five of use with two maglites and you could only see three of us at any given time. we eventually found way to a camp, where a couple of my fellows hunkered down with borrowed blankets, but i had to pee so i ventured out bundled up (the desert night is fucking FREEZING) and in my israeli military issue gas mask to the porta potties (which were amazingly maintained btw). (i was also wearing a big camo jacket with a hoodie underneath, so overall i must have been an intimidating site to behold suddenly out of the dust.) i found refuge in a larger, handicapped stall and proceeded to invite others in, smoking a couple bowls and having some deep conversations, including with a couple sf kids who had a hard time believing that all i really cared about at the moment was that i didnt have my laptop and couldn't be djing myself at bm, despite the fact that the place is littered with electro, house, and dubstep to be heard, but lots of shitty breaks t |
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sounds like a really sweet time. might have to look into it myself for next year... also this comparison must be made: |
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also, i've got on my backpack which i modified slightly to more comfortably house a water bladder (camel back for the brand name-stricken), which is another absolute essential out in the desert. you'll get dehydrated very quickly, and going even half an hour without a drink of water out there can be pretty excruciating. i got abandoned while very drunk one night, lost my camel back, and for the remaining three days had a sore throat because on my way back, when i tried to swallow, my throat was so dry and coarse it actually scratched itself. the rem concert shirt i got when i was somewhere around 11 doesn't pose much interest i suppose. the necklaces. the first would be the nitrous cartridge necklace which we got as a gift, along with a couple hundred full carts. a bunch of my friends do a whooole lot of whip its and our resident sculpture artists decided to make a nitrous tree out of the used carts and wire. as a result, we had tons of people stopping by to do them. actually, nitrous is a great drug for the daytime in burning man. let's you just kill some time comfortably without having to plan ahead for what your drug adventures. the second would be the round pendant, which i got for lamp lighting, an incredible fulfilling experience. across burning man, there are these huge spires from which lamps are hung and lit each night. it is the largest all kerosene lamp lighting in the world. 11,000 lamps are lit each night. eleven. THOUSAND. disney land/world used to have bm beat, but they switched to electric like a bunch of mouse fucking pussies. but i digress. so what i did was carry 10 lit lamps across my back for around half an hour, walking very slowly from center camp towards the man. turns out this was a special lighting, as they were taping it for a documentary, and was the longest lamp route in the history of bm. plus, i was last in line, i offically carried THE LONGEST lamp lighting route. ever. out of anyone else. plus my butt is gonna be on film. some people did carry through dust storms |
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hey, sf is the place to be for burners. its pretty much the largest, closest city to black rock that would actually house burner types (this means im excluding reno and vegas). tons of de/recompression parties happen in the city as well as looots of craigslist postings for bm-related items (tents, domes, shitty bikes [because once a bike is used on the playa, it is in nowhere near suitable condition for city use], costumes, led things, etc). i'm quite possibly moving up there in the coming couple months - know anyone who is looking to share some housing? |
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well I only have one friend that actually lives within the city itself... and he's paying $1,600 for a studio apartment (yikes!). It's expensive as shit to live there. If I can scrounge up enough players willing to cross state lines next year, burning man sounds like it would be a completely awesome time. |
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glad you enjoyed. looks incredible and i hope to experience the fest too one day. |
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