Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Chickening out |9:37 PM| Note: At the bottom of this post, there's a picture of the sign I posted with suggestions on naming the chickens. At one point I made a logarithm joke, and someone came by and "solved" it with a pencil. I felt a little clever. That is, until I realized that it was like making a Donnie Darko reference in a room full of nerds, someone chuckling, and you two feeling like you're part of a special club. It ain't all that secret of a movie.
Saturday night, Jimmy, Kamon and I planned on hitting a friend-of-a-friend's "Pajama party". We first met up at Robbie's place, played some Halo 3, and proceeded to go be social. The party was not amazing. On some kind of scale, this was too far into the "Frat-party" color gradient areas. The color gradient being whatever "Hey let's just drink" looks like under a microscope. Fuckin' yawn. We just couldn't find any kind of real conversation beyond bullshit chit chat. Social interaction with zero intellectual stimulus is often pointless. The idea became, "...let's just go play a goddamn video game instead."
So we did.
I got home Sunday morning at around 5am. Waiting for me in the parking lot were 3 chickens.
They walked in a wide circle, flocking, wandering, clucking, and bobbing their heads in the standard issue chicken way.
Where the hell did they come from? There isn't a farm anywhere near my current abode (That I know of). Are there wild chicken clusters, moving in nomadic patterns across the state of Texas?
I walked around with the chickens for a bit, as I found it surreal. Every so often one of them would decide to separate from the group, the other two chickens cocking their head in 9 volt brain confusion, but the loner would always return after a few moments. He/she would return to the micro-flock, and continue the lazy circuit of the parking lot.
I didn't see the chickens for the rest of the day. Sunday afternoon this sign was posted, so I stapled up a response to the right.
This morning, the chickens were back, circling the lot.
Someone later posted this sign
And here is my response.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Communion Nightmares |9:15 PM| I was talking to Chris and Jimmy about old nightmares. This was in relation to where you slept, like what side of the bed, location of the bed, orientation on the bed etc..
Their main fear was of alien attack, so they had always slept as far away from the windows and as close to the door as possible. Obviously, the aliens would be arriving from outside.
Alien nightmares brought up, of course, the cover of "Communion". I was happy (Relieved?) to know that I wasn't the only guy who had nightmares based on seeing the cover of that damn book. Our parents would thoughtlessly leave it lying around, not knowing the pure, high octane terror it caused. The communion cover#. I used to go into the parent's study and pull that off the shelf just to feel that terror, trying to get over it. The title had an odd draw to me, thanks to the Catholic implications.
I'd say that book cover was up there with the illustrations from "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". Said illustrations gave rise to more nightmares per capita than all dark basements, thunderclaps, and loon-calls combined.
Jimmy and Chris were far more afraid of aliens than monster or zombie attack. I had always kept my bed closer to the window, so that should the undead hordes break down my door I could escape via tree branches. We all have our priorities.
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Bonnaroo Time Line |6:23 PM| Alright this ain't done. Here's a link to the gallery or you can wait and read a better explanation of most of the images as it is written here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007
Wednesday: 10-11am - They gave us a jeep and not a minivan
11:00am-3pm Loaded up the jeep
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474422414152034
Cass Packs
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#50774744782487268983
3-3:30 delays due to my being forgetful and our worries about the stuff strapped to the roof
4:00 -> ~4pm Thursday
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474521198399874 Chris ride
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474546968203666 Jimmy Ride
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474598507811234 Smile
Cass started the drive, 85 miles an hour http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474675817222594
Not a lot of scenery: http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474688702124498 Barge
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474723061862882 Chris again
The car was uncomfortable naturally, but being now almost filled with luggage it was officially "cramped"
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474753126633970
I pulled about 5.5 to 6 hours of driving duty
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474778896437762
Jimmy Took over while I tried to sleep off "All caffeine and no water make brendan crazy" right after he took another leak http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474843320947218
Near the ONLY BAPTIST CHURCH
We continued to ride: http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474869090751010
Then we waited in line for about 4 hours or so
waited in line for about 4 hours or so
We finally started makingourcamp at about...5? 6pm?
Our enthusiasm was high.
At last year's Bonnaroo Chriss, Cass, Kamon, and Jimmy had all been miserably hot, and the tent has been nearly uninhabitable. This year we tried just a giant canopy and tethered sheets to the sides.
Direc http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475015119639138
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475079544148594
It was really a palace by shelter standards
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475126788788866
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475186918331026
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475414551597794
Marked Levity http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475208393167522
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475247047873202
I need to learn how to tie some knots
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475324357284546
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475513335845634
HUZZAH TENT http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475350127088338
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475466091205362
Relaxation followed by a
More walk
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475706609374002
We caught Louis Black and Friends
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475835458392946
And then hung out to see what sort of late night fun could be found
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475869818131330
Friday:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475998667150242
OH YEAH JIMMY
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476106041332674
Peek
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476204825580514
Everyone had goofy head wear save me. My bandanna was odd but it wasn't bizarre enough
On Thursday I had become separated from the rest of the group, and since their cellphones weren't working I had no way to contact them, not place to meet them. So I started wandering in the way I was hoping they'd wander to find me. When "The Crystal Method" began playing on a P.A. system I knew one of our party would head towards it. I did manage to spot Chris from a fair distance because of his hat. He'd taken off wandering in an attempt to find me.
After that I decided it was time for me to find some horrible green head covering. It took some time on Friday, including what my friends thought was a ridiculous detour, but I prevailed. Sort of.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476329379632146
The material was thin, and cheap, and non-absorbent. I paid for the rag as they handed it to me and the moment I had pulled it from the plastic I thought "Oh dammit I've been fucked." $5 was about 350% too much for this hideous thing (in the real world that is), but it served its purpose.
After that we saw The Brazilian Girls
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476483998454850
Of whom I'd never heard before then.
We went and listened to the preaching of The Nightwatchman next.
Then Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System. That was a truly entertaining show. I couldn't understand a single thing they said (It was in Spanish, I believe) but it was still a blast and it compelled you to dance.
We had listened briefly to Lily Allen on our way over to the Manu Chao show, and she sounded really interesting. She is talented vocally, but upon listening to her album we all found her lyrics to be sorely lacking.
On the main stage that evening was Tool, who put on a hell of a show, at ear-destroying volume. I'm surprised I couldn't see the actual vibrations through the air from those monstrous speakers. The big video displays were showing imagery and videos in the tool visual styles. Creepy shit, I wonder if it's the same crew making those videos or if they have to change them out every so often.
Chris and Cass hit the hay, Jimmy and I tried to locate trouble of some kind. What Jimmy located was "fatigue" and "Cold"
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476707336754306
I tried out the Silent Disco.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476642912244850
The String Cheese incident didn't really grab our attention, so I can't give an honest appraisal of their show.
Saturday:
The next day's initial highlight was Regina Effin' Spektor.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476810415969442
She had a truly cute and endearing stage personality, she fumbled the words for her songs a couple times and laughed it off. She played a guitar that she said she "Sucked" at, it was a great deal of fun. There are several more images from her concert in the gallery, and Cass took a video when she started singing après moi*.
I'd been wanting to see her in concert ever since Cass introduced me to her music several months back, and her show did not disappoint. I even waited in a line that was of epic scale* to get her signature on a CD.
After we met back up with Chris and Jimmy we hit the Ween concert, which was enjoyable even if we were pretty damn far from the stage.
We then ran into this ridiculous group of dancers.
Every time a song would finish, the cheer would go up "One more song!"
The women on stilts were beginning to show a great deal of fatigue, and occasionally would just flat out stop moving around.
We did our best
to keep up.
Went to the Police concert
Then Girl Talk
Saw a glass blower
We waited in line for 2 hours just to get stopped just short of the door to the comedy tent. We had to wait another 90 minutes to get in.
The decemberists
Gooood bye!
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Chickening out |9:37 PM| Note: At the bottom of this post, there's a picture of the sign I posted with suggestions on naming the chickens. At one point I made a logarithm joke, and someone came by and "solved" it with a pencil. I felt a little clever. That is, until I realized that it was like making a Donnie Darko reference in a room full of nerds, someone chuckling, and you two feeling like you're part of a special club. It ain't all that secret of a movie.
Saturday night, Jimmy, Kamon and I planned on hitting a friend-of-a-friend's "Pajama party". We first met up at Robbie's place, played some Halo 3, and proceeded to go be social. The party was not amazing. On some kind of scale, this was too far into the "Frat-party" color gradient areas. The color gradient being whatever "Hey let's just drink" looks like under a microscope. Fuckin' yawn. We just couldn't find any kind of real conversation beyond bullshit chit chat. Social interaction with zero intellectual stimulus is often pointless. The idea became, "...let's just go play a goddamn video game instead."
So we did.
I got home Sunday morning at around 5am. Waiting for me in the parking lot were 3 chickens.
They walked in a wide circle, flocking, wandering, clucking, and bobbing their heads in the standard issue chicken way.
Where the hell did they come from? There isn't a farm anywhere near my current abode (That I know of). Are there wild chicken clusters, moving in nomadic patterns across the state of Texas?
I walked around with the chickens for a bit, as I found it surreal. Every so often one of them would decide to separate from the group, the other two chickens cocking their head in 9 volt brain confusion, but the loner would always return after a few moments. He/she would return to the micro-flock, and continue the lazy circuit of the parking lot.
I didn't see the chickens for the rest of the day. Sunday afternoon this sign was posted, so I stapled up a response to the right.
This morning, the chickens were back, circling the lot.
Someone later posted this sign
And here is my response.
Labels: Expanded, JimmyWiFi, Kamon, Pictures
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Communion Nightmares |9:15 PM| I was talking to Chris and Jimmy about old nightmares. This was in relation to where you slept, like what side of the bed, location of the bed, orientation on the bed etc..
Their main fear was of alien attack, so they had always slept as far away from the windows and as close to the door as possible. Obviously, the aliens would be arriving from outside.
Alien nightmares brought up, of course, the cover of "Communion". I was happy (Relieved?) to know that I wasn't the only guy who had nightmares based on seeing the cover of that damn book. Our parents would thoughtlessly leave it lying around, not knowing the pure, high octane terror it caused. The communion cover#. I used to go into the parent's study and pull that off the shelf just to feel that terror, trying to get over it. The title had an odd draw to me, thanks to the Catholic implications.
I'd say that book cover was up there with the illustrations from "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". Said illustrations gave rise to more nightmares per capita than all dark basements, thunderclaps, and loon-calls combined.
Jimmy and Chris were far more afraid of aliens than monster or zombie attack. I had always kept my bed closer to the window, so that should the undead hordes break down my door I could escape via tree branches. We all have our priorities.
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Bonnaroo Time Line |6:23 PM| Alright this ain't done. Here's a link to the gallery or you can wait and read a better explanation of most of the images as it is written here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007
Wednesday: 10-11am - They gave us a jeep and not a minivan
11:00am-3pm Loaded up the jeep
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474422414152034
Cass Packs
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#50774744782487268983
3-3:30 delays due to my being forgetful and our worries about the stuff strapped to the roof
4:00 -> ~4pm Thursday
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474521198399874 Chris ride
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474546968203666 Jimmy Ride
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474598507811234 Smile
Cass started the drive, 85 miles an hour http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474675817222594
Not a lot of scenery: http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474688702124498 Barge
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474723061862882 Chris again
The car was uncomfortable naturally, but being now almost filled with luggage it was officially "cramped"
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474753126633970
I pulled about 5.5 to 6 hours of driving duty
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474778896437762
Jimmy Took over while I tried to sleep off "All caffeine and no water make brendan crazy" right after he took another leak http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474843320947218
Near the ONLY BAPTIST CHURCH
We continued to ride: http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077474869090751010
Then we waited in line for about 4 hours or so
waited in line for about 4 hours or so
We finally started makingourcamp at about...5? 6pm?
Our enthusiasm was high.
At last year's Bonnaroo Chriss, Cass, Kamon, and Jimmy had all been miserably hot, and the tent has been nearly uninhabitable. This year we tried just a giant canopy and tethered sheets to the sides.
Direc http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475015119639138
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475079544148594
It was really a palace by shelter standards
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475126788788866
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475186918331026
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475414551597794
Marked Levity http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475208393167522
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475247047873202
I need to learn how to tie some knots
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475324357284546
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475513335845634
HUZZAH TENT http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475350127088338
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475466091205362
Relaxation followed by a
More walk
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475706609374002
We caught Louis Black and Friends
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475835458392946
And then hung out to see what sort of late night fun could be found
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475869818131330
Friday:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077475998667150242
OH YEAH JIMMY
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476106041332674
Peek
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476204825580514
Everyone had goofy head wear save me. My bandanna was odd but it wasn't bizarre enough
On Thursday I had become separated from the rest of the group, and since their cellphones weren't working I had no way to contact them, not place to meet them. So I started wandering in the way I was hoping they'd wander to find me. When "The Crystal Method" began playing on a P.A. system I knew one of our party would head towards it. I did manage to spot Chris from a fair distance because of his hat. He'd taken off wandering in an attempt to find me.
After that I decided it was time for me to find some horrible green head covering. It took some time on Friday, including what my friends thought was a ridiculous detour, but I prevailed. Sort of.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476329379632146
The material was thin, and cheap, and non-absorbent. I paid for the rag as they handed it to me and the moment I had pulled it from the plastic I thought "Oh dammit I've been fucked." $5 was about 350% too much for this hideous thing (in the real world that is), but it served its purpose.
After that we saw The Brazilian Girls
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476483998454850
Of whom I'd never heard before then.
We went and listened to the preaching of The Nightwatchman next.
Then Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System. That was a truly entertaining show. I couldn't understand a single thing they said (It was in Spanish, I believe) but it was still a blast and it compelled you to dance.
We had listened briefly to Lily Allen on our way over to the Manu Chao show, and she sounded really interesting. She is talented vocally, but upon listening to her album we all found her lyrics to be sorely lacking.
On the main stage that evening was Tool, who put on a hell of a show, at ear-destroying volume. I'm surprised I couldn't see the actual vibrations through the air from those monstrous speakers. The big video displays were showing imagery and videos in the tool visual styles. Creepy shit, I wonder if it's the same crew making those videos or if they have to change them out every so often.
Chris and Cass hit the hay, Jimmy and I tried to locate trouble of some kind. What Jimmy located was "fatigue" and "Cold"
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476707336754306
I tried out the Silent Disco.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476642912244850
The String Cheese incident didn't really grab our attention, so I can't give an honest appraisal of their show.
Saturday:
The next day's initial highlight was Regina Effin' Spektor.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Cecil137/Bonnaroo2007/photo#5077476810415969442
She had a truly cute and endearing stage personality, she fumbled the words for her songs a couple times and laughed it off. She played a guitar that she said she "Sucked" at, it was a great deal of fun. There are several more images from her concert in the gallery, and Cass took a video when she started singing après moi*.
I'd been wanting to see her in concert ever since Cass introduced me to her music several months back, and her show did not disappoint. I even waited in a line that was of epic scale* to get her signature on a CD.
After we met back up with Chris and Jimmy we hit the Ween concert, which was enjoyable even if we were pretty damn far from the stage.
We then ran into this ridiculous group of dancers.
Every time a song would finish, the cheer would go up "One more song!"
The women on stilts were beginning to show a great deal of fatigue, and occasionally would just flat out stop moving around.
We did our best
to keep up.
Went to the Police concert
Then Girl Talk
Saw a glass blower
We waited in line for 2 hours just to get stopped just short of the door to the comedy tent. We had to wait another 90 minutes to get in.
The decemberists
Gooood bye!
Labels: Cass, ChrisH, JimmyWiFi, Music, Pictures, Travel
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