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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Sasquatch Caperin' VS Sasquatch - Part 1: "Let's Get Wild"

Posted by on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:01 AM

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Bubbles: Oh my fuck, boys. What if it's a Samsquanch? It could be!
Julian: They don't exist, Bubbles.
Bubbles: Julian, you try telling that to all the people that got eaten by the dirty bastards.
- Trailer Park Boys, Season 4 Episode 6: "If You Love Something, Set it Free"

Oh look, theres $25 on the ground.
  • Oh look, there's $25 on the ground.

Excerpt from TOWEL by Derek Erdman
For Adam Zacks

"I saw the fair to middling minds of my generation destroyed by
sun stroke, starving from lack of $17 hot dogs,
hysterical naked in day-glo body paint,
dragging themselves through the muddy bathroom areas
looking for cellphone signals,
dunderheaded hipsters using the word 'amazing',
stoned on weed given to them by a parolee uncle,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking K2 in parking lot campgrounds of
warm water jugs floating underneath Teva sandals
contemplating BASSNECTAR,
who bared their brains to Wayne Coyne under airplanes
dragging sugar free Red Bull banners,
saw glow stick angels staggering on Subaru
Forester roofs illuminated,
who passed through alternative high schools with radiant Taz tats
hallucinating Robyn and strobe-light tragedy
among the scholars of blogs,
who were expelled from the community colleges for crazy &
publishing stencil-art odes on the windows of the
skull, etc, etc, etc..."

Music festivals aren't for everybody, and Sasquatch is mostly for people who don't mind waiting in lines and are excited to be entertained by anything. This installment will be in three sections for two reasons, I have a lot of things to tell you about and pictures to show you, but I'm also so tired that I feel like I'm going to fall over. Because, WHOA, having fun is tiring!

Ultimately, things are what you make of them. A lot of people told me that I'd be miserable going to Sasquatch, that the camping and kids and music would all be awful. But most of it wasn't awful at all. Most of it was absolutely wonderful.

A number of bands played competent music that was at times also socially and culturally relevant. Comedians strung words into sentences in clever ways. DJs pressed buttons late into the night while thrown glow sticks rained down on dancing bodies. Teens had sex and vomited. I was told the average attendee spent $700 over the course of the weekend. Except for the people being thrown out for various reasons, everybody seemed to be really happy. Save for the time I smoked freak-out weed that I found on the ground and cried in a field for 2 hours, I was really happy too.

Pictures below, click to make them big!

Before we left, we went to the Wing Zone. The Wing Zone is not the Wing Dome.
  • Before we left, we went to the Wing Zone. The Wing Zone is not the Wing Dome.

Grant as Tony Micelli, Cienna as Angela Bower: WHOS THE BOSS?
  • Grant as Tony Micelli, Cienna as Angela Bower: WHO'S THE BOSS?

In a land where Flamin Hot Cheetos come in 64oz bags, a tarp is a tent.
  • In a land where Flamin' Hot Cheetos come in 64oz bags, a tarp is a tent.

SUCK THIS + grapes = world champions.
  • "SUCK THIS" + grapes = world champions.

Hey look! NPR bracelet!
  • Hey look! NPR bracelet!

Im so glad I didnt move to Austin, Texas.
  • I'm so glad I didn't move to Austin, Texas.

Dreads! Piercings! Face paint! Nice teeth!
  • Dreads! Piercings! Face paint! Nice teeth!

Have an apple if you hafta.
  • Have an apple if you hafta.

GRATEFUL DAD.
  • GRATEFUL DAD.

No means maybe.
  • "No" means "maybe."

Okay, well get wild.
  • Okay, we'll get wild.

Parts two & three later today or tomorrow or whatever. I'll even talk about music! Maybe!

 

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Words cannot fully communicate how fucking lame this article is. This is the worst kind of "I'm better than then these 'other' people because I'm so clever and tuned in and use the word 'relevant' and the style of successful blogs with international audiences (via HRO)." This is hack jack assed grade F imitation at best, though feels more like grade Z format plagiarism. Weren't you ever young and just hoping no one was going to mock you? You could have at least made this funny. Fucking pathetic.
Posted by First name: You Last Name: Suck on June 1, 2011 at 2:27 AM
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... seems also like a bit of jealousy. you weren't actually hanging with the Trailer Park Boys in VIP. Saw the media room. Your only swag was free pop chips, AC outlets, soyjoy and sugarless red bulls and it's making you grumpy and lash out against the random masses (who paid for the event and your media pass). Ha.
Posted by Envy Can Be Funny on June 1, 2011 at 3:19 AM

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