Burning Man

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:58 pm

Sounds pretty much like glastonbury, but perhaps with more hippies.

Everyone who goes to glastonbury instantly becomes so nauseatingly enamoured with it that they won't stop comparing every other festival to it, moaning about how they aren't there and telling other people that they don't understand how good it is until they've been.

The only thing about that is, I've been to glastonbury about five times and it IS great. It's not really a spiritual experience or anything like that, it's just hundreds of thousands of happy people fucked on drugs dancing to music and not wanting to kill each other for a few days.

As for telling people they aren't as good if they haven't been to a festival- fuck off and die.

misk · Post by **misk** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:06 pm

Sea Monkey wrote:
Misk wrote:you've gotta have a good $1000 to have a decent time at burning man, from what my friend who goes told me. what with tickets, food, water, drugs, and a place to stay and all that...

I drive all the way from Indiana and including the price of gas, have never spent $1000.

s'pose my friend just likes to spend money

drum syndicate · Post by **drum syndicate** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:19 pm

As it gets closer and closer and more of my friends make their preparations to go, I wish I was able to go. A few of my friends are completely enamored with it and speak of it as 'home' and the regular world as some kind of alternate reality. Kinda funny if you ask me, but I would pretty much give anything right now to hide in a trunk and get out there.

I was thinking about going next year but a friend of mine who's gone the past couple years is trying to convince me to go to Sensation White and Black in Amsterdam. It's one of the people who I actually want to go hang out with on the playa so we'll see. Maybe I'll be in a position to do both next year.

step correct · Post by **step correct** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:44 pm

HA!!! I guess someone prematurely Burned the burning man last night!!

I loled. They now have to make a makesshift. Comedy

sea monkey · Post by **sea monkey** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:57 pm

Step Correct wrote:HA!!! I guess someone prematurely Burned the burning man last night!!
I loled. They now have to make a makesshift. Comedy

Aside from the fact that it was dangerous to do so, I thought it was pretty funny too. Of the four times I've been to Burning Man, I missed The Burn twice. Of the two times I saw The Burn, only once was I at the massive gathering close to The Man when it happened. I understand that it's supposed to be the 'climax' of the event, but for it to really upset anyone that the man burned early just seems silly to me. The incredible experiences and memories I have from Burning Man are largely unrelated to The Burn itself. The loads of people who come out for a day or two just for The Burn are really missing out.

municiple · Post by **municiple** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:28 pm

I saw the thing about the premature burn and thought "man broke the rules and the place with no rules". Good on him.

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:37 pm

municiple wrote:I saw the thing about the premature burn and thought "man broke the rules and the place with no rules". Good on him.

step correct · Post by **step correct** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:08 pm

Whoa here's a 24 hour live stream of it, peep!!

http://qtss.telascience.org/live.sdp

municiple · Post by **municiple** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:17 pm

Is that for real? If so, I just may have looked into hell.

-blade- · Post by **-blade-** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:26 pm

Sea Monkey wrote:So I guess saying "If you haven't been you just don't understand" would just piss you off more, eh?

Burning Man is amazing. I've been four times now. I wish so badly that I could go again this year, but I can't afford to.

I don't have any digital pics from my first year (2001), but here are the others, if you care to look through them:

2003
2004
2005

have one thought from 2006 - i wasnt there so...

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:47 pm

municiple wrote:Is that for real? If so, I just may have looked into hell.

you make me happy

Double funnty

drum syndicate · Post by **drum syndicate** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:52 pm

First suicide in the 21 year history of BM happened this morning

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfg ... y_id=19890

misk · Post by **misk** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:54 am

burning man and safe sex:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 01&sc=1000

incidently, i went to high school with violet blue. she changed

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:51 am

"His friends thought he was doing an art piece," What the fuck ?!

drum syndicate Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject:

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First suicide in the 21 year history of BM happened this morning

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:20 am

1st comment

I am always sad and sympathetc toward people who are so down and hopeless that they see suicide as the only choice.. but I have NO sympathy for the idiots who leave their messes for their friends to find. None.

Well. What the fuck are you talking about then? You contradictory tnuc.

I don't think they're friends and family are are in the forfront of they're minds when they kill them selves. If that was the case, they probably wouldn't kill them selves. The thing with suicide is that the pain far out ways any feeling you may have for the people you love.
Tosser

dutty yuppie · Post by **dutty yuppie** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:32 am

drum syndicate wrote:First suicide in the 21 year history of BM happened this morning

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfg ... y_id=19890

Well, there's the replacement. Where's the paraffin?

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:10 pm

Dutty Yuppie wrote:
drum syndicate wrote:First suicide in the 21 year history of BM happened this morning

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfg ... y_id=19890
Well, there's the replacement. Where's the paraffin?

hahaha. Yeah, that's really organic

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:18 pm

Misk wrote:burning man and safe sex:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 01&sc=1000

incidently, i went to high school with violet blue. she changed

"Does that white Rasta hippie in caked clown makeup still look worth it?"

9feetofsmoke · Post by **9feetofsmoke** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:50 pm

FUCK BURNINGMAN!!!!

feral witchchild · Post by **feral witchchild** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:55 pm

I want to go at some point, but I don't really love the psychedelic experience like THAT anymore, and I think it would be kind of pointless without it, really.

Never made sense to me how this takes place in a desert (correct me if I'm wrong), if I'm tripping hard on some shit the LAST place I want to be is a motherfucking desert. lol

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