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Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« on: July 27, 2009, 04:45:37 am »
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 05:20:47 am »
the last 1.5 hours or so of "the best show on WFMU" this week was about this thing, and I laughed so hard that I had to go sit down away from the computer for a minute to compose myself.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 05:29:23 am »
Other than the fact that I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in any of the so called entertainment scheduled for this thing it looks like a really well thought out, fan friendly event.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 05:39:44 am »
That was the greatest 14 minutes of the last month.

Wait, so these people are simultaneously Juggalos, Ninjas, and Fat Kids? And some kind of family? Are we gonna have to get a research grant and get all ethnographic on this bitch?
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 06:10:04 am »
http://www.juggalogathering.com/home.php?page_id=directions

Yes. YES.

I want to ethnograph this bitch so hard.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 07:37:59 am »
I could never ethnograph this. The urge to Freak Out and Talk Sense would be too great. It is the same reason I don't go to church anymore and have never attended a midnight screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I can handle a Ren-Faire for the food and to watch people joust or whatever but... please, don't come up to me In Character and expect me to LARP with you. I am not a foreign trader, you are not some kind of archer for the king. You and I are people at a pretend pleasant place and if you cross over that line, I will Freak Out and Talk Sense.

I guess that I am sort of supremely judgemental but all I can say is that it comes from a place of compassion. Well, the Rocky Horror Picture Show not so much but...

"LOOK, OKAY, IF YOU ARE GAY, THAT IS AWESOME AND I AM FINE WITH THAT! GO BE GAY AND THAT IS AWESOME BUT... THIS IS ACTUALLY AN IRREDEEMABLY BAD FILM, PLEASE, GO HAVE OMNIAMOUROUS MAKE-OUTS, DO NOT WASTE YOUR LIFE MAKING COSTUMES TO WATCH BAD FILMS AND PRETEND THAT *****ICALLY REPEATING THE SAME QUIPS ONCE A MONTH WILL FILL THE PLACE IN YOUR HEART THAT ACTUALLY NEEDS A COCK! GO BE HAPPY! GET AWAY FROM THIS FILM THAT IS TERRIBLE ON ALL LEVELS!"

I can only imagine what that would turn into when confronted with a sea of heavy-set hillbilly white kids expressing their disaffections through... jester-rap.

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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2009, 08:11:20 am »
yeah, to be honest, I could not actually go to such a thing with a straight face. also I would be scared of getting killed.

also, same here on Rocky Horror Picture Show. Goddamn, that movie.

There is a constant struggle where I want to be able to be OK with people liking this stuff, but it just turns into condescension.

I also had this problem a lot working at summer camp. But I guess that's more of a thing where I feel really uncomfortable in events where everyone is doing the same thing (yelling the same cheer, singing the same song, whatever). I would have been a much better counselor if I could have drank beer every day.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2009, 08:36:24 am »
I don't have that. At least not for a lot of things. I have it for some things, but not a lot. Not this, anyway.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2009, 09:54:44 am »
Eh I'm down with Rocky Horror, I wouldn't dress up for it but it is a thing people like, I can appreciate that. I feel the camp thing though and I think the difference is that the camp chanting thing I've always percieved to be people pretending to enjoy themselves in a unified manner which is kind of weird.

This ad just keeps getting better and better though, what the hell is going on with this line up? Coolio? Ice-cube? Vanilla Ice? Pauly Shore? WHAT? I'm getting the feeling they're just into it for the spectacle, they don't care what's actually going on.

Edit: FULL ON SEMINARS!

I know there's the san-fran type alternative movement that embraced burlesque and other aspects of old school freak shows but I suspect places like this is where all the freaks really went.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2009, 01:12:31 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on July 27, 2009, 07:37:59 am
I could never ethnograph this. The urge to Freak Out and Talk Sense would be too great. It is the same reason I don't go to church anymore and have never attended a midnight screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I can handle a Ren-Faire for the food and to watch people joust or whatever but... please, don't come up to me In Character and expect me to LARP with you. I am not a foreign trader, you are not some kind of archer for the king. You and I are people at a pretend pleasant place and if you cross over that line, I will Freak Out and Talk Sense.

I guess that I am sort of supremely judgemental but all I can say is that it comes from a place of compassion. Well, the Rocky Horror Picture Show not so much but...

"LOOK, OKAY, IF YOU ARE GAY, THAT IS AWESOME AND I AM FINE WITH THAT! GO BE GAY AND THAT IS AWESOME BUT... THIS IS ACTUALLY AN IRREDEEMABLY BAD FILM, PLEASE, GO HAVE OMNIAMOUROUS MAKE-OUTS, DO NOT WASTE YOUR LIFE MAKING COSTUMES TO WATCH BAD FILMS AND PRETEND THAT #####ICALLY REPEATING THE SAME QUIPS ONCE A MONTH WILL FILL THE PLACE IN YOUR HEART THAT ACTUALLY NEEDS A COCK! GO BE HAPPY! GET AWAY FROM THIS FILM THAT IS TERRIBLE ON ALL LEVELS!"

I can only imagine what that would turn into when confronted with a sea of heavy-set hillbilly white kids expressing their disaffections through... jester-rap.




It sounds like your commitment to juggalography is lacking.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2009, 06:21:53 pm »
Midget wrestling was in there, actually.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2009, 08:19:53 pm »
I don't think I feel bat about passing judgment on this event. not at all.

somewhere around pro-wrestling I stop pretending not to judge this crap.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2009, 03:23:29 am »
I met some Juggaloes at Kerrville Folk Festival last year.  They were a lot of fun to hang out with.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2009, 04:06:50 pm »
wait

ICE CUBE
GWAR
COOLIO


will be at this?

and also Vanilla Ice?

what the fuck i have bought albums from these people before
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2009, 06:10:26 pm »
What was that thing Paul just said lately? Oh yeah.
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