Clicking through Urban75 I found this interesting piece about Burning man, plus the same boring one eyed shit they keep repeating about Goa every couple of months.Also some obsure Bosnian history.
Clicking through Urban75 I found this interesting piece about Burning man, plus the same boring one eyed shit they keep repeating about Goa every couple of months.
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The obscure Bosnian history page was fascinating... As to the boring, one-eyed shit about Goa... I (feni-drinking, Hindi-speaking, non-toilet paper using, therefore obviously more authentic than any other fucker) can't argue with it... Apart from the obvious irony of the writer being no better than the objects of his ire... Do you like statistics? The last year I was in Goa, 98-99 or thereabouts, there were 168,000 tourists that year... last year, 2005, there were 2.5 million... But, without knowing for sure, I think the sad truth IS that most of the money goes to international hotel, package tour, airline and resort groups, rather than local bhaji-pau and feni-with-soda serving establishments...
most of, statistics, blah blah its the same fucking one eyed fucking story I always read about Goa in holier than thou anti-hippie bullshit London.
Doesn't include the families who stubornly refuse to bring their kids up in the west during the 60s and 70s and made strong bonds with the communities in Goa whos kids are now international DJs who don't know the concept of "No" and have never fucking heard of Arsenal. Doesn't include the yearning purity of the genuine freaks who could exist no where else. Doesn't include the guy from manchester with the tatooed face who plays Russian Roulette with guns in Manchester for money and then lives in Goa on the proceeds.
Doesn't include the easy society, the guy who does haircuts telling you where the party will be that night, the good and the harsh stories about the mafia, the Chaporan Hindus tying the Police up and leaving them in the shit gully all night for busting the same westerners (their customers) three nights in a row.
Its a FUCKING ONE EYED SHIT HOLLLIER THAN THOU story.
oh- I just noticed Its Mr Camel. Where u been?
anyway Goa is dead. The author doesn't even realise his story is set in the past. Actually I didn't even look at the date of the story. Maybe they update as often as we do.
I think Burning Man woulld be my idea of Hell. Look what happened to Woodstack, and also what happened to Loolapalooza. Mixing regular folks with LSD can be dangerous, but then go ahead and mix in big corporations' interfering with it. Soon, you have corporate logos interrupting peoples' acid trips. Often this ends in disaster. I can't believe Burning Man still exists. I've known the most liberl druggie people come back from Burning Man with apocolypse stories,
saying "never agin". And that was 10 years ago.
ha ha ha Stef that is funny.It does seem pretty hardcore. I don't htink they allow advertising or anything corporate still. I've only heard good stuff though from DJs who played there. Apparently when they first started playing trance in the mid nineties the older acid hippies didn't like it and buzzed the dancefloors with their aroplanes etc. then when Jerry Garcia got into trance they all thought they were missing out on something cool.
I'd love to hear the horror stories. If your friends want to write one I would love one for socialistwanker
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