Fwd: the burningman experience from the comfort of your own home

[Leili]

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From: twrl grl
 

> From: "Greg Roberts"
> 
> This one was just sent to me by one of my "straight"
> friends! I think
> it's the most wonderfully concise description I've
> ever seen of the
> event, and a super reality check/deterrent for all
> those potential
> spectators-to-be! :P
> 
> -Greg (Lil Bird)


> How to have the Burning Man experience from the
> comfort of your own
> home:
> 
> Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10
> hours in any 
> direction. Put the house back together. Invite
> everyone you meet to
> come over and party. When everyone leaves, follow
> them back to their
> homes, drink all their booze, and break things.
> 
> Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Break it.
> 
> Stack all your fans in one corner of your living
> room. Put on your most
> fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a
> vacuum cleaner bag
> in front of them.
> 
> Pitch your tent next to the wall of speakers in a
> crowded, noisy club.
> Go to sleep. Wake up 2 hours later in a 110+ degree
> tent.
> 
> Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3
> blocks away. Drain
> all the water from the toilet. Only flush it every 4
> days. Hide all the
> toilet paper.
> 
> Visit a restaurant and pay them to let you alternate
> lying in the 
> walk-in freezer and sitting in the oven.
> 
> Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of
> hallucinogenic/emotion
> altering drugs. Pick a fight with your
> girlfriend/boyfriend.
> 
> Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various
> parts of your body.
> Forget how you did it. Don't go to a doctor.
> 
> Buy a new pair of favorite shoes. Throw one shoe
> away.
> 
> Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores
> for the perfect, 
> most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.
> 
> Listen to music you hate for 168 hours straight, or
> until you think you
> are going to scream. Scream. Realize you'll love the
> music for the rest
> of your life.
> 
> Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house.
> Walk slowly around the
> block for 5 hours.
> 
> Sprinkle dirty sand in all your food.
> 
> Mail $200 to the Reno casino of your choice.
> 
> Go to a museum. Find one of Salvador Dali's more
> disturbing but 
> beautiful paintings. Climb inside it.
> 
> Spend thousands of dollars on a deeply personal art
> work. Hide it in a
> funhouse on the edge of the city. Blow it up.
> 
> Set up a DJ system downwind of a three alarm fire.
> Play a short loop of
> drum'n'bass until the embers are cold.
> 
> Have a 3 a.m. soul baring conversation with a drag
> nun in platforms, a
> crocodile, and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if
> you're hallucinating.
> 


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