Giving up the Burn
This year is the first since I have moved to California, that I will be missing Burning Man. We have a shoot in Vegas for adidas next week, and there is no way I can miss the next week of work. Steff sent me this list which I had read before, but still makes me laugh everytime I read it.
for those, like me who are sitting this one out, here
is some advice...
I recommend choosing one or more of the following activities to fill the void:
1. Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any direction.
2. Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Set it up, sandblast it, then break it.
3. 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.
4. Pitch your tent next to the wall of speakers in a crowded, noisy club. Go to sleep.
5. Lean back in a chair until that point where you're just about to fall over, but you catch yourself at the last moment. Hold that position for 9 hours.
6. 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.
7. Visit a restaurant and pay them to let you alternately lie in the walk-in freezer and then sit in the oven.
8. Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of hallucinogenic/ emotion altering drugs. Pick a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend.
9. Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body. Forget how you did it. Don't go to a doctor.
10. Buy a new pair of favorite shoes. Throw one shoe away.
11. Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores for the perfect,most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.
12. 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.
14. Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house. Walk slowly around the block for 5 hours.
15. Sprinkle dirty sand in all your food.
16. Have a 3AM soul-baring conversation with a drag nun in platforms, a crocodile, and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if you're hallucinating. Lust after Bugs Bunny.
for those, like me who are sitting this one out, here
is some advice...
I recommend choosing one or more of the following activities to fill the void:
1. Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any direction.
2. Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Set it up, sandblast it, then break it.
3. 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.
4. Pitch your tent next to the wall of speakers in a crowded, noisy club. Go to sleep.
5. Lean back in a chair until that point where you're just about to fall over, but you catch yourself at the last moment. Hold that position for 9 hours.
6. 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.
7. Visit a restaurant and pay them to let you alternately lie in the walk-in freezer and then sit in the oven.
8. Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of hallucinogenic/ emotion altering drugs. Pick a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend.
9. Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body. Forget how you did it. Don't go to a doctor.
10. Buy a new pair of favorite shoes. Throw one shoe away.
11. Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores for the perfect,most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.
12. 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.
14. Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house. Walk slowly around the block for 5 hours.
15. Sprinkle dirty sand in all your food.
16. Have a 3AM soul-baring conversation with a drag nun in platforms, a crocodile, and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if you're hallucinating. Lust after Bugs Bunny.
You probably don't believe me, but I've done a few of these things before, especially #14. #16 I had a similar incident during college, instead of Bugs Bunny, it was with Miss Piggy.
God, I miss college...I've gotten too damn politically correct now :(
Posted by
STEEL ONIMUSHA |
11:16 AM, August 30, 2006
Please let me come with you to this next year?
Posted by
Anastasia |
12:20 AM, September 10, 2006