Rothbury Festival Thursday+Friday
Sitting in a motel about an hour away from Rothbury Music Festival in a town called Holland, in Michigan. I think it was the best holiday weekend i've ever had, and it's a holiday that's pretty lame, aside from the pyromaniac side of me getting fulfilled.
Thursday:
So i arrived at Rothbury at about 11am, got into my campsite around 1pm. Nothing, horrible, 3 hours for a first year isn't too bad at all, considering the first year of Bonnaroo (granted it was 30,000 more people, around twice the size) took me 18 hours to get into the gates, and the second year it took me 9, minimum being about 45 minutes, but usually closer to 2 hours (i went all six times 2002-2007). Rothbury is what every large festival i have ever been to wanted to be. Copious amounts of drugs (i got a 1/2 oz of opium before my campsite was fully setup), quality headies still available all day long Sunday, when you have a tough time finding weed at all at a lot of the festival since about 2005, and just great possitive vibes out of everyone. Everyone was having a good time except a few girls who hate camping, or realized they want to break up with their boyfriend when the vaginitis set in. Buying acid at a festival is always a huge risk. Most people are charging 10$ a hit, and that really sucks if it's bunk (i've gotten my fair share of bunk blotter, liquid, and gel tabs that i believe were actually GHB) so i'm VERY cautious when choosing who to procure my acid from. I rarely trust people my own age, i rarely trust late 30's to mid 40's in tie dyes, and NEVER anyone who looks like a carney. So me and my girl ran into, at least what i consider, to be the perfect person to obtain your legitimate, fairly priced, strong psychotropics from. That is a guy in his 40s, preferably who smells slightly of patchouli, body order and nag champa, who saw the dead in the late 70's prime form, who know the cool people around the lot. Lastly, this is very, VERY key, how he handles the doses. If it is liquid, you have know way to know other than he's going to be very careful in dropping the drops, but if it's blotter, they need to be handling it very carefully. You want someone who is going to only touch the edges of the paper, who is going to use scissors to cut it, and is making every possible attempt to keep moisture off the blotter. That's exactly what this guy did. It wasn't pre-scored blotter, so he had to eyeball cutting it, no problem by me. I took, what appeared to be, the largest strip (have fairly good eyeball for size since i worked post-press printing, running a high speed mueller-martini saddle stitcher trimmer, meaning i made books in large scale, and had 1/32" tolerances). Needless to say i wanted to give it a try, but i also wanted to sleep. I wanted to make sure the 10 strip i bought was good, so me and emily each ate what i eyeballed to be 1/4 of a hit (about 1/16" square) and we felt deffinite effects, not strong, but certainly felt them, from VERY little paper. I also bought a 3" spoon that is all reversals, one of my 2 favorite forms of art glass in pipes (the other is raticello). Ran into a shop, bought a t-shirt that says "don't ask if i have drugs" in a lovely green background with yellow print, went to the shop next door and noticed they had glass on glass bongs. I asked the price, 115$ for a 16" with ice catcher. It wasn't a ROOR, PhX or TDE, but it's an walled 8mm 16" which sell for $250+ on the net. bam, bought it.
Friday: I'm a member of the AAA, American Applesauce Association. We went and saw snoop, sage francis couple other acts. Ate doses at around 8pm during sage, went back to campsite, ate, waited for WSP to end (they played a really good cover of "Life During Wartime" that i heard as we walked up to go see thievery corporation at 12am. To get to Thievery Corp we had to walk through what they called "Sherwood Forest" Sherwood forest is possible the most amazing thing to go through on acid. It's about 100 acre forest with 2 main trails through it. The space between the trails, and to the other sides of the trails we loaded with stage type lights. Sherwood Forest is all lodgepole pines, and the lights project onto them amazingly. Various black light reactive things hung above the trails, and all the pine straw was soft and made for a perfect sitting place. After we cleared the forest and made it to theivery corp they totally rocked the field. Instead of a DJ set they brought in most of the actual performers they sampled. A tiny chick who had a really big great brazilian reggae voice, someone performing sitar, but standing up and walking around stage with it more like a guitar. The stage setup was beautiful, the lights were amazing, and they had multiple levels on the stage, one of the best stage setups ever. After being in the field a while and the acid was wearing off we went back into the forest and sprawled out enjoying the lights, finally going back to the site, eating some food and crashed. Saturday and Sunday to come.
Thursday:
So i arrived at Rothbury at about 11am, got into my campsite around 1pm. Nothing, horrible, 3 hours for a first year isn't too bad at all, considering the first year of Bonnaroo (granted it was 30,000 more people, around twice the size) took me 18 hours to get into the gates, and the second year it took me 9, minimum being about 45 minutes, but usually closer to 2 hours (i went all six times 2002-2007). Rothbury is what every large festival i have ever been to wanted to be. Copious amounts of drugs (i got a 1/2 oz of opium before my campsite was fully setup), quality headies still available all day long Sunday, when you have a tough time finding weed at all at a lot of the festival since about 2005, and just great possitive vibes out of everyone. Everyone was having a good time except a few girls who hate camping, or realized they want to break up with their boyfriend when the vaginitis set in. Buying acid at a festival is always a huge risk. Most people are charging 10$ a hit, and that really sucks if it's bunk (i've gotten my fair share of bunk blotter, liquid, and gel tabs that i believe were actually GHB) so i'm VERY cautious when choosing who to procure my acid from. I rarely trust people my own age, i rarely trust late 30's to mid 40's in tie dyes, and NEVER anyone who looks like a carney. So me and my girl ran into, at least what i consider, to be the perfect person to obtain your legitimate, fairly priced, strong psychotropics from. That is a guy in his 40s, preferably who smells slightly of patchouli, body order and nag champa, who saw the dead in the late 70's prime form, who know the cool people around the lot. Lastly, this is very, VERY key, how he handles the doses. If it is liquid, you have know way to know other than he's going to be very careful in dropping the drops, but if it's blotter, they need to be handling it very carefully. You want someone who is going to only touch the edges of the paper, who is going to use scissors to cut it, and is making every possible attempt to keep moisture off the blotter. That's exactly what this guy did. It wasn't pre-scored blotter, so he had to eyeball cutting it, no problem by me. I took, what appeared to be, the largest strip (have fairly good eyeball for size since i worked post-press printing, running a high speed mueller-martini saddle stitcher trimmer, meaning i made books in large scale, and had 1/32" tolerances). Needless to say i wanted to give it a try, but i also wanted to sleep. I wanted to make sure the 10 strip i bought was good, so me and emily each ate what i eyeballed to be 1/4 of a hit (about 1/16" square) and we felt deffinite effects, not strong, but certainly felt them, from VERY little paper. I also bought a 3" spoon that is all reversals, one of my 2 favorite forms of art glass in pipes (the other is raticello). Ran into a shop, bought a t-shirt that says "don't ask if i have drugs" in a lovely green background with yellow print, went to the shop next door and noticed they had glass on glass bongs. I asked the price, 115$ for a 16" with ice catcher. It wasn't a ROOR, PhX or TDE, but it's an walled 8mm 16" which sell for $250+ on the net. bam, bought it.
Friday: I'm a member of the AAA, American Applesauce Association. We went and saw snoop, sage francis couple other acts. Ate doses at around 8pm during sage, went back to campsite, ate, waited for WSP to end (they played a really good cover of "Life During Wartime" that i heard as we walked up to go see thievery corporation at 12am. To get to Thievery Corp we had to walk through what they called "Sherwood Forest" Sherwood forest is possible the most amazing thing to go through on acid. It's about 100 acre forest with 2 main trails through it. The space between the trails, and to the other sides of the trails we loaded with stage type lights. Sherwood Forest is all lodgepole pines, and the lights project onto them amazingly. Various black light reactive things hung above the trails, and all the pine straw was soft and made for a perfect sitting place. After we cleared the forest and made it to theivery corp they totally rocked the field. Instead of a DJ set they brought in most of the actual performers they sampled. A tiny chick who had a really big great brazilian reggae voice, someone performing sitar, but standing up and walking around stage with it more like a guitar. The stage setup was beautiful, the lights were amazing, and they had multiple levels on the stage, one of the best stage setups ever. After being in the field a while and the acid was wearing off we went back into the forest and sprawled out enjoying the lights, finally going back to the site, eating some food and crashed. Saturday and Sunday to come.