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Hi kids.

Since Mike has taken a bit of a hiatus since last year's Bonnaroo, I decided to help him update this blog. I haven't actually had time to come up with anything but crude snipes at him up to this point, but the blog post I just wrote today involves him, so I'll give him half-credit. You can check it out on my blog.

Peace in the Middle East. (For real, actually, that would be cool.)

- jadam

Bonnaroo

Bonnaroo - It is where it is

It’s about that time again, I'm starting to get excited. For those not in the know, Bonnaroo is a music festival in Manchester, TN. Cody and I have gone to it the past two years, this will be our third. This year’s attendees include myself, cody, adam, alli, kat, and devin. It promises, as always, to be four days of camping, drinking, sun, fun, and live music. Here is this year’s artist lineup:

• Allman Brothers Band
• Trey Anastasio
• Widespread Panic
• Jurassic 5
• Dave Mathews Band
• Jack Johnson
• The Black Crowes
• Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Modest Mouse
• O.A.R.
• Bob Weir and Ratdog
• Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters
• Gov’t Mule
• Bela Fleck Acoustic Trio
• The Mars Volta
• John Prine
• The Word ft. Robert Randolph
• Galactic’s Krewe De Carnivale
• My Morning Jacket
• Keller Williams
• STS9
• Earl Scruggs & Friends
• Benevento / Russo Duo Ft. Mike Gordon
• Joss Stone
• Kings of Leon
• De La Soul
• Toots and The Maytals
• Umphrey’s McGee
• Iron & Wine
• Ozomatli
• Rilo Kiley
• Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
• Drive-by Truckers
• Particle
• Joanna Newsom
• Peter Rowan & Crucial Reggae
• Lake Trout
• ...and about 30 more bands that I haven’t heard of

Bonnaroo is hard to describe to people. The sheer amount of people (~120,000) that descend onto this 700 acre farm is insane. It is tents as far as the eye can see and non stop fantastic music from noon until 4am. I’m pretty pumped. I’ve included a few pictures from the last couple years to give you guys a feel of what it is like. Or you could just look up the word awesome in the dictionary.

Aerial Shot of Bonnaroo 2003:

Tents, Bonnaroo 2003:

The main stage at Bonnaroo. There are two stages (what and which) and three concert tents/pavillions (this, that, the other). There is also a comedy tent, cinema tent, and lots of other activities and food places in "Centeroo"

Oh yeah, and it rains, which makes mud, which leads to intense games of mud soccer. The blur of this picture almost makes it look like I'm moving fast. And, Yes. Cody's shirt has a picture of a panda and the words "Animals smoke opium"

Our home base last year, with a friendly looking sowers:

12yr olds

How many could you take?

I'm not as optimistic as this guy, 12yr olds have a lot of energy, I'd say maybe 6 for me.

Midgets vs. Lion

This sparks another interesting debate. Do you think 42 midgets could ever take on a lion? I say no way. True, lions aren't naturally violent enough to kill 42 people, but, I imagine if they all kept attacking him, he would start to get frustrated with the little people. I'd say, to make it fair, that each midget should get to have a weapon of their choice. To choose from: a butter knife, brass knuckles, or a softball. I can see the dwarfs now, trying to throw the softballs at the lion with their tiny arms. Trying to run away from the lion in their little 6" steps. It would be an interesting match.

People are strange

push-gas
Originally uploaded by mikec171.

So, the other day, I was eating outside at the bar at Grevy's with Kelly, Cody, Cecil, and Heather, and, as the entire bar watched on, we witnessed this. It is hard to make out in my shitty camera phone picture, but, that is a white volvo in the middle, with a guy outside filling it with gas. Apparently, the driver had run out of gas and had pushed it to its current location.....20ft from the gas pumps. I'm not sure what it was about that last 20ft but, it must have really intimidated him. He then went inside, purchased a 2gl container, filled it up at the pumps, and emptied it into his car. Best part? He then drove the car away still without filling it up at the pumps. Sweet.

"The I'm Fat Which Makes me Stupid Zone"

People ask: why am I upbeat? Why do I love America?

Where else can you find a culture stupid enough to believe absolutely anything as long as it comes with the promise to be skinny?

This is why I love America:

That's right. For those who can't quite make out the camera phone picture, it says "Health Zone" on the top and the lower right picture is a pile of fatty steak covered in triple cheese (provolone, swiss and american), then topped off by 1/4lb of bacon. Ahh the heath zone. More like the "Hey can you figure out a way to charge me more for my sub by serving me the same thing with less stuff because I am fat idiot? Zone."

For lunch today, Sowers, Fannon and I went to Jerry's Subs and Pizza. They had the health zone sign on display right in front of the cash register, in an obvious attempt to catch all those health conscious people that had come to Jerry's to eat healthy. Or maybe it was to target those fat people that come in looking for their usual 12" sub of cholesterol covered fat, but see the "Health Zone" and decide that today is the day that they are going to change their ways and start to eat right. "Aha!", they exclaim, "it makes perfect sense! Take my normal ultra high fat, high calorie sub and take away the wheat bread, lettuce and tomato. But, leave the cheese, grease, steak, and bacon. I feel like I'm losing weight already. Wait until my equally fat husband sees me when I come home tonight, all healthy."

Are there really people that order this pile of edible heart attack and feel good about themselves? Has the artery clogging matter they consume, started to also clog their synapses? I mean, what the fuck? (thats WTF for you cuss word sensitive bloggers) And what team of genius marketing monkeys at Jerry's sat around coming up with this? "I've got it, we'll take away the bread and vegetables, serve it on a plate as a simple pile of fat, and add it the 'health zone'." Of course, you can't blame Jerry's, you can only blame good ol' American stupidity.

Brilliant, Dr. Atkins, Brilliant.

Upbeat

Quiz from pew research on which political type you are. I am "Upbeat"

"Basic Description
Upbeats express positive views about the economy, government and society. Satisfied with their own financial situation and the direction the nation is heading, these voters support George W. Bush’s leadership in economic matters more than on social or foreign policy issues. Combining highly favorable views of government with equally positive views of business and the marketplace, Upbeats believe that success is in people’s own hands, and that businesses make a positive contribution to society. This group also has a very favorable view of immigrants."

I guess that's fairly accurate. Holla at me with your results so, i can decide if i still want to be friends with you or not.

Hello World

Hmmm. Let's See. The only true way to start a geeky thing like a blog is with some good old fashioned computer dork humor.

So, what's the deal with "Hello World" anyway? Why is it that every language or program you ever learn or write must start out with "Hello World"? Who made this rule? Its not even realistic, the world is not listening to your lame ass. No one gives a shit that you are in your mom's kitchen teaching yourself pascal on a Laser 128. The "world" especially doesn't care, it's got a buttload more important things to worry about like the fact that some bride ran away from the altar or some chick in a vegetative state had her life support turned off, or what on God's green earth (itself) could have come between Paris and Nicole? I mean those are the truly important events going on in our world today. Not Perl in a Nutshell.