scruffy said

*  i want a do-over on this gathering

Word for word what I was thinking today.

shaman, i sent you a text but not sure if you got it. you mentioned having problems sending texts before.

so glad the three of you are safe and home. you and britt were so generous and accommodating, you should have a million waves of awesome karma coming your way.

looking forward to next year and being able to chip in more now that we've gathered. we will have wheels, that's a game changer for us. 

randy gall said it best at the ihop when he said the gathering is his new years party. you get really drunk and fall naked into sweaty juggalos tents getting rapey and then spend the next year eating discarded donuts in 5x walmart sweatpants.

for real though, we are motivated. nye resolutions are whack.. are gathering revolutions achievable? i sure hope so.

spawn said
I missed out on the village :-( walked by numerous time but my social awkwardness got the best of me. Maybe next time?  

Definitely next time!  I'm not normally big on walking into a social situations with a big group of people I don't know either,  but it took me literally about 5 seconds to feel totally comfortable.  

scruffy said

*  list of acts scruffy didnt catch, and feels a little bad about it, but not as bad as you might think:  ces cru, , most of dark lotus, 

Just wanted to comment on two of these.

Ces Cru: The act I think that should open each and every future GOTJ on main stage the first day. It's tough to find another band that is that hype and that has that much chemistry on stage. Reminiscent of the Beastie Boys. I have a serious gripe with them only getting roughly 20min to tear the place apart while acts like fucking Asking Alexandria got close to an hr. What the fuck is that staleness?!

Dark Lotus: I to only saw the first bit of their set. It wasn't good... again. Their sound was fucked up... again...  IMO they were not made for the second stage. For one of the "go to" acts every year, they gotta start getting that shit together and it should be headlining a night. I do understand WOTH made that difficult this year however.

scruffy went on to say

*  i want a do-over on this gathering, it was too good to happen only once.  lets get everybody back together for a second go.  like, this weekend.   

I'd say fuck ya, but am going on yet another debauchery filled camping trip this weekend. While it won't be the same without the butthole requests, fat naked chicks with inverted nipples, and various signs advertising drugs... It'll be fresh none the less.

nose is all good. didn't break. 

Man, post-Gathering depression sucks. I've been trying to get back into the flow of things so I haven't really had the chance to chime in on here yet. It's hard to go mow the yard when this time a couple days ago I was kickin in with ya'll. Tis the price for the Gathering I suppose. 

Moments that are noteworthy for me that others haven't mentioned, or that I haven't noticed, yet:

• Kottonmouth Kings are The Offspring of rap.
• Sorry, Grandpa.
• That fuckin steak that @bayareashaman schooled.
• Me not fucking up said steaks when I had to take over for a minute.
• Quite possibly signing our souls away in a 17 candle ritual.
• Chilling with everyone during a rainstorm. Rain has always been the shit to me and getting to hear thunder off in the distance  while rain poured down while being with all of you in the Village was more of a Shangri-La like moment for me than I can express. Weird, I know, but fuck you. I meant a lot to me.
• Hearing @cheshyr's fistfull of impressions and laughin till my ribs hurt about em.
• Having @skratchie fill me in on guns and the like. Good lookin out, man. I'm absolutely clueless on that shit and you did the best you could to get my head straight on it. 
• Breakfast on Sunday

I think @scruffy is onto something with these bulletpoints. I feel official as fuck right now. 

BEACH LADY

My brain was a little fried so correct any mistakes I make. Since no one else is chiming in on it, how about I start it off and someone else picks it up for a bit and passes it on? I'm curious to read everyone's take on it anyway. Also, why was she dubbed "beach lady"? I'm feelin super left out on the reason for the name. 

The Meatup Massacre is going down, albeit late as fuck, when this middle aged, microwaved-hot dog-skinned, mophead-left in the bleach bucket too long-haired lady wearing a black sundress wanders in to the Village. Doesn't say shit. Doesn't really do anything. She just stands there staring at Shaman. He asks something (don't remember what) that is clearly translating to "the fuck are you doin, lady?" She says that she lost her kid. Thinking that there was some mishearing because she more or less whispered it to no one in particular, she's asked to clarify. Thus begins the madness that is "Beach lady". She starts screaming and crying, like, snot out the nose type of crying, and says some incoherent shit. That drew the attention of most of the people left not paying attention to the scene and a few people start approached her and trying to remedy the situation...

So...who wants to take over from there?

@scruffy hook me up with that frog killer song.

First big ups to the people who helped me get to the gathering:

• Shaman and Britt really did me a solid. i would not have been able to get there without them being willing to let me carpool with them. I chipped in way less in terms of gas and the rental car than they did but I did as much as I could. They were literally heroes in my eyes.
• V Ron also donated quite a bit of cash to my cause and that was a big help.
• Scruffy bought a piece of my art and over paid, which helped me a great deal.
• Violent Dope also contributed to my cause, but I used the bit he gave me to go with him and Leah to the riddlebox show. Still, it was a big help and I really hope we make it so that they get to go next year.

Those guys made everything possible so I owe them so much gratitude.

Some of my highlights

• Finding out that JC isn't a guy. wtf. I guess I always just assumed and never really bothered to confirm. I must be a little sexist or somethin'. 
• Having her ask me to come back to the forum made me smile, too. I won't be back on as much as I was before I bounced but I'm at least semi back.
• Getting to chill with V Ron and her homies was nice. 
• the FLH village being very chill was dope as hell. Everybody was cool as fuck.
• Green Jello won me over in a big way. I was never like OMG THESE GUYS ARE GREAT but I had never seen them live before. I'm sold. I'm officially going to every show in the LA area for the rest of my life. It was so wild and different.
• Handing out juggaLGBT flyers and getting nothing but positive responses was fantastic. One girl told me that our page was the first thing that made her feel safe in the family.
• One of the concession stand chicks had a bunch of lesbian tattoos and I gave her a flyer and she got really fucking teary eyed and excited. That made me really happy.
• Esham killed it. I listened from my tent but he did basically every favorite song of mine of his and I had never really experienced him live before.
• Those mystery guests were HYPE as fuck. The only one I didn't know was the last one. But onyx, warren g, and luniz were dudes I had bumpin growin up. My brother was a much bigger fan of theirs than I was but I was always hearing it and bumping it. So it made me happy.
• Bone thugs was the shiiiiiiiiiit.
• acid was cool but mixing it with booze made me have an emo rollercoaster. In the end it was cool though.
• Gwar was OK from a distance but I think I coulda had more fun had I been closer.
• WOTH was fucking DOPE even though I don't really like that album.
• ICP set was dope. I was right on the barricade and fucking loved it.
• @neverthrive your shirts were a huge hit. I was stopped CONSTANTLY while wearing it and asked where people could cop one. At one point I literally couldn't walk for more than a minute without being stopped. Great design man.
• I lost last years pendant. My link is missing. 
• Breakfast was so fucking fun. 
• Loved having shaman's meat all up in my mouth.
• Miss Juggalette Pageant was dope as hell. It was so dope to hear so many people giving love to Burger. No haters made themselves known. Rachel holding up the trans flag and my juggaLGBT flyer was DOPE as hell and meant a lot to us.
• VODKA is dope but should be shared. 
• Flavor infused vodka that V Ron's homie made is as good coming up as it is going down. 
• Bernie Hatchetman stickers are DOPE. I'll have to give one of my left overs to @violentdope 
• I'm OK with being one of few who thinks Blahzay is dope as hell. I wish she would have preformed a mini set but I'm sure she'll be on the next tour or two so I'll peep her then.
• I missed Lex the Hex because I was wasted. he is the only act on majik ninja I really like so I wanted to peep him out.
• Anybody else think that the regulars kinda took it easy this year? Tech, twiztid, etc all did similar sets to previous years. Nothing special. 
• I really hope my painting didn't end up in the trash.
• On the drive home, the lightning was INSANE.
• Getting stopped by the cops and not getting caught up in some bullshit was AMAZING. We got so fucking lucky.