so i went to a "solstice gathering" last night, some house way out in the valley (if you lived here you would think "hippies"), which turned out to be some weird commune-type house with a lot of people living in it that my friend heard referred to as an intentional community 
lol...we figured it would be the kind of hippie party that i'm used to from lewis and clark, i.e. weed cake and kegs of fat tire and hella washed hippies on acid. we get there and the first thing you see when you walk in is a big screen with projections of artsy photos of naked chicks and a bunch of tiki torches, everybody seems relatively young, early-mid 20s, and we snag some free wine and smoke a bowl and are just walking around fucking AMAZED at the hippies, i'm used to a party being like 25% hippies but except for myself and one of my two friends this party was 101% hippies, many dressed up weirdly as hippies are wont to do.
but after a while a lot of middle aged people start filtering in and we realize that these aren't ordinary hippies, they're fucking stupid ass NEW AGE hippies, hippies that do not smoke enough pot, the kind of people that read their horoscope every day and actually *believe it*...we just drank more free wine and sat there slowly getting fucked up and laughing at them. there was a fire pit out back with a whole shitload of people sitting around in a circle and some chick strumming the same 3 chords and repeating the same fucking 4 lines about "feel the universal spirit energy of love" or some new agey crap over and over. even my non-hippie friend, who is normally quite a tolerant guy, was like "dude i'm seriously gonna vomit", I myself nearly shat my pants at the spectacle
then later they got everyone inside the house to crowd around a circle while they did some ridiculous performance art/skit thing ("i am the moon, the embodiment of healing energy") and everyone around was cooing in agreement, we were in fucking hysterics
.seriously the best people-watching experience Ive ever had
and the house was so clean!! Im used to lots of cups/bottles/clothes/limbs lying around by the end of the night but sweet jesus this was like a wedding reception
on the plus side there was lots of wine, a live band that had one or two decent reggae jams, and an extremely amusing Scottish guy we talked to briefly before we left. long story short i now know what conservative people think of when they think of liberals, jeeeezus these people were mindless and really not very cool at all
fuck hippies
lol...we figured it would be the kind of hippie party that i'm used to from lewis and clark, i.e. weed cake and kegs of fat tire and hella washed hippies on acid. we get there and the first thing you see when you walk in is a big screen with projections of artsy photos of naked chicks and a bunch of tiki torches, everybody seems relatively young, early-mid 20s, and we snag some free wine and smoke a bowl and are just walking around fucking AMAZED at the hippies, i'm used to a party being like 25% hippies but except for myself and one of my two friends this party was 101% hippies, many dressed up weirdly as hippies are wont to do.but after a while a lot of middle aged people start filtering in and we realize that these aren't ordinary hippies, they're fucking stupid ass NEW AGE hippies, hippies that do not smoke enough pot, the kind of people that read their horoscope every day and actually *believe it*...we just drank more free wine and sat there slowly getting fucked up and laughing at them. there was a fire pit out back with a whole shitload of people sitting around in a circle and some chick strumming the same 3 chords and repeating the same fucking 4 lines about "feel the universal spirit energy of love" or some new agey crap over and over. even my non-hippie friend, who is normally quite a tolerant guy, was like "dude i'm seriously gonna vomit", I myself nearly shat my pants at the spectacle
then later they got everyone inside the house to crowd around a circle while they did some ridiculous performance art/skit thing ("i am the moon, the embodiment of healing energy") and everyone around was cooing in agreement, we were in fucking hysterics
.seriously the best people-watching experience Ive ever had
and the house was so clean!! Im used to lots of cups/bottles/clothes/limbs lying around by the end of the night but sweet jesus this was like a wedding receptionon the plus side there was lots of wine, a live band that had one or two decent reggae jams, and an extremely amusing Scottish guy we talked to briefly before we left. long story short i now know what conservative people think of when they think of liberals, jeeeezus these people were mindless and really not very cool at all
fuck hippies
