Moontroll's Return
September/11/2007 Filed in:
afterburn | pyramid project
Great to see everybody announcing their returns back home -- all
safe & sound, if not whacked out, dusty and scrambling for a
foothold in this default world...
Amazing the trials our autos put us through as we tried to crawl
off of the playa -- it took me 3.5 hours to Exodus, and all around
me were car accidents, sleeping drivers, steaming radiators -- an
unholy wreck that looked like a war zone refugee camp. Good
god.
Edub and I made it about 5 minutes off playa post-Temple Burn before collapsing on the side of the road. The next morn we saw Grapenuts and Pommes Frites in Gerlach waiting for a tow truck. Then our friend Rachel in Cedarville with a dead car. Then Ramona and Hekter in the Oregon Outback talking to a police officer....sheesh. We hooked up and caravaned with the Ramona Mobile to Bend on monday and got a Motel 8 room for one of the deepest sleeps I've ever had. Edub and I stopped at Smith Rock north of Bend to mark his 35th bday and do some decompression work -- we tried to sort the week out the rest
of the ride home, and began to discover some of the deeper lessons of our week on the playa.
Didn't get back to B'ham til Wed night -- sorry to have missed the truck unloading -- and am now staring at my truck full of dusted-out shit with trepidation. Downloading fotos and sound recordings to my computer and reading up on the post-Green Man gossip, rants and raves on Tribe and ePlaya too. Haven't begun to talk about the experience with my partner, roommate or friends calling to check in. The experience feels to personal, sacred and indescribable to begin sharing it -- I want to hold every moment close, deep inside me. I want to keep these embers glowing for as long as possible before the default world sucks the magic out of me.....
Does anybody have Bassnectar recordings I can burn? I am going through heavy withdrawals...
Can't wait for the Boogie Decompression gathering, and am glad to have Bassnectar at Rumors in Nov. to look forward to!
Finally, did you hear about the 2008 BM theme? You won't believe it -- at first I was repulsed, but 24 hours later, I can see the twisted, reprogramming, ironic
possibilities and think it will work out: http://burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm08_theme.html
love to you all and good luck with the reintegration,
moontroll
Edub and I made it about 5 minutes off playa post-Temple Burn before collapsing on the side of the road. The next morn we saw Grapenuts and Pommes Frites in Gerlach waiting for a tow truck. Then our friend Rachel in Cedarville with a dead car. Then Ramona and Hekter in the Oregon Outback talking to a police officer....sheesh. We hooked up and caravaned with the Ramona Mobile to Bend on monday and got a Motel 8 room for one of the deepest sleeps I've ever had. Edub and I stopped at Smith Rock north of Bend to mark his 35th bday and do some decompression work -- we tried to sort the week out the rest
of the ride home, and began to discover some of the deeper lessons of our week on the playa.
Didn't get back to B'ham til Wed night -- sorry to have missed the truck unloading -- and am now staring at my truck full of dusted-out shit with trepidation. Downloading fotos and sound recordings to my computer and reading up on the post-Green Man gossip, rants and raves on Tribe and ePlaya too. Haven't begun to talk about the experience with my partner, roommate or friends calling to check in. The experience feels to personal, sacred and indescribable to begin sharing it -- I want to hold every moment close, deep inside me. I want to keep these embers glowing for as long as possible before the default world sucks the magic out of me.....
Does anybody have Bassnectar recordings I can burn? I am going through heavy withdrawals...
Can't wait for the Boogie Decompression gathering, and am glad to have Bassnectar at Rumors in Nov. to look forward to!
Finally, did you hear about the 2008 BM theme? You won't believe it -- at first I was repulsed, but 24 hours later, I can see the twisted, reprogramming, ironic
possibilities and think it will work out: http://burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm08_theme.html
love to you all and good luck with the reintegration,
moontroll
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