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My Dad, who is waiting on a living transplant, told my 4 and 7 year old kids that, "He might die". He has also said some BS about going to heaven in the sky and the like. Kids that age can't understand what the death of their favorite Papaw might mean and it has worried the hell out of them. So now they are asking me, "If papaw doesn't give his new liver, how long till he dies? Papaw said he might die in surgery. If we don't believe in God we won't get to see Papaw in Heaven." Oh, let me just say, It's so ON when I see him today.
Ugh!! I feel ya. My mom told my six year old his popa went to heaven, then the next day he asked me where Jesus is. Please don't teach my kid about a religion we don't practice and expect me to feel comfortable trying to explain!! Mom took me to church for YEARS as a kid, I know TONS about the Bible and the like but I am not a practicing Christian. GRRRRRR fo' sho'. I'm even OK with the heaven part. Dad was religious his last year or so there, so ya know- he's not hurting now or sick, I'm down with that. How do you answer a six year old asking you where Jesus is?! He answered his own question ("in the whole universe") so I didn't have to think of some kind of answer.
When he didn't understand why we were visiting dad so much I told him that popa was very sick and we needed to be there for him or that you wouldn't have a popa forever (without going into detail). When dad died I told Caleb by asking him if he knew what happened when people were sick and did not get better. He said something about doctors and medicine and then I stressed again- sick and do not get better. Sigh. Then he answered that they die. Damn, that was hard to do. He asked later if popa was sleeping. That sounded so peaceful I agreed that dying was like sleeping, but you don't wake up.
I'm sorry you're having to go through your dad being sick and having to explain and help your children cope, Abra.
~All the accumulated knowledge, experience, and suffering of mankind is inside you. You must build a huge bonfire within you. Then you will become an individual. There is no other way.
~~~U.G. Krishnamurti
"I don't know whose water this is, but I'm drinkin it so F you."~~~Dale
"He is a wook in sheep's clothing."~~~Popsicle Sarah
"You know the feeling when you're in too deep, and when you make it out, the taste - so sweet." ~~DMB
I hate the radio at my work. Four hours of pop music, one hour country. 3p to 4p some drab uber soft mystery: 75 percent Spanish love songs and the rest in English. But yet plays indie goodness like Mumford and Sons, Florence, and Arcade Fire once in a blue moon. Makes no sense.
Yesterday I got tortured: two the Spanish songs, then the beginning of a MMJ song, then at the top of the hour it switches to Selena Gomez (third time of the day) and Bruno Mars (third time also.)
I realize you can't please everyone and need to accommodate... but the same Selena Gomez, Justin Beiber, autotuned 'rappers', Bruno Mars, Katy Perry... 8a, Noon, and 4p... kill me please.
My company is really odd when it comes to music. I had speakers for my computer, but they took them away when I played Big L on them (whatever, I thought I was alone in the office). Then I started using my headphones, so they issued a policy that people can't wear headphone (which is fine, since we're on the phone constantly and need to hear the phone ring, but f*ck). No I just play my iphone on speaker, but I got an email saying someone complained about my "heavy metal" (it was Led Zeppelin) and now they are telling me they don't want me to even do that.
I don't have any more ways to explain to these people that if I don't have music going while I work in the office I'm going to end up hurling something out the window before noon.
I just found about 4 months of quack-ups by an associate. Now I have about an hour and a half to try and fix it. The bad part is that the individual who should have caught these errors did not. Well I need to get cracking. 4 months of work into half an hour is going to be tough.
At least I have beer and construction of another DudeTu to look forward to this evening.
So I'm here. The guy in front of me is 6'5" or so. The heavyset guy to my left reeks like Sunday at Roo: cheap beer, body odor, and no shower in four days. The guy to my right is crowding my space and bumps into me every 30 seconds dancing in place.
Set list is pretty good, crowd of course *SUCKS*...
So I'm here. The guy in front of me is 6'5" or so. The heavyset guy to my left reeks like Sunday at Roo: cheap beer, body odor, and no shower in four days. The guy to my right is crowding my space and bumps into me every 30 seconds dancing in place.
Set list is pretty good, crowd of course *SUCKS*...
This is why I've decided that it has to be somebody I'm just dying to see before I'll go back to the Knitting Factory in Reno. I'm 5'4", so unless I'm basically on the stage, I can't see the band. And the people in the crowd at the last show we went to there (Primus) were so freakin' rude! I got elbowed in the ribs like three times. As excited as we were about seeing the show, we ended up leaving early because the crowd was just too awful.
It's actually not Itunes. My hard drive just crashed and I had none of this on external. I can get it back, that's not the problem it's just gonna suck doing this all over again.
It's actually not Itunes. My hard drive just crashed and I had none of this on external. I can get it back, that's not the problem it's just gonna suck doing this all over again.
I know that feeling.
A little while back I was keeping my entire music library and some other downloads/files on an external hard drive. It was great. Then one day it just wouldn't get recognized when I plugged it in to my comp. Never got it to work (still have it if I come across any experts lol) and lost all my songs. I had a portion of them still on my comp's hard drive but I had to download a bunch of stuff and rip a bunch of CD's to get it back. The things that suck losing are live shows you've downloaded that can't be found anymore.
Anyway, since then I've bought two external hard drives. One for my music/files and one for a total backup of the first one
Y'know I worked my ass off to get one of my best buddies (and three time 'Roo companion) a free ticket this year through the street team. We've been plannin' fer months now. And then fuckin' today, a week before we're supposed to leave, he tells me he can't go because he won't have enough money! WTF? So now my ride had fallen through as we were gonna be takin' his car! GRRR!!!
It's actually not Itunes. My hard drive just crashed and I had none of this on external. I can get it back, that's not the problem it's just gonna suck doing this all over again.
Anyway, since then I've bought two external hard drives. One for my music/files and one for a total backup of the first one
Last backup of my itunes I did on disc - 28 discs? something like that. Now I want another external to back up the current external. This thread is really backing up that purchase plan...
also, BOO/GRR, for more work. Can't it just be Roo, already? These last few days are brutal.
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My building's AC broke, for the second straight summer. And if that wasn't enough...
I'm surrounded by mind-numbingly stupid people, who are all 10000000000% wrong about the current discussion, but are ignoring me (and this isn't a "i'm right! you're wrong!" thing, they pay me to advise them and I literally brought in an expert with 30 years experience to back me up to show I'm not just being an arrogant yungin') and are going ahead with their plan. That won't work, and then I'm going to get blasted for not telling them it won't work, even though I'm doing that as we speak.
and are going ahead with their plan. That won't work, and then I'm going to get blasted for not telling them it won't work, even though I'm doing that as we speak.
...well... I'm glad this crosses careers because lately I'VE been feeling like the "nutsy, arrogant" whippersnapper on gigs. I'm pretty sure you paid for my time and services so why are you gonna f'ng doing things the wrong way? Lot of facepalms recently
Tropical depression Beryl is hitting us today so I told my daughter I'd drive her to the bus stop (11 year old boy wanted to walk) this morning. Sat in the car, for less than 10 minutes. The kids got on the bus and tried to start my car and NOTHING! Tow truck to the garage and have just been informed that it will be $444.12 to replace the battery and alternator which is what screwed up the battery. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Post by daytripperr on May 30, 2012 10:22:22 GMT -5
i have soooo many roo-related things to do today and i am wasting precious time sitting here waiting for my wristbands. i am going out of town before roo tomorrow so i can't risk missing UPS... HURRY UP!!!!!!!
I'm going to Mountain Jam this weekend. Its supposed to have off and on showers on Saturday. My mother told me yesterday she hopes it pours and I don't have a good time up there... because I'm going to a "stupid concert" over my cousin's wedding.
It was my decision to not go, people got me on a guilt trip about it.