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The most HD-N-ins. ish!!!!!<------!!~

2008-06-20T01:20:12Z

Big up pyrate Campz fer holdin' that BS at bay.
big up freighty bitches and my grimey priznerz.
Grow up and learn to spin some real wrechordz!!!!
Fkn cee ya
wake up n rage!!!!!
beep boop bop boopeep boo beep!!!!!
Sinclearly,
-five AM

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Ride to and from Mutant Fest offered

2008-06-14T23:56:22Z

I will be leaving for AMF mon or tuesday 15th/or 16th and exiting mutant fest on the 21st. Space available for one rider who wants to split gas three ways with me and my gf. We are stopping at a waterfall in mount shasta for a day on the way back. You don't have to drive. I can give someone a ride one way possibly. Let me know. Also if anyone wants me to haul up a bike to the mutant fest for them i will for some gas $

Shadow (415) 531-9201

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Ride to AMF leaving Wednesday from Portland

2008-06-14T00:41:19Z

Heading out Wednesday if anyone needs a ride and can pitch in for some of the gas cost. Potential ride back if needed and returning the same day I am. Might be Monday or Tuesday that I return.
anyhoo, if you're interested, email me at elbizivniinvizible@yahoo.com
-Miss Steak

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Rideshare SLC to Mutantfest!

2008-06-13T18:07:16Z

3 burner clowns, landed in Salt Lake City, Utah, trying to find a ride that will take us to mutantfest. We can contribute some gas money, as well as entertainment along the way.

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Hi

2008-06-07T06:16:24Z

I'm Famous and new to the tribe. How do you know you're a mutant.

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Any idea what state AMF will be ... coming from NYC

2008-06-03T09:11:16Z

coming from the east coast

and plane prices are super duper high

if there is any decision on a state / location it would be awesome to know to book tickets

went last year and it was by far amazing music + vibes

:)

asha

njjunglist@aol.com ... plz email me if anyone knows

www.myspace.com/njjunglist

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scouting

2008-05-23T07:15:24Z

Im in Asland will be going scouting Bigelow lakes anyone wana come a long for a ride

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REALITY SANDWICH

2008-04-04T03:53:02Z

written buy Charles Eisenstein

An irremediable structural flaw lies at the base of our civilization. I call it Separation, and it has generated all the converging crises -- economic, health, ecological, and political -- of our day. It manifests as separation from each other in the dissolution of community, separation from nature in the destruction of the environment, separation within our selves in the deterioration of health. Science is its deep ideology, technology is its accomplice, and money is its agent.

Money as we know it today is intimately related to our identity as discrete and separate selves, as well as to the destruction that our separation has wrought. A saying goes, "Money is the root of all evil." But why should it be? After all, the purpose of money is, at its most basic, simply to facilitate exchange; in other words, to connect human gifts with human needs. What power, what monstrous perversion, has turned money into the opposite: an agent of scarcity?

For indeed, we live in a world of fundamental abundance, a world where vast quantities of food, energy, and materials go to waste. Half the world starves while the other half wastes enough to feed the first half. In the Third World and our own ghettos, people lack food, shelter, and other basic necessities, but cannot afford to buy them. Other people would love to supply these necessities and do other meaningful work, but cannot because there is no money in it.

Money utterly fails to connect gifts and needs. We pour vast resources into wars, plastic junk, and innumerable other products that do not serve human needs or human happiness. Why? It is not difficult to trace it back to greed, to the love of money. Ultimately though, greed is a red herring, itself a symptom and not a cause of a deeper problem. To blame greed and to fight it by intensifying the program of self-control is to intensify the war against the self, which is just another expression of the war against nature and the war against the other that lies at the base of our civilization.

Amidst superabundance, even we in rich countries live in an omnipresent anxiety, craving "financial security" as we try to keep scarcity at bay. We make choices (even those having nothing to do with money) according to what we can "afford," and we commonly associate freedom with wealth. But when we pursue it, we find that the paradise of financial freedom is a mirage, receding as we approach it, and that the chase itself enslaves. The anxiety is always there, the scarcity always just one disaster away. Greed is simply a response to the perception of scarcity. Money, which has turned abundance into scarcity, precedes greed. But not money per se, only the kind of money we use today, the kind of money that is evaporating as we speak, money with a very special characteristic that ensures its eventual demise.

This characteristic appears, in different forms, in the other substructures of our civilization as well. By understanding it, we can clarify the "irremediable structural flaw" of our civilization itself; more importantly, we can design new systems of money to supplant the old and that bear the opposite characteristic. The results will be the opposite as well: abundance, not scarcity; generosity, not greed; and sustainability, not ruin.

The defining characteristic of money today is usury, better known as interest. It is usury that both generates today's endemic anxiety and drives the world-devouring engine of perpetual growth. To explain how, I will quote Bernard Leitaer's now-famous parable The Eleventh Round, from his book The Future of Money.

Once upon a time, in a small village in the Outback, people used barter for all their transactions. On every market day, people walked around with chickens, eggs, hams, and breads, and engaged in prolonged negotiations among themselves to exchange what they needed. At key periods of the year, like harvests or whenever someone's barn needed big repairs after a storm, people recalled the tradition of helping each other out that they had brought from the old country. They knew that if they had a problem someday, others would aid them in return.

One market day, a stranger with shiny black shoes and an elegant white hat came by and observed the whole process with a sardonic smile. When he saw one farmer running around to corral the six chickens he wanted to exchange for a big ham, he could not refrain from laughing. "Poor people," he said, "so primitive." The farmer's wife overheard him and challenged the stranger, "Do you think you can do a better job handling chickens?" "Chickens, no," responded the stranger, "But there is a much better way to eliminate all that hassle." "Oh yes, how so?" asked the woman. "See that tree there?" the stranger replied. " Well, I will go wait there for one of you to bring me one large cowhide. Then have every family visit me. I'll explain the better way."

And so it happened. He took the cowhide, and cut perfect leather rounds in it, and put an elaborate and graceful little stamp on each round. Then he gave to each family 10 rounds, and explained that each represented the value of one chicken. "Now you can trade and bargain with the rounds instead of the unwieldy chickens," he explained.

It made sense. Everybody was impressed with the man with the shiny shoes and inspiring hat.

"Oh, by the way," he added after every family had received their 10 rounds, "in a year's time, I will come back and sit under that same tree. I want you to each bring me back 11 rounds. That 11th round is a token of appreciation for the technological improvement I just made possible in your lives." "But where will the 11th round come from?" asked the farmer with the six chickens. "You'll see," said the man with a reassuring smile.

Assuming that the population and its annual production remain exactly the same during that next year, what do you think had to happen? Remember, that 11th round was never created. Therefore, bottom line, one of each 11 families will have to lose all its rounds, even if everybody managed their affairs well, in order to provide the 11th round to 10 others.

So when a storm threatened the crop of one of the families, people became less generous with their time to help bring it in before disaster struck. While it was much more convenient to exchange the rounds instead of the chickens on market days, the new game also had the unintended side effect of actively discouraging the spontaneous cooperation that was traditional in the village. Instead, the new money game was generating a systemic undertow of competition among all the participants.

There are really only three ways this story can end: inflation, bankruptcy, or growth. The same choices face any economy based on usury. The villagers could procure another cowhide and make more currency; or one of each 11 families could go bankrupt, as Lietaer observes; or they could increase the number of chickens so that new "rounds" would have the same value as before. In a real economy, all three pressures operate simultaneously. The bankruptcy pressure drives a built-in insecurity, which in turn drives people and institutions to "make" more money through inflationary or productive means. Of these two choices, inflation is only a temporary solution (as we are discovering today). It can only push the grow-or-die imperative slightly into the future.

In other words, because of the money system, competition, insecurity, and greed are an inseparable part of our economy. They can never be eliminated as long as the necessities of life are denominated in usury-money. But this is only one reason why money destroys community. The other is related to the third pressure: perpetual growth.

As Lietaer's parable explains, because of interest, at any given time the amount of money owed is greater than the amount of money already existing. To make non-inflationary new money to keep the whole system going, we have to breed more chickens -- in other words, we have to create more "goods and services." The principal way of doing so is to begin selling something that was once free. It is to convert forests into timber, music into product, ideas into intellectual property, social reciprocity into paid services.

Would you like to get rich? Here is a business idea that, in one form or another, has worked spectacularly for thousands of years. Very simply, find anything that people do for themselves or each other for free. Then take it away from them: make it illegal, inconvenient, or otherwise unavailable. Then sell back to them what you have taken. Granted, usually no one does this consciously, but that has been the net effect of culture and technology over the last several thousand years.

Your 13th-century peasant ancestors rarely paid money for food, shelter, clothing, or entertainment (much less in a hunter-gatherer tribe). People were self-sufficient in all these things or, more likely, depended on elaborate gift networks, sharing, and reciprocity. Of these things is community built. Today, we pay strangers to meet most of our physical and cultural needs. You probably don't know the person who grew your food, wove your shirt, built your house, or sang the songs on your iPod. Abetted by technology, the commodification of formerly non-monetary goods and services has accelerated over the last few centuries, to the point today where very little is left outside the money realm. The vast commons, whether of land or of culture, has been cordoned off and sold -- all to keep pace with the exponential growth of money. This is the deep reason why we convert forests to timber, songs to intellectual property, and so on. It is why two-thirds of all American meals are now prepared outside the home. It is why herbal folk remedies have given way to pharmaceutical medicines, why child care has become a paid service, why drinking water is now the number one beverage sales growth category.

The imperative of perpetual growth implicit in interest is what drives the relentless conversion of life, world, and spirit into money. Completing the vicious circle, the more of life we convert into money, the more we need money to live. Usury, not money, is the proverbial root of all evil. Inducing competition and replacing personal relationships with paid services, it rends the fabric of community.

Community is closely linked to gift-giving; when anthropologists seek to understand a culture, they trace the flow of gifts. Unlike money transactions, in which no obligations linger after the transaction is completed, the giving of a gift creates a tie (which is the literal meaning of "obligation"). When gifts circulate, the community bonds. Lending money at interest is utterly contrary to the spirit of the gift. For one thing, a cardinal feature of an authentic gift is that we give it unconditionally. We may expect to be gifted in return, whether by the recipient or another member of the community, but we do not impose conditions on a true gift, or it is not really a gift.

More importantly, a universal characteristic of a gift is that it naturally increases as it circulates within a community, and that this increase must not be kept for oneself, but allowed to circulate with the gift. Interest amounts to keeping the increase on the gift for oneself, thereby withholding it from circulation in the community, weakening community for the benefit of the individual. It is no accident that many societies prohibited usury among themselves but allowed it in transactions with outsiders, who could not be trusted to recirculate a true gift back into the community. Hence the prohibition in Deuteronomy 23:20: "Unto a stranger you may lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury."

The ramifications of this injunction when combined with Jesus' teaching that all men are brothers are obvious: interest is forbidden entirely. This was the position of the Catholic Church throughout the Middle Ages, and is still the rule in Islam today. However, starting with the merger of Church and state and accelerating with the rise of mercantilism in the late Middle Ages, pressure mounted to resolve the fundamental tension between Christian teaching and the requirements of commerce. The solution provided by Martin Luther and John Calvin was to separate moral and civil law, maintaining that the ways of Christ are not the ways of the world. Thus spirit became further separated from matter, and religion retreated another step toward worldly irrelevancy.

Abandoning the prohibition on interest was a key step in religion's complicity in the desacralizing of the world. After all, it is interest that drives the conversion of all that is sacred about the world -- its beauty, uniqueness, and living relationships -- into something profane. Why do we intuitively know money is profane? Because it is the one great exception to the irreducible uniqueness of all beings.

In my last Reality Sandwich essay, I described how each drop of water, even each electron, is unique and sacred. But not so each dollar. Money is by design standard, generic. Your dollar is the same as my dollar. Money today lacks even a unique serial number: It is bits in a computer, an abstraction of an abstraction of an abstraction. A forest is unique and sacred; not so the money from its clearcutting. Convert two distinct forests into money and they become the same. Applied to cultures, the same principle is fast creating a global monoculture where every service is a paid service.

When money mediates all our relationships, we too lose our uniqueness to become a standardized consumer of standardized goods and services, and a standardized functionary performing other services. No personal economic relationships are important, because we can always pay someone else to do it. No wonder, strive as we might, we find it so hard to create community. No wonder we feel so insecure, so replaceable. It is all because of the conversion, driven by usury, of the unique and sacred into the monetized and generic.

Because money is identified with Benthamite "utility" -- that is, the good -- this entire process is considered rational in traditional (neoclassical) economic theory. Quite simply, whenever anything is monetized, the world's "goodness" level rises. The same assumption appears in the euphemism "goods" to describe the products of industry. The very definition of a "good" is anything exchanged for money. In other words, Money = Good. Got that?

By definition, when we buy bottled water instead of tap water too polluted to drink, that is good. When we pay for day care instead of caring for our babies at home, that is good. When we buy a video game instead of playing outdoors, that is good.

In terms of conventional economics, it may actually be in an individual's rational self-interest to engage in activities that render the earth uninhabitable. This is potentially true even on the collective level: given the exponential nature of future cash flow discounting, it may be more in our "rational self-interest" to liquidate all natural capital right now -- cash in the earth -- than to preserve it for future generations. After all, the net present value of an eternal annual cash flow of one trillion dollars is only some twenty trillion dollars (at a 5% discount rate). Economically speaking, it would be more rational to destroy the planet in ten years while generating income of $100 trillion, than to settle for a sustainable level of $3 trillion a year forever.

If this seems like an outlandish fantasy, consider that it is exactly what we are doing today! According to the parameters we have established, we are making the insane but rational choice to incinerate our natural, social, cultural, and spiritual capital for financial profit. Amazingly, this end was foreseen thousands of years ago by the originator of the story of King Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold. Delighted at first with his gift, soon he had turned all his food, flowers, even his loved ones into cold, hard metal. Just like King Midas, we too are converting natural beauty, human relationships, and the basis of our very survival into money.

Yet despite this ancient warning, we continue to behave as if we could eat our money: David Korten once spoke of an East Asian minister who said his country's forests would be more valuable clearcut, with the money put in the bank to earn interest. Apparently, the effects of destroying the planet are of little concern to economists. William Nordhaus of Yale proclaims, "Agriculture, the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change, accounts for just three percent of national output. That means there is no way to get a very large effect on the US economy." Oxford economist Wilfred Beckerman echoes him: "Even if net output of agriculture fell by 50 percent by the end of the next century, this is only a 1.5 per cent cut in GNP."

Must we, like King Midas, find ourselves marooned in a cold, comfortless, ugly, inhospitable world before we realize we cannot eat our money?

Because it builds exponentially, interest feeds a linearity that puts humankind outside of nature, which is bound by cycles. Subtly but inexorably, it drives the assumption that human beings exist apart from natural law. As well, interest drives a relentless anxiety by demanding always more, more, more, propelling the endless conversion of all wealth into financial capital. Part of this anxiety is encoded in the very word, "interest," which implies that self-interest too is bound up in ever-lasting increase.

Interest is a necessary counterpart to the mentality of externalization. Like interest, externalization involves a denial of nature's cyclicity by treating it as an infinite reservoir of resources and an infinite dumping ground for waste. Interest is also akin to fire, the foundation of modern technology. To keep it going requires the addition of ever more fuel, until the whole world is consumed, leaving but a pile of dollars or ash.

Money is a most peculiar kind of property, for unlike physical inventories of goods, "rust doth not corrode nor moths corrupt" it. Cash does not depreciate in value; on the contrary, in its modern, abstracted form of bits in a bank's computer, it grows in value as it earns interest. Thus it appears to violate a fundamental natural law: impermanence. Money does not require maintenance like a plot of farmland to maintain its productivity. It does not require constant rotation of stock like a store of grain to keep it fresh. No accident, then, was money's early and enduring association with gold, the metal most famously impervious to oxidation. Money perpetuates the fundamental illusion of independence from nature; financial wealth endures without constant interaction with the environment. Other forms of wealth are bothersome, because they require a continuing relationship with other people and the environment. But not money, which is now wholly abstract from physical commodities and thus abstract as well from natural laws of decay and change. Money as we know it is thus an integral component of the discrete and separate self.

It is a curious fact that most people are extremely unwilling to share their money. Even among relatives, sharing money is bound by strong taboos: I know countless poor families whose brothers, cousins, or uncles' families are very wealthy. And how many friendships have disintegrated, how many family members have shunned each other for years, over issues of money? Money, it seems, is inextricably wrapped up in the very essence of selfishness -- a clue to its deep association with self. Hence the intense sense of violation we feel upon getting "ripped off" (as if a part of our bodies were being removed) when from another perspective all that has happened is pieces of paper changing hands or bits turning on and off in a bank computer.

We do not usually share our money because we see it almost as part of our selves and the foundation of our biological security. Money is self. Meanwhile, conditioned by science and the origins of separation underlying it, we see other people as essentially just that, "other." Mixing these two realms invites confusion and conflict. The problem is, the more of life we convert to money, the more territory falls into one of these dichotomous realms, mine or yours, and the less common ground there is to share life and develop unguarded relationships. The conversion of life to money reduces everything to an economic transaction, leaving us the loneliest people ever to inhabit the planet. The propertization of the whole world means that everything is either mine, or someone else's. No longer is anything in common.

The violation we feel at being ripped off is much akin to the violation an indigenous hunter-gatherer must feel at witnessing the destruction of nature. When "I" is defined not as a discrete individual but through a web of relationships with people, earth, animals, and plants, then any harm to them violates ourselves as well. Even we moderns sometimes feel an echo of this violation when we see the bulldozers knocking down the trees to build a new shopping center. That is because our separation from the trees is illusory. The buried connectedness can be resisted through ideology, narcotized through distractions, or intimidated through the invocation of survival anxiety, but it can never die because it is germane to who we really are. The love of life that Edwin Wilson has named biophilia, and our natural empathy toward other human beings, is ultimately irrepressible because we are life and life is us.

The regime of separation has deadened us to the self-violation inherent in the despoliation of the planet and the degradation of its inhabitants. In an attempt to compensate for our lost sense of beingness, we transfer it to possessions and particularly to money, setting the stage for disaster. How? Because money (bearing interest) is an outright lie, encoding a false promise of imperishability and eternal growth. Identified with self, money and its associated "assets" suggest that if we stay in control of it, the self might be maintained forever, impervious to the rest of the cycle that follows growth: decay, death, and rebirth.

Obviously, there is a problem when something that does not decay but only grows, forever, exponentially, is linked to commodities which do not share this property. The only possible result is that these other commodities -- social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital -- will eventually be exhausted in the frantic, hopeless attempt to redeem the ultimately fraudulent promise inherent in money with interest.

They are almost exhausted already. What more of community or of nature can we still commoditize, before the very basis of life and sanity crumbles? All of today's crises originate in the conversion of natural, social, cultural, and spiritual capital into money. Yet even usury is not the deepest root. It is not an accidental feature of our system that, if only someone had made a wiser choice, could be different. It is implicit in our Newtonian-Cartesian cosmology in which, by definition, more for me is less for you. As this cosmology rapidly becomes obsolete, we can glimpse an emerging new money system embodying a very different conception of self and world. Until we transition to it, there is no hope that the current conversion of social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital into money will ever abate. Under an interest-based money system, it is inevitable that we will cash in the earth.

In Part 2 of this essay, I will describe what the currency of Reunion will look like. When it reflects the new human identity and relationship to nature that is emerging from the present convergence of crises, money will have the opposite effects it has today. It will be a force for sharing, not competition; for generosity, not greed; for community, not division; for conservation, not liquidation. Can you imagine a world where money is the ally of all our best impulses? That is the promise of the new money I will describe in Part 2.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_a_new_beginning

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Camping trip in Nor Cal, starts this Saturday

2008-03-22T05:57:14Z

For anyone interested in attending a week-long camping trip near Fort Bragg, I've discovered a free place to camp (with bathrooms, in a redwood forest, presumably with fire pits and whatnot already set up) Called Camp One Jackson State Park, or "The Egg Take." More info on it here: http://www.noyopacific.com/camponejacksonstate.html

I've arranged a sizable (5 cars I believe), week-long trip there starting this Saturday (the 22nd) and going on until roughly the 28th, we're calling it PANdemonium (after Satyrs, which reign this time of year.)

Anyone and everyone is welcome to join us, grab musical instruments, and head up for a springtime camp out. The more mutants, the merrier.

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ATTN: Mutants with skills!

2008-02-10T20:55:00Z

The Collaborative AMF *08 Zine project is underway!

Goal: To gather, collage and present
a multi media skills and music zine
for ourselves, eachother and new kids.

Written/Doodled zine topics
cover all the how to's on how to do a fest together.
We've been doing it long enough that
we can share the info we've learned!

There are MANY topics and we bet YOU have skills to share!

Please do write, doodle, or whatever it takes.
I'm willing to pull it together.

An option considering this is a music fest,
is to collage a music cd from various artists, camps, etc.
Does anyone feel in the flow of this that would like to pull it together?
I think there could be a 3-10buk donation for the material expences of the
combined Zine/CD.

What are your thoughts?
-Liberty

ps. i heard that a small fest zinewas made many years ago,
few coppies were made, and possibly all lost by now.
If you by chance have one, please send.

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Attn: Northern Mutants!

2008-01-24T23:48:45Z

I'm in the process ov organizing a festival/campout similar to AMF up in Alaska - I'll post more information as we start finalizing details - would love to see some mutants make it if you can...I know it's a long drive...

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help

2008-01-22T07:31:25Z

Who had the sweat lodge camp from Eugene?

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PUNK ROCK CABARET IN OAKLAND

2007-11-27T01:17:23Z

I am looking for acts to be in my punk rock cabaret!

I need some high-kicking girls for the can-can and many other stage performers...
Including: singing, dancing, acting, circus acts, burlesque, music, gymastics, fire twirling, fire breathing... and anything and everything else you might want to do...

Once I get enough acts, it will be held at an "underground" punk venue in Oakland

Message me if you're interested, or e-mail me at punkrockcabaret@hotmail.com

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hOwdy Folks !!!! Oregon Regional Rainbow directions - Find your way home!

2007-09-07T14:12:41Z

www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html (this shows the Oregon 1997gathering, which is the exact location this year. ) The directions are taken directly from welcomehome.org.

Howdy Folks,

Welcome Home to the Oregon gathering in the Ochoco National Forest from September 11, 2007 until September 23, 2007. Seed camp begins September 6, 2007.
For more information, contact:
groups.yahoo.com/group/mountainspirit
or call 240-863-6250 or email mountainspirit@yahoogroups.com.

Where the Ochoco Gathering in Oregon will Be.
The 2007 Rainbow Gathering is in Ochoco National Forest at a place called Indian Prarie in central Oregon. (between Prineville and Mitchell)
From Prineville:
Take hwy 26 east towards Mitchell. Make a right turn onto hwy 23,(this road is not marked, but is the next two lane paved road after the reservoir, a few miles out of town, to the right) which later turns into hwy 22 and continues to Walton Lake. Soon after the lake, turn left onto FS 150, a dirt road. Go a little ways till 150 ends in a T. Go right onto FS 2630, and continue to the parking lot and Bus Village.
From Mitchell:
Take hwy 26 west towards Prineville. A little ways past the Bandit Springs rest area, go left onto FS 2630. This later becomes FS 2210, and 2630 becomes a less maintained road. Follow FS 2210 to hwy 22. Turn left onto hwy 22 and follow past Walton Lake. Soon after the lake, turn left onto FS 150, a dirt road. Go a little ways till 150 ends in a T. Go right onto FS 2630, and continue to the parking lot and Bus Village.
More map details
This is right near the Bridge Creek Wilderness area, and north of the Big Summit Prarie. I can see several springs on the map. Sortof behind the site is the Mt. Pisgah Lookout. It looks to be no more than 6000-6500 feet in altitude.
For general information about the Rainbow Family and regional events, please first look around an unofficial family website- go to Welcome Home at
www.welcomehome.org or email rob@welcomehome.org

www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/index.html

What is a Rainbow Gathering?
Carla's Gathering Basics
What follows is my take on it. No one put me in charge (thank goodness), so you may get other answers from other folks that add or subtract stuff - but basically I think most folks will be in agreement with what I see as being the basics for a gathering.
It is free and non-commercial. This means no entry fee and no money charged for any service at the event (food, medical, etc.). There are people at gatherings who hang out with the barter circle and essentially have a commercial trip going either with trade or cash, but this is their own personal trip and has nothing to do with the actual set-up of a gathering. I personally consider these folks in violation of the basic spirit of the gathering and wish they would go away, or at least put away their trade goods. But since we have no cops, no courts, and no jails, they continue to do as they please, over the objections of many but also with the support also of many. Anyway, with the exception of these folks who are taking advantage of the free space, you shouldn't find any commercialism at a gathering whatsoever.
Rainbow gatherings are non-aligned both spiritually and politically. There is no one right religious or spiritual belief; people of all faiths are welcome to come gather. Often, people from specific churches or temples come set up their own camp and feed lots of folks from their kitchens (the Krishnas and the Bread of Life Christian camp being the most notable). There are no hassles towards any church group proselytizing or trying to win converts - if people want to listen, that's their own business.
Rainbow also does not support any specific political cause, party, issue, or candidate. Many people come to gatherings to recruit for their own specific Peace Walk, Drums around the Pentagon, environmental action, or whatever; but again, that is their own trip. They certainly have the right of free speech to spread the word about whatever event they are sponsoring. But they do nothave the right to call it a Rainbow event or claim they have support of the Rainbow Family. If they do make such claims, they are ripping off the Family name. Folks involved in such actions have every right to also mention, if asked, that yes, they consider themselves to be Rainbows. No reason not to fly your colors, especially when you're doing something you consider a good cause and are proud of being involved in. You just can't say that your event (protesting logging the rainforest, for example) is a Rainbow protest as such.
We have no leaders. We operate by consensus process. No one is in charge, we have no board of directors. For many regional events, a small circle of people often initiates the event, and the circle grows and becomes many. All the labor of getting the gathering together in a safe and healthy manner is done by volunteers.
The only rule we have is that of peaceful respect. That actually encompasses a lot, when you stop and think about it. Sure, no one can tell anyone else what to do, but if someone builds an unsafe fire under a tree, they will hear about it (hopefully in a sweet way) from many people who are worried about the safety of the camp. We like to say that everyone is Shanti Sena (Peacekeeper). The idea is to communicate in such a way that folks doing something non-peaceful, non-respectful, unhealthy, or unsafe will see the error of their ways and choose to get with the program. When something really out of line occurs (a violent individual hitting someone with a club, for example) a Shanti Sena council (consisting in the ideal of all interested parties, as well as some experienced folks from the Shanti Sena Clan to give guidance and physical safety) forms to deal with the issue. If the victim of the violence wishes to press charges, the incident is dealt with accordinly, and the Shanti Sena folks cooperate in turning the perpetrator over to local law enforcement - a controversial move, to be sure, but in some cases unavoidable and sometimes even desirable. If no one wants to see the local authorities involved but a person is considered a danger to the safety of folks in camp, two options are commonly turned to: someone capable of handling the situation volunteers to accompany the offending person 24 hours a day around camp; or the person must leave the gathering and not come back that year.
As per a standing consensus by the Rainbow Family Tribal Council, we don't apply for or sign permits. With the new group use regulations instituted by the Forest Service this year, this has become a difficult position to hold.One regional gathering signed a permit and gathered under a different name than Rainbow. Weird, and lot of people were angry at the folks who signed the permit,but what are ya gonna do? Take away their hippie cards? Anyway, theoretically,if a gathering has a permit, it is by definition not a Rainbow Gathering.
Also, by long tradition, we do not gather anywhere but public land. Occassionallythere may be focussed councils (Thanksgiving Council, regional councils) that happen on private land, but gatherings themselves are always held on public land. Again, if it happens otherwise, it is by definition not a Rainbow Gathering, though the event may be very rainbow in nature otherwise.
We take responsibility for every aspect of the gathering, from set-up to clean-up. We don't ask for help bulldozing roads, getting donations from local charities or food banks. We are self-sufficient in every aspect of our gathering, and responsible for ourselves. Most important, when the gathering is over, many people stay behind to totally clean up the site. No janitors are paid to clean up after folks. Gatherers are expected to use the recycling center set up on site and to pack out what they packed in. The clean up crew takes out all trash to recycling centers and to landfills, then restores and rehabilitates the site. This may involve scarifying the earth to loosen up compacted areas, filling in ruts caused by vehicles, water-barring hilly areas, and reseeding the ground. All shitters and camps are disappeared and naturalized. This is a lot of work folks! If you've never stayed for cleanup, you've never really done a gathering. This is not a dead lot - this is real, this is a labor of love, and it's one of the only reasons, both karmically and politically, that the powers that be haven't put the ax to us long ago.
A Rainbow Gathering is not a rock concert or a platform for speakers. If cars are allowed in the gathering area proper, and if there is amplified music as a central theme, it most certainly is NOT a Rainbow Gathering (the drive-in gathering in Texas was an exception, as we were not allowed to close the road).
If it were up to me to define it, I would say this is the most important aspect of the Gathering: It is a free assembly of individuals who come together to practice peace. The focal point of the Annual Gathering July 1-7 is a coming together in a large circle, each person praying silently in their own way for peace. Most of the regional gatherings also set aside a day for the Silent Circle. A Rainbow Gathering is not a party, although partying certainly happens. It is not just a big hippie campout, although there are lots of counter-culture and new-age types camping in the woods. It is not just the world's largest love-in/be-in/ smoke-in, although a lot of that certainly goes on. For me, without the element of prayer we might as well not gather at all. For me, without the element of the Circle in which we participate, we mights as well have a hippie convention at the Hilton. For me, without the practice of Peaceful Respect and continuing attempts to create harmonyamong each other and all beings of the Earth, me might as well give up any pretense that the human race is evolving.
So, does that make things more clear? You'll probably get as many different answers as you will people answering. Good luck sorting it all out. The annual Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes will take place in the Northwest next July - Oregon or Washington. Stay tuned for directions, which will probably come out about amonth before the gathering!
Love and Light,
Carla

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This is Not an offical document of any kind by the Rainbow Family. This invitation is my own creation, and as such only represents my own ideas. In no way does this mean I or anyone else represents the Rainbow Family, regardless of what the Family wingnuts say.

RAP 107
www.chebucto.ns.ca/Current/.../107.html
Gathering Consciousness
Please protect this Beautiful Land. Walk softly. Harm no living thing. Harmonize - Blend
in. Use only down, dead wood. Cut no living trees. Preserve the Meadows....camp in the Woods. We are caretakers of this land. Everyone sharing makes a strong Human Tribe!
Please Protect the Water Sources by staying out of DELICATE spring areas. Avoid camping, peeing, washing above spring areas. Keep ALL soap out of streams, springs or the creek!
Use a bucket to take your bath 60 feet away from the water source. To be certain of drinking water: boil it! Use the slit trenches or covered latrines - cover your paper & waste with ashes or lime, wash hands. Break the fly/illness connection: shit-fly-food-you! Dig no shitters near water areas or kitchens. Protect our Health! Use your own cup, bowl & spoon! Wash them after eating and rinse in bleach-water. Visit C.A.L.M./M.A.S.H. if you feel ill - especially if you have a contagious disease - or are injured. Camp Together - Establish neighborhoods. Community Fires only! ~ Each with 5 gallon water bucket and shovel for Fire Protection. If you are the last to leave a fire PUT IT OUT! Watch your gear: Be Responsible ~ "Tempt Not Lest Ye Be Lifted From." Pets are discouraged but if you must bring them keep them fed, on a leash and out of the kitchens, springs & fights. Clean up their poop. Love them. PACK IT IN - PACK IT OUT !!! Cleanup begins when you arrive. Bring in only what is necessary. There is no janitor here...you are the cleanup crew. Separate Garbage for recycling. Don't litter - Find collection point. Compost in pits only. You are the Gathering! Participate in Shanti Sena, the peace keepers council, and all activities, councils, work crews, workshops. Volunteer wherever needed: kitchens, welcome home, firewatch, parking lot, shitter digging, supply, front gate, etc. R-E-S-P-E-C-T your Sisters & Brothers energies. Keep the Balance: Earth, Sky, Trees, Water & People! Alcohol is Discouraged, Guns are Inappropriate, Violence is contrary to the Spirit. Please take no photographs or videos of people without permission. Discourage Drug Abuse. Buying and selling endangers our legal right to be here. The Magic Hat is our Bank, donate early to fund our Needs. The Magic Hat goes around at mealtime circles and with the Magic Hat Band. Our power together is many times our power separated. Enjoy the Rainbow with an open heart and you Will see the Vision. Join us for July 4th Silent Contemplation & Prayer for Peace, respect those maintaining silence from dawn. Hold the silence until the arrival of the Children's Parade.

WE LOVE YOU!!!!

Note: If you packed it in then pack it out.

ps. Make sure you dont have rainbows confused with drainbows, this is a rainbow gathering, not a drainbow gathering :)

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cheap land in the NW?

2007-09-05T19:03:32Z

ive found i may be able to get a 50k loan from the government(im a veteren), and then defualt on the loan, and the government is required to cover the loan...strange i know, but i was wonderin if anyone has shopped around at land prices in washington, oregon ect. been lovin the enviornments of mutantfest, and if i pull this off i would use it for autonomous activities. maybe build strange structures ect...or in case of catastrophe.
any ideas or thoughts?

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hi i'm new

2007-08-20T20:53:19Z

I live in Los Angeles but was interested in checking out Portland ...or another cool area that has some beauty whilst also being progressive...

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Let's Steal the Election Ourselves This Time!

2007-08-18T16:57:23Z

This is a DIY guide to rigging an election. I was over at www.blackboxvoting.org, (great site) and I was looking over their "Citizen's Toolkit". It was full of decent enough suggestions, but they seemed to miss the most obvious solution: if stealing elections is easy enough for those chumps to do it, then let's do it better than them.

As I researched this article, I've had a growing excitement for the past couple days: this is completely possible. The security exploits are simple, and the only real hurdle is the logistics of scale: how to get a national (or even just statewide) bloodless coup staged quickly and effectively. It's too late for 2006, but we should start planning a truly outstanding prank/revolutionary act for the next presidential election. If all this sounds insane, read on anyway.

www.brainsturbator.com/site/com...his_time/

The Bigger Picture Here

I’m not proposing that we rig these machines to get in the least offensive candidate. If we’re gonna be breaking the law and designing a conspiracy, here, let’s go big. Let’s start electing people who aren’t even fucking running for office.

This is what we refer to as the First Paradox of Authority:

“The kind of people who you want to be authority figures are the kind of people who do not want authority over others.”

This is similar to the problem of Intelligent People Not Having Kids, we can’t have people burdened by mere ethics here. The stakes are too high. We need to put someone like Julia Butterfly Hill in the White House, someone like Maynard James Keenan, someone like Maya Angelou. (And we need the craziest, best-armed militia in the country to back them up and dismantle existing organized crime syndicates like the DEA, ATF, IRS, CIA, etc, etc, etc.)

Seriously --- if I found out someone used this information to get a Democrat elected, it will be a dagger through my heart. Go big. As Hakim Bey instructed us bad kids: “Crime as art. Art as crime.”

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event photos 97

2007-07-20T05:46:59Z

Does anyone have photos from the 1997 festival? It's the only time I ever went to this event and it would be amusing to see again...and shar ewith the people I went with

I know that most people didn't have digi cams back then, so my hopes aren't set high :)

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Found Digital Camera at AMF

2007-07-12T17:12:08Z

I found a nice digital camera on the road at AMF this year. I recognize the people but don't know how to find them. If you know who you are, please email me with a description of the camera so i know it's really you. There are alot of memories on this camera and I know it's value to the owner.
Please email me at elbizivniinvizible@yahoo.com
thanks,
Ivizia

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That was awesome.

2007-07-09T06:12:02Z

Back home. What a surreal experience. I wonder how useful this tribe may be in finding the people I met at AMF this year? I didn't really exchange contact information with anyone at the festival.

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Ride share

2007-06-28T02:15:46Z

3 Seeking a ride to mutant fest in any form. We live in Eugene Oregon, so if your passing through and have an extra seat or 2 or 3 that would be sweet. Contact me

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location/directions announced

2007-06-26T21:08:17Z

http://www.mutantfest.org/directions-2007.html

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im muuuuutatinnggg!!!!!!

2007-06-23T08:04:15Z

(shriek) !!!!!!!!

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panzen is scouting oregon

2007-06-15T01:49:18Z

panzen is on the job scouting in southernish oregon. its a race into space. nothing definate, we thought we should
let the oregon people know that someone up here is on it. if anyone has a reliable off road vehicle and is free next monday and tuesday (june 10-11)for a long drive into knowhere dirtroad-> please contact
we already have a possible site, we just want to go back and try and seal the deal.
8lbs8oz@gmail.com
h

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AMF 2007 ?

2007-06-13T22:42:30Z

So... I see lots of topics on this AMF tribe except about AMF itself! I heard a rumour (what have you done to her...) that it will be in June near Shasta. I've also heard it will be in Canada (?!?) yet I see no posts regarding scouting. Could an omnipotent spokesperson who can enlighten me please do so? June's sooner than anticipated and I need to make plans if so as it's usually in August...

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any bus friends out there

2007-06-13T15:24:58Z

Im a hip bus boy looking for some experienced friends. I gotta a kickin Gillig that runs on WVO check it out on

www.businmotion.com

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Anybody goin to AMF from the Contact Festival?

2007-06-13T03:00:03Z

Take me with you!!! (need a ride!)
Have much to offer in exchange...

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I'm a mutant not a burner!

2007-06-06T22:21:46Z

If I wanted to give a shit about burning Turd I'd be on that tribe but this here be fo Tree Hugging Mutants that know how to party in the arms of the Forest Goddesses.
Damn that forest was beautiful with all the sound systems echoing off eachother and drunk chillins stumbling around in the dark with out flashies.
I wish we could do some more of these parties in the woods and if there are any gonig on post them here and while your at it, why not invite Cirkus Pandemonium to play fire and ariel stunts to liven the occasion!
I love to burn the fire, but I don't need to fry my pale skin the the freaking desert to do it!
Baaahh!

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Seed Camp?

2007-05-23T01:47:28Z

Heya.... curious when ya'll get early set up crew for this little shindig? A few weeks early? How late does clean up usually linger?

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last years site... And more

2007-05-09T05:12:52Z

Well went to the site of last years AMF..... While the land has recovered really well, its a bitch of a time getting there.... Downed trees scatter the road, and there is a massive sinkhole which took out the road leading up to the road which was the site. Talked to the Sheriff up there and he said it should be fixed by memorial day weekend.

Guess that dosent fix the problem about no springs for the kitchens, and the fact that the site requires everyone to be so spread out. Other than that, we found a great place and had a supreme campout.

Scouting the sandy spot brought too many dangers, the g. camp site still has 2ft snowpack and the other site at lower elevation has the bridge completely washed out. Fux sake.

Northern California seems to have snow aswell at the good sites proposed, however it will be melting within a couple weeks. Same with the Southern Oregon sites I know of.

Love and gimme a light

evilive

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weres the katabatics thing this weekend,i know it is in okland, but were in okland

2007-03-16T22:35:35Z

weres the katabatics thing this weekend,i know it is in okland, but were in okland

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global meltdown: its know sekret

2007-03-07T19:59:16Z

http://people.tribe.net/5ae2cb02-88b2-4e95-9ec6-a6f7a91bed5d/blog/b7e14286-9b03-4715-97bf-6e74041ce345

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AMF pictures

2007-01-23T20:23:38Z

does anyone have any pictures from 02 and/or 03? i havent made it to mutant fest since 03 because i have been volunteering for burning man the entire month of august since then, and i dont have any pictures.
also does anyone remember the relaxation station in 03 that started with a bench and ended up looking like a pirate ship?

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lewis carroll theme party

2007-01-18T01:34:10Z

4th annual

you are cordially invited to attend
the Cheshire Rock Opera
on the evening of 1-27-2007
this is an annual celebration of
Lewis Carroll, his works &
his effect on popular music.
please attend as one of the
characters from wonderland.
bring tea & cakes to share
& bottles marked "drink me".
a song book & album will be
available to interested parties.
those attending may be asked
for a modest donation:
$5 for those in costume & character
$10 for those simply in costume
& $20 for those who can't
be bothered to dress the part.
the event goes from around 8 untill...

first show was january 27 2004@ Van Kleef's in Oakland.
It was quite a production inluding the queen's concert,
tea party trio, suitcase puppet show of walrus & carpenter
and the jabberwock monstermasks. twas a mad evening
of fun.
the next was a one man show for an intimate audience
of close friends.
it's third year running was the mad tea party with a book
& c.d. to accompany.
the 4th year is set to be in co-operation with
the lucid dream lounge.
this is the culmination of a lifetimes connection to
the writings of Lewis Caroll,
here was my original Idea :I'ts a glam rock opera,
Spacey sci-fi, I like ziggy style, and kabuki japanese
cats, bunraku, noh theatre. this is a description of
a young lewis caroll, in some fanciful asian opium den,
being served and having the hallucination that he
watered down to create alice's adventures in
wonderland. focusing on the bestiary of "Jabberwok"
, the white rabbit, the tea party, and a god-like
presence of the cheshire (cat).
seeking performers, puppet craft, and hosts for
this would bee epic of psychedelic performance art.
follow thee white rabbit...
the set so far
red queen (an original)
white rabbit(+new verses)
the walrus & the carpenter (to music)
I am the walrus (mutant version)
the humpty dump (mix of humpty dance with parts
of eggman & the original poem)
jabberwocky(grunge version)
to all tomorrows parties
the inverse set also features some surprizes from
the collective of songwriters (the likes of the hobo gobbelins,
sourmash hug band & accordion plague)

ttp://Cheshire-rockopera.tribe.net

AT THE START OF THE SHOW:
white rabbit makes an appearance & then takes us
"through the rabbit hole". when we hit the bottom
a red queen appears: I'm bored to tears with the likes
of you! I declare that there shall be a concert to
amuse me & my royal court."
at this point a page begins calling forth the appointed
acts,
***still looking for quick cabaret style performances
(2-3 songs) which can work with a wonderland style

when it comes time for the hatter to sing,
he does so off key & tempo, so badly that the
queen shouts: "stop him! he's murdering time!!!"
and a guard roughly ejects the hatter from the "stage".
perhaps a bit of mumbling as the court complains
of the hatter's ruination of the concert.
focus shifts to the tea party set.
mad hatter: Oh bugger! they've broken my watch!
march hare: let me see that watch hatter.
(smears it with a thick layer of butter)
that should do the trick.
hatter: (shakes watch & listens) nope, it's still broken
now, we'll be stuck in tea time forever.
dormouse: play us a song hatter, to help us pass the time
hatter plays white rabbit....
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall

/ F# - / G - / F# - / G - / A CD A - /

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice when she was just small

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know

/ E - / A - / E - / A - / F# - - - /

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head

/ F# - / G - / F# - / G - / A CD A - / E A E A /

at the conclusion of the song the dormouse says
"feed your head"
hare: what'd he say?
hatter: I don't know, I can't remember.
mouse: feed your head!
hatter: well then, what ever are we to feed it?
hare: I've got an idea, let's feed it treacol
alice: where ever shall we find treacol?
hatter: why, at the bottom of a well, of course
another cup of tea?
alice: but if we were to fall down the well,
however should we get back out again?
hare: we shan't be able to get out, we'd be
stuck down there for the rest of time with
nothing but treacol to eat, pass the crumpets
alice: but if the moon could only see
down in the well, I'm certain she...
mouse:...would be so sad that she would cry
an clouds blot out the starry sky
alice: fill the well up with the rain
so we could get back out again!
hatter:..and float down to a salty sea...
hare: where maybe we could look & see
hatter: a bite of something good to eat
hare: a tasty dish!
hatter & hare together: A FISHY TREAT!!
at this point a mock turtle comes in with
a taureen of hot green soup, followed by a
gryphon.
hatter: I say there, mock turtle what's that
you've got?
mock: it is a most beautiful soup! try some
(ladles some into tiny cups passing some to the party)
hatter:delicious!
as the band strikes up the beautiful soup song
the soup service continues.

Beautiful Soup
c g
Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
c
Waiting in a hot tureen!
f c
Who for such dainties would not stoop?
c g
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
c g
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
f c g c
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
c f
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
c g
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!
f c
Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish,
g c
Game, or any other dish?
c g
Who would not give all else for two
g c
Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup?
g c
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?
f c g c
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! Beau--ootiful Soo-oop!
c f
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
c g c
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!

at the end of the song,
hatter asks: I say, mock turtle, did you bring any
lobsters with you?
mock: no, (sadly) but they sent this message
(hands card to hatter)
hatter: (reading from card)
"dear sir
we thank you kindly for your invitation to the
cheshire rock opera, however we are already
engaged to attend the lobster quadrille.
best wishes,
the lobsters"
... ah, the lobster quadrille, what a lovely song
and dance!"
mock: (disagreeably) I always thought it was very sad
hatter: no, I assure you it is a delightful little tune,
listen to the way we play it.
(during the tune mock turtle moves to the dance floor
& a group of alices dance around and with her.
The Lobster Quadrille
interlude=g//f//a//d//x4
g f a d
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail.
g f a
d
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
g f a d
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
g f a
d
They are waiting on the shingle - will you come and join the dance?
d f d g d f
g f
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
d f d g d f
d
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?

g f a d
"You can really have no notion how delightful it will be
g f a
d
When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!"
g f a
d
But the snail replied "Too far, too far!" and gave a look askance -
g f a
d
Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance.
d f d g d
f d g
Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.
d f d g d
f d
Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.

d f d f d f d f
"What matters it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied.
d f d f d f d g
"There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
d f d f d f d f
The further off from England the nearer is to France -
d f d f d f
d
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
d f d g d f
d f
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
d f d g d f
d
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?"

at the end of the song, mock turtle returns to the
table, with a worried look on his face
mock: that's all well & good, but I don't really undestand
can you play it again?
hatter: but of course
instead they play "the voice of the lobster"
'Tis the Voice of the Lobster
Cm
'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
Fm
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
Cm
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
D G
Trims his belt and buttons, and turns out his toes.
Cm
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark
Fm
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark:
Cm
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
D G ~~~
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

I passed by his garden, and marked with one eye,
How the Owl and Panther were sharing a pie:
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy and meat,
While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
And concluded the banquet by--

on the last note of the song a tuft of feathers is
thrown in the air.
mock: I don't see what the point is of repeating
all this stuff over & over, if you aren't going to
take the time to explain it.
hatter: I tell you what, mock turtle, I've got a box here
which is sure to explain everything.
puts the box on the table & thus is the set up for
walrus & the carpenter
The Walrus and The Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and
What Alice Found There, 1872)
the verses shall be noted as such
first verse noted is v1, & 2nd is v2
thus follows
Em Am
The sun was shining on the sea,
B7 Em
Shining with all his might:
Em Am
He did his very best to make
B7 Em
The billows smooth and bright--
B7 Em
And this was odd, because it was
B7 Em
The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done--
"It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun!"
B7 Em
The sea was wet as wet could be,
B7 Em
The sands were dry as dry.
B7 Em
You could not see a cloud, because
B7 Em
No cloud was in the sky:
Em Am
No birds were flying overhead--
B7 Em
There were no birds to fly.
v1
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand;
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
"If this were only cleared away,"
They said, "it would be grand!"
v2
"If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year.
Do you suppose," the Walrus said,
"That they could get it clear?"
"I doubt it," said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.
v1
"O Oysters, come and walk with us!"
The Walrus did beseech.
"A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,
Along the briny beach:
We cannot do with more than four,
To give a hand to each."
v2
The eldest Oyster looked at him,
But never a word he said:
The eldest Oyster winked his eye,
And shook his heavy head--
Meaning to say he did not choose
To leave the oyster-bed.
v1
But four young Oysters hurried up,
All eager for the treat:
Their coats were brushed, their faces washed,
Their shoes were clean and neat--
And this was odd, because, you know,
They hadn't any feet.
v2
Four other Oysters followed them,
And yet another four;
And thick and fast they came at last,
And more, and more, and more--
All hopping through the frothy waves,
And scrambling to the shore.
v1
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Walked on a mile or so,
And then they rested on a rock
Conveniently low:
And all the little Oysters stood
And waited in a row.
~~~~~~~
v1
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
~~~~~
v1 (or2)
"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,
"Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!"
"No hurry!" said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that.
v1
"A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,
"Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, Oysters dear,
We can begin to feed."
v2 (or1)
"But not on us!" the Oysters cried,
Turning a little blue.
"After such kindness, that would be
A dismal thing to do!"
"The night is fine," the Walrus said.
"Do you admire the view?
v2 (or1)
"It was so kind of you to come!
And you are very nice!"
The Carpenter said nothing but
"Cut us another slice:
I wish you were not quite so deaf--
I've had to ask you twice!"
v2(or1)
"It seems a shame," the Walrus said,
"To play them such a trick,
After we've brought them out so far,
And made them trot so quick!"
The Carpenter said nothing but
"The butter's spread too thick!"
v2
"I weep for you," the Walrus said:
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
v1
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.

during the last verses of the song trays of hors devors
(smoked oyster on a slice of french bread with a dash
of pepper & vinegar) are passed around.

I Am the Walrus

I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together.
See how they run
Like pigs from a gun
See how they fly. I�m crying.
Sitting on a cornflake - waiting for the van to come.
Corporation teeshirt, stupid bloody
Tuesday man you been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long.
I am the eggman oh, they are the eggman -
Oh I am the walrus GOO GOO G�JOOB.
Mr. City policeman sitting pretty little policeman in a row,
See how they fly
Like Lucy in the sky
See how they run. I�m crying - I�m crying I�m crying.
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog�s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife pornographic
Priestess boy you been a naughty girl,
You let your knickers down.
I am the eggman oh, they are the eggmen -
Oh I am the walrus. GOO GOO G�JOOB.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun,
If the sun don�t come, you get a tan from
Standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, oh, they are the eggmen -
Oh I am the walrus. G�JOOB, G�GOO, G�JOOB.
Expert texpert choking smokers
Don�t you think the joker laughs at you? Ha ha ha!
See how they smile,
Like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied. I�m crying.
Semoline pilchards climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hare Khrishna
Man you should have seen the kick in Edgar Allen Poe.
I am the eggman oh, they are they eggmen -
Oh I am the walrus GOO GOO GOO JOOB
GOO GOO GOO JOOB GOO GOO
GOOOOOOOOOOOJOOOOOB.

at the end of the song humpty dumpty arrives.
& 1mb+ plays humpty song, during which the
jabber wocky creatures head off to get their masks on.
at the end of the song...

humpty: hello every body, since we've been
through the looking glass & back, I can tell before
we get there that you wont be able to understand
these next verses so, I'll do a bit of explaining in
advance.
he attempts to explain (with help from alice) the
1st & last verse (same) of jabberwocky at the end,
the soundtrack starts & the creatures emerge.
**these roles still need to be filled**
tove, dressed in grey does a sufi style spin dance
borogove, dressed on dark colors, bird mask with pvc
legs & claw shoes
momerath, green pig mask with built in mic for
" outgribbling"
jub jub bird, hand held axe bill, red black & yellow
bandresnatch (potentionally cast) monster face with
long fingers
jabberwocky (2 person) monster mask with body
attached.

at the the end of the peice, the band plays one last song
to all tomorrows parties...
D C D
And what costume shall the poor girl wear
G Em A
To all tomorrow's parties
D C D
A hand-me-down dress from who knows where
G Em A
To all tomorrow's parties

G A
And where will she go and what shall she do
G A~~~
When midnight comes around
D C D
She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown
G Em D
And cry behind the door

And what costume shall the poor girl wear
To all tomorrow's parties
For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown
For whom none will go morning

A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown
Of rags and silks, a costume
Fit for one who sits and cries
For all tomorrow's parties

www.myspace.com/cheshirerockopera

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AMF was More than ever before...what do YOU THINK?

2006-10-26T17:50:43Z

um, YA!
here's a spot to reflect your thoughts about various aspects of AMF
and ideas for next year.

topic ideas:
*What music rattles your bones? Shook your booty? made WOW in you?
*Did a BIG Camp impress you? Got a stand out moment?
*Little Camp moments...road side attractions?
*What were the brightest starrz in your fav night scene?
*Who wins your vote for Fabulous Fuking Artist?
*less than sober reflections.
*food for thoughts.
*harm done?
*other: what chew got?

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SATURDAY - Batty's Hippodrome, Victorian circus extravaganza

2006-10-25T07:11:00Z

SATURDAY 10/28:
BATTY'S HIPPODROME PRESENTS
Thee 999 Eyes Ov Endless Dream
CoRE suspension
A Dictionary of Blood Theater
The Alberta Clown House
and still more

at Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th
$15 21 and over

Our house circus troupe, portraying the true-life Victorian circus of ringmaster William Batty, acts as a framing device for traveling circus troupes from all around the country. This month, we receive a visit from the last genuine traveling freakshow in the United States – Thee 999 Eyes Ov Endless Dream – who are being tailed from city to city by a film crew from The National Geographic Channel.
Arrive early for the second in Rale Sidebottom’s series of macabre puppet shows, A Dictionary of Blood Theater.
And stay late as the narrative turns grislier and we splatter the stage with the skin-crawling theatrical mutilations of CoRE.

Truly a show for the ages, from the creator and castmembers of Societas Insomnia and Cicuri Curajul –The Fireninja, Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein, The Clown House, Aubrey Birdwell, Noah Mickens, and STILL MORE luminaries of the circus stage to be announced.
Witness the birth of a tradition.

9pm-1am
$15

THEE 999 EYES OV ENDLESS DREAM
www.999eyes.com
Lost in time, hidden in the dark corners and in the dusty shelves of old book stores, in the basements of libraries and museums, lies the fabulous, fantastical history of the carnival sideshow - a time when the malformed were glamorized as part of a traveling caravan and not locked up in institutions. A time when there was a place and venue for amazing performers to come together in a gypsy caravan style and change the atmosphere of the town around them - reminding people there is another way of life and relieving people of their daily routines - reminding them of the power of magic and imagination. The roots of radical artistic movements of today are deeply intertwined with the carnival sideshows of the past…
We acknowledge our carnival sideshow roots to empower our communities with alluring, inventive, and fearless displays of imagination and dream! Our carnival sideshow not only provides a place for roving gypsy carnival performers and “human curiosities” to express their art but also provides an environment which revives and highlights the great performers and “freaks” of the past – and their true life stories! Using olde-tyme music, puppets, story telling as well as classic carnival sideshow acts and performance we create a world that taps into profound emotion, reminding the AUDIENCE of the actualization of the living dream. At the same time, this gives the “human curiosities” of the modern age a venue to be appreciated once again - this is our mission.
Our collaborative carnival art troupe is co-created with many fabulous idividuals - musicians, sideshow artists, clowns, writers, experts - each of which works on their routines, props, banners, and costumes in their locale. Each on its own is amazing, and together, we form our carnival ov dreams. We tour selectively, displaying our “History of the FREAKSHOW” museum installation, with a real life modern day freakshow and sideshow for our openings. With all ages kid-themed shows(dream shows) as well as adult-themed “nightmare” performances, our carnival sideshow does well at what we aim to do. We’re recreating the world one carnival at a time – awakening the collective subconscious.
The psyche is never laid so bear as when entering the world ov dream… Our demons and dreamers are assembled in an ever evolving Multi-Form Cabinet containing enough skeletons to squeeze the tears and fears ov even the coldest heart… For we all have dreams, and we all have nightmares… When we enter into the waking dream of beauty and art in life, we realize how real our dreams really are. Staring at our hands, we consider all that they can accomplish, for good or ill. We present our WAKING DREAMS and NIGHTMARES for your perusal… as an actual, real, living, modern day museum ov oddities style freakshow is paraded before your awe-inspired eyes! With a musical background ranging from Old-tyme gypsy jug band to eldritch accordion “eville” puppet madness… all this and more can become available for the entertainment and horror ov THE AUDIENCE, which has the opportunity to sign on the dotted line (in blood) and sell their soul for a glimpse into another world ov phantasmagoric dream!

CORE
www.wearecore.com
Among the founding suspension performers on Earth, up from Los Angeles and Houston for a visit to Cascadia.
"It is our intent to create original and physically demanding works of theatre by blending the practice of modern performance art with ancient rituals of body suspension.
We in CoRE have suspended our own concept of physical limitation, pierced the heart of our fears, and transcended the boundaries of social convention in order to further the understanding of the corporeal and spiritual being. Suspension acts combined with traditional performance art and theatre provide us with a new outlet for artistic expression that enables the audience to join us on our emotional journey. By pushing our own boundaries in life and art, we inspire others to explore their own."

THE ALBERTA CLOWN HOUSE
www.clownhouse.org
A nationally-revered waystation for traveling clown society, led by Dingo Dizmal and Caffeine Enema Jones and featuring at one time or another every punk clown worth his or her salt.

A DICTIONARY OF BLOOD THEATER
"In a sense, there is no true, "real" theatre, only a black Cadillac crushing life and squeezing the heart out of us, one act at a time. It is appropriate then, that we cry, and mourn crushed lives, appropriate to watch as well as to perform. Why puppets? Because, by branch and root, from head to foot, there is not, nor art there be, anything so deep so sad so fun so thought-provoking so shamelessly despised so unrehearsed and prized as the beautiful blank darkness that descends upon you as the flesh is opened to let another story bleed forth.
The first installation of our new show Local man claims to have seen god but can't give an account of what he saw (Decipher that!) opens October 27 and runs throught the next two nights at the Someday lounge in Portland Oregon, moving to other venues down the west coast through October and November. This program deals with the erosion of sanity in the modern world. It is a puppetry program, including live actors and found objects, trash and treasures paraded before you eyes."
www.somedaylounge.com/perform..._theater

LEAPIN' LOUIE LICHTENSTEIN
www.comedytricks.com
Leapin' Louie performs a high energy comedy show featuring cowboy tricks, juggling, acrobatics, music and what-not. He inflames audiences to laughter and wild applause everywhere he plays and that’s a lot of wheres because he has appeared at corporate events, festivals, fairs, schools, etc., in twenty-one different nations.
Say it in one breath for a true feeling of jet lagged exhilaration. Leapin' Louie Lichtenstein has knocked them alive in:
USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Morocco, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan.
Whoa! Take a breath.

AUBREY BIRDWELL
www.somedaylounge.com/perform...irdwell/
Aubrey Birdwell is a prodigous young gypsy accordionist notorious in all corners of Portland. His work with Cicuri Curajul and Mirumir; and his solo work both with traditional and modified accordions; has distinguished him as one of the most skilled and innovative players in this city. He presents the incidental music for this evening, including a mix of traditional romany songs and his own compositions.

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Scout!!!

2006-10-01T01:30:17Z

I'm glad to hear people already talking about scouting for next year..... in order to actually follow through though, proper planning is a consideration. So since I am such a methodical Virgo I thought I would help people who are talking on this forum about scouting to help plan it out.... thoughts to consider:

1) Do you have a car or a friend with a car that will give you the key? Start asking your friends now to plan on camping out in the woods for a week or month in July. Get a core group of people together who can be there the whole time, to keep newcomers informed of where has been scouted already, and to see any good sites for comparable reference. Anyone who wants to help in that area but can only come for a day or few can go meet the core group.

2) In order to get some good scouting done, and make it worth your while, you will be in the car driving down roads for several hours each day. How will you pay for the fuel? Start saving or taking collections now. Put up a donation jar at your next party. There is no gas fund for scouters.

3) Do you have a job? How long in advance do you have to ask to take off work? Ask your boss now, so when you do put in for time off, they won't be surprised, and by putting the word out now, your coworkers might decide not to ask for time off when you need it.

4) Where do you want to look? Near home? In that place you always wanted to check out but haven't? Washington? California? Eugene? Slab City? 9th ward? People's opinions vary on this, so go look where you would like it to be, but at the same time don't feel bad if you can't find something good there..... all of the pacific northwest is gorgeous in it's own ways....

That's all the preliminary stuff I could think of to do this far in advance.......if anyone else can think of anything, please add.....

Feel free to use this thread as a meeting ground to find interested people in your area, but plan in private please......

YAY!!! Keep the interest flowing :)

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Seeking clarinetists for The Moe!kestra! this Saturday

2006-09-26T21:46:43Z

Hey gang.

I've got perhaps the greatest Moe!kestra yet lined up to play this Saturday at Someday Lounge in Portland, but we're short a few clarinetists. Though we have some great ones of course, Mr. Staiano has expressed a desire for more.

The only qualification is that you need to be able to read music as well as freely improvise, which leaves me out unfortunately. We're getting together Friday and Saturday 4-6pm to rehearse, then the show itself is Saturday night at 9.

Any and all music-reading improvisational clarinetists, please contact me soon!

5000. - N.

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SOCIETAS INSOMNIA - The King Cycle - September 16

2006-09-15T05:28:14Z

SOCIETAS INSOMNIA
The King Cycle
September 16, 10:00 - 12:30
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th, between Couch and Davis
$13 admission
21+, to say the least

Societas Insomnia is a troupe of veteran performers from the subcultures of ritual art, circus, sex, body modification, fire, butoh, and experimental music. We combine these marginalized forms to embody a world of living nightmare.

Our first year of shows; stretching from December 2004 to November 2005; developed a distinctive style of wordless and improvised movement-based theater drawing from the diverse backgrounds of our cast and the free sharing of methods and skills between us. Each of these four performances told one chapter in a mythic cycle of initiation, death, and rebirth that only the most attentive and loyal audience members had the chance to understand.

Therefore, we have chosen to open our residency at Someday Lounge with a comprehensive telling of that tale: The King Cycle, incorporating nearly the entire cast of all previous S.I. installments. Entirely new works will follow irregularly, continuing to explore the mythos of The Nightmare Company.

CAST

DIG - Noah Mickens
Leads the Company on their eternal pilgrimage, and directs the creation of nightmares for the unfortunate sleeping masses.

DRAGO - The Fire Ninja
Captain of the Fire Fetishists and treacherous lieutenant to Dig.

DAIF - Daif Hahn
Nine-foot-tall mastermind behind the sadistic physical tortures of the Nightmare Company.

THE SUN - Soriah

DEVIL - Jackie Nelom
Digs faithful and enigmatic familiar.

DED - Lana Guerra
A new initiate into the Company, whose entry into our world is the principle concern of Act One.

FIRE FETISHISTS
Drago's lascivious clown alley would burn down your dreams if they could only keep their hands off each other.
Cherry
Ivizia Dakini
Ms. Ty Fyre
Peach
Dog-Eye
Draco T

DREAMERS
A dream is a journey. And like all journeys, sometimes you don't make it back. Offstage, our dreamers are accomplished butoh dancers and ritual performance artists.
Mizu Desierto
Germany
Patricia Hall
Alenka Loesch
Lucretia
Llewyn Maire
Lisa Newman
Grant Potts
Vanessa Skantze

DIS - Malice Munz
Who presides over the sweet final destinies of fallen nightmares.

DOLL - Pandora
A misfortunate and oft-abused plaything of the Company.

DRAX - Yoshi Ironskin
DROX - Alea Angelique
Beastial familiars to Daif and the Technicians.

EDIFICE FLESH - Zac Diner and company
Who are having a terrible dream in which they are being forced to perform for the pleasure of a cruel Dutchess.

MUSIC - THE NIGHTGAUNT ENSEMBLE
Our improvisational house band, of the experimental music scene
NOLON ASHLEY: Drums
JOSHUA CAMOZZI-MILLIGAN : Theremin, Oud, Homemade Instruments
BRIAN CROWL: Sitar
LANA GUERRA : Homemade Analog Synthesizers
J: Flute, Recorders, Violin
FRANK MARROQUIN: Cello
TRAVIS MCALISTER: winds, brass, percussion
DALE MORRIS: guitar
RALE SIDEBOTTOM : percussion, toy piano, homemade instruments
SYNCHRONICITY FREQUENCY electronics

SET DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Fredrick Zahl of Atelier Z

PIERCING and SUSPENSION
DIRECTOR
Daif Hahn of High Priestess Piercing

HAIR and MAKE-UP
Lana Guerra of Hair Nurse Style

STAGE MANAGER
Paul Gilbert

PIERCING and SUSPENSION TECHNICIANS
J-Mo
Philly Chris

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housing help needed please

2006-09-13T21:02:08Z

Hello.
My name is ken I go by pegleg the modern day elephant man in the 999 eyes carinval ovf the damned sideshow. The place I'm staying is rasing the rent way above what i can pay, I live on ssi and io can afford up to 500.00 a month.
I did meet some of the members of spaz last year when we were in SF and Oakland. If you know of a place i can rent. I open to almost anything what comes along. I'm sure Sam dylan will zombie dan would say a good word for me. or anyone else i travled with over the 2005 summer.
thanks in avance
my normal email is pegleg_boy@yahoo.com
I found this out last night and they asked me to leave asap, about the rent incress and they have someonewhat will move rightin after i leave.
ken

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Music Night at the Accordion Apocalypse, San Francisco this Sunday!

2006-09-13T07:17:36Z

Hey there friends & accordion lovin' folx,
Back by popular demand..... The Accordion Apocalypse presents: Music Night JAM! 7PM Every 3rd Sunday

7pm, Sunday September 17th at The Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop 2626 Jennings St., Bayview HP, San Francisco

September...FEATURING special guest Kielbasia, San Francisco's favorite Accordion-Playing Drag Polish Lunch Lady at 8pm www.kielbasia.com

All instruments welcome! Accordions especially encouraged.
Bring your music makers, juggling toys, and friends!
Pot Luck.
Fun for YOU!
www.accordionapocalypse.com for a map link or more info.
(415) 596-5952
Keep rockin' the squeeze!
-Skyler

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mutate in NYC

2006-08-28T17:27:58Z

more renegade parties! leave your face on this post so we can
co -ordinate -operate -onsultate

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QwEEn VorteXXia

2006-08-25T17:31:06Z

had a Fabulous tyme at AMF THis year....well worth thee long travel and all thee battle wounds...bruises and blood from falling down on thee path while attempting to haul equiptment in platforms or drunken stumbling in heels....can we have a shuttle next tyme?

thank all yu gore-gous mutants for your art musick and prescence....

Aloha from Hawaii)))))

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Popup Trailer available for Burning Man

2006-08-23T19:59:12Z

Hi there.

I was recently gifted a reasonably nice popup trailer which i was going to rent/trade to someone to use on the playa.

The camper is a Jayco Dove
http://www.bayswaterjayco.com.au/showprod.asp?new_used=Used&Catagory=Campers

It has a little kitchen thingy and sleeps 5 or 6 people. It also has a bike rack on top that will carry 4 bikes.

Conditions:

You gotta get it out there and back from SF. I won't be towing it. It is easy to pull, you can use a small truck or perhaps a station wagon or a car with a burly engine.

It needs a super minor repair. The top cranks up with a crank. The cable which connects to the crank is broken and must be fixed for propper use. I have'nt the time to mess with it personally, but if yer interested, have at it.

Rental fee/trade is negotiable. I'm pretty easy. Ideally a BM ticket would be nice (save my ass the trouble of sneaking in... again...) but I'm open to other offers.

Get back to me soon if yer interested

-j

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Official Location

2006-08-15T04:41:48Z

The Mutant Festival is definetly happening in S Washington. Checkout www.spaz.com for more details (could be .org)

Also I have room for 1-2 riders leaving Tues night from SF, leaving mutant fest Sunday. Sharing gas expenses. Call me if you want to catch a lift.

Shadow (415) 5310-9201

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RIDE NEEDED FROM PDX

2006-08-10T21:36:39Z

hello beautiful people!

i am looking for a ride from pdx TOMORROW (friday) or asap, and I can return anytime.
if you have room for one gurl, her pack and guitar, please let me know!!

much luv!!

divyaZA
503.231.2970

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Autonomous Mutant Festival's topics - tribe.net

The most HD-N-ins. ish!!!!!&lt;------!!~

Ride to and from Mutant Fest offered

Ride to AMF leaving Wednesday from Portland

Rideshare SLC to Mutantfest!

Hi

Any idea what state AMF will be ... coming from NYC

scouting

REALITY SANDWICH

Camping trip in Nor Cal, starts this Saturday

ATTN: Mutants with skills!

Attn: Northern Mutants!

help

PUNK ROCK CABARET IN OAKLAND

hOwdy Folks !!!! Oregon Regional Rainbow directions - Find your way home!

cheap land in the NW?

hi i'm new

Let's Steal the Election Ourselves This Time!

event photos 97

Found Digital Camera at AMF

That was awesome.

Ride share

location/directions announced

im muuuuutatinnggg!!!!!!

panzen is scouting oregon

AMF 2007 ?

any bus friends out there

Anybody goin to AMF from the Contact Festival?

I'm a mutant not a burner!

Seed Camp?

last years site... And more

weres the katabatics thing this weekend,i know it is in okland, but were in okland

global meltdown: its know sekret

AMF pictures

lewis carroll theme party

AMF was More than ever before...what do YOU THINK?

SATURDAY - Batty's Hippodrome, Victorian circus extravaganza

Scout!!!

Seeking clarinetists for The Moe!kestra! this Saturday

SOCIETAS INSOMNIA - The King Cycle - September 16

housing help needed please

Music Night at the Accordion Apocalypse, San Francisco this Sunday!

mutate in NYC

QwEEn VorteXXia

Popup Trailer available for Burning Man

Official Location

RIDE NEEDED FROM PDX

The most HD-N-ins. ish!!!!!<------!!~