So my New Year was damned entertaining.
First I'll post pictures and a brief story of each one. I'll get more in depth later, because I am starting winter quarter at Uni in about 5 hours
Okay. Moontribe is a group of people that throws electronic music events mostly out in the desert but some in the mountains. They're mostly camping things, over the course of multiple days. The culture is very much like that of burning man. People barter with their belongings, take a shit load of drugs, and create and look at art. There isn't much sleep involved. It is, unlike burning man, invite only and runs off of "strongly suggested" donations that help fund the camp sites. This one, we showed up at 3 am Thursday and left around 8pm Friday (stayed about 29 hours through constant music ). The "blue moon" means a second full moon in a month. It's kind of a big deal to hippies lol... and it was New Years, too
The directions to this place were spotty at best. They are meant to test a person. We went up past Victorville into the high desert where no one lived. 200 miles from anyone, we couldn't use a GPS because there were no landmarks and no definite destination. "6.6 miles past the bullet ridden sign you will take a left" no joke, that was something we had to do. Bumping along in a green ford escort, something not made for going to a desert party... Like, I've been to outdoor raves, but this was a different animal. There were 3 bullet ridden signs. One was so chewed up that we didn't even consider it a viable option. We realized that the old military base out there in the desert must be to blame. Our friend, who had been a marine sniper said he'd have done that from the guard tower... shot at shiny things to keep himself occupied. So, after a couple more suspect turns we started smelling the campfires, or the people spinning fire poi, and we knew we'd gotten close enough to trust our instincts. Thank fucking god I was with the people I was... I could never have made it alone.
I took real acid for the first time a couple hours after we got there. The guys were on some epic quest for cheap drugs because one forgot his wallet
but out of all the free tabs and bowls and pills and all that we got... I just took one. The only other time I'd done it, I dropped 2 hits of DoB (a research chemical that mimics the effects and dose size of acid, is similar, but not the same) but had been told it was acid a year and a half ago. The whole thing was INCREDIBLY reminiscent of an old hippie concert, with a communal aspect, people taking care of each other and trying to get each other the best drugs and food and all that, sharing everything and helping each other out, etc. Everyone was handling themselves pretty well. There were children and dogs roaming around, chilling with people on acid and shrooms and pot and alcohol, etc. I wanted to be in control, meet people, take in the interesting new experience... and the desert went 2d and technicolor, and people were cresting each hill, waving at me... and the giggles... and the giggles... and the giggles... and life was good
Me:
the main stage
I'm somewhere in here (the main fire):
Fire poi:
throw in an alter:
the guy on the right was my new years kiss ( many of us rang in the new year with hallucinogens and howling at the moon
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and a barcode tattoo. his name is chuck, he got it back when he ate a lot of salted peanuts, so it's a barcode for salted fucking peanuts:
the entrance to the natural quartz crystal mines where we mined for our own crystals, hell yes...
and finally, the lime in the (I shit you not) coconut:
(many more pictures to come...)
Blue Moon New Years Moontribe Celebration
) then they might let me bring my own car. Either way, there are other tribes in southern california that I want to check out. i have a feeling this might be the best hippie-vibe-wise but psytribe will have psytrance which is more down my alley than the music at this one. The one set that was UH MAZE ING was the dubstep. It was new, different, and intense, lots of fucking acid sounds (for those of you that produce music) and it got everyone much more lively after they'd been partying for a while. I'm glad I stayed sober most of it, even though I needed to sleep more than I'd have liked... I wanted to meet more people but actually sitting around looking tired made a lot of people come up and say hi.
