Gathering of the Juggalos

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

A must-read: My Time at the 10th Annual Gathering: By Violent J

http://www.juggalowrestling.com/jcw.php?page_id=home

Click on "10th Annual Gathering Report - by Violent J"

I tried pasting this "report" here, but it exceeded the maximum characters allowed!

I apologize in advance if this has already been mentioned.

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

"There was far too much going on at all times so there really was no way to take it all in."

"even with Alzheimer’s, you’ll never forget your Gathering experience."

"I told him [Ice Cube] the Gathering is underground music’s best kept secret"

"I just remember lookin’ out from the stage and seein’ gang bangin’ Juggalos draped in Ryda Rags everywhere I looked. I didn’t know who was an official Ryda and who wasn’t. Lookin’ back on it all now, I realize everybody was official Rydas. It was so fuckin’ fresh."

"Ever since the Opaque Brotherhood Tour I feel like our game as Dark Lotus is as tight as a fish’s anus."

"Michael Jackson would of had trouble following Tech N9ne."

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

"The sun beat down upon them but the Juggalos beat back with there shine even harder upon the sun causing it to hide behind some clouds."

"And to think about how so many people diss Juggalos. What the fuck could anybody have to say about Juggalos? Juggalos are the fuckin’ dopest, most livest, most fun having, energetic people in the world. You know, being a Juggalo and going to the Gatherings, or any Juggalo event, and being a part of the whole scene... you realize just how fuckin’ stupid people who diss us sound. They fuckin’ sound like motherfuckin’ moronic fools dissing us. Because who could diss something so beautiful? Who would you rather stand there and watch a live event with: A bunch of strangers who don’t give a fuck about each other? Or a solid family? People out there actually think they can diss Juggalos somehow. For what? For making the most out of our lives and having a fuckin’ great time? For having a magical ability to turn would be strangers into family? For singing, chanting and partying with each other like no other? For belonging to something? And only Juggalos know how truly fuckin’ stupid other people sound tryin to diss us. What we have is so special, so magical, and so real it’s incredible. And here you have people tryin to diss us for it because they’re not a part of it. Because they don’t get it. They sound so fuckin’ utterly lame dissin’ us because we’re the ones that are part of a special movement that we’ll cherish forever. Like Hippies or something better, closer and tighter. We’re the ones who get to be part of a major musical movement in history. They are the ones just out there, alone, just like everybody else in the world. We are the ones that are a part of something truly special. We all have each other. We’re the ones bonded by the magic that brings us together. Something never before seen in music, something brand new, original and magical. Something foolishly hated and misunderstood."

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

"At the beginning of the show Shaggy and myself walked out there and politely asked the Juggalos not to throw shit this time because it makes the ring wet and slippery and the wrestlers cant put on as good of a match. It truly makes the matches shitty. Plus as Shaggy pointed out ninjas get hurt and the truth is all the wrestlers are Juggalo...But our little pre show speech didn’t mean shit as the stuff kept flying anyway. But you know, JCW is like Burger King, have it your way ninja."

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

"one of my best highlights from the whole Gathering was Corporal Robinson’s Midnight Massacre Flashlight Wrestling. What made this so dope was that it didn’t start until 5 in the morning."

"Once the first match began we cut the ring lights off, and the Juggalos cut there flashlights on. This created a fresh ass looking effect like we were in a sold out arena or something."

[Chad from Oregon]

"as tight as a fish’s anus."

A year from now, I predict that this term will be just as common amongst the Juggalunanti as "Whoot/Whoop/Woop/etc x2" is today.

GATHERING OF THE JUGGALOS 11: TIGHT AS A FISH'S ANUS

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

A glimpse into the 2009 festivities...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uryRYIYnZSM[/youtube]

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

Check out the guy's bouncing beer gut at about 4:40, right after he rubs the blow-up doll on his crotch and throws it into the crowd, saying "destroy that mother$&#@&*"

[Stupornaut]

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2009/09/03/posse-on-clownway-icp-reviewed/

The Gathering of the Juggalos seemed like the greatest place on earth, despite ill informed derision from certain poverty demonizing stuff white people like type elitists.

There is a link in the phrase "certain poverty demonizing etc. etc." Guess whose discussion it directs to?

[AndrewVDill]

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2009/09/03/posse-on-clownway-icp-reviewed/

The Gathering of the Juggalos seemed like the greatest place on earth, despite ill informed derision from certain poverty demonizing stuff white people like type elitists.

There is a link in the phrase "certain poverty demonizing etc. etc." Guess whose discussion it directs to?

Tom Scharpling doesn't care about poor people.

[yesno]

I think it ought to be possible to make fun of crappy gallery shows and wine-sipping posers without being a working class hero, and it ought to be possible to make fun of ICP (who, all kidding aside, are fucking garbage) without becoming an effete snob.  Class posturing is a good defense for people who recognize that what they're defending is shitty.

[buffcoat]

Class posturing is a good defense for people who recognize that what they're defending is shitty.

This is a very insightful point, yesno.

[Christina]

Class posturing is a good defense for people who recognize that what they're defending is shitty.

This is a very insightful point, yesno.

Yah, I think so too. That guy who wrote the article in the Shitty Paper (that's what we called it when I was growing up in NoVa-hilarious, no?) is full of beans in that way where he uses tons of 20 dollar words and compound sentences (kinda like all of early rock criticism) in a feeble attempt to make over something gleefully and willfully dumb into some kind of class commentary. People who have had ANY kind of advantage, real or perceived, have absolutely no awareness of what's REAL or some such crap. Which means you have to behave like a total animal to reinforce this idea somehow?

And then shoring up the other side of this half assed structure is ICP themselves & this whole stupid insistence that people who have congregated in one place at one time means it's a family. I mean, god, if you read Violent J's GOTJ report from that link that KittyKitty posted - and don't even get me started on the horrible web design that made it damn near impossible to read - this is taken to such a ridiculous level where the guy's report hasn't even been vetted for errors or cleaned up even slightly. They just threw it up there, cause its the raw motherfuckin' feed. We're talking simple errors, like they're/their/there type shit. Would it kill this guy to maybe type a "g" at the end of "fuckin' " or "motherfuckin' " instead of the apostrophe?

Also, if you look at the list of everything that's on Stuff White People Like Dot Com, five'll get you ten that Monsieur le Scharpling has torn apart everything on that list anyway. Feeble, Shitty Paper guy. Feeble.

Good lord, I've made fun of most of the stuff on that list. C'mon.
 

[not that clay]

I think it ought to be possible to make fun of crappy gallery shows and wine-sipping posers without being a working class hero, and it ought to be possible to make fun of ICP (who, all kidding aside, are fucking garbage) without becoming an effete snob.  Class posturing is a good defense for people who recognize that what they're defending is shitty.

And how. Anybody who thinks the ICP is the authentic expression of the working poor doesn't think much of the working poor.

[Bryan]

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/2009/09/03/posse-on-clownway-icp-reviewed/

This piece should serve as a warning for all hacks trying to make a name for themselves via contrarianism. One day you too, might wind up defending ICP.

That article is truly awful - I mean using "poverty demonizing" as a criticism? Dude - poverty's a bad thing! Is Andrew Noz really pro-poverty? A brave position to take. And, uh, "wealthy rock critics"? How many of those are there in America, or anywhere else?