Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wow Roadtrip to STAY THE HELL AT HOME: Gathering of the Juggalos at Cave In Rock, IL
Posted by D Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:46 AM
I know this link was dropped in the comments recently and has been making its rounds on the 'Netz, but it had to be posted. Psychopathic Records, or, ahem, the "label that runs beneath the streets," apparently puts on a massive shindig every year for the folks who call themselves Juggalos. That's slang for Insane Clown Posse fans. If you watch the above infomercial for The Gathering, as it's called, you'll hear ICP member Violent J eloquently describing the feeling of the magical energy that's in the air and how that feels, energy-wise. Magically. Now it's time for the Violent J Drinking Game:
The real magic is the energy that's in the air at the Gathering. Nothing can match that energy. The second you get there, you can feel it. It's pure, utter magic in the air unlike anywhere else on the planet. The Gathering; the feeling in the air; the feeling and the camaraderie between each other; the feeling of family love...It's sort of what it's like what I'd imagine it's like for Muslims who visit the holy land of Mecca. That's what I imagine it to feel like. What it feels like for Juggalos who visit the Gathering.
If you picked the word "feeling," finish your beer. Look, I know this is shooting fish in a barrel, but this event has apparently existed for AN ENTIRE DECADE. I had no idea. I wonder if Darwin Award entries from Cave in Rock, IL, spike dramatically one weekend in August every year. This year's festivities will feature performances by the usual suspects (Kottonmouth Kings, Vanilla Ice and all that) as well as Pauly Shore, Ice Cube and Coolio (how's that Academy Award holding up, buddy?). They also have roflcopter helicopter rides, wet t-shirt contests and probably more Faygo than anywhere else in the world.
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Saw this last night. Watched 'Idiocracy' again last weekend. Hurry down doomsday the bugs are taking over! "Smoke Tarryltons! Fuck You!"
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can't believe i watched all 14 min. My favorite lines....We got magicians up in this bitch......And, you get a pamphlet at the gate. Always expect the unexpected.....ICP will be performing a full length, extended show.....
I'll be there!!!! Been there almost every year and hell yeah we got magicians up in that bitch!!!
If only the YMCA could make summer camp sound this fun...
"Yo yo we got macrame and NOODLE portraits up in this bitch! We got ninjas doin' archery n shit, and you KNOW you can't miss that sizack race!"
This actually looks like a blast. If 150 dollars drops from the sky into my hand, I'm totally going.
"I mean, that's just the greatest news we're heard thus far." - Sugar Slam
Is "thus" a word typically found in the vocab of the average Juggalo?
I located a Juggalo slang dictionary, and no, "thus" is not included. Quit being such clowner-downers, ninjas! Woop woop!
Question: is Sugar Slam actually a Juggalo (Juggalette, as they're called), or is she just faking for the gig? Which would be worse? WHY IS MUSHROOMHEAD STILL A BAND??? So many questions.
for those of you not aware they made their own documentary about this called a family underground.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1418781/
i will go out on a limb and say its one of the most disturbing things i've ever seen. these people are insane and its kinda tempting as its right there all close to us. and the magicians... and the pliable group philosophy which would enable me to kill\maim trailer trash in the name of "family" and "good fun"
woot woot!
@highonlife - if $150 drops out of the sky, AND some God-like being with a booming voice from said sky says that I HAVE to use that $150 on the Gathering of Juggalos - I'm totally going, too.
I'm going to try to work "Everywhere you look, there's some different shit poppin' off" into a sentence today.
My favorite thing about Sugar Slam is like she time traveled from 1997 straight to my face.
A truly disturbing and sad image.
http://www.photobasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/icpfuneral.jpg
The image isn't loading. Is it the ICP baby funeral? There's a YouTube video about it, too. Someone (not me) should look it up.
Here's the YouTube link. Seriously wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMv9d1pIoBA
make fun of it as much as you want, crack many more joke on it, but if you went, you wouldn't be able to deny, it's the most fun you will have in your entire life...
Man I never knew ICP came to cave inrock! I go there every year for the rally but just found out about this!! I've got to check this shit out!!! Its gotta be fun! How much is it and do you camp out there like we do at the rally?
And I bet none of you have ever gone to a music festival, campground, or anything of the sort? Why don't you people quit being retarded and let other people do what they do instead of wasting your time commenting about it.
My son and roomate is there this week end. Because of poor health I chose to stay at the hotel. I went tho the one at Nelson Ledges, OH and had 3 long days of fun. I enjoyed watching all the crazy shit going on! Its just a big Halloween stage show; similar to Alice Cooper (which made a guest appearance on one of there earlier CDs. If our kids want to be a part of the world wide Juggalo Family just let them have there fun? At least they are not out gang banging?
Sugar Slam is Violent J's wife.. I'm pretty sure that's her..Looks like her anyway.. Nice to know all you have to do is sleep with a fat dude with a lot of money and suddenly that makes you a part of the record company now..
All you haters can eat a dick. I was there for the 5 days and it was the best time of my life. There is much family love so stop being ingnorant unless you know what your talking about bitches. whoop whoop
wow. you guys are fuckin dumb... you wonder why juggalos are sorta closed minded and shun you all away? thats why! fuck. were people too with high paying jobs, college degress, etc,. were people too. and some of us are very polite and considerate, and helpful. you dont know how many strangers helped others out this year. grow a pair of your OWN balls.
WOOP WOOP!
nihikii I hear you i been down since dead body man on the fear soundtrack!! I am an employed family man that is also a full time student and I m prior MARINE CORPS and I just have to say until you try it, don't knock it. Why don't you do some research before you run your dumpster! If your half as educated as you try to act then you know that facts speak the truth. And to qoute someone some where "Money talks and B.S. walks" Juggalos are to the grave Juggalos and it is something that all these haters just can't deal with. There is so such thing as a "fare weather fan" when it comes to the hatchet!! Whoop Whoop!! So you haters can go suck a hairy one for all I care.
WHOOP WHOOP fucking stoked 4this years gathering its gunna be ligit insane! and sooo much faygo yummmm!!!
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