My question is, with all the booze and what I’m assuming are COPIOUS amounts of psychedlics being taken, how does no one catch fire? All that flame (I don’t mean the Glam Cocks) and everyone looks healthy and happy! It’s a hippie miracle!
Some gay gentlemen who refer to themselves as “The Glam Cocks” made a short film depicting their experience at this year’s Burning Man. Burning Man is the famed, week-long festival in the deserts of Nevada, which brings freaks (I mean that in a complimentary way) from all over the country to express themselves in radical ways. Festival-goers construct mammoth-sized surreal vehicles to ride the desert in, create insane art installations of fire, and, well, party.
It’s nice to know someone’s repping the homos out there in the desert wastes, especially when they’re cute, shirtless, and occasionally jockstrapped.
If you’ve got the time, check out “Welcome Home.” It makes the goings-on look like a lot of beautiful fun. If I didn’t have an extreme aversion to body odor (emitting from myself and others), I would consider attending next year. Hey, they built a gay club in the middle of the desert complete with go-go boys. That’s all types of fierce.
– J. Harvey
To watch Burning Man in all its colorful, edited glory, Follow the JUMP:
I went to Burning Man for the first time this year. It was an incredible overwhelming experience. Fun, consciousness expanding, and transformative.
This is officially my first post to Manhunt and I must say…well worth the wait. I went to Burning Man two years ago for the first time and I am sitting here watching this video and fucking getting misty eyed over it. Remembering the experience, the people, the music, the MAN, the temple, its such an overwhelming beautiful experience that the minute they said welcome home in the opening sequence it made me instantly feel as though I wasn’t and needed to go back home myself. And just for clarification, it doesn’t just bring people from all over the country but all over the world. Right next door to my tent I had people from Britain and a couple from Switzerland who traveled just for Burning Man. You become one with every person there. At times you feel such a strong sense of Symbiosis that the minute you leave it feels as though there is a wrenching feeling, a phantom limb left in the desert and you can’t get it back. I was unable to go this year, but I tell you this, I will be going again.
I am pretty sure I know one member of that couple from Switzerland. He is a high school classmate and goes to burning man every year the past few years. Wonder if I will see him in the video.
I’ve never wanted to go as badly as I do right now after watching that. Thanks for the post!
The crazy thing is it’s so dry out there any sweat evaporates immediately. No body odor! Crazy, huh? Come next year you, will become one with the desert and the dust.