Aug 08 2006
Two coolest fans at Lollapalooza? The results are in!
Hey everybody. So I got everything uploaded again and am pretty much back in business. Sorry bout that. Within the next week or two there are still going to be some rad changes to the site.
I wonder what would have happened if somebody started an Amish festival in Chicago during Lollapalooza, named like Lallopalooza. It would have been funny to see how many people went to the wrong festival because they didn’t know how to spell Lollapalooza correctly. It’s like “man I can’t wait to see the Chili Peppers,” and then they get inside the park and are like, “Where are the Peppers? And why is Matisyahu playing a cowbell on top of an ox?…” Every time I used to try to go to the Lollapalooza site, I would end up at one of those useless sites that some asshole fortune teller set up because he knew I was going to spell Lollapalooza wrong, and if somebody was going to profit off my stupidity, darnit it was going to be him.
Second Coolest Person at Lollapalooza (black shirt)
Deaf people rocking out to the Shins? I guess so. From what I’ve heard (I promise no pun was intended there) people who are at a loss of hearing can hear vibrations of music. Makes sense to me. And maybe a select few might decide to spend $73 per day (or $150 for all 3 days), to hear those vibrations and be taken out of their very quiet world. So I can totally appreciate that. But will having a person near the stage, sign every word that The Shins sing really enchance the deaf persons experience? Lollapalooza seemed to be a pretty “liberal” festival where they cared a lot about the environment, and making sure no one was excluded (maybe besides college students who don’t have 150 bucks to spend on a music festival, but that’s another story), so it must have made perfect sense to them. But I just don’t understand what the function of a signer at a music festival is. Let alone how many bands do you know that have that thought provoking, or even quality song lyrics? Ohh the confusion. But don’t get me wrong, I’m not bashing what they were doing at all. I am just genuinely interested in why a deaf person would need somebody telling them what the lyrics of a song are, when they can’t hear the person singing, or most of the music. But yeah, the signer definitey gets an award for second coolest fan at Lollapalooza. I’m sure she was very grateful that it wasn’t a Heavy Metal Festival that she had to sign.
Stay tuned for the coolest Lollapalooza fan. Oh yeah and by the way, I thought that it was safe to go with Amish Festival because Amish people don’t have computers, so they can’t get mad at me. But if you broke the rules and are Amish and have the internet, I’m sorry. I wasn’t trying to make fun of you when I said that there was an Amish man playing a cowbell on an ox. I know that you guys are way cooler than that. But even if that is all that you guys have at your festivals, which i wouldn’t know (or if you even have festivals), than that is totally cool too. And for any Hasidic Jews that are offended when I said the person probably thought that the man on the ox was Matisyahu, you have to admit you both kinda look similar… you could see where the confusion comes from. Though I know you are not Amish… But if you were, that would be cool too.
2 Responses to “Two coolest fans at Lollapalooza? The results are in!”
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No pun taken, i’m a deaf person and to clarify the interpreter thing, I requested one for safety reasons. I can hear somewhat what they’re saying but not very cleary, so in a case of an emergency and people freaking out, i’m screwed. So, I requested an interpreter for the event of emergency and also, for when the singers have something they want to say, or perhaps if there’s competitions going on that requires me to know what area to be in, the interpreter can give me a clear information. I’ve missed out many things I’ve could’ve experienced if I was hearing, for example, free stuff that was being distributed on the other side of the park and they only announced it when a band got done with a set. Another example was, when they were informing people of the band autographing that I wasn’t aware of, the interpreters was able to come in and inform me the correct information.
Some deaf people wanted to feel like a “normal” hearing human being, in retrospect of being able to “sing along” with their favorite bands. Not all deaf people were deaf since the day they were born, some deaf patrons lost their hearing at a later stage of their lives. Sometimes deaf patrons wanted an interpreter to interpret songs that has sentimental meanings, like a married couples were “singing along” to a song that their deceased son loved.
Also, it’s no pun, it’s understandable to say “why the heck do they need an interprter if they can’t hear in the first place!” Like everyone else, they will lose their hearing at some point and it’ll make sense by then.
Thanks for your time!