Orangina is no substitute for water, kids

A small band of HoopPainers manned up and made it to Davis, CA to perform at the Whole Earth Festival with the group Solar Flare. My experience was bittersweet, but I loved most moments of it. I just hated that I DRANK ORANGINA INSTEAD OF WATER ALL FUCKING DAY LONG IN THE HOT FUCKING SUN. WTF is wrong with me, even as I greedily drank the sweet sweet orange drink with 12% pulp, I could hear Gnarly Carl’s voice telling me about drinking mimosas at Burning Man, “Stick to one mimosa a day, if you do it too much the sugar from the fruit juice and the alcohol will sneak up on you.”

I didn’t have any alcohol to worry about — during the day, but ask me about the night time festivities and I can tell you one Painer who really should have … well yea that story inspires my Drew Barrymore Firestarter reaction, I’m telling my power to “back off” right now.

Anyhow, back to the fest, all that heat and no proper meal or water meant that by performance time I was a fucking bear in my disposition. Luckily all my management training has paid off so that when I get in these moods I can create a filter between my asshole qp mood and what I show peeps. See the performance below? I had a headache, was sick to my stomach, and partially dehydrated. I coped.

At the end of the performance, a little girl came up to me and asked for my autograph while her mom complimented on how flexible I was (you hear that boys? *ahem*).

Maybe, sometimes, it pays off to suffer.

x.o. qp