what's VR?
― kinder, Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Typo for VF
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
i blame venture capital
― mark s, Saturday, 1 July 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
This VF seems less like Thackeray more like Trollope.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
a lot of the people quoted and the anecdotes are just a compendium of the many articles out there
this made me groan, though:
“They tried to do it all on their own,” the production executive says. “What I heard was Billy literally Googled ‘How to rent a stage,’and he rented a stage, and that was it. That was all they had.”
― mh, Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
Woulda been funnier if he was accused of using bing
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
the grim irony is bing has a festival organizer feature and he never knew
― mh, Saturday, 1 July 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
ok lol
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 July 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
http://pagesix.com/2017/07/01/failed-fyre-festival-promoter-too-broke-to-hire-defense-attorney/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
McFarland appeared flustered after emerging from court on Saturday. “I’d love to speak. I’d love to say something. We’ll set it up soon at a better time,” he stuttered to a Post reporter.
I wonder if he still thinks there'll be a second festival.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
McFarland, clad in a pale-blue T-shirt and black slacks — with briefs depicting brown deer sticking out of his pants — appeared in Manhattan federal court to face a wire-fraud charge.
― nomar, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
"Gonna put on my power briefs!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 July 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Deer in the headlights is his spirit animal
― Moodles, Sunday, 2 July 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
a friend of mine texted me and reminded me that i engaged in my own mini-fyre fest scam when we were in 3rd grade
me and him and these 2 twin brothers that moved away shortly after made a band called "10,000 Volts" (we had a logo, a lightbulb with 2 lightning bolts like a skull & crossbones, anyway we couldn't play instruments and didn't have any instruments or any songs...but for some reason we thought we could do a concert on the playground, so we made up tickets and sold them....we blew it all on candy at a drugstore on main street.
obviously on some level we had to know we were bullshitting but on some level we thought we could do it. i remember positing that we could make this crappy acoustic guitar at my grandma's house an electic guitar by putting a nail into it, then nailing the other end of a piece of wire into a stereo speaker....
i don't know, i guess we wanted to be legends.
a teacher did end up busting us for selling these fake tickets and we had to pay the candy money back.
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
today's tom sawyer
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
somehow our 8 year old thought process wasn't really a whole lot different than the fyre festival organizer's i guess
10,000 Volts needed a pitch deck and some VC
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
i wonder if all this will put paid to many hare-brained-but-heartfelt ideas in the near future. i mean infamously Glastonbury lost money its first few goes round and had all manner of skirmishes and trouble in its the 70s and 80s. if Fyre or same had happened the year before in 1971 or whatever, would they have even gone through with it.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
i was going to try to throw a rave with a friend in "an abandoned warehouse" on "the other side of the lake" and he was going to hire this older dude he knew from "the bottom of the hill" to "run security." we got as far as checking out the site and realizing it was too big a job for two 17 yr olds and a shady dude. we probably avoided a pint sized Altamont.
― nomar, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Shroff said McFarland was paying off a $100,000 Maserati, which prosecutors tried to claim as an asset.
Goddamn prosecutors, clearly never owned a Maserati.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
i remember positing that we could make this crappy acoustic guitar at my grandma's house an electic guitar by putting a nail into it, then nailing the other end of a piece of wire into a stereo speaker....
this is amazing
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
and this seems like it should have been an episode of degrassi junior high
― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
Bella Hadid is a noble spirit now:
http://www.instyle.com/celebrity/bella-hadid-august-cover
She’s also learned to protect herself following the Fyre Festival debacle—she and other celebrities, including Emily Ratajkowski, were paid to promote what they thought would be “the next Coachella” but actually turned out to be a disaster. Hadid was the only model to issue an apology on Twitter. “It’s also a different kind of job that I don’t do very often,” she says of social media–based endorsements. “Now I tag everything as an ad.”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
10,000 Volts is a good band name
― qualx, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
Now I Tag Everything is also a good band name.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
glad bella took the time to expound on the difference between stumping for fyre, where she used her image to draw positive attention to a product, and her day job, where she umm wait
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
when she says she tags "everything" as an ad... she's being pretty literal
― mh, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
actin like life is a big commercial
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
xpost qualx thank u
i retrospect i'm glad we had the moxie to do 10,000 Volts instead of just 1000 Volts I think we knew this entirely fictional band had a little more juice than your average
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
I tag all my content #IAmNotPersonallyResponsibleForAnythingIJustPosted
― qualx, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
bummed that to the best of my knowledge there is no band named Ten Thou who could conceivably go on tour with Son Voltbut yeah very envious of this childhood rock and roll tom sawyer/great brain scheme, several orders of magnitude more sincere and honorable than the fyre festival
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
splitting the difference
https://www.top40.nl/uploads/title/formats/29415/songwiki.jpg
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
we were twice the band they were
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
great b-side title there
― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
From the album Never Not on Fire.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
/i remember positing that we could make this crappy acoustic guitar at my grandma's house an electic guitar by putting a nail into it, then nailing the other end of a piece of wire into a stereo speaker..../this is amazing
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
everybody should
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
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omg i didn't notice that, amazing
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
i think there was an episode of It's Your Move about something like this
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
oh yeah, didn't they have a band of skeletons or something?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
this reminds me, this was basically the final episode/s of Fresh Meat, wasn't it?
― kinder, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
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The Dregs of Humanity!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qw2qHmX5SM
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gSDgrXsn1Y
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
Uh.
http://www.nme.com/news/music/blink-182-matt-skiba-witchcraft-fyre-festival-2108139
Skiba insists he used “every inch of my energy” to stop “that thing happening”. He told NME: “I had a bad feeling about that event. I consider myself a pagan and a witch. With every inch of my energy I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.”MPU 1 (Desktop / Tablet)“I’ve been to the Bahamas before and it’s so crass. You land in Nassau and the whole island is replete with beauty and culture, but there’s a lot of poverty. It is a largely black population then they build these places like Atlantis and The Cove that are walled off.”“It’s classist and racist and then they decided to park a bunch of yachts with models to show off in front of those poor people, going down there with all your Ferraris and bullshit and yachts.”
MPU 1 (Desktop / Tablet)“I’ve been to the Bahamas before and it’s so crass. You land in Nassau and the whole island is replete with beauty and culture, but there’s a lot of poverty. It is a largely black population then they build these places like Atlantis and The Cove that are walled off.”
“It’s classist and racist and then they decided to park a bunch of yachts with models to show off in front of those poor people, going down there with all your Ferraris and bullshit and yachts.”
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 July 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
why did his band agree to play it in the first place then
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 July 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
I don't think Matt Skiba exactly calls the shots
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 July 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
Are you doubting his witch powers
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 July 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
"I'm the biggest boss that you've seen thus far"
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/712849302834520064/oump1Yz0_400x400.jpg
honestly praying that Skiba gets kicked out then teams up with Delonge on a prop pop punk illuminati/lizard people/witchcraft concept album
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 July 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
I consider myself a pagan and a witch. With every inch of my energy I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.
Ha, what a nob!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 13 July 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
https://news.vice.com/story/fyre-fest-concert-tickets-billy-macfarland?utm_source=vicenewsfb
I feel like a former employee has inadvertently explained their entire company ethos
“It was a shitshow, but we were able to get most of these people to their Adele concert,” the former employee said. “Not everyone got the seats they were promised, because they were all promised front-row floor section, and obviously for this concert there were not many of those left, so Billy ended up buying just a bunch of 100-levels and then saying, ‘Hey, this is the best we can do, blah blah blah.’”
― mh, Friday, 8 September 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah that reminds me
http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7950030/judge-forces-fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-bahamas-bankruptcy
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 September 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link