Woodstock

So anyway the summer rolled around and my friend Carmen invited me to go to Woodstock with him. I jumped at the chance to go because I thought it would be a fascinating experience. What happened there was probably the low point of my year. I spent three days abusing alcohol and objectifying women. (Thankfully, that is all that I did.) The dynamics of the concert were different than expected. Everybody seemed shock when the rioting started at the end, but having been there, I cannot really say it was a surprise. At one point, the second night I even wondered to myself where al the peace and love was while I was surrounded to people moshing to “Bullet in Your Head” by Rage Against the Machine.

En Sof

But in even in the midst of my despair and hedonism I could not escape God. Carmen, his friend Jason, and I arived the day before the official consert began. While we were exploring the grounds I noticed a series of banners. I looked at the one above, and said to Carmen, “Hey, that’s a medieval Jewish Mystic representation of God!!!” He gave me a funny look as if to say, "This is Woodstock, man, give me some of the stuff your smoking." (Carmen does not talk like that, and he knew I was not smoking anything, but it was a funny look nonetheless.) Then I saw the next banner:

Then boasted, “And there’s a picture of the Trinity!!!” Carmen just rolled his eyes and went back to watching the band practicing on stage.

The Trinity

Alright... one more Woodstock story to illistrate how pathetic an athiest I was. One of the bands that I really wanted to see was Offspring. They gave a fabulous performance, but when they first came out I noticed that on the lead singer's shirt was a picture of the pope dressed in red. I was not sure what that was suppose to mean, but I thought to myself, "Actually there is historic precedence for the pope wearing red because up untill the renaissance they did." (Pope Pius V changed it to white in 1566.) Then I looked at the quarter million people surronding me and thought, "I am probably the only person here thinking this."
All in all not the best experience of my life. I was exposed to the false god of self indulgence more real that weekend than ever before. I got a true taste of what that was like. If you remember the news reports following the consert, then you know it wasn't pretty. Although I did do much I regret while I was there, "something" thankfully kept me from doing anything truly foolish.

PS Look for me on the Woodstock '99 Video... You can see me while Jewel is on stage. I am the guy with the Blue & Green hair in the lower left corner during one of the crowd shots!!!