Am I the only person who knows nothing about "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience"?

There was a near-riot because of it, and I'd never heard of it before. I must be getting old, or out of touch with popular culture. (Gotta love the planking in front of cops; that's something I do know about.)
> Near-riot in Hollywood; Planking in front of police (LAT)

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[stevenvictx]

make them walk the plank......Arrrrrrrr

[Jim Romenesko]

Planking strikes me as one of the dumber fads in recent history.

[Somebody]

I must be getting old too, never heard of "planking" and had to google it. That is indeed a dumb fad. I don't really get it.

[Phranqlin]

Sign me up for "old fart" status, too. I've never heard of the Electric Daisy Carnival, either. But it looks like fun; I may go if they hold one nearby.

OTOH, I have heard of planking. It's a typical pop culture fad: free (or inexpensive), ridiculously easy to do, and completely pointless. Had to laugh at the sight of people planking in front of the LAPD, though.

[Many]

Planking; is that some sort of yoga thing?

[twerp]

I turned 30 recently...yeah, I'm REAL OLD. I didn't know anything about any of this.

[bode]

As far as I am concerned 30 is basically one foot in grave. Observant readers from Los Angeles will recognize it, however. The festival caused a complete local ruckus when a 15 year old girl died of an ecstasy overdose at the "carnival" last year. It was held at the Los Angeles Coliseum for years, making the producers millionaires many times over (I think the festival attracts about 200,000 kids between 14 and 20, of which 199,500 are tripping balls). They did another one in Dallas, another guy died. Now it's moved on to Vegas, which oddly enough might be the appropriate place for it.

Oh and the Los Angeles connection is even better because the guys running the Coliseum were pulling down 250k a year plus side contracts, graft run rampant, town cars for everyone in case they need to drive the 5 miles to city hall. Great job if you can get it!

[MidtownCoog]

Last year LA had the X deaths and this year it was Dallas' turn. They show up in Houston soon under a new name. I'm saving up for a big order of bath salts and will be there in my underwear.

These freaks even have clubs that pose as churches all part of this subbacultcha!

As Leatherstrip used to say, "Kill a Raver".

[Me (the original)]

@ bode "As far as I am concerned 30 is basically one foot in grave."
Being 67, I'm not sure I want to know what you think of me.

[Meat Loaf Redux]

@Me: Well, to you and me, Bode is just out of the womb. That's another way to look at it.

[305club]

I thought it was some kind of civil disobediance thing, I had to Google it too...yep a dumb fad. Let 'em plank out in the street at 108

[bode]

Ha ha, glad I amused everyone. Just to be clear, I qualify as well. I've lived longer than JC and have three kids (a darwinian success, as they say).

Besides, I guarantee you very few Angelenos under the age of 30 know squat about the coliseum management brouhaha. Like how in 2009, when the coliseum general manager's 2005 Cadillac didn't cut it anymore, they bought a new one and gave him the old one. Like I said, nice work if you can get it.

Oh, and Coca Cola paid the GMs company for the right to sell Coke at the Coliseum to dehydrated rave kids. Even more classic!

[MidtownCoog]

Dallas' didn't even offer their kandy kids a single glass of voda.

It was every wigger for themselves from what I heard.

[TequilaJoe]

Never heard of Electric Daisy Carnival, it must be a youth fad for the hip hop crowd

[Sheila]

I saw some of these Great Clueless Generation dolts interviewed on television. They opened their mouths and Stupid fell out.

[Lou Sussler]

I hate to say it but 1 in 200,000 isn't such horrible odds in a binge drug atmosphere. Is it?

I thought I hadn't heard of it from the headline but I remember reading about a huge rave that was moved from LA to Las Vegas so that must be the same thing.

Heard of planking, looks dumb.

[RockyMtnMac]

My teen crowd just told me "Planking: Been there, done that. EDC: Totally blows...Warp tour was way better" Hopefully someone can translate this.

[Displaced]

I don't think it's a matter of age to not have heard of any of this. This one is a subset of electronic music. I was never a fan, though I know friends who were. They bonded over the stuff when they were in their 20s. Now everyone's fine and older and working and parenting--still listening to some of the music, but not going to events. There are probably at least 20 huge musical subcultures in LA, and by huge I mean able to draw a few thousand people to an event on short notice with no traditional advertising. That's what happened here. The act didn't show. Kids got upset, behaved badly.

As far as fads go, planking seems mostly harmless. Yep, Many, it's doing a version of the yoga pose someplace absurd and getting a picture.

[Yllek]

@ RockyMtnMac: I don't know anything about the EDC other than what I've read here. But Warp Tour, aka Vans Warped Tour is a annual event that tours in differnt cities featuring a lot of punk rock bands and some extreme sports. I'm almost 40, so REALLY old (lol), but I've been to some in years past - it's been going on for at least 15 years. It's a lot of fun and you don't need to be on drugs to enjoy it. I don't see the point to raves, but then again, I'm too old to experiment with new drugs like extasy.