Bonnaroo: Trustafarian Wonderland

Trustafarians, rejoice! It’s almost time to hop into first-class and head to Tennessee for Bonnaroo 2010.

Though the festival’s now almost too corporate for even them, it’s still certain to attract plenty of trust-fund kids playing hippie dress-up. If you’re going to check out usual suspects like The Flaming Lips, Dave Matthews, and Kings of Leon (whose new tweenage “Sex on Fire” following might stick out), it’ll benefit you to buddy up with a Trusta—who’s certain to bring his luxe three-room Kelty and Osprey full of goodies.

Conan O’Brien’s set to take the festival’s Comedy Theatre stage and should feel right at home in front of a Trustafarian crowd after his time spent in Cambridge and working at a Connecticut day-camp.^* Maybe he’ll take a comic stab at those twenty-something fauxhemians who bankrolled their trip with Mom and Dad’s money. Fellow funnyman Stephen Colbert’s already tested the Trustafarian waters with a joke on The Colbert Report. (Around the six-minute mark for those with ADD, or who actually need to get back to work.)

Both could learn a thing or two about the counter-counter-culture’s inner-workings with The Trustafarian Handbook. And anyone who’s attending ’Roo should check it out as a debriefing, or pick it up before heading to less commercial (for now) events like Nateva, which only wicked hip Trustas are probably attending.

^*Allegedly—this all comes secondhand from a Greenwich (Connecticut—not Village) Brohemian I knew in college who swears Coco was his camp counselor.

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