Paul: "You're married, you live in a nice neighborhood and you're happy. What's your secret?"

Justin Macroy: "I started having more success when I stopped feeling like my life was a narrative. Once you let go of that idea, you stop seeing yourself as the most important thing in your 'narrative'. You see yourself as a component. There's no arc to my story, there's no climax or anti-climax. Once I let go of all that, I became happier."

GOLD!!

If you insist that your life is a drama about you, that's what you'll get and you'll suffer.

And yes, I'm also not on Facebook. I could either join or ride it out 'till it really dies and gets replaced by Instagram or whatever else.

What's worth mentioning is that [ rave.ca ] has advantages over Facebook. It's not here to hawk your personal info to advertisers. That camp counselor job interview lady won't snoop on it looking for conclusions to jump to based on who you know and where you go and what you looked at. In fact the whole basis of it is pro-privacy because let's face it, there's a huge witch hunt against - heaven forbid - enjoying yourself at someone's loft.

9:02 most epic drum fill ever. EVER.

I think this is a sign of the times. There was no DJ school before because modern DJing was relatively fresh as an art form; it was like a folk culture, it was in the air, it was happening. Everyone's loft roommate was a decent DJ with real turntables (you had to be decent to compete), so chances are you had a live-in teacher. You learned by getting your hands on the common gear, experimenting, observing the good DJs out in the field, asking questions, and learning hard lessons from making an ass out of yourself in the real world.

It's like jazz. In the 60s, there was no jazz school. You learned it by living in the culture, studying the professionals by ear, going to jam sessions, getting booed off stage, practicing 9 hours a day with tears in your eyes and coming back fit to beat everyone at the cutting competitions.

Now it's taught at Concordia by snobby white intellectuals to slackers who don't care and won't use it.

Wait long enough, they'll also teach DJing at Concordia to whoever wants to complete their credits. Take death metal guitar there too, why not. It'll make you a well-rounded person. ;)

Yes, it sounds bitter, and it's not that I have a problem with this DJ school, for all I know it's pretty good...I just think art gets cheapened when it's academicized. It's like admitting the growth is over, the art is set and it's all rules now.

Anybody know about this?

h ttp://ca.movies.yahoo.com/blogs/wide-screen/remy-couture-quebec-filmmaker-going-trial-corrupting-morals-192903311.html

Rémy Couture got arrested and is going on trial in MTL this December because his special effects were too good in a horror film. A fiction horror film.

The charge is "moral corruption and the production and distribution of obscene material". The case is costing Rémy thousands of dollars to defend and the estimated cost of prosecution is estimated to reach $1million for Canadian taxpayers.

This is the first case in Canadian history relating to artistic content created solely by consenting adults and created entirely by legal means.

One might say....

....that the correct question is "Under what category can I tolerate every artist sounding the same?"

A room with dim lighting, a couple of chairs, a plant or two and several doors.

Behind one door is the world and it's 1999.
Behind the second door is the world in 1988.
Behind the third door is the world in 1979.
Behind another door is the world in 1969...another has 1954...one with 1905...etc.



That can actually be done. But it's gonna cost ya!

No, those aren't new, they're a couple of years old but the DVD of those episodes is coming out in March so I hear. Unlike the classics, they're full of sex, puke and caca jokes.

Basically, the whole thing was back in John K's hands this time. (In case you don't know the story, John Kricfalusi was the show's originator. Nickelodeon TV fired him in 1992 for pushing the crazy-and-disgusting factor too far, but since the show was popular, they produced more seasons themselves and lame ones at that.)

This time around, JK and company did away with the kid audience approach and went full-on 18+. Some people say it's not as good.

Remember those Shalom psy parties a few years ago? They made you take your boots (shoes?) off when you came in. Those were among the most sober-looking raves I'd seen.

I can easily picture a no-booze-no-xtc-no-ciggs party. And I'd go to it. It would be all about the music and the atmosphere for sure.

Problem is, it would end at 12:30am as people begin yawning and saying they have to get up early tomorrow. :D j/k

That bottom picture is amazing; that's the exact moment I said "Tony, the cops are here."
I hate that top picture. My eyes are only that red because of the smoke and such.

re: the fundraiser, stay tuned...

Oh yes it was. As soon as I discovered it was wet, I turned it off and unplugged it right away so it wouldn't crackle and explode. I turned it upside down and this DELUGE of beer poured out of it, and I thought, man this thing's finished. The repair center for Korg stuff is all the way out in Baie D'Urfe on the TransCanada. I took it way out there, yesterday morning, by bus in the freezing cold. The guy looked at it, took it to the back, came back, raised one eyebrow, shook his head, and started with, "Listen, I'm gonna be honest with you" and the verdict was grim and terminal.

Did someone say FUNDRAISER?? :)

Some girl who was way too drunk spilled her drink all over my Korg keyboard.

Totalled it.

$600 down the tubes.

I have to buy a new one. I'm not a happy Ninja now.

It was a hella fun party but what a crowded, alcoholic debacle. I was never in so much doubt that I'd be able to find all my things and go home. I was never really into booze, but seeing certain individuals get so trashed has now turned me off of it completely.

High points: Meeting people I'd only read posts from before.

zero-grav parties = next big thing.

Started hating it...
...about a couple of months before I started to LOVE IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!


If you get sick of something, take a break, then come back to it.

You're all fools for missing Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law (Sat 11pm English Teletoon) - it had the Shaggy and Scooby pot bust, Grape Ape in prison, the Flinstones in a mob scandal, rockin'!

Hmm..."rave"...hard to replace an old word, eh?
"Party" doesn't seem right, sounds like a 6-year-old's birthday.



Eccchhh!!! Just sick.

Just so you know...all that text was posted years ago on [ tranceaddict.com ] probably originally came from somewhere else.

I use McDonalds' washrooms to put on Halowe'en makeup for late October parties. That's basically it. I heard they make most of their money off their price markup of Coke and not their food, which is screwy enough.

The Corporation is indeed a must-see. Not because you're supposed to believe everything in there, but because it forces you to think a little more.

I think I could go on and on about the increasing polarization of political thought and the good-vs-evil rhetoric that everyone uses to describe power structures these days, but I'd rather not right now.

*ahem* back on topic...

Some real world anecdotes regarding losing sex or music:

Friend of mine (musician) had surgery 'down there' for a tumor, and was told that he'd probably never fuck again, ever. It hurt him but he got over it and went on with his life and kept a positive attitude.

I've had some near misses with deafness, one of which was an accident at a rehearsal that nearly conked my ears out. I thought I'd never be able to do mixes anymore. The instruments sitting in my room seemed useless, it's like my whole room turned into a dungeon; I went out with my folks to dinner, the car stopped next to another car with some chick moving to the beat, enjoying it so much, and realized what I could end up without. I thought that dinner would be my last meal. I felt out-of-touch with the world as I knew it.

Thankfully I'm alright now. (And so's whatsisface with the surgery, his plumbing is running now too.)

Y'see, you have sex every so often and you spend most of your time doing other things. But music - it's everywhere, and if you've grown up on it, you're emotionally attatched to it for life.

Note that the story underneath is "Doctor disciplined after breast implant death"; so just imagine a botched job on your [ www. ]

Bleh...I wish I could edit posts here...some of that was redundant and off topic. :/

Well well....

Healthy competition is good. I mean competition as in so-and-so-is-really-good-so-I-gotta-do-better, so everyone raises the quality margin. What's NOT good is elitism and snobbery.

I can understand the viewpoint of not wanting to let a scene become too big, i.e. the saturation point where it's everywhere all the time, then people get sick of it because they're overexposed to it, and the scene loses its hip edge. However...



(good post, BTW)

So you've got a contradiction - How does one become big enough to be 'somebody' but still remain elusive like a well-kept secret? The Montrealers' way of solving that problem is to resort to high-school cliquism. 'We're hot, you're not invited.'

Props to all of you who try to break out of that mindset. I should also point out that it's no accident that most of the best DJs are the happiest ones, 'cause their minds aren't clouded by that kind of bitterness.

I'm up 4 it...check your email ;)

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[ Umm...ca ] someone explain what a rave scene was doing in a Dr. Seuss movie? The guy must have died before there was any such thing!

I've been an extra in a movie or two, not club scenes though. Three words about some filmmakers: No Research Whatsoever! There was a protest scene where it was clear the assistant director (who was the one barking out orders) had never seen a protest before.

Ahh that's harsh...

Well I'll say this much: The puropse of going independent is to be freed from the restrictions that are imposed by a distribution system that is run based on popularity, profit margins, demand-creating tactics and modular functionality (i.e. a 3 minute song of this genre fits in this spot for this purpose etc.)

But once you're given that freedom, put it to good use! Don't flood the underground with underworked, unoriginal and uninspired output just because you want a shot at the spotlight.

So now Dawson's back to the way it was when I was there...oh great.

My experience has been just the opposite. For a while I was going out with a vegetarian, I never criticized her for her choices, if anything I respected the level of discipline it takes not to eat meat. Meanwhile, she and her friends used EVERY OPPORTUNITY to make snide remarks about that fact that I eat meat, like I'm some sick heartless fuck. Meanwhile I was about 6 feet and weighed 127 lbs, so we're not talking about someone who can fuck with his diet to just shut people up.

And she did it for 'political reasons'. I didn't have the mind to tell her that we're ALL slaves of some system in one form or another, and no, we're not at the top of the food chain; we're WORM CHOW after we're dead, get used to it. (Unless of course you get filled up with formaldehyde during the gruesome embalming procedure which I read and won't go into detail about now.)

But I'll say this much, I can relate to the "love your friends, don't eat them" sentiment, and I'd prefer that the animals are treated well in their lifetime which sadly is not always the case.

Who was spinning in the psy room around 2:30? No shit the dancefloor was packed, I love it packed like that; it was awsome! I was there earlier when it looked all empty and I was starting to run out of hope; the place only filled up around 1am-ish.

Awesome murals, coloured to glow in the blacklight, nice. Good oldskool NFB on the screen :) Damn good sound, too. Excellent choice of location; roast goat anyone? Seven bucks!

Props to Soyfunk being his usual cartoonish self, hehe. What's his website where he posts the fisher price tapes?

One of these days I should take the time to properly meet everybody; I see a lot of the same faces at quite a few of these things.

Yup.

Look at the attitude here. How about saying the scene IS IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT instead of calling it DEAD?

Give some people with ambition a reason to put work and ideas into revitalizing the scene, instead of giving them the vibe that they're "wasting their time".

Accept the fact that things will change, and look for ways to make something great come out of these changes. Use the problems as opportunities to find solutions and make new heroes in the process. And don't diss the noobs, they're the ones who are going to pick up the energy and improve the scene, not the jaded stay-at-homes who don't care anymore.

sighhh....for reasons that take too long to explain, will only be there in spirit, who wants my ticket?

Ok, once you're headed down that road...some oldies but all goodies:

DJ Marc Aurel - Running [Dumonde Remix]

Lange - Drifting Away [original mix]
(I'm warning you, it's so sugary it'll probably rot your teeth, but it's worth it)

Svenson & Gielen - Beauty Of Silence
(boy will this one rot your teeth!)

Cygnus X - The Orange Theme

Marco De Govia - Things That Matter

Riva - Time Is The Healer [Armin Van Burren Remix]

Corderoy - Sweetest Dreams [Greg Murray Vox]
(cavities cavities cavities!!)


and if you dare, and can find it,
that Look To The Sky song from Dance Dance Revolution. hahaha!!