yup. those are definitely tits.

NO!!

ya so where are the tits? and shit.
this thread is dying!

oh i thought you were going to say you did IT...

five posts in less than two minutes....

In recent years, a small cluster of brain cells (i.e. neurons) dubbed the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), has been identified as the master biological clock's probable site. Following a complicated pathway which involves a part of the nervous system called the Sympathetic Nervous System, the SCN eventually sends that information to a small gland at the base of the brain called the Pineal Gland. And it is melatonin, a hormone, that is produced by this gland. The amount of light seems to determine how much pineal melatonin is actually released from the pineal and secreted into the blood stream. The more light, the more release is suppressed. The less light, the more melatonin the blood carries. Light suppresses melatonin release.

What does that mean for the changing seasons?
During those seasons when the photoperiods are long, in the spring and summer, melatonin secretion is at its lowest since it can only be secreted at a significant rate during the relatively fewer hours of darkness. On the other hand, the closer we move toward the winter solstice, the fewer hours of light there are each day and, correspondingly, the longer the period of time each day when melatonin can be released into the blood stream.

What does melatonin do?
Once melatonin is in the bloodstream, what is the result? There are no very, very clear answers right now, for this quite a new field of research. However, one result found over and over again is that melatonin indirectly causes body temperature to drop. And what does that have to do with loss of pep, loss of energy, with sluggishness and perhaps with eventual depression The answer to that is not completely clear either. However, it is instructive to know that when we fall asleep, our body temperature drops. We also know that a drop in body temperature, sleep, and high blood levels of melatonin go together. Perhaps we might one day discover that the elevation of melatonin blood levels brought about by the dousing of light at night, in its creation of lowered body temperatures, is the event which actually brings about sleep. Scientific evidence does not yet permit us to make that statement, but it is a good possibility to speculate on!

A way, perhaps, to conceptualize all this is in some respects we operate as if we were solar powered, at least where sleep and wakefulness are concerned. Light powers the battery, in part by preventing too much melatonin from entering the blood stream, and as light disappears, melatonin release begins and possibly plays a role in triggering sleep. Then, as the sun once again begins to rise above the horizon, melatonin release is once again slowed, body temperature rises, and the movement toward wakefulness begins. If all of this were true, then we would predict that as the nights get longer and melatonin is present more often in the blood, then the amount of time we spend either sleeping or feeling sleepy will also increase. We don't know why this is not true of everyone, for it definitely is not.

ya Bitch. If you got a problem with snapple fire why don't you tell me to my face? Pussy.

Had a wicked time over all. Many negative and positive angles. I felt like I lived in a WORLD OF SHIT so I left after finding out that money was stolen. It was the third incident of thievery reported to me throughout the night. Security anyone. I understand why you're mad bitching tchandro but what would you do if someone stole 1800 bucks from you just sit back and watch everyone leave? It's not an easy situation to be in. Big love. I got a rush being back in that same venue once again. Don't want to go on too much cause I just wrote like a 3-page review of this fucking event. All in all, it was ILL. I thought Oliver did play cause I saw him getting ready when I was leaving; all DJ sets were pushed back 1/2 hour in that room by the way, don't know if that played a part. Sorry I missed Pat and Maxx's set, but I was awake for 24 hours on 3 hours sleep and had to go.

I believe that children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone to fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I will live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity

Chorus:
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

And I decided long ago
Never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I will live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity

Chorus:
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

And if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love

we put the 'fun' in 'funeral'!

Ya Ben, why don't you go build a fucking wall or something.

Actually, being 6:02 AM right now that's probably what you're doing...

Ya, stop trying to turn this little cyber utopia into a prison for our minds, memf-style. Go back to your own goddamned interweb country where you can rule with an iron fist and suppress all dissidents to your maniacal ramblings. and stuff. Fucking happy hardcore DJ and shit. biotch. Go eat some chi or something.

Sincerely, The Head Xenophobe of Xenopolis

Ya, as the official rep of Level 4 Productions' Inna City Hardness division and vice president of the Tactical Operations squad (as well as senior VP of the Illicit Intoxication Division and interim vice-chairman-of-the-board of the Bongo Tek Brainwashing Commitee), I'd like to say a couple of things here.
1) Sarcastic will play, barring any unforeseen circumstances (ie. poisoned, murdered or physically mutilated by the merciless wrath of nter)
2) Y'all is dumming. Dumming.
3) One Love



and, most importantly
4) WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

Sunday November 10th at Jingxi
Neerav (Trance5000)
E-Leven
Melanie / trois-rivieres
Psy-trance night.
Mad Cheap Drinks.

Ya, as the Chief Executive Officer of Level 4 Productions' department of Inna City Hardness, I think I can rightly say that, officially and technically, L4P did NOT throw Hooked. We helped out the Coloured Co-Ordinators of that era, who may not be the exact same as the are on this present day. And the Coloured Co-Ordinators did most of the work, by far. And I thank 'em all for that, including Nter a whole bunch. L4P threw a party called !one love. and that's it.

to reformulate neoform's comment, in the words of shakespeare, "The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
that's what it's all about.

no i never read the silcott book, but I've heard a lot of people say I should. i didn't really like her much when she wrote for the mirror, frankly.. her crap pissed me off sometimes. (ahh those pesky journalists... kill 'em all I say)...

but i like your signature, I got about four different versions of that track. "i can be the burger, and you can be the bun, we can make sandwiches."... detroit grand pubas represent.

1: yes I always want to kill stupid people
2: who doesn't?

If both 1 and 2 are true, and if everyone walks around thinking 99% of the world is stupid, what does that make you in the eyes of others. Stupid, that's what it makes you. In the eyes of others, at least. Maybe not everyone, but surely someone. And sure, you can just say that whoever thinks that is stupid also. It's tough to do but sometimes if you think like that you can realize that we're all locked in this stupid stupidity together and it's fucking funny, and life is funny, and it's possible to simultaneously love and laugh at people while thinking they're fucking morons. I know a lot of my friends are fucking stupid sometimes. But I don't curb stomp 'em -much. Anyways, you gotta try, think around it a little, and it'll make your day a lot happier. If only I could take my own fucking advice.

onelove

Ya, house music, as it's known, is good, i guess. But when you pick a whole big-ass style like that there's bound to be shit you like and shit you don't like, the more you get into it and realize all the different sub-genres and subtleties involved. I consider myself a tek-head in a sense but there's a lot of techno that's just shit, for me. Same with any style. Also, music is purely a matter of opinion (or at least, I like to think it should be).. if you really try to say that, for example, 'hip hop sucks!', well, the fact remains that some people have fun listening to it and derive enjoyment from it, and therefore it achieves its goal as music and as art. all you're really saying is 'i don't like hip hop', in this example. It's hard to escape these terms, but i'll say straight up that I think cheesy fucking house sucks, and a lot of house is ultra-cheesy commercialised crap. House, like trance, and now techno, has hit the radio, video, mainstream movie circuit and has become mutated, murdered and butchered in the process. But there's some nice minimal shit out there that I love (Alexi Delano, Casey Hogan, the Nordic Trax boys who are coming to MEG are wicked, Steve Bug, etc.) and there's some catchy tunes that grab me once in a while for sure.

Next point. since when did house start it all? I mean, that's a really long, tough argument. you can just as easily say that disco started it all. or jazz. or kraftwerk. or detroit. i think if you're arguing for house you're looking at the Paradise Garage which bred house names like Frankie Knuckles for example, but their clear predecessors were huge disco dj's, Larry Levan for example... that's were shit started on that side. And disco came from funk, Funkadelic, Parliament, etc., etc., it's always hard to nail down the origins, naaameaaan? food for thought.

NICE! Pierrick B. reppin' tek.

11-12 INSOMNIAK
12-2 MILTON CLARK aka BABY DINO vs
SARCASTIC
2-3 SOMSAY

booty and breaks

hilarious. I fucked around and made a Rage Against the Machine remix also, hard techno, for when the cops kept coming into Tekstyle at Bluedog, the track incorporated some shit from killing in the name of "now you do what they tell ya", "now you're under control" and "some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses" and then breaks into the "bullet in the head" riff and ends with that looped "all of which are american dreams" all over bangin' hardness. totally hilarious.

how do you guys stay so cheery if you're so bored? I'm fucking bored but most importantly I can't sleep and I have to wake up in... oh... 2 hours. this is hell.

Sarcastic drops the 3 deck ghetto tek blasphemy at Booty Break October 10th at Jingxi, 410 Rachel E. $4 at the door. Fucking cheap booze before 1 am.

bounce bounce.

10-11 Kilobyte and Freebass
11-12 Kidstatik and Simmetrik
12-130 PREACH
130-215 Toltech
215+ Sarcastic

with live visual projections by Mindlab

Level 4 Productions
!onelove

It's the end of an era as Level 4 Productions announce the grand finale of Tekstyle Thursday at Bluedog. It's been exactly one year of weekly Tekstylin', we've had a blast and accomplished everything we set out to do, but now we're moving on. It's sad to make these decisions, but ultimately it comes from the heart and with the sadness comes liberation; without change there can be no growth.

The final Tekstyle bonanza will feature PREACH, who's knockin' skulls with stellar tek releases for Ascend/Default, Ben Sims' Symbolism label, Marco Bailey's Pornographic, Yaz & Miko's Edit Recordings, all in addition to being a fucking kick ass DJ, resident at Aria Fridays.

For the closing party we'll also have a whole slew of Level 4 DJs playing as Toltech, Simmetrik aka Simon G, Kilobyte and Freebass join original residents Kidstatik and Sarcastic. I'd like to see everyone out there to represent underground tek in MTL.

The Final Rock at Tekstyle
Bluedog, 3958 Boul. St-Laurent
2 dollars, 10pm-3am.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12th

that's news to me, although it sounds like something I MAY have heard at some point or another. pretty fucked up.

ya. Technodium USED to be aiiight. props to the wave. no pop ups, no ads, just good shit. how do you people do it?

Freebass 10-12
BABY DINO (kirk6) 12-130
Sarcastic 130-3 ol' school acid set

Evidence Giveaways all night long, 2 bucks at the door. Rep it.

yes, it is difficult to get into exit (normally) if you are a) underage b) dressed like a "junglist" (hahah!) or c) black
but it might be different for the wednesday, i can only assume it has to be little looser on some of those accounts. no guarantees / I only went there twice... once they were really cool with me actually I had a big can of heineken in my pants pocket and they let me put it in coatcheck after searching me (actually I told them straight out it was in my pocket)... but they do frisk people usually, which is weird for a non-afterhours... anyways..

no one died, somehow -how does that happen when nine shots are fired, and six people are hit at close range. I guess its called fucking good luck, and a shitty gun. or both.
also, in the terribly shitty news of the weekend, somebody jumped off a building at a little loft party that maysr and toltech were playing at, and is in really bad shape. this sucks ass.
security, all that will help, but ultimately all of this crap will happen wherever: rock concerts, people fucking around in parks, on street corners, wherever humans that don't know each other very well gather together, there's bound to be incidents eventually.
and don't always assume it's either bikers or black people. this is, first of all, pretty tedious territory for anyone to speak on, but, a)the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive and b) there are many other variations and permutations possible here: the club MAY be owned by bikers, who fucking knows? anyone? speak up.. surely bikers have something to do with it on some level, however far removed, maybe selling drugs to the crew that sells them in the club, maybe even further removed. Or maybe they straight out own it. Or maybe they sanction the club as territory to hells, or maybe its not their territory. maybe various bikers were fighting over the territory. If the club was biker owned why would anyone have to settle a drug-related dispute within the club? surely rival gangs/bikers would know not to infringe on the territory, and surely bouncers would search rival gang/biker-members accordingly? there are a lot of questions that none of us, I surmise, know the answers to. The bottom line is: what the fuck is this going to mean for clubs, for raves, for the industry. Or will it create a much needed split in the industry between Laval and Montreal, or better yet, between "organized", "legal" afterhours clubs and "underground", "illegal" raves... Okay I really have to shut up now. As usual, it's really late, I need to sleep and for some reason my brain is kicking into states of rapid mentalic dementia. doh. i hate it when this happens. Time to assume yogaistic self-relaxation schema.

sorry to bust in on your little love-in 'ere, but aone, there's a coupla other nights for tha so-called "junglist massive" ...er. one starts wednesday september 18th at Exit, swanky place at 3555 (i think?) st-laurent, on top of Bubbles the lamest cokehole ever. Exit's actually a really nice, huge spot, but the crowd is kinda lame usually, older, rich-acting types. and there's in Da Jungle maybe you know about, once a month, always posted in the calendar on ravewave.

allright, your little battles can rage on again.
i'm out.

The turnout was wicked. By about 1230-1oclock the place was full, at least 300 peeps, probably 400 in and out throughout the night if not more. I had an amazing time, apologies to all... I don't remember a lot, and I'm sure I was acting like a total idiot for a lot of the time. BIG BIG Props to all that showed, and all that helped organized and contributed all sorts of interesting shit that made it a spectacularly amazing party. Truly amazing. Wide varieties of music, tek, trance, dnb, electro, breaks, hiphop, booty, we had it all... Big up to Sam Snide with the appleton 60 ouncer, fucking killed me, destroyed me, eliminated 90% of my brain. sorry again to anyone that I was insolent, abrasive, stupid, or repugnant with; by my own account I had a wicked time, and it seemed that everyone else did also. Big up to freebass and kilobyte for pickin it up a notch, and on and on and on
!onelove

Level 4 in association with Evidence clothing present

TEKSTYLE DISTRIBUTION

Thursday September 5th 2002

w/ DJs
Baby Dino aka Milton Clark (kirk6)
Sarcastic (level 4)
Freebass (level 4)

Bluedog 3958 Boul. St-Laurent
10pm-3am
giveaways of Evidence gear all night long
$2 at the door, starting at 11pm

Much like Quebec City's so-called Fantasia Festival that was supposed to feature DJ Brian and John Kelly, as well as Oli Wisdom, the Fantasia Film Festival is cancelled. maybe next year for the film fest, never again for Lunatic Productions' Fantasia in QC.

Ya, the poll is not meant to be liked. It's a poll, it reflects the opinions of those that contributed. And just because people think there's a lot of losers on crescent, it certainly doesn't follow that if you are on crescent, you are a loser... and what do people know anyways?
maybe the people that are thought to be the biggest losers are actually having the most fun... not that I like crescent or the dome or anything! i'm just saying.
and that column in the Hour is lallaland, if you have any input into the poll, comments, or whatever, send it to the e-mail at the bottom of the article, slalla@hour.ca, and the guy'll probably print your opinions too!
word.

Level 4 Productions presents Tekstyle, Thursday August 29th featuring the mad styles of the one and only, always real never phony, bringin it stoney, tastier than rice-a-roni, mothafuckin'

PAT DAVIS [nice productions]

with residents sarcastic, kidstatik and freebass
August 29 @ Bluedog, 3958 Boul. St-Laurent 2 bucks at the do
ghetto. electro. funk. bass.

rep it

It looks like you're actually laughing in the picture. so it's like "hee hee" and then you laughing. it works.
word.
!One Love

I was at Arrival. In my opinion it was okay especially considering all the sketch that happened beforehand: location changed twice in the week before the party, and all that. Yes, there were huge piles of horse dung around (not that many, but a couple) and a friend of mine did complain that he was walking in shit, but I didn't see any tangible evidence of that on his shoes. In fact it seemed like all the piles were dry: like that's any consolation, I guess, when you can see 'em, when the sun comes up. Also a lot of no shows: Delta didn't play or Arne, nor did Ignition Technician or NYC's DJ Pauly, and the electro stage was cut... Maybe 5000 peeps were there, and one thing I must say was that the overall vibe was pretty good, people were dancing like mad, horse shit aside, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves that made it out there. The actual spot was beautiful, the same place as Arrival 1, out in the cornfields, right off the 20 about 40 minutes away from downtown. The sky was really clear you could see the stars all night, it was fun also cause the big DJs Thomas Krome and Punisher each played two sets, I guess to compensate for the guys that didn't show. Punisher, by the way, stole the freakin show, she's really tight, really funky techno from detroit. amazing shit. But ya, a lot of downs to a party that still managed to breathe some life.

Really, the bingo hall. It's a cool venue, but last I had heard they weren't gonna have any more parties there. Some crap about exceeding the maximum for a venue that wasn't licensed as an after-hours club or somefin'. Safe. Hopefully more venue owners will be as generous with their spaces.
And ya, I concur: Toronto parties and after-hours clubs end mad early. What's up with that? And people barely dance. What up wit dat too?

Thirty bucks just for a flyer! Then how much is it to get INTO the party! this is crazy!