Hm, parties... I'm gradually becoming a junglist, I think.

[radianreverie]

Last weekend, I went to a seriously tight drumnbass party. KJ Sawka, Zacharia vs. Rob Noble, etc spinning... It was at the Loft, which is, quite literally, someone's loft, in the industrial part of Seattle - I remember being confused by the dj setup at the front of the room, and the refrigerator, counter and variety of cooking utensils at the back

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[sharh]

better check on those pics hun. all i see are fishies.

i know what you mean about the jaded part. even though i've never really done anything worse than prescription painkillers (and that was like five years ago.. guess i was ahead of the trend) and massive drinking at parties, the edge dulls, like everything else.

of course i party more often now than i ever have, but i actually stop well before getting to a point of being tragically sloshed.

[radianreverie]

Yeah. (By the way, I hate starting up controversy in livejournal. It's just dumb.) I'm going to fix the fishies when I have some time, too. So, that'll be like six months from now. Aaanyway. It just went from being really shiny and new to being really shitty really fast. After doing this almost every weekend for the past nine months (going to a rave, not necessarily doing drugs) I've found that I'm just... grossed out by a lot of the people. I mean, there are some seriously sketchy characters that attend parties regularly. And what comes off these people repels me, it's like a big invisible barrier, the line that says "do not cross" and you wouldn't want to even if you could. And I'm tired of having something I enjoy become something I have to work my way through to find something I will enjoy. Maybe I should start going to house parties. But then again, I'd probably just get fairly drunk, and I wouldn't even be able to dance it off... Sigh.

[damdcow]

" But, there are those out there, many of them, who still believe in it, who keep it alive, pass it down. most of the time, as i have noticed (even as jaded as i have become) the etards are the ones who make the party happen. without the etards, you would have your pretty little jungle parties, where nothing ever changes, the music is all the same, and no one likes any variation

[radianreverie]

Yeah, I do understand where you're coming from. That's why I still do go to different kinds of parties. I'm just saying that after last fall, when I got caught up in it, it's lost a lot of its appeal, the more drugged-up side of raving, because I got close to fucking myself up and in the process realized how many people have gone far and beyond that imaginary line that I was fearing. It was a bad time, and I got surrounded by really bad people, and it was kind of a slap in the face once I sort of regained consciousness of where it was all going. Drumnbass parties are different. They're just different, and mostly, the reason I like dnb parties is the fact that I can't really stand happy hardcore as music in general whereas dnb strikes something in me more than any trance or house could. It's personal preference, and the longer I stay away from bomb, the more it scares me, because I'd never tried anything up until this past August, and I don't know if I can feel it and what it might have done to me yet but I don't want to be able to. I

mmmmmm

[damdcow]

ps. imperial wickedness is still the best party i have ever been to
pps. robot parade is somthing i will never forget. ever.

[steppenpup]

I'm sorry, but the scene that you, Tasha, and y'friends had jumped into was shallow to begin with. That's what I was trying to tell you, back in Seattle. It was just a flamingly shallow scene. You never got even close to an actual, real party, and that sucks.
I wish you'd found it years before, I wish you'd been older and had seen some of the amazing things that had happened. Truth is, the party scene in general is utter and complete shite, and it has been for a while.
I remember being at your going-away party, and hearing some of your friends talking about how they always went in lace teddies and took "sooooo much E." Amer and I were clinging to each other on the couch and just horrorfied by that shit.
I've been in the scene for so damn long that you bet your ass I'm jaded! There are so few people who do it for the right reasons and get it, these days. It's sickening to see where things have gone, and I'm happy that I'm no longer involved in the shit up there.

[radianreverie]

Yeah... I wish I knew different from this. I always wonder what it's like elsewhere, if it's the same thing, just different venues and different faces, or if there's something else that we're missing here. When were the real parties and what was it like? Was that the NAF point in time

[damdcow]

AYE! true that!

but jaded is the way to be!

[simplyjaded]

Simplyjaded.

Oh god. I am a fucking crack up.