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So it's Memorial day and you've pulled up Sardonic Shock Syndrome - I can only guess that it's because you A) just got my card because I met you at the DEMF, B) are a regular reader and you want to see what I've got to say, C) this blog is coming up in your RSS feed, or D) Your holiday weekend was as dull as unbuttered toast and you're desperate for entertainment.
Well sadly, I can't help any of you. It's 6:00 AM on Monday and I've been awake for a loooong time, and that time I haven't been awake has been time spend drunk as fuck or alternately dancing my ass off.
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What's to say about this year's DEMF aka Movement aka Tech-Fest aka Day Rave? it absolutely exceeded all expectations. Yes, there were a lot of Hot Topic Goths and Juggalos, but there were also so many people from the old school. that the whole thing was infinitely entertaining, and a great big mixer of good friends new and old.
Shut up, I know that sounded all kinds of sissy.
At any rate, to address my earlier predictions - I already talked about the Juggalos and Hot Topic goths, so enough said about that, BUT - the weather has been excellent, a point upon which I was totally wrong (though there's a day still to go,) there were enough hipsters to be be both conspicuous and disgusting, and also there was enough overlap from the competing sound stages to make for an obtrusive and mind-numbing whub-whub-whub, but the sound at the stages themselves was great. After ten years of practice they seem to have nailed that, but I'm off topic again.
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I've been drinking and dancing and just raving my dam face off for 3 days and I am dog tired. While at one time I might have decried DEMF as a tiresome exercise in a long-gone scene, I have to say that this year blew me away. The festival itself was hot, and the after parties were goddamned epic, so:
Now I'm going to stop writing. I'm winding down and watching a fucking John Water movie - I don't know how you could possibly improve on that sort of perfection, but I'm eager to hear how you try.
Good morning, and goodnight!
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I took myself (and my boy) to the Leland City Club Saturday night. I hadn't been there in 8 years. It was still as grungy as ever and I loved it. It was a little on the dead side, especially for a Saturday night, and the boy commented the DEMF might have drawn away some of the normal crowds.
ReplyDeleteNo juggalos in sight at the City Club. Thank goodness.
Lifetime Movie Network is what we decided on at my place when we woke up feeling like we'd never be not tired again.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel as bad as I thought I would though, so triumph!
i wish i had never moved away.
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Sarah - glad you had fun. The Juggalos weren't too terrible, just obnoxious, but thankfully also quiet and relatively inconspicuous.
ReplyDeleteNat - Wow. Who overcame breast cancer and an abusive husband this time? Judith Light or Meredith Baxter?
Colby - Sure, it's all fun now, but what happens in November? It gets so cold in the D. Still, fuck it - get your ass back up to the city man (and yes I call it THE city - generally, people know I'm only talking about this one).
Also @ Colby - didn't even notice that I said "epic" in this post. The after parties were evidently found in the Enuma Elish.
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