Ask Fitz: Have You Raved?
The ask fitz link has been lighting up in the past few days and I can barely keep up. So let’s get one out of the way shall we? Yes we shall.
Cory, from http://www.these-are-words.blogspot.com/ asks the following:
Question Fitz, have you ever been to a rave? If you have, how was it? And if you haven’t, why the fuck not?
And do you have any tips for making a blog more popular? (other than “Make more posts, dumbshit)
A rave huh? Well first off, I love techno, house, hard house, deep trance, hard trance, break beat, etc, etc. I think it’s because I play the drums and most electronic based music revolves around the beat. I also love songs that can take you somewhere in your head and actually change your mood, songs that you connect with emotionally. For example, I can listen to Pantera and actually feel like I want to rip someone’s fucking head off. I can listen to a hard house track by Commander Tom and at times feel the hair raising on my arms and back.
Now I don’t know if this qualifies as a ‘rave’ in the true sense of the word but I have gone to Ibiza. Not only that but I went there specifically for the music. This was in 2000 and it was AMAZING. There was literally 24/7 music events at hundreds of clubs and each one had a several famous DJs spinning. From Armand Van Buuren to Danny Tenaglia to Tiesto to Sasha and Digweed. It was insane!! And the clubs there are something you have to witness to appreciate.
There was one night at Club Manumission where the DJ was spinning from a platform that was in the middle of an Olympic sized swimming pool. He had some crazy trance song going with a huge breakdown in the middle. The song built back up to a furious crescendo and just before he kicked it back in the house lights went dark, several thousand people lit sparklers, the DJ looked at the crowd of nearly 9000 people, threw his hands up in the air and then swung them down as he kicked the track back in. THE PLACE ERUPTED!!! No drugs needed….pure musical ‘high’.
As for how to make a blog more popular, hmmm don’t really know. I think the main thing is to just be yourself. Don’t even try to make it popular. If you have whacky shit on your mind just write it down, post it and let it fly. If you want to try to get some good traffic you can submit your stuff to stumbleupon or digg.com or any of those social networking sites. Also, encourage people to comment and make sure you engage people in the comments. I mean after all a blog is more of a discussion than anything right? Otherwise just keep a diary lol.
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Raves are overrated, in my opinion. Maybe it’s just that I’m not a huge fan of Techno-style music… Or lasers and fog and all that stupidity.
*shrug*
Meh, who cares? I’m great.
I Agree with you on stumble… Thats how I found Toilet Scribble.
Erika recently scribbled the following on their toilet (I mean blog)..Friday Flashback - Erika Embarrasses Self for Sake of Blog
I love it, because of the hypnotic beats and stuff. You don’t have to be dancing to impress people, you just dance however you feel, and it will be just fine.
Also, the laser lights and fog are the shit. That combination is like.. Neon swords swinging in the air.
Yeahhhhhhhhh
Cory recently scribbled the following on their toilet (I mean blog)..Someone thinks I’m a Satanist.
Something like Ibiza, which is a long running, internationally known and respected chain of clubs can give an incredible “rave” experience where (like you said, Fitz) drugs are not even necessary. I’ve always loved old school house (which I’ve been told I’m too young to even know about) and techno, not so much for the most recent material in clubs.
See when your buddy next door gets a set of turntables and an old box of records from bulk pickup, and he decides his new name is DJ Chu and he’s going to throw a rave in mom’s basement because it’s got really great “resonating sound”… When you show up to this “hometown rave” and it’s a bunch of 17 year olds in UFO pants and glow sticks up their asses passed out from too much cheap ecstasy and Alizé, that’s when you feel really foolish for thinking you wanted to “rave”.
Otherwise it’s really cool shit, the whole being taken to another place in our mind sort of experience is what I am 100% about. I prefer progressive rock and metal to achieve that, though.
Joker - You are great but you definitely should not knock it till you try it when it comes to ‘raves’. They can be quite powerful! And it’s good exercise!
Erika - It’s nice to have a stumbler here! Stumblers usually come to the site and leave .5 seconds later lol.
Cory - Totally true about the dancing. I can’t dance for shit and yet if that type of music is playing I just flail around and don’t gice a shit what it looks like.
Krys Lee - I was raised on the metal. I too prefer to bang my head rather than suck on a pacifier and twirl glow sticks.
Best part of that of that entire response, Fitz… You refer to it as THE metal. Why? Because you can’t kill The Metal.
Rave? Ugh. That’s so 90’s.
Tracy recently scribbled the following on their toilet (I mean blog)..Wooden Cinder Blocks.
…. I happen to cherish the 90’s…….
Kryslee[Grisly?]- No obstacles, only challenges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwF2E7_2Y
Tracy - you’re too hip
Sunny - The following scene is better
Oh it definitely is. After I posted that link, I discovered the many better clips that were on YouTube and I felt cheated. Now I really want to watch it.
sabrina recently scribbled the following on their toilet (I mean blog)..Spanindunkin Troll Stripes
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