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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.

Mr. Fabulous runs pointless-drivel.com. He is a fellow flogger and a damned good funny one. Basically, picture me in 10 years and you have Mr. Fabulous (although I am already quite fabulous at 36). If you like laughing you should check it out. If you don’t like laughing you should put a plastic bag over your head and go for a jog. HAHA! I’m kidding about the jog but seriously…you should do it. In his latest post Mr. Fabulous expresses his dismay at the lack of ‘killer robots’ in today’s society.  He asks the question “Where are the killer robots”?

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