Paul's Journal

09/26/2008 18:16 #45802

Little bit of Rave history
Category: music

So my favoritest of favorite raves was this one Syrous party at Cinespace in Toronto. It was some giant movie studio maybe. Anyways, I remember the laser show was insane amazing and ther music was different than anything I had heard at all the other parties up to that point.

The lasers were insane. I know I just said it but I remeber that was the only time I was ever really impressed by a light show.

So I found these images online but I have the flyer upstairs. I remember looking it up before and none of the djs music matched what I remembered. Then looking over this forum

carefully I saw that Mickey Finn (UK) was replaced by Andy C because of imigration problems.

Mickey Finn was originally billed but due to immigration he couldn't enter the country. We were lucky enough to get Andy C to spin.

How crazy is that? (e:hodown) remembers this party too I am sure. I think we even saw my cousin Christina there.

tinypliny - 10/01/08 19:00
So, did you end up going? I was very briefly in Rochester that night. :)

09/26/2008 17:27 #45801

Dancing for jesus
Category: dancing

I am thinking about going dancing in Rochester tonight. MC jumper who I enjoy is MCing the hardcore room at Tilt.

Anyways, semi related but way more interesting I was looking some Andy C stuff on youtube and found some jungle music remixed to a video of christian dancers at different churches being moved by the holy spirit. Looks like there are ravers everywhere.

heidi - 09/26/08 17:41
Barbara Ehrenreich's _Dancing in the Streets_ talks about the human need for communal joy and how it's been manipulated in Western culture, harnessed for churches, then relegated to the "bad" people. Raves and ecstatic expressions in Christian churches are contemporary cultural expressions of this need.

Have fun!

:::link:::

09/25/2008 10:17 #45791

Buffalo biodiesel

Turning your fryer grease into something useful. How awesome is
that.

gardenmama - 09/25/08 21:46
Actually - you probably weren't too far off base with that thinking. While it might seem crazy, "the huge pot of rancid oil" there are, no doubt, lots of families who have them. With the popularity of the "King Cooker", used for deep-frying turkey, chicken, etc., I know a number of people who occasionally have gross amounts of oil to get rid of. The food usually tastes great but if you think about it too hard it becomes kind of sickening.

tinypliny - 09/25/08 19:38
I guess. Didn't think about the frying restaurants! Now that I think back, what I thought earlier was hilarious. I had this mental picture of me carrying a whole pot of rancid fat that I might have accumulated frying a bazillion fritters over a month to the recycling place and dumping it in a cauldron. Heh.

heidi - 09/25/08 18:40
YEA!!!

gardenmama - 09/25/08 17:52
Beats the hell out of a landfill somewhere! Besides, with as many "wing" joints and places that serve fish fry as there are around here, they should be able to recycle TONS of grease.

paul - 09/25/08 17:27
I think it is awesome that someone is doing something with the grease.

james - 09/25/08 15:39
This town... I swear sometimes I just want to die somewhere else.

tinypliny - 09/25/08 15:24
This might be very politically incorrect but seriously, anyone who has fryer-grease enough to recycle has way more problems than recycling.

09/25/2008 10:07 #45790

Driscoll's organic golden raspberries

They taste almost exactly like the red ones - yummy.

paul - 09/25/08 22:42
They were actually the same price.

gardenmama - 09/25/08 21:38
Wow - what a bargain!

matthew - 09/25/08 10:22
and only cost three times as much!

09/22/2008 21:47 #45764

Cars with hard drives built in
Category: cars

According to the cadillac commercial I just saw, cars come with hard drives now. I realize my car does not have any hard drive so I can't say much but when they started bragging about how their car comes with a 40gb hard drive, I just couldn't get excited. I feel for something car size, it should have a TB or something, right?

tinypliny - 09/23/08 16:24
I guess if they putting in some space, they might as well put in an operating system and an extra computer. Anything less and you are being shortchanged.

zobar - 09/23/08 08:47
For a car, I'd get a terabyte at least. But for like an Escalade you'll need a mongo RAID array to go with that bass box.

- Z

drew - 09/22/08 23:24
Our truck has a tape deck and 5 preset buttons.

mrmike - 09/22/08 22:02
Nah, not for what the hard drives are actually doing. If the hard drive was doing real work instead of voice activating phone calls, then a terrabyte might be necessary.