Blurry Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 What are some places that, if you closed your eyes, might have you thinking you're at a rave. GROCERY STORE This thought popped into my head last night when we were in line at the grocery store. With all the tellers ringing items through the sounds of bing-bing--------bingbingbing----bingbing-----bingbingbingbing------bing---bing etc....... just kept making me think of electronica and beats. I guess my point is, if you're bored one night and have nothing to do, and like electronica, round up some friends and head down to the local 24 hrs grocery store, hang out near the cashiers (probably at the end of the packing section so not to be a nuissance) adn rage the night away!! Have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 go to the casino on mushrooms. (extra points if you go with the family for your sisters 19th birthday : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 "I guess my point is, if you're bored one night and have nothing to do, and like electronica, round up some friends and head down to the local 24 hrs grocery store, hang out near the cashiers (probably at the end of the packing section so not to be a nuissance) adn rage the night away!! " how much E is needed to rage the night away at the Grocery Store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaPink Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 seriously Babsy you've cured me. I've often found myself, late at night... tossing and turning, just ITCHING to rave but succumbing to the sad fact that there just aren't any good warehouse rave parties anywhere anymore. But now... i have seen the strobe light... I'll just mosey on over to sobeys and get my fix... Palace Princess, let's break out the phat pants and RAVE INTO THE LIGHT soul sista. DJ DebbieDebTheCashier on the decks yo - REWIND! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalacePrincess Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 taste the sweat baby, taste the sweat... here's to the oldskoolin' flave (aw, don't we look sober! how deceiving, teehee) sheeit, anywhere can be a rave if you have the beats! they don't even have to be out loud, inside the head is always fun. rave into the light, mang, just rave in-to the light!!! funny you mention grocery stores though, there was a huge superstore called maxi & co that was built around these parts & it stayed open for what, all of about five minutes? we always thought its skeletal remains would have made a phatass ravey party spot. it's still there. maybe we can dust off the 1200s & scotchguard the bottoms of our rave pants for old times' sake. hey pink, remember our post-rave dance party outside zehrs while we waited for them to open so we could get our pics developed? ah, the dayz....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 a friend of mine used to have this super old organ... he might still have it actually... anyways, he used to swear that he could throw a rave with just himself, the organ, and the super cheesy pre-programmed pre-disco beats that the thing used to emit... he was mostly just drunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questcequecest? Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Posing with the RaveDaddy. His name IS techno: hüns, hüns, hüns, hüns... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 I sometimes dance sublty to the beep-beep-beep of the fry machine at McDonalds. I've raved huge at the laundromat. Chung chugga-chugga-chugga Chung chugga-chugga-chugga Chung Chung chugga Chung chugga-chugga-chugga. That's usually when someone walks in. I've often heard that the laundromat is a good place to meet girls, but no luck for me so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 I don't know if it counts as "raving", but I've had some absolutely transcendant musical moments while riding on the bus along the transitway in Ottawa: if my state of mind is right, the rhythms of the bus sync up with the grooves my mind produces to make a wonderful rhythmic symphony. The lights aren't great, but the sound is wonderful... Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\/\/illy Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 I like groovin' along with the turn-signal clicker in my car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 When I did my music degree, the school I went to was heavily leaned towards what was then called 20th Century Music, or Modern Serious Music. Essentially everything from Stravinsky and Schoenberg (see Rite Of Spring and Schoenberg's tone rows) up through Cage (the Elvis of 20th Century Serious Music) and Reich on up to Glass and the great Canadian top banana, Murray Schaffer. Anyway, the point of most of these people was to shatter musical conventions with a focus on the concept of all sounds can be deemed music, based on a myriad of contexts. John Cage made the point heavily in 1952(?) with 4'33", a piece in three movements, involving four minutes and thirty-three seconds of people not playing their instruments. Silence, if you will, though the point was that silence is impossible, and the ambient sounds in the room were the music of the piece. Anywho, after one particularly inspirational lecture on the whole silence concept, the professor ended the class by asking his enthralled audience to leave the room silently. Everyone attempted to comply, and my roommate and I walked silently back to the dorm and sat quietly in our room listening to the music of the world all night, giggling at the cool parts like we were on acid. And I've never felt the need to wear a Walkman since. Try it. Right now, wherever you are, close your eyes and listen. As silent as your spot is, you can hear the pulsing drone of the computer with staccato bursts of speech or the added low end of the fridge clicking on way over in the kitchen. Like a sforzando a car goes by outside, triggering the click of the clock into a short diminuendo... All right now, back to work!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaPink Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 hey pink, remember our post-rave dance party outside zehrs while we waited for them to open so we could get our pics developed? ah, the dayz....... yep - just you, me - and plastikman on the ghetto... with of course, a 2 person audience. Ever wonder what color richie hawtin's hair is? well the great mystery is OVER... check it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Try it. Right now, wherever you are, close your eyes and listen. As silent as your spot is, you can hear the pulsing drone of the computer with staccato bursts of speech or the added low end of the fridge clicking on way over in the kitchen. Like a sforzando a car goes by outside, triggering the click of the clock into a short diminuendo... At setbreak at the GTB show at Mavericks, I was in absolute ecstasy while I was standing there listening to the deep trancy grooves over the PA with people talking & giggling over it. It was like there was a complete orchestra (or choir) in the club, and I was playing it (finding rhythms, having chordal textures emerge, etc.) with my mind. It was an ultimate ambient music experience. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tatterdemalion Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 what's that film where some kid eats a bunch of X and then starts groovin out in the grocery store to the cashier sounds ? not a great movie at all, but that scene is pretty funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meggo Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Try it. Right now, wherever you are, close your eyes and listen. As silent as your spot is, you can hear the pulsing drone of the computer with staccato bursts of speech or the added low end of the fridge clicking on way over in the kitchen. Like a sforzando a car goes by outside, triggering the click of the clock into a short diminuendo... All right now, back to work!!! that was neat, velvet. :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 I once raved at the Ontario Science Centre... they had all the exhibits open, with staff watching over all the drugged out ravers... I think it would be just as cool to go with a walkman, in the "proper state of mind", of course, during the day, and bug out to all the cool stuff in there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaPink Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 I once raved at the Ontario Science Centre... I was at that party too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 Apparently it was a yearly thing, luckily I caught the last one ever... my first Toronto rave! (probably one of the best times I've EVER had in my life...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 this guy likes to party Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blurry Posted April 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 WOE (insert Joey Lawrence voice) PP and LMP, you two sure do look like little ravers....that's crazy......you little ravers.......that's crazy......you little ravers.......did I mention you two really looked like ravers? Ravers....you two....woe!!! THe above is my interpretation of a "words" rave :: I like all the above places. I sometimes dance sublty to the beep-beep-beep of the fry machine at McDonalds. ha ha ha ha.....I can just picture it! As for the casino, yup that'd really be loopy....be loopy....be loopy.....be loopy.........be loopy! ("word" rave again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaPink Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 haha! Yes, we do indeed look like ravers.. Ok, check this out - I think I'm about 18 years old in this photo. It looks like i'm wearing a wig, but i'm not... this is what you get with some bleach and a bingo dabber! (That's Eddie C to my left) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tatterdemalion Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 did ya bleach & dab your eyes too ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaPink Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 did ya bleach & dab your eyes too ? nope... that's the natural color of my eyes actually. I'm the devil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tatterdemalion Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 cool. apparently i have a date with you sometime soon, and it's gonna last a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted April 16, 2004 Report Share Posted April 16, 2004 [quote At setbreak at the GTB show at Mavericks, I was in absolute ecstasy while I was standing there listening to the deep trancy grooves over the PA with people talking & giggling over it. It was like there was a complete orchestra (or choir) in the club, and I was playing it (finding rhythms, having chordal textures emerge, etc.) with my mind. It was an ultimate ambient music experience. Canada Day 2001, in Ottawa, i had a similar experience zoomin' super fuckin hard on mushrooms and just walking through the huge crowds, blending all the conversations and sounds. it was amazing. one of my most favourite things i have ever done, i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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