Last night I joined chris & nick and headed to the northlane/structures show. It was a heavy metal. The scene was fucking awesome.
I'm a vibe guy. I enjoy taking a step back from situations and analyzing them. The thick of things was that mosh pit. I haven't seen a pit like that in awhile.
Something about moshing-and the whole scene displayed before me really inspired me. I think it has something to do with creativity. Just to see such raw talent by individuals who really aren't paid all that much. Creativity releases this kind of energy and my god do I enjoy it. I love being in a creative setting. Because usually creativity has a little to do with revolution.
And we have reason to revolt. I don't know why we eagerily eat up society as determined by the government of canada. Or the government of whatever country you may reside in. My issue is that the society that has been constructed for us is not healthy for the mind or body.
The mind is poisoned by mtv nonsense.
The body is poisoned by almost every product advertised on the television set.
And those are just two examples out of thousands I could provide. And to be honest I should do the whole thing more justice by writing a blog about it.
The "scene" as they call it. I've always wondered why it's called the "scene". And there is the obvious answer that it's a lifestyle or counter culture. It's definitely counter culture and it definitely inspires those within it to dress, act, speak and be a certain way. However the "scene" also means the visual.
The visual experience I had last night was noteworthy. The lights. The smoke. The throngs of young teenagers throwing themselves at eachother. The waving arms as young testosterone is almost flung into the air. They gotta get it out somehow. You coop them up in classrooms and teach them basically nothing ( what did you get from high school-not much lol) And so this is their release.
The "scene" was that of chaos. The kind of chaos that dreams are made of. The kind of chaos that rises from the misunderstood. Our youth are still angry and I fucking love it.
After describing my time at the west end cultural centre. I realize Area nightclub didn't stand a chance.I was so impressed by the show at WCC it made Area seem like a joke. And maybe that's the truth-area is a joke. Are nightclubs a joke yet? Eh, getting there. I don't blame people for feeling that pull to go and dance it up. But as I age I find myself becoming more critical of that "scene"
It was the music that really bothered me. I'm always critical of DJ's. But the thing is-I give props when they earn it. I've heard some really good Dj;s before at stereo, cheer, green room, even tyc has had a couple really good ones. But this guy Dow Jones is a hip hop dj. And he's spinning a top 40 set. Meh, it's not his style! He's a hip hop dj and unfortunately he was out of his element.
The music was good for anyone that wanted to shut down their brain and just move to a beat. I suppose i'm being overly critical in expecting certain things. But once you go see a really good electronic show, there's no going back. The one thing I thought was cool was the breakdancing. That is some impressive stuff!
So the night was overall a success. As usual we found ourselves back at chris's strumming the guitar and playing bongo drums.
Two blog ideas came of this post so I wanted to just repeat them to myself so I can remember.
1) Dangerous society
2) why i dislike nightclubs
And that leads us to the end of this post my beautiful readers. I've been noticing my page has received a lot of traffic lately and soon we will be at 2'000 views which I find impressive for such a no-name blog. I figure i'd get a lot more traffic on Tumblr. But I've grown attached to this blog. I've used it off and on for about 5 years now. But in the past 6 months I've really stepped up the usage of it.
I'm also in the process of producing another audio blog. It's going to be a great time. Leave yourself a good half hour to an hour for that.
peace & love folks
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