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RIP michael jackson

i've been neglecting my blog, at least with entries that have substance to them. i should probably post more, but twitter has been picking up my random internet posting slack. add me! i have had a lot happening in the last few months i haven't posted much about, and i need to post up tons of pictures. maybe i'll get to some of that this week? in the mean time you can read about a silly movie i saw last week.

friday i went up to cleveland to see "the room," a movie so bad it ends up being good. i'd seen bits and pieces of it between naps, and didn't think it was worth checking out because, well, what i saw sucked. the beauty is when you watch the whole thing. at first i wasn't too interested in it, but the more tarrah would tell me about it, the curiouser i got about it. yeah she owns the dvd, but i never got around to watching it. as it is, i'm behind on movies i know i'll like, hehee.

it's been getting this "rocky horror picture show" style following, complete with yelling at the screen and throwing things, thus why i wanted to sit in the back! we ended up sitting in the front, but noone threw anything so thats kinda good.

the short of things is tommy wiseau basically he wrote, produced, and starred in. noone bothered to tell him that it was a horrible movie with so much wrong with it, that it still got put out there. odd plot holes, unexplained people in the movie, weird quasi-symbolism, bad songs that seem like they're skipping, corny dialogue...the list goes on....

they toss around a football all through the movie in confined quarters and are at most 10 feet apart. i wanted to take a football to toss around, but being the non-athlete that i am, i don't own one. there is a scene where they toss around a football in tuxedos, so i wore my tuxedo shirt. i didn't think i'd get much use out of that shirt when i bought it last week for a wedding, but i guess i was wrong??

i'd hoped people would have gotten more into it, there were maybe 60 people there and a few were yelling things at the screen. tarrah says they get crazy in LA at screenings, but oh well maybe in the future clevelanders will be more into it. from the sounds of things, they are going to screen it semi-regularly at the cinemateque.

a few things i missed in my last post.

within minutes of leaving the hotel and before even getting to the gate, a bum asked me for a quarter for the bus. almost every year i get asked that. once i got asked for a dollar for a cab, and asked a few times for a buck or so to help make some 'random' purchases.

have i mentioned i'm so over minimal type techno?

we took the craziest taxi ride ever to the afterhours. driver had a blinking binkie in his mouth, was playing gangsta rap blasting out the factory system singing along, plus ran every stop sign and 2 red lights that i saw. he tended to stop at lights with women around. lets see. handcuffs and a garter belt hanging from the rear view mirror. niiiiiice.....!!! bill, eric, and jessica cut out around 6-7am and oddly the same taxi driver had just pulled up in front of the venue!

again, the "kill your tv" party was off the chain. we got there a little after midnight and seemed slow the first hour or 2. picked up pretty quick. tapered off around 6. and by 8 was mostly around 20-30 people in the basement with a vibe so thick it slapped you in the face. talked to a few pretty cool people down in there, and there were a few good dancers. this girl maryanne i met got a chuckle out of me saying "i almost danced".... just couldn't get the legs into it.

mike grant was dope. i guess he was a house dj and been around for awhile, but he played some zarkin aggressive techno.

when you spend a few hours in a cave, the sun is not your friend. when we walked out the door at 10:30am onto the street, we all covered our eyes and i screamed about the goddamn sun, and 3 homeless guys saw us and laughed their asses off. then josh whacked his head into a street sign. its a dangerous place out there!

chilled at josh's hotel with bill and maryanne until he kicked out out onto the mean streets of detroit, a horrible 5 minute walk from our hotel. at which point it was pack and get out, we had a 1pm checkout time.

back to the festival and mostly sat in one spot for hours because my right side (kidney) was killing me. after like 4 hours it was mostly gone and we took off. minimal techno was just too boring to stick around. esp since i hadda work today. my body still needs another day or 2 recovery time. also lost most of my voice. fun fun.... detroit like a motherfukka!!!!

after missing demf last year, i was pretty pumped to go this year, even with the particularly dull paxahau lineup.

note to paxahau: there are more styles of techno than really super dull, super monotonous minimal techno! i heard one non-techno set there (jump-up set by mark moss). 2 harder-ish, but not HARD techno sets (carola and beyer) i guess there was africaa baambata and some dubstep which i luckily didn't hear any all weekend anywhere!! coming to think of it, there were several songs that i heard repeatedly, one douche of a dj played that song twice while masturbating the mixer so hard it looked retarded.

to recap. the music at the festival was dull dull dull!! highlight was the mark moss set. oh and in the midst of his set he dropped NWA's "dope man".... yow! catching up with people i don't get to see very often was awesome! met a few awesome people too.

we couldn't find shit to do on saturday night so chilled at the hotel, got the crappiest sleep because i ate like 20 sleeping pills and washed em down with jager and vodka and took hours to actually work. fun fun.

saturday's afterhours was the highlight. lineup was amazing.... highlights were woody mcbride, mike grant, elektrolyte, and ben sims. oddly evol intent and joey beltram were pretty dull. i guess beltram isn't the powerhouse he used to be, and not sure what was up with evol intent