Published on Monday, March 31st, 2008 .
No, but seriously… crazy fucking weekend for sure! Friday night, our friend Garrick was in town from Murfreesboro so he came over and we ended up going to Sapphire. We had a pretty good time, I got fairly drunk and spent $50 or so.. Something like that. Nothing really eventful happened that I remember, but it was cool nonetheless.
Saturday was the day we went to Atlanta… THAT is when the crazy fun shit happened. First off, one of my friends was going to go with us, but that fucking cunt decided to bail. Not only did she decide to bail, she didn’t even have the common fucking decency to say “hey, something came up so I can’t make it.” Wouldn’t have been a big deal but nope. Her phone was turned off so I couldn’t even get ahold of her. Needless to say, I won’t be talking to her anymore. Ever. Anyway, so off to Atlanta we go. I bring my laptop and Verizon data card with me so I can use my laptop in the car and not be so fucking bored. Well, as it turns out the stupid thing won’t work. I can’t connect under Winblows or Linux on two different laptops. What the fuck? So i call Verizon and after re-running the activation wizard and unplugging and plugging the card back in and whatever they were doing on their side it finally decided to work after 40 minutes on the phone with them. They even had to get tier 2 involved! Strangely, the thing worked a few months ago but just decided to crap out for no reason. Weird. It works now, though so it’s all good. So, we had figured that we would eat at the Vortex (as we always do) and Gein, one of the DJ’s that played the previous weekend’s show was going to eat with us and hang out. Well, by the time got into town and checked into the hotel (6pm or so) he was too hungry to wait and decided to go ahead and eat. So we arranged to just hang out with him at his apartment after the Vortex. The Vortex was pretty much awesome as always but for some reason we ended up with the only fat disgusting waitress in the entire place. WTF?!? She wasn’t a bad waitress, per se… just ugly as fuck. Lame! So we go to Gein’s after the Vortex and hang out there with him and his gf for an hour or so. He played a few new crazy sick tracks I haven’t heard before.. pretty sweet shit. We left to go to the show at about 10:20 or so and got there around 10:35 or so. The show was at The Loft which is apparently part of the CW Downtown music complex or something like that. Pretty nice place with a kickass sound system. LOTS of bass that you could literally feel in your chest no matter where you were in the place. Awesome for sure. The DJ’s playing were Simon Bassline Smith, DJ SS and Ed Rush & Optical, who I’d been wanting to see for years now. Too bad I don’t really remember their set in the least. By the time DJ SS was halfway through his set I was pretty much done for. WAY too much to drink. I had a really big vodka + red bull (which cost me 9 fucking dollars!) and then 8 shots of jager so I was pretty well off for sure. In the course of the night I managed to lose the memory card for my camera and the battery cover for my phone. I’m not sure how the fuck I managed to do EITHER of those things but I apparently managed it somehow. I was rather annoyed about losing the card for my camera because I had taken some really awesome fucking pics. I don’t know how it got taken out or anything. Seriously, I have NO clue! And the battery cover for my phone? What? Fucking weird for sure. I also apparently spent an hour or two talking to this random cute part-Korean chick whose name I don’t remember. Amusingly, the only picture on the camera from the entire night is one of myself and her… Me being so obviously drunk it’s rather hilarious. No, I don’t plan on posting said pic. I look absolutely awful to say the least. In any case, we eventually made it back to the hotel, slept in til noon, went downtown to hang out with the 404audio guys for a bit then came home. Pretty much uneventful on Sunday but that’s not such a bad thing all things considered. So now I have to order a new memory card… and I’ve lost the awesome pics I took 
Published on Saturday, March 29th, 2008 .
I’m currently in the car on my way to Atlanta… using my data card with my laptop browsing the web and such. That’s just how much of a geek I am. So I’m blogging from a moving vehicle. How geek is that? Pretty fucking geek, eh? We’re going down for the World of Drum n Bass show with Ed Rush & Optical, DJ SS and some other random dudes. This should rock my face off. Last week’s show sure did. I’m not gonna have any face left after this shit… Two weekends in a row, legendary DnB DJ’s! How does that happen? I don’t care, it rules!
Published on Friday, March 28th, 2008 .
One more day and I’m going back to Atlanta. World of DNB, baby. Ed Rush & Optical. I can’t wait. They were one of the first artists I got into when I got into DnB. I’m not so much into them anymore, but it’ll still be nice to see them. In the past 8 or so months I’ve actually gotten to see Teebee, Calyx, Ewun, Goldie and now Ed Rush & Optical. Pretty damned awesome if you ask me. In doing so, I’ve discovered another awesome DJ by the name of Gein. Technically his name is Adam, but he goes by Gein. Seriously badass motherfucker for sure. His set last weekend sounded like the soundtrack for WWIII. Nasty, dirty, sick, raw, pick your fucking adjective but it was amazing. He won’t be playing this weekend, though. Too bad. In any case, Atlanta has a hell of a DnB scene going on and I love going down there for shows. Hopefully more awesomeness to come. There will be a ton of pics yet again, I know that much.
Published on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 .
My friend online and I were having a discussion about the candidates left in the presidential race and we got on the subject of drug laws. I myself don’t smoke pot or use any illegal substances. Not to say that I haven’t, but I don’t at this point in my life. Anyway, we agreed on the fact that it makes no sense that the following drugs are illegal:Marijuana (you knew I was going to say this), AMT, 5-MeO DiPT, MDMA, LSD and Mescaline. There are others, but those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I hate to say it but none of those drugs are going to cause any horrible effects to the person doing them. People don’t kill, maim or harm others in order to obtain those drugs in most cases (maybe pot, but that’s really a stretch) and the worst damage they’re going to do when they’re ON them is to themselves. So where’s the problem? Why does the government feel the need to protect us from ourselves? If I get fucked up on Mescaline (peyote buttons), I’m pretty much gonna sit in the middle of my living room and talk to God (or some other higher power, whatever). Same goes for most of those other drugs I listed above. To be honest, they’re mostly passive & introspective drugs. They’re not like meth that you get crazy addicted to, lose a shitload of weight and start stealing and pawning shit to get more. Women aren’t gonna whore themselves out to get more LSD. So what’s the issue?? Oh, that’s right… People aren’t allowed to expand their minds on those wonderful mind-altering drugs. Nevermind that none of them have been proven to be addictive and with the exception of weed none have been proven to have any lasting physiological effects (smoking any substance isn’t good for the lungs, that’s a given). One might argue that research has hypothesized continuous high dosage MDMA usage has caused damage to certain areas of the brain but it hasn’t been conclusively proven to happen nor to even be permanent in those that did exhibit such damage. In any case, it blows my mind that those drugs are even remotely illegal. I DO see a point in regulating most other drugs. Cocaine? Crack? Meth? Heroin? Those have no real medical usage and are far more addictive and destructive drugs. Other drugs that DO have some medical merit but a very high possibility of abuse (Oxycodone, morphine, codeine, various other opiates, benzodiazepines, sedatives, etc.) should be regulated as well. But recreational drugs that don’t have any documented harmful effects? It’s not like they lead to doing “harder” drugs. What kind of dipshit is going to enjoy a few LSD trips and say “man, I need to try crack!” As if I’m going to eat some peyote buttons a few times, get really fucked up and decide that wasn’t good enough and shoot up some heroin. How about not? Most people who do those sorts of drugs do them for the pure enjoyment of the mind-expanding/altering experience, not for the feeling of being “fucked up”. Bah, anyway… it’s not like these laws are going to change anytime soon; not even with our current crop of candidates for president. Either way, I felt it was worthy of a rant. And if you have any constructive disagreements, feel free to express them in comments. 
As an aside, I did leave something else out. Presume I’m carrying 20 pills of ecstacy on me. I get stopped and searched and the pills are found. I’m going to be punished the same as if I’d raped a woman at knifepoint. Care to justify that? Good luck!
Published on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 .
Yeah, I decided to start using my blog again. I mean, I’m paying for the webhosting service so why not, right? Mind you I’ve been using it as sort of my own personal file upload repository since I get 3TB (yes TERAbytes) of transfer per month, but that’s hardly justifying what I’m paying. I’ll be adding some new stuff here and there to spruce up the blog a bit. I changed themes to K2 because of its extensibility and the fact that it’s just plain SUPER clean and easy to read. Hopefully I’ll have a neat flickr plugin to display my latest Flickr photos and such. Fun shit!
In any case, it was actually kind of funny to look back at some of my blog posts and see how things have changed in the past year or so. Changed for the better, to be certain. I no longer have a girlfriend, we broke up last year and she moved out in December. I’ve moved into a new apartment (3 bedrooms) with my two best friends and that’s working out pretty damn well. I’m still doing the same job, enjoying it for the most part. I got a new bike to commute on. It’s a blue Surly Karate Monkey. Yes, I fucking said Karate Monkey! Not much else to speak of right at the moment. Minor shit, but not worth blabbering about in a sort of “welcome back” post.
