Electrolicious

Overheard at the Rave

Trailer for Yo Gabba Gabba.

I always refer to myself as a “retired raver” because I rarely go out, can’t dance for eight hours at a time, and am not the e-tard I used to be. But a few times a year the “retired” comes off that title and I just fully freak out in front of a speaker. Saturday [...]

I am definition of summer-anticipatory ADD today. Can’t! Focus! It’s sunny outside and the party this weekend was just the most spectacular dip-of-the-toe into all the fun, flirty, belly-laughter and festival wonderment that make up my favorite summer moments. Now I have all these things to do (day job! editing book! remembering to change my [...]

Hello, outdoor party season!, originally uploaded by .Ariel.
For me, heaven looks like a weekend roadtrip in a van full of awesome women to an outdoor party filled with mostly good beats (and a few hours of awful psytrance), tons of hula hooping, waterfalls, walks, sweet kisses and endless amounts of nibbly food. Can it [...]

I came home from a fundraiser for the survivors of last week’s shootings and was inspired to start the Lotus Magazine Archive project I’ve been thinking about for ages. It was late, but that’s ok! Then, as I was working, I watched it go from sort of late (1:59am) to really late (3:01 am). Crap! [...]

I haven’t been an active member in Seattle’s rave community for many years, but I still feel profoundly effected by yesterday’s tragedy. The people killed were friends of friends, and a few years back it would have been me at that party. The victims were ravers, burners, freaks. Not the types often targeted by [...]

Warning: this will be funny only to aging ravers. (But if you are one, it’s very, very funny)

I am starting to become quite the marathon dancer. I don’t go out dancing often (maybe once a month, if I’m lucky) and when I do it’s usually to marathon dance, which I think of as follows:
1. Dancing to dance, not to socialize or show-off
2. Dancing continuously (seriously nonstop) for 2 or more hours
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I’ve made the commitment to myself that slowly but surely I’m going to get some of the content from Lotus Magazine onto the web. And so, with that goal in mind, here’s an article I wrote in 1997 called The Evolution of the Electronic Stage and the Rave Audience. Other than making it HTML-friendly and [...]