Cycles

So, since I have final crits and finals coming up this week and next my sleep schedule has been completely fucked up. I went to bed at four last night; I stayed up studying for my Art History final. Then after that I hung out in a park for awhile with some friends, then went home and slept for three hours between 7:00 and 10:00. Now it's 5:00 in the morning and I'm not exactly tired...

Some of you may remember my genius plan, the QUAD SLEEP CYCLE. It was pretty chill.



It was basically revolved around intervals of six hours awake and six hours asleep. So you'd sleep from 12:00am until 6:00am. You'd get up, work for 6 hours until 12:00pm when you'd sleep until 6:00pm. Then you have a whole other 6 hours to do whatever you want before you need to go back to sleep again. I think when I made it up there was some purpose, but I can't remember it right now. It sounds kind of dumb now that I look back on it, but I've kind of fallen into that pattern...we'll see how tomorrow goes and how much more fucked up my biological clock can get.

It doesn't make any sense, my body should realize that "OH SHIT YOU ONLY GOT LIKE A COUPLE HOURS OF SLEEP YOUR DUMB" so shouldn't I be tired at a reasonable hour tonight?

NOPE

Oh yeah, and I'll be home on the EVE of the 14th now. Final schedules all figured out and stuff should be good. So I'll see most of you THEN.

KONSOOMER

Ugh, it hit me today how much I've become Mac.

I have become nearly entirely a Mac. I was one of those kids who didn't even have/use an iPod through MOST of high school, and now EVERYTHING is mac.

The school rolled me a Macbook Pro when I got here, and soon after for my birthday I got an iPod.

Just the other day my phone died and the cheapest alternative was a 260$ pink razer, so I picked up the iPhone because my parents wanted me to have one for while now and I've always considered it. So far I love it, especially since I've been using iCal and the address book online so everything is synced with my computer, it's great. I've only ever broken phones too, I've never lost a phone, so I'm not worried about loosing this one, and it's 400$ so it shouldn't exactly break, so I'm good, I think. It's real chill.

And it hit me I was a Mac when I went to the store today to by a Mac Keyboard because the keyboard on my laptop was freaking. I had my iPod headphone in one ear, my iPhone on the other, and a keyboard in my hand.

TOO MUCH

SCRUNK

Oh my god, each and every one of you guys would have loved that party soo much. It was insane, seriously.

Basically, four of my friends "moved in" to their new apartment on the 1st of April, but since there was a lot of work that still needed to be done, they haven't actually moved any of their stuff into it, but they are paying for it. So we all figured we have a decent sized apartment filled with nothing, might as well throw a party now while nothing can't get ruined. PERFECT PLAN.

And it was so perfect.

Over the course of the week leading up to the partayay, we set up stuff. Oh man, I had so many Deja-voo moments of the first couple raves we put up. This one was on a much smaller scale, but stuff like facebook groups, organizing whose coming, how to tell people about, and setting it up...best feelings ever, although often very stressfull.

So we set up the necessities, a beer pong table we found, colored lights we had laying about, and a couple spinning light guys that a neighbor had.

And of course the sound system and DJ set up. I think I'm going to do this with every party I DJ at from now on. Bascially, it was Harry's speakers that he "gave" me, that I brought to school. Those of you who were there, these were the beauties that helped the Rave-mitsvah on it's way. The worked perfectly, as to be expected, sans a few overloading and shutting down of the receiver it worked quite well. But the booth was the gnarliest most ghetto piece of hot ass shitcake you've ever seen. I just WISH I had a picture to prove it but I kinda don't. It was three milkcrates staked on either side with two speakers (borrowed from mah crazy breakdance bro, Geoff(not tough :()) stacked inside each of them, and it was all held together on top by a piece of folded Cardboard that we wrote all over. Everything was taped together with duck tape and on top sat Har's speaks with the laptop connecting to the receiver on the floor. GHEETTTTO <3.

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Mid Party, party shot. The them of the party was 80's, if you can tell from the pictures. So people got all dressed up and the whole week I heard people getting super hyped about it and talking about what they were going to wear. I don't really have 80's cloths, so I just wore like bright colors, which worked. The tunes spun will all hard knockers, with some 80's flair thrown in. Thinking back I KINDA wish it wasn't 80's themed, because thats what people expected to hear and when they didn't get the tunes they wanted the whole time they got annoyed. I figured, the later it got, the less they would care, but I gave 'em some tunes to rock out to and sing along still. It worked real well, actually.


I 'licked' my friend Nhut. And as much as I tell people tongue did not actually touch delicious skin, they don't believe me...



Deeeeejzzzz. Jackie had more tunes to rock the 80's loving crowds, and I threw down bangers, so it was a nice mix. I threw in some XKLUSSIVVVVE H-ROD tracks that tore up the fucking place. gghahh, it's times like that that I NEED my wepo bro's in on the scene :( YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO FUTURE PARTIESSS

Crowd shottt


I am in love with Traktor.

A neighbor, who we later find out even calls the police for a BAR being too loud, called around 1:30ish and people left pretty quickly. Weird thing was, the cop only rolled by, flashed his lights, then rolled out, and that was it. Whatever it was, people still left pretty quick, which is too bad, but the party had peaked already and people were just a drunken mess at this point so there wasn't much sense in staying around.

One of the highlights of the night was when Jackie had the idea to pull down the volume and get a couple people to yell "TAKE YOUR CLOTHS OFFF". We did it. And it was so. PEOPLE GOT NEK. There's some semi-nek pictures flying around, but I'm not going to put them on the 'ol BLOG. It was gnar, tho.

After shot

Here are a couple of my better friends here Caiti on the left and Lyndsay on the right. We hung around with about 4-5 other people after everyone cleared out and pretty much just layed on the floor trying to recover what we could of our energy. Originally we all were planning on spending the night at the house, but the place was so gross and the wooden floor did not seem as appealing as a bed at this point.

You guys gotta come to the 'delph. SHIT GETS RAW

Illadelph Bangers

Solo Deejin' my first 'delph PARTAYAY tonight.

Beats gunna be slick, legs gunna break, shit gunna be raw, nakedness urvehwhur.

I'll let you all know how it goes.

OUT

WEPO

Here's when everybody is getting back to Wepo if you're not on this list comment on this post with when you'll be home. IT'LL BE RAD.

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• Me - Anywhere between May 5th and May 16th...depending on my final crit schedule
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• Ryan - May 17th (might be 25th if he does this thing)
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• Berry - May 12th
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• Cooper - HOME
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• Chris - May 8th or 12th
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• Evan - Between the 15th and 22nd depending on TAIKOTAIKO
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• Jordan - May 23rd or June 7th depending on Rowing SHIZ
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• Jeremy - Februlary O'Clock
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• Matt - HOME
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On Dat Krypto

I bought a bike lock so NOT EVEN SUPERMAN CAN STEAL MAH SHITS



Oh yeah, and News from the delph is coming back kicking, so check back.

Show Me the Pink + JAPANTHER

Sunday I went to basement punk show at a friend of mines house. Japanther and Show Me the Pink were playing. I don't really know how he got this deal set up, or how any of it really works, but Japanther is actually a pretty big group. Like, a bunch of people know if them, and now they are playing in some kids basement. I don't get it, but I dig it. The guyhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.photo.gifs that started Japanther went to Pratt actually, which is interesting. Maybe Talia will end up in a punk band someday...

I hadn't much of any of their stuff before seeing the show, but I did know their name. I was exciting, though.

I bike to the house around 7:30 - 8:00ish and meet up with friends inside. Japanther was cool enough to show up late, so you know they are legit. We hang out for awhile and people are gettin a little drunk when before we know it after an hour has gone by and they still haven't showed. We start getting a little bored and anxious so we find a ball and go outside and FOUR SQUARE IT UP. I forgot how great this game is. So, uh, we are going to hit up Long Lots one of this days in the summer and rock out. Def.

So, we see the bands van roll by a little bit later so we head back to the house to see if anything has started up yet. Too many people pile into the basement around Show Me The Pink and they start rocking out.



I'm not really into the punk scene...like, at all, but oh my god I can't tell you enough how much I enjoyed the show. The music is eh, but IT'S LOUD, ENERGETIC, AND INTOXICATING, so I'm more than down. The scene was gnar, the place was full of tattood, drunk, punkers going crazy. Picture proves it:



No ceiling clearance, I LOVE IT. SO retarded, it's the best.

So, Japanther comes on after and they are dope as shit. They sing into telephones that look like they have just been ripped out of PayPhones and they make their voices sound slightly mechanical which gives a really cool edge.



One of the highlights of the night was the destruction of the place. By the time we left, it was hardly a basement, and much more of a wasteland. Someone had ripped the piping from the ceiling was hanging by these pipes in the middle of the dance floor. It started leaking and people started going crazy and pulling harder until the thing BROKE IN HALF showering the entire crowd and band with gushing gurgling fountains of water pouring from the ceiling. PEOPLE. WENT. NUTS. The guy he lived there tried to fix it for a minute, then went back to dancing a second later. SO GNAR.

YESSSS

This was probably the best ending to any party I've ever been to. A waterpipe was broken showering the basement, Japanther had finished playing the last of all of the songs they've written, and the cops showed up. All within 5 minutes. It could not have been a better finish to an insanely energetic Sunday evening. I'd do it again in a second.