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well done son. well done.

Stilldream vids and pics

unf-ckingreal.

That was such a superb weekend i might have gotten a little emotional about it… if i wasn’t so damn exhausted from 3 solid days of busting ass (while drinking).

Despite a little snag on friday night with a neighbor calling in a noise-complaint… at first i thought we were fucked. They determined that our stage, being closest and pointed right at them, was the cause so our stage was shut down at around 2am. But in an impressive demonstration of positivity and ingenuity, we made the decision to move our sound system to the pool on the opposite end of the property and call it a pool party! Everyone was on board with this idea and we waited until we finally got the go-ahead to start moving stuff… Eugene rallied up 15 party-goers to help CARRY THE GEODESIC DOME that once covered our stage and they set it up as a shaded lounge area next to our poolside booth.

BBQ was served right on time, sunset finally arrived, and i lit up the fire art that I got from Kristen Hoard (kristenhoard.com) and much to my surprise, someone else made 4 large fire burning pedestals and lined the back of our stage with it. It felt like a pool party on the playa. The energy kicked ass for the rest of the weekend and I am still in awe of how everyone pulled together to make our little party the funnest time i’ve had at a campout in a long time! I could not have asked for a better situation!

i’m posting links to the videos and photos i took below… if you have any also, please share!

Vids:
Chilldream Stage, take 1 (forest):
www.youtube.com/watch

Moving the Stage:
www.youtube.com/watch

Chilldream Stage, take 2 (Poolside):
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch

Pics:
flickr.com/photos/85931…605645273184/

Stilldream Reminder

i know i don’t have to remind you =)

also… catch me tomorrow morning from 8-9am on KZSU stanford radio…. (streaming: kzsulive.stanford.edu/ )

=)~S

Back in the dilly…

So i stopped at the Starfucks “kiosk” inside my local supermarket this morning to get my daily regiment of caramel apple cider (teh yum) and talked to the young lad who has been making my drinks for me these days. We started talking about parties a few weeks ago and i mentioned stilldream to him… Today he brought me a stilldream flyer he had been handed while at some party in SF last weekend.

“So what kind of music do you play?” he asked

“like… (i always get tongue tied at this part) … slower tempo stuff… midtempo… dubsteppy glitchy stuff… y’know?” (i sensed that he did not)

“I’m kind of a cracker jack.”

“What’s that?”

“You know… like… i’m into happy hardcore and stuff like that.”

“REALLY! (genuinely surprised to hear the HH word in 2008) How long have you been partying?”

“like since… (throws out the name of some party i’ve never heard of)… which was like… i dunno… november?”

“Holy crap! You’re still new! Do you still get that ‘night before xmas feeling’ in your stomach before a party?”

“YEAAAHHHH TOTALLY!!!”

“Wow I’m jealous. Enjoy it while it lasts!”

“Yeah my friends and i are always like ‘we shouldn’t be doing this anymore! what are we doing to ourselves?’ but every time a party comes up, they’re like ‘you’re GOING! We bought your ticket!’… and I’m like ‘oh my GOD what are you DOING to me???’”

I bit my tongue til blood shot out my ears… it was just way too funny to hear him saying that after 6 whole months of partying…. it was too funny to hear him use the names of parties as units of time-measurement like i used to (naw dude i’ve owned this honda since Gigabeats! Remember?)… It was way too funny to remember the 2 or 3 people in my small handful of raver-friends who used to complain about how they shouldn’t be partying… Going into each event with regret on their minds and their resolutions to stop right after this night wore off… maybe tuesday. Like it was naughty or something… and it was funniest to think about how i’ll be coming up on my 10-year anniversary really soon… how the friends who said they “shouldn’t be doing this” have all settled into exactly the lives they thought they SHOULD be doing… and are pretty miserable for submitting to their affluenza.

I think it’s kind of amazing that nearly a decade later (and longer than that for a lot of you) i encounter kids going through the exact same initiations… dancing to the same music… sporting the same bracelets… If there was ever proof that we SHOULD be doing it, it’s this… the fact that it just won’t die… no matter how much legal opposition rave has faced… no matter how much sounds and styles have changed or how many cliques and niches have formed… i mean shit… kids all over the planet are still doing it…

i don’t have to tell most of you this, but i know that we definitely benefited from our experiences with rave and the whole reason so many of us decided to become more involved as we grew older is because we are providing a priceless service to people everywhere. We help make this thing that opens people’s minds into something larger and stronger. And frankly i’m proud of that. Sometimes i forget these reasons when i look around and realize i’m just playing music for myself and for my friends… But even in those moments we are doing our part to keep this fountain of life from crumbling with age. And from the looks of it, it’s not stopping anytime soon.

p.s. The above picture is one of my favorite photos i took at one of my very first parties… 35mm film… the people who developed this roll at longs drug store actually stole this picture out of the deck… fuckers… luckily i saw it in the negatives and i had them replace it.

Career Goals

I saw this Dr Seuss book at the store a few days ago… I didn’t know they still sold it… don’t know why it surprised me to see a dr seuss book still in print… those things will probably still be in print long after the stars burn out… But i had a copy of this one when i was a wee lad… i think i was 4 or 5 years old when i got bored one summer day and actually filled in all the blanks.

On the page about what i want to be when i grow up, there was a large list of careers that i could circle, and a space to fill in your own if not listed…

my two choices: Paleontologist and Garbage Truck Driver.

As you can see i failed at both.

Stilldream 08! Only 2 more weeks

 Stilldream 08! Only 2 more weeks! Get your tickets while you still can!

This year, my friends and I have put a LOT of love and energy into making the 2nd stage (the chilldream stage) into the most amazing 2nd stage you’ve ever seen! …A midtempo/dubstep/glitch/psyphy/psydub/holydamnshit extravaganza unlike anything you’ve ever experienced! Just check out our INSANE LINEUP!

(remember, this is just the 2nd stage! click on the image to view the entire lineup, OR visit www.stilldream.org … if you go to the website you can preview many of the original productions by the artists by clicking on “OPEN MUSIC PLAYER”)

Eskmo
Audiovoid
Mr Rogers
Hypnotech
Spit Brothers
Ripple
Tha Fruitbat
Mochipet
Forest Green
Exillon
SeventhSwami
Resynthesize
Genji
Niles
Eugene Steele
Mino
Spektrum
Murdasloth
Chlorophil
Bertzerker
Dirt
Manic One
JDUBZ
Psylogod
J.C.
Psy Fi
DJ Dice
Nikon
E’rudite
Billy Dead
Watson
Unagi
DF Tram
Reclipse
Almost Anonymous
Xöetza
3r@in
2:07AM
Christafari

Tickets available ONLINE or by PHONE @ www.groovetickets.com

OR at:

ANUBIS WARPIS
San Francisco, CA – 415.431.2218

SKILLS DJ WORKSHOP
Berkley, CA – 510.704.9876

United State
Sacramento, CA – 1.888.743.0273