fast-paced lifestyle.

argh. the last week-and-a-half have been really quite hectic.

it started last wednesday when my mom called me at work to say, "there's...techno tonight at the musikfest. do you want to go?" so we checked out the website. it turned out, the dj doing the house set used to hang out with us. in fact, we remembered when he first decided he was going to be a dj and had all of 4 records. so we went, and we hung out, and we listened to the guy's house set and then a live acid trance show, and we drank beer, and got home at 1am.

thursday was a friend's birthday. so we went out, and we drank beer, and we saw a movie (Wedding Crashers, funny, but about half an hour too long), and got home at 1am.

friday, we went out for dinner with our families because both our little brothers are going off to university for the first time this year.

saturday, i volunteered with 2 really gorgeously cute kittens. that was the first time i was really tempted to take one home with me. so soft, very cute, like a black tabby smoke. awwwwwwwww.

sunday morning, we had to get up at 7am to take my parents and brother to the airport. getting up that early on a weekend ought to be outlawed. the one good thing about it is that i get my mom's car all this week. that evening, we met some friends for dinner, and drank beer, and hung out, but got to bed earlier than 1am. slightly.

monday and tuesday were mostly spent recovering. schedules are all messed up this week. wednesday night, we had friends over for dinner again, and we drank wine, and went to bed at 1am.

yesterday, it mostly all caught up to me. i came home from work and did nothing but play the new Dungeon Siege II demo for about 4 hours. i forsee losing lots of time to it this weekend while he has to work because his boss is on vacation.

gragh.

watching live techno is actually very interesting, despite the apparent contradiction in terms. i probably would have enjoyed it more, however, had it not been acid trance in the same mode as it was when it was hot about ten years ago. since then, dance music has changed somewhat, partly fueled, i think, by the drugs people take while listening to it. the rise in popularity of ecstasy in the quote-unquote rave scene (yes, i know i can just put " around it, but sometimes you want the sound) seemed to have equally given rise to not only music that panders to the effects of the drug, but enhances them. you get the concept of "programming" and "progression." the guy who DJed the house set was actually very good at that. you start off slow, and you mold the energy of the crowd with the music.

old-style acid trance doesn't do that. it's just the same level of energy and sound all the way through. when we were in toronto last easter, we went to hear a goa/acid trance dj. he was spinning fairly new stuff, stuff that had evolved with the scene. it was entirely enjoyable. he had programming. it was fun. i wish some of the other guys could get the hang of that.