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- From: mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown)
- Subject: Re: Magazines (was Re: SASSY rave article)
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:43:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.004157.3568@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (ha
- wkeye) spews:
- >PS: This doesn't really belong here, but, I was just listening to the
- >Pet Shop Boys, as I always seem to be, and I was just wondering if
- >someone could confirm if "How can you expect to be taken seriously?"
- >is about Paul McCartney, like I've always thought it was, or is it
- >about someone else?
-
- It's about Sting, actually, or so I've heard. :)
-
- As for the Sassy article, I must be the only one who doesn't think it
- should be burned and the writer hung upside-down from her toenails. I
- just sent them a letter a little over a month ago praising them. Please,
- flames to /dev/null. I don't think it's a sin that she doesn't think techno
- is the music of the gods, nor do I think everyone should take it so hard that
- she didn't have a good time. I am friends with a lot of straightedge
- ravers, and they've pointed out to me that as fun as raving is, the drug
- use is really, well, pointless to someone who doesn't use drugs. I don't
- have a problem with it, but I know what it feels like to be alienated like
- that, hearing all these cheezy drug-reference samples and being surrounded
- by a roomful/clubful/fieldful of people using drugs/alcohol. Obviously
- the scene doesn't have to be so centric around the drug use but from her
- description it sounded like that event in England was just that. Since her
- perspective was that of a straightedge person, it doesn't sound like that
- great of a time. Left to my own devices, I'd choose to dance around the
- house with a few of my friends or alone with the headphones instead of
- trying to dance in a muddy field all night in the rain with thousands of
- people tripping/Xing/pissing out of their skulls waiting for the Prodigy
- to not show up. I don't care if the vibe was so great all 40,000 people
- there were having an orgy, I'll stick to being boring, throwing private
- mini-raves in suburbia, where I don't have to put up with all the crap
- Christina did. Is writing letters telling her the only reason she didn't
- have a good time was because she's got a bad attitude really going to be
- worth it? Come on, how can you expect to be taken seriously when she's
- listed a half dozen reasons why going to this 'real rave' wasn't so
- marvelously romantic as it was 'supposed' to be? (someone shoot me
- before I include another pet shop boys reference, please) My questions
- are rhetoirical; I just wanted to toss an opposing viewpoint into the
- Sassy-bashing people are trying to stir up. Humbly, mike
- --
- Mike Brown
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