{"id":2796,"date":"2011-05-21T20:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2011-05-21T20:43:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:43:39","slug":"notes-from-underground-retox-the-nexus-fire-ball-at-space-550-and-dj-anomaly-at-beyond-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/notes-from-underground-retox-the-nexus-fire-ball-at-space-550-and-dj-anomaly-at-beyond-rapture\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Underground: Retox, the Nexus Fire Ball at Space 550, and DJ Anomaly at ‘Beyond Rapture’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lights<\/a><\/p>\n

So between activism, NWEN, and q<\/span>w<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span>i<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span>, I’ve been working hard but not killing myself — and still taking lots of time to have fun, hang out with friends, and get sleep. And the universe has been aligning. Life is good.<\/p>\n

— from DJ Anomaly and the Mysterious Voice of Ra<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Life has continued to be good in my month-long road trip since DJ Anomaly’s last gig at the Atrium.\u00c2\u00a0 First I spent three and a half days taking the train across the country, then a week in Folly Beach South Carolina with my Mom.\u00c2\u00a0 Next it was out to LA with her and hanging out there with her, Greg, and her family for a week, and then driving up to Hollister for lunch with D’s family.<\/p>\n

\"Nexus<\/a>By the time we got to San Francisco last Friday, I was very ready to dance, and the fates obliged: Alchemy “pre-party” at Retox, the Nexus Fire Ball at Space 550, Death Guild at DNA.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Yay!\u00c2\u00a0 It was a real flashback weekend, back to the days of 2003\/2004 when rationality wasn’t looking so good<\/a> and we spent a lot of time at Space 550 and DNA.<\/p>\n

Alas, some aspects of rationality still aren’t looking so good: if it hadn’t been for Save the Rave’s activism, Friday and Saturday nights would have been illegal, and I would have had to go through a metal detector and ID scanner in order to go a goth club.\u00c2\u00a0 And surprise surprise, the government lies<\/a>: it seems like the PATRIOT Act will once again getting extended without a real debate.\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n

On the whole, though, I’m in a much better space these days — and looking forward to the future even more than I was back then.<\/p>\n

After recovering for a few days and then making our way up from SF to Seattle, I’m once again very ready to dance … and once again the fates are obliging!\u00c2\u00a0 DJ Anomaly’s kicking off another residency at the Atrium with “Beyond Rapture”.\u00c2\u00a0 [Speaking of which, the world did not in fact end at 6 p.m. today.\u00c2\u00a0 Whew.]\u00c2\u00a0 Somewhat incredibly, we got a special sneak preview last night: DJ Anomaly texted D around dinner time saying she was thinking of heading up to Seattle from Portland, D offered her our spare bedroom in case she wanted a place to crash, and then next thing you know we were listening to new “anomalous tracks”.\u00c2\u00a0 How cool is that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So between activism, NWEN, and qweries, I’ve been working hard but not killing myself — and still taking lots of time to have fun, hang out with friends, and get sleep. And the universe has been aligning. Life is good. — from DJ Anomaly and the Mysterious Voice of Ra Life has continued to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-psytrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}