Background:
This was written shortly after Airport 3, a mega-rave scheduled in Austin, was cancelled by police/city councilmen. The promoter, Noah, is now out of the rave business.
The locals admit that Noah had his insurance papers but didn't "submit" them in time, and even though he had a "hearing" the Thursday before the rave, where the locals could SEE that he had his P's and Q's in order, they STILL shut it down. Beauracracy or bullshit? I vote the latter. I don't recall anything in the constitution under the Right to Assemble article that mentioned anything about having a permit from the city. We're supposed to be founded on the principle of compromise and understanding, that even if we DON'T understand it we still allow it as long as those involved take responsibility for themselves and their actions.
The article was fairly unbiased and all, but I'm getting goddamn tired of people whining about all the drugs. There's no more drug use than in the general populace, it's just more obvious and easier to target. You'd have to shut down every high-school and college and bomb Columbia to even make a dent, and even then it'd be so miniscule as to make almost no difference.
From Romance era poets who smoked opium for the dreams, to Freud who used enough coca to kill a small horse, from the hard-core Harley-riding 50's crank head, to the 60's flower children (some of whom are now running the country, incidentally), people have been misbehaving and using drugs since their discovery, and even if there weren't any we'd all spin around on our lawns until we fell down and saw God.
We need to quit telling monster-under-the-bed stories about how Ecstasy and other "club drugs" will turn you into an instant social liability/human-drive-by-shooting with a daily drug intake equal in cost to Canada's GNP. I do cancer research for a living, and there's not a scientist that I've met that hasn't experimented with drugs at one time, and damned if they aren't better people than some of the mud-sack glad-handing politicians I've met who drink themselves silly on afternoon Scotch tipples and have no idea what it's like to hold a job that's USEFUL.
It's also FAR past time for people to take responsibility for themselves. If you do drugs and freak out, it is YOU who must pay the costs/penalties and not the venue or the person who threw the party.
I must emphasize, simply MUST, that in the beginning and the end, everything we do and reach for is about taking the music and ourselves further and being able to SHARE that experience with others. THAT is the most important thing. If we have to take it back to cutting locks off abandoned warehouses in bad neighborhoods, that's just fine...I've done it before and I'll do it again, only NOW I can afford a lawyer...
Up the Empire...
Scott
This was written shortly after Airport 3, a mega-rave scheduled in Austin, was cancelled by police/city councilmen. The promoter, Noah, is now out of the rave business.
The locals admit that Noah had his insurance papers but didn't "submit" them in time, and even though he had a "hearing" the Thursday before the rave, where the locals could SEE that he had his P's and Q's in order, they STILL shut it down. Beauracracy or bullshit? I vote the latter. I don't recall anything in the constitution under the Right to Assemble article that mentioned anything about having a permit from the city. We're supposed to be founded on the principle of compromise and understanding, that even if we DON'T understand it we still allow it as long as those involved take responsibility for themselves and their actions.
The article was fairly unbiased and all, but I'm getting goddamn tired of people whining about all the drugs. There's no more drug use than in the general populace, it's just more obvious and easier to target. You'd have to shut down every high-school and college and bomb Columbia to even make a dent, and even then it'd be so miniscule as to make almost no difference.
From Romance era poets who smoked opium for the dreams, to Freud who used enough coca to kill a small horse, from the hard-core Harley-riding 50's crank head, to the 60's flower children (some of whom are now running the country, incidentally), people have been misbehaving and using drugs since their discovery, and even if there weren't any we'd all spin around on our lawns until we fell down and saw God.
We need to quit telling monster-under-the-bed stories about how Ecstasy and other "club drugs" will turn you into an instant social liability/human-drive-by-shooting with a daily drug intake equal in cost to Canada's GNP. I do cancer research for a living, and there's not a scientist that I've met that hasn't experimented with drugs at one time, and damned if they aren't better people than some of the mud-sack glad-handing politicians I've met who drink themselves silly on afternoon Scotch tipples and have no idea what it's like to hold a job that's USEFUL.
It's also FAR past time for people to take responsibility for themselves. If you do drugs and freak out, it is YOU who must pay the costs/penalties and not the venue or the person who threw the party.
I must emphasize, simply MUST, that in the beginning and the end, everything we do and reach for is about taking the music and ourselves further and being able to SHARE that experience with others. THAT is the most important thing. If we have to take it back to cutting locks off abandoned warehouses in bad neighborhoods, that's just fine...I've done it before and I'll do it again, only NOW I can afford a lawyer...
Up the Empire...
Scott
2 comments:
I was looking for video footage from the 1st or 2nd airport rave.
Went to airport 2. I'd love to see something about it. What a good time to be in Austin.
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