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I saw some sidewalk chalk on Thursday proclaiming a rave at a new venue, the Whole Earth Organic Lounge. While that name seemed kinda pretentious, one of my favorite things is to rave. In fact, I just like dancing, but I'm not very good at other kinds, or so the kids in high school said. And with raves, I'm guaranteed to enjoy the music. I didn't hear a song all night I didn't like, although some were too slow for me to dance to.

When you're dancing to 140+ bpm, you start to run into the limitations of gravity. Regardless of your mass, you will accelerate at 9.1m/s/s downwards. At the top of your jump, your velocity is 0m/s. so, you have to be careful so you don't get out of time with the music. What I do feels like I'm jumping down, but I think what is actually happening is that I'm making small jumps, picking my legs up after I jump, and then setting them back down to land, so that it feels like I'm way up in the air, but I'm not, really.

I asked my friend Mike to go with me. Stu and I met him freshman year, and he and stu were roomies for a while. He's gone through several phases, musician, engineer, slacker, pot-head, but he's in a pretty good place right now, I think.

There were some interesting people there. I got the impression that quite a few worked there, or knew the owners, and didn't just find their way there randomly, and several were sporting Greek-life clothing (that means frat and sororities for those not in the Uni know), but they seemed to be having a good time, so whatever?

I only spoke with a couple of people-- a dark-haired girl who danced nearly the entire time, but had this small elusive smile on her face. What was it?; a guy wearing easter bunny ears (we were encouraged to dress up) with flowing curly locks. I thought he was someone I had met recently, but he wasn't, but still, he looked so familiar. The three of us talked outside for a bit, about discordianism, conspiracy theories.
I tried to facebook/directory stalk both of them when I got home, to little conclusion.

I'm still exhausted from the evening, even though I only stayed a couple of hours. It was fun to get glittered up and wear glowsticks, even if only the bouncer noticed the glitter xD

Date: 2010-08-28 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilredsarah.livejournal.com
I'm so jealous. I've always wanted to go to a rave. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Date: 2010-08-30 02:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jiro4.livejournal.com
Sounds like you had a good time. You make dancing seem mathsy and I kinda dig that. But I'm not smart enough to understand :P

Date: 2010-09-01 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desubeard.livejournal.com
I should talk to Rubahs about the mathematics behind music, but I'd probably get bored and she'd probably not be that interested in the topic.

So we'll just talk about food and Asians!

Date: 2010-09-01 04:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desubeard.livejournal.com
I find that if I stomp down, I can control when my feet hit the ground (rather than rely on split second physics calculations), thus keeping beat with the music!

Date: 2010-09-02 12:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puppet-of-meat.livejournal.com
wait I got a better one
I don’t need drugs to enjoy this, just to enhance it!

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