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A rich collection of photographs taken at underground rave events."> <input type=hidden value="Articles, rave underground techno subculture music party fun enlightenment jungle beat dancing grooving natural spiritual soul break beat goa house school acid trance ecstasy craft ceramics oil burners cool stuff cool gifts candel sculptures presents light passion romance cool unique one of a kind awesome great gifts mystical goth techno dark"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- A:link {text-decoration: none;} A:visited {text-decoration: none} A:active {text-decoration: none} --> </style> </head> <body topmargin=0 rightmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 bgcolor="#000000" link="#98FB98" alink="#FFFFFF" vlink="#98FB98" background="../backgroundstars.gif"> <center> <br><br> <table> <tr> <td width=600> <font face=courier size=5 color=#00FFFF><b> YOU MIGHT BE A JADED RAVER IF...</b> </font> <font face=arial size=2 color=#00FFFF> <ul> <li>You snicker when you hear someone say "PLUR". <li>You finally realized that phat pants are heavy and unpractical. <li>You refrain from dancing unless the circle is of rather large dimensions. <li>When you do dance, you "battle". <li>You learn to spin, and therefore have graduated to the "superior rave status". <li>You find out just how crooked promoters really are. <li>You hate massives. <li>You blame candy kids for everything retarded in the scene. <li>You say "the scene" a lot. <li>You find out how much better european electronic music really is. <li>You find out that glow sticks were cool TEN years ago in the UK. <li>You have pretended to be rolling at a party just to get a quick laugh out of your friends. <li>When you ARE on E, you do your best to act normal. <li>You realize how cool Drum n' Bass is. <li>You realize how lame progressive trance is. <li>You find out that American DJ's are completely overrated. <li>You have close friends who don't give a f--- about raving. <li>You think that maybe YOU don't really give a f--- either. <li>The smell of Vicks makes you physically sick. <li>You can't help but laugh when someone tries to give you a "glow stick how". <li>You learn to break. <li>If you want to actually "roll," you have to eat about four pills at once. <li>You can get those four pills for the same price that everyone else pays for one. <li>You drink beer at after parties. <li>You quit collecting fliers. <li>You have unsubscribed from your rave mailing list, because "none of those f---ing little kids understand a thing about raving, dammit!" <li>You can't remember the last time you went to a party and didn't think it sucked. <li>You can't remember much in general. <li>You realize that ravers aren't nearly as genuine as the hippies were. <li>You wouldn't mind if that kid with the whistle accidentally swallowed it and died. <li>You are actually called by your real name. <li>You realize that the general public shoudln't be blamed for hating raves. <li>You think ECKO is the sickest gear money can buy. <li>You talk s--- as much as possible. <li>You value things in terms of vinyl, (ex: "that's an eight record pair of pants.") <li>You DESPISE Happy Hardcore. <li>You DESPISE candy. <li>You have seen a thirteen year old "raver" on ecstasy and felt like leaving the party because of it. <li>You know what a 303 is. <li>You no longer feel the need to advertise your "rave-ness" to the world. <li>You realize shell toes are shitty shoes. <li>You can't count how many pairs you have owned. <li>You know that post-rave sex is aweful. <li>You've punked kids who tried to get in a circle that was outta their league. <li>You can determine where a raver is from just by the way they dance. <li>You know that LA ravers can't dance worth a shit. <li>You find out that underground parties still happen quite frequently,despite what 98% of the raving populous thinks. <li>You party sober and now understand how stupid you looked when you didn't. <li>You know who PRODUCED your favorite tracks, not just which DJ bought it and put it on a mix CD. <li>You read URB. <li>You have day-dreams that involve the Telletubies and a large rusty chainsaw. <li>Your parents gave up on you becoming normal a long, long time ago. <li>You know why GHB and special K are for f---ing idiots. <li>You understand electro and minimal techno now. <li>You hate rave ho's. <li>You could out-dance any boy band, any day, while smoking a cigarette. <li>You begin to notice how often big DJ's blow mixes. <li>You think sweaty guys who run around the party shirtless should get thrown out. <li>You act like a punk-ass bitch to security, police, and any other authority. <li>You purposely wear way too much clothing to parties, because you know that dancing in a turtleneck sweater looks f---ing ill. <li>You say "ill" a lot. <li>You have replaced Caffiene, JNCO, and Adidas with Technic, Vestax, and JBL. <li>You know that raving is all about the music, but RAVERS are not. <li>You find the jungle room much more appealing now. <li>You can actually dance to jungle. <li>You hate Feelgood and Coolworld. <li>You laugh out loud when you walk into Jamba Juice and they're playing dance music. <li>You see guys from your high school football team at a party. <li>You know raving is mainstream as f---. <li>The bigger the flier, the less you want to go to the party. <li>You can re-tell the story of how raving came to America quite accurately. <li>You hate Anthem tracks. <li>Your sleeping, and eating habits are completely f---ed up. <li>You're not racist, but you just have to wonder where the hell all those Asian kids are coming from. <li>You sit around with friends and tell old "rave disaster" stories. <li>You are amazed that you are somehow still alive. </ul> </b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <img src="../../navigation/divider02.gif" width=750 height=7> <br><br> <font face="arial" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>| <a href="ravehumor.htm">BACK TO RAVE HUMOR</a> |</b></font> <br><br> </center> </body> </html>