modemgirl

this past weekend i had the good fortune of being invited to bikes inside! a “bicycle themed dance party” put on by the nice people at thisisplanb.net and jimfamous. with the promise of bike porn visuals (bikesmut.com), gastown sprints (stationary bike races), bike art, and cheap beer set to dubstep, electro and disco, i was intrigued to say the least!

the event was held at the w2 culture and media house, which is a new venue in the heart of vancouver’s notorius downtown east side, across from the newly revamped woodwards building. the venue first caught my eye a few weeks ago when i was biking down hastings to work one night, and i noticed the entire building engulfed in flame. after doing a double take and almost being run over by a motorist who was as distracted as i was, i realized i was looking at a video loop of fire being projected onto three floors worth of full sized windows.

i arrived fashionably late to the party, after helping a disenchanted unicorn recover from an unexpected rendevous with gravity, her bike, and a parked car’s side view mirror, followed by an exciting two adventure through olympimania land. i attempted to convince the nice folks working the door that i should get bonus points for having my hands covered in chain grease. they wouldn’t give me a discount, but i did get a high five. good enough for me.

the crowd was…. weird. a mishmash of hipsters, artsy weirdos and bike nerds. perhaps a bit intimidating for those who haven’t spent significant portions of their adult lives in weird little lofty after hours spaces, but not me. i took one look around and said -if everyone has another drink and a half and the dj starts playing something really fun, this party is gonna go OFF. and it did!

i arrived upstairs to catch the very tail end of the gastown sprints, which apparently is an ongoing experience featuring hipsters et al racing indoors on stationary bikes. pretty sure there’s beer involved. and lots of laughing. and dance music. i unfortunately didn’t get a chance to race due to my being  distracted by bike porn, and more beer. soon i ended up wandering back down to the first floor to check out the rest of the bike art and ran into some guy wearing a full body disco ball.

at this point everyone drank that additional beer and a half, and the racetrack on the top floor errupted into super fun time dance party as autacoid took the stage -  two dudes, a guitar, some mikes, a pedal and a roland 505! and then we danced the night away on the inside of the crazy flame projections. all in all a great success!

this arrived in my inbox yesterday, and for some reason i find it to be one of the most disturbing spams i’ve ever received. i’m not sure if i want to know what it says or not.

a quick meta post to commemorate version 3.0 of modemgirl.ca. looks like i’ve finally joined “web2.0″ and accepted that widgets are here and real and look way better than my old-school- geocities-style attempts. tonight’s goal was integration of all the other social media sites where i actually contribute regular content! except, of course, for good old livejournal, which will remain hidden away in it’s dark and dusty corners friends only corners. wouldn’t want the internet at large to find out how terrible my writing can get, particularly when infused by sleep deprivation, estrogen, my tendency to become excited over completely irrelevant things or my lack of interest in impressing everyone with proper grammar or sentence structure.

anyhoo, what do ya think? more content coming soon i promise!

modemgirl – dark fiber

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psychedelic darkcore dub
february 2010

a collection of songs mixed with the intention of providing the soundtrack for battling psychic alien demons in space.