HeyJaredRants and Raves
My musings about raves focusing on the party and culture rather than the DJ.
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To The Point (opens the original)
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We’d been down this road before. Literally. My best friend and I were at our wits end. But alas- we refused to think it was a dead end. Rachel white knuckled the wheel of her red VW Jetta; zig-zagging, doubling back, up, down and all around the streets of Detroit. Creeping and crawling at a mere 10 mph, windows cracked for smoke from our Marlboro Red 100s. And more importantly- because our ears were perked for a specific siren song. The bassy rumbling of a rave blasting from stacks of speakers w
Totem Tales (opens the original)
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There’s an object de rave piquing my curiosity as of late. They are things that can be seen near and far. A crowning glory proudly perched high atop poles, sticks, staffs and rods of all sorts. There’s no limit to what type of symbolic object sits up top. An animal, lights, a sign, a whittled up figment of your imagination or all of the above.A freak (or ermm, perhaps or not a freak) flag carried around at parties- on the dancefloor and off it too. Signaling not only physical location, but perha
Certainties... (opens the original)
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The Root of It (opens the original)
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Though I didn’t watch Children of the Corn, I can relate. Because while cornfields weren’t a thing in 90’s Detroit proper; parties and festivals in agricultural states had this girl hooked down boots.My Adidas shell toes last touched dirt to dance amongst cropped lush fields and fireflies 25ish years ago. And though I partied at farms just a handful-ish times back in the day, they left an everlasting and visceral impression.Stars alas aligned, presenting the perfect opportunity to trek to the he
Middle Ground (opens the original)
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I’m a periphery kinda gal. Well, at least as it relates to dancefloor locales. My outlook and attitude is that longitude and latitude matter. And being about as picky as they come, I’m prone to a whole host of peculiarities.Goldilocks is someone I relate to, because like her- I can’t rest until I find juuuust the right spot. A quest that proves trickier at certain times than others. My tendency when whirling it up to twirl is to flock where there’s room. Which is usually at the rear, where space
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