and now….

the only good thing about saturday night was The Dance Party.

is it strange that i prefer music that incorporates instruments, you know, a guitar, a bass, maybe a melody?

i missed wallpaper’s set, but when he came out after TDP, there was nothing brilliant about it.

i left after about twenty minutes into chris burns’ set and came back about twenty minutes into pat’s. just because people can make “cool” sounds with their moogs and macbooks doesn’t make it music.

dakota, fitsum: great shots.

cale: nice shirt. i especially liked the smiley face.

cale: this was the first blisspop i’ve attended at 930. i wasn’t there for will’s set, though he does a decent job at the cat. chris and pat just weren’t doing it for me. and wallpaper was just absurd. he reminded me of myself at age three walking around with one of those tape player microphone things, not quite a kareoke machine.

i didn’t say i don’t like dj’s. i did say that this was my first blisspop and that i like bliss at the cat better.

i came to check it out, see if it was any good, and to see one of my favorite local bands play.

since checking it out, i’ve decided it’s not my thing. i’m not asking anyone else to change their opinion or telling any of the DJ’s that they need to change what they play.

i’m simply stating on a public forum that i was disappointed. not to mention the crowd. way too many baseball caps.

Mick from TDC is ridiculously cut.

Amanda, I am sorry you couldn’t get into the music that myself and Pat were djing. Different strokes for different folks.

Michael- I don’t think that people who enjoy disco think it’s funny, they just like dance music.

Amanda- neither Chris nor Pat used a computer, I’m not sure what you’re referring to with your comment about macbooks and moogs.

Big ups to everyone who performed on Saturday, it was a great evening.

I basically remember most of this. I remember Cale looked wicked cute in his little K-fed hat. And I remember dancing like a supermodel, which may not look too good on a straight white dude but sure is fun to do.

Some disco sucks, some ska sucks, some punk sucks somecountrysuckssomerapsuckssomejazzsuckssucksucksuckskskskskskss.

Dance or gtfo.

eddie, can I assume that you and michael are of one entity, that or you share a cube @ some soul corroding mundane 9-5 establishment, oh, and not to mention the same pea brain? yes? not that you care, but per your request, here’s a simplified list of why i remain in this area:

1) friends and family reside here.
b) my apparel designing studio is situated here.
3) the summer humidity makes my skin glow.
d) ppl watching in this fugly city
5) ppl watching in this fugly city

wait a filthy effin minute…amanda, are you rimming michael? hot dammit, you are aren’t you??!

the concept of spending your day reading about and posting about shit you don’t even enjoy.

it really sucks that dumb people hate d.c., too.

Dude what the hell do you actually like? All I ever see you post is shit where you tell people how stupid their events look and remind everybody that you weren’t there, like anybody was checking for you in the first place. All disco music sucks, dj’s shouldn’t ever mix tracks together, blah blah blah. A bunch of generalization and rules. You sound like you have the musical taste of a fucking cop.

oh man, you guys fighting among yourselves is SO satisfying to read.

amy,
1) i don’t know how you associated me with anyone, as i never agreed with any other comment on this post and i only posted once before this asking you to back up what you were saying. 2) i don’t work in an office, nor did i attack your intellect (yet). c) i don’t think ‘divvy’ means what you think it does, dumbass. try going to this site before you accuse others of having a ‘pea brain’: http://www.dictionary.com
and finally, try not to be such a bitch when you address people you don’t know (unless, of course, they totally deserve it which i’m pretty sure i didn’t since i only asked for your list because you seemed to trash the city i love) and your point might come across more effectively. ok? now go back to lifting weights and don’t forget to trim your balls, maybe someone will wanna give *you* a rimmer, tough one.

p.s. you can people watch in pretty much any city. you should move to philly if you think it’s fugly here.

This is really late in the game here but…

Ice Pirates is a pretty damn decent flick. Its complex examination of the human condition was unique and also it had that space herpes part too

j, you’re kidding. patrick hernandez? fire. not to mention he was a french dude named “patrick hernandez.”

Born to Be Alive = not fire.

I will cop to speaking specifically about this song and not any other ;)

Who is db by the way?

whatever. disco duck kicked ass. donald just wanted to have some fun and he busted out some serious tracks doing just that. wait… oh man… do you think he might have been gay?

All things aside, Pat was a real gentlemen and a nice all-round guy. That’s awesome he came correct on the interview…

cale, i thought you did a fine job and it was obvious he wasn’t having a good day. he even said he was beat and told why. don’t sweat the haters and don’t change your interview style. and i am not trying to get you naked as far as you know.

Amanda, if you or your dad wants to sell those records hit me up. I’m serious.

djdeepsang(at)gmail.com

hit me up as well if he wants to sell the joints:
chris@brightestyoungthings.com

well snobbery would be antithetical to the spirit of my beloved disco, so I’d like to think I’m not that – I cited KC and the BeeGees as two bands I find particularly grating and soulless so I could see why others would too, leading to an unfair representation. But granted, there’s a lot of stereotypical disco that I encourage doubters to listen to with open ears – bring on the O’Jays, Donna Summer and Hot Chocolate. But moreover, my point was that if you don’t like this stuff, it’s really just the sugary candy shell around what is the gooey, hot-ass, sexy, diverse (er, losing my kind of weak metaphor here) world of disco.

And I use “successor” very confidently and deliberately (though I should have thrown funk in there too). Of course trying to create a linear history of any kind of music is inherently problematic, but still, I stand by it. But there are way more knowledgeable dudes who have written tomes about this stuff, so I’ll leave it to them. I’m sure if one googles “philly soul” and “disco” you’ll scratch the surface. Not that you should, or have to, if you just want to dance to the stuff which is what we all should be doing anyways.

I meant that she simply stated that it was a successor (whether in the form of a fact, opinion, or statement), and not in the context of an argument.

She never argued that it was a successor because it followed after Motown or for any other reason.

Also, everyone knows that cops dig disco way more than the rest of the population.

amy,

don’t you have an office job? aren’t you a marketing person for some corporation? don’t you just design things on the side? (maybe this was just a rumor) which is great! we all need to make money! sometimes we can’t afford to only do what interests us creatively. as long as you have your own interests and hobbies outside of work it shouldn’t matter. for those of you who are able to make a living creatively, more power to you!

p.s. i stopped reading this shit halfway, but dancing is fun. you should dance to whatever makes your butt shake. what makes dc shitty is the people who are too caught up in other people’s lives. why do you care sooo much about what those other people are doing? do your own shit. love your own shit. be nice to people. stop whining. jesus. dance on! and don’t complain about dj’s playing shitty music. they are doing their thing, something they love. and don’t complain about other people being shitty for not liking it. and why don’t people just fucking talk to eachother anymore? stop assuming things about people and start talking to them, maybe they are a kickass person!

“E Diddly Oh,
Jockin I’m back on the scene
with my wrecking machine
sayin oh poppa do
how ya all do
I’m Mr. Wiggles
and these are my latest giggles
and squirm”

Without R&B there is no Funk,
Without Funk there is no disco
without disco there is no punk
Without disco there is no hip-hop, no new wave
no top 40 dance, no dance punk, no modern nu wave
no hipsters and just a bunch of assholes.

Release.
We used to dance.

Michael’s dislike of disco is pretty amusing to me, since I’ve seen him shake his ass to the likes of Erasure and the Pet Shop Boys for years now. It’s all dance music, isn’t it?

…holy mother of all fucking grails. cale actually interupted me–break away from my nephew’s 2nd birthday party w/ a traveling circus, ponies, elephants, cotton candy machine, shit and all…for this??

hey anon…call for correction! i am an apparel designer full-time. i have my own clothing line that is housed nationwide at 3 major anchor dept stores, doing fairly well might i add, so much that i quit my blood sucking corporate job as not a stupid marketer, but a business developer in renewable energy and hydrology you fucktard.

now, i will resume will eating this cotton candy. so much for this damn liquid diet.

oh, and…

xoxo.

i thought the night was pretty good and nicely attended. i got there for eastman’s set who was mainly just playing crowd pleasers and keeping people moving despite some questionable mixing ;) i thought mahoney was slow to get going, not the biggest disco fan although it was nice to hear something other than justice style elctro for a change. the last half hour or so i felt he was playing more abstract stuff ( it also could have been the drink) and i enjoyed it a lot more, until the staff yelled at me to finish my drink at 2:50 am…this sort of thing more than anything is what keeps dc down. great job on the booking, nice party and keep them coming!

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i’d dry hump her leg any (every) night.

#85

(yes, i counted)

(not that i think everyone who went to this is part of a big clique, but i’m talking about those BYT-inclined several posters.)

i agree for the most part, keith, but you can’t walk into a conversation with an asshole and a non-asshole and call them both assholes just because they happen to be talking to each other.

or whatever or something or nothing. you know what i mean. byt doesn’t *not* allow jackasses to comment. which is lucky for me, i guess.

cale–yes?

did i say something wrong? did you actually read what i said? didn’t I say “that’s great”? I was actually just making a point that everyone at some point or another needs to make money, whether it is to jumpstart their design career or something else. you didn’t have to call me a fucktard? sheesh.

i guess i’m wrong, as BYT sort of is a conduit/calendar for events in the area, so directing my vitriol here is null and void. i also realize your last point, michael. before i left pittsburgh i’d started a tiny record label and considered crafting a website that would perform a similar function to this one. of course, we don’t have any numbers behind the demographics that the site/venture would need, whichever criteria they are, because the city’s impossibly tiny and relatively divided up musically, socially and by age. so kudos for filling a niche and i aplogize for going off, but i couldn’t handle the attitude happening here.

i also don’t think the music reviews need to be serious enough to review opera, but that a girl talk review should accept that girl talk is a bunch of rap songs over a bunch of indie rock and soft rock songs and sounds/is nothing like/doesn’t even have much kraftwerk (contrary to the review).

back to the first point though, makeout told me/invited me to a “BYT party” saturday night, and that’s where the confusion was born.

Once again, cale interrupts my day to day happenings…tuning in from my blackberry.

Anon - i’m terribly sorry. You are not a “fucktard”. But through the grapetree, you claimed to have known my life story, however you did follow-up w/ “…maybe this was just a rumor”. That’s all. So I felt it warranted a defense response, which comes out often in a form of cursing tourettes. It was harsh. Sorry.

keith – “nice to take it down a notch (further) to a fake high school reality TV level. maybe if y’all want to have your conversations and music take more seriously, you could post it in a less superficial way on a less superficial forum?”

nevermind the word “rimming”…but who says “ya’ll”?

you from way down yonder???

p.s…i feel my cursing tourettes lurking around the corner.

“Masterfully melding Kraftwerk, New Order, Faith No More, Pete Townsend, Beastie Boys, Ace of Base, Bowie, Radiohead, Daft Punk with lot’s of rap I don’t know.”

that reads like a list of influences or a RIYL. it’s a semantic argument, forget it. by scapegoating i mean that every time i say something about this site, you respond with a triumphant “what are you talking about crazy mchahaha,” deflecting what i’m saying back to me and not hearing it. michael has it spot on and i’m wasting time (mine, yours) with an internet argument. take care dudes.