us v. them, over and over again.

Hello non-existant reader! Hello future generation!

Last night, I went to the Warper Party all by myself because Vicki stood me up. (Bizzy why!!!!?? Bizzy, come ON!!!!)

I knew I shouldn't have gone, given my only experience with the Warper crew has included some nasty Furries shittily covering that "back with another of those block-knocking beats" song, fist-shaking rage over Microsoft-Malfunction, and some ridiculous Yahoo v. Google argument that AKA still won't let me live down. That being said, I don't know why I went. But I went. Here are some fotos.



I took this picture of the video being reflected in the mirror behind the bar. This was the only pleasant thing about this evening, however, because what you can't here, reader, is the disonnant screech of some asshole blowing a trumpet into a microphone hooked up to some Max/MSP patch that causes consistantly growing feedback. This is where I started to grow deaf.

Then, this guy came out. I know, you're all like, WOW! And I was, too. At first.



Look at that guitar! It seems like this dude took the strings n shit off of his electric guitar, and glued it to a shitty tablet PC! Then he took the wires n gears and whatnot, and plugged them all into some patchbay that is plugged into the tablet PC! This is a pretty hot idea! Look, here's a close-up:



So, you have to give props to the man, okay. This is pretty cool. However, let's just say, the music he was playing sounds exactly like the college-dorm-shroom-trippy Windows Media Player "acid" visualizations swirling around on that damn tablet PC.

To reiterate: cool idea. Given. But come on, why does that shit have to sound like the soundtrack to some mid-90s soft-porn on Showtime? I took audio, but it was pretty shittily recorded, so I won't post it here.

So anyways, after that aural onslaught, I booked it out of there and hit the King.



I ate a STACKER.



More pics on my Flickr page, if you're interested. It's in a set called "The wackest shit I've ever been a party to". They're all taken from my camera fone, so they're super pixelated. However, I'm starting to really love the way the fotos come out looking like I ran them through some old Print Shop pointillation filter first...