3.31.2010

The Rave Scene


I have just returned from a vacation to Miami for an Electronic Music festival, Ultra Music Festival. Coming home to my parents and my aunt (who is now living with us temporarily) after partying for 5 days straight is the biggest buzz kill since … well coming home to your parents after partying for 5 days straight. They requested my presence at dinner tonight, “Let’s eat together as a family,” my Mother yells to me as I'm running out the door to work this morning. Ugh I think, and respond, "Uh yeah text me or whatever." Now I’m all for eating but I have been a strict diet of alcohol, music and as little sleep as possible so this whole meal thing seems as foreign as quietness. I come home from work and try to catch up on all things digital and my mom calls from the kitchen, “ Come put on some of the music you listened to this weekend so we can hear what you were doing.” I laugh out loud thinking, Lady not only will you probably call it noise but I wasn’t listening to any music you would recognize. I was feeling some serious bass in my whole body and dancing like a maniac for multiple hours straight. But I concede, I figure her take on the whole thing will make for interesting blog fodder if nothing else. I decide to show her some videos of the actual performances, she’s impressed and says she can appreciate the music. Then she asks, “ Were there a lot of people on ecstasy there?” I immediately go into child-mode, “ Ummm.... Ahhhh I don’t know… “ then I rethink it, I mean from the looks of the crazy ass body painted people the videos its pretty obvious. “Well I guess so mom, there were a lot of people with glow sticks in their hair and pacifiers.” She responds “Oh yes, but of course the usual rave accoutrements.” 

Never coming home for dinner has its drunken perks but little did I know my Mom was so hip to the “Rave Scene.”