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Muramasa

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  1. Im surprized that no one has made the suggestion of House music. Cmon guys where's the love?

    But to be serious for the past 3 years I've gone to the rave I've always longed to hear House music played.

    I agree with this. If Hope has me again in '08 I'm definitely considering playing a house set.

    I might make a mix of it sometime soon-ish during my winter downtime. If I do I'll post a mix up and see what you guys think.

  2. To be fair, this past year's 18+ panels did not start until 11PM on both Friday and Saturday nights (it started even later on Saturday). The 18+ panels were not limited to hentai, though there were one or two hentai ones scheduled. Even if you weren't interested in tentacles, you could check out the Dub Actors After Dark, or the late-night Evangelion panel. Not to mention that the video room version of Main Events featured fan parodies and fan films both nights until the wee hours, and 35mm was churning out films until midnight and 1AM. You're correct that there's not quite as much happening all at once, late at night, as there is the rest of the weekend - but there's still a lot happening.

    That's why I hate when people say the rave is the only thing to do after 10PM at the con. There's so much going on that so many don't seem to care about..

    Not the only thing, but certainly the best thing! :D

  3. The biggest problem I can foresee with a lounge is that it would likely need to be in close proximity of the other rooms. Given the lack of intensity of most downtempo/dubstep/ambient genres, there would be a high amount of sound pushing through the walls and disrupting the atmosphere -- it would be pretty difficult to relax and get away from the craziness of the rest of the party with BOOM BOOM BOOM vibrating the entire room.

    That being said, if there's a room towards the back of the hallway that's open the lounge idea could be feasible. Maybe get a smaller package for the main room sound system (truthfully, it's a little bit larger than what's needed) and put that into getting another sound system for the 2nd side room.

    I doubt it's going to happen next year, but it is a nice thought. :lol:

    You hit the logistical side of the problem, it's a matter of finding a space that's close enough to the rave so that people will actually want to go to it, yet far enough away so that the sound won't carry into the room.

    It's also a setup issue; the only room that we have set up as a lounge-type area is the Ota-cafe, which is on the opposite end of the BCC and I have a feeling that most people aren't going to want to walk from one end of the BCC to the other to chill for a little bit. Rearranging a room is an option, but that'll take time and money (the BCC staff has to change out the furniture in a room so we have to pay for their time plus use of the furniture, plus their time to set the room back to its original use). AFAIK, Ota-cafe is very happy with their location so moving them isn't really an option either.

    Now there's another thought -- who says that the lounge has to be part of the dance event? A chillout DJ works perfectly well earlier in the day and can go somewhere without a dancefloor essentially as background music. A little Portishead playing while I sit down to eat or take a break from running around at 4pm would actually be very, very nice. People tend to focus on forming in small groups and socializing during the day though, so maybe it would be a waste lost in the background of all the chatter. I'd personally love it, though, as would a large number of my friends. :P

  4. The biggest problem I can foresee with a lounge is that it would likely need to be in close proximity of the other rooms. Given the lack of intensity of most downtempo/dubstep/ambient genres, there would be a high amount of sound pushing through the walls and disrupting the atmosphere -- it would be pretty difficult to relax and get away from the craziness of the rest of the party with BOOM BOOM BOOM vibrating the entire room.

    That being said, if there's a room towards the back of the hallway that's open the lounge idea could be feasible. Maybe get a smaller package for the main room sound system (truthfully, it's a little bit larger than what's needed) and put that into getting another sound system for the 2nd side room.

    I doubt it's going to happen next year, but it is a nice thought. :lol:

  5. Something that might be really cool to try next year is a meet & greet with the DJs sometime before the dance Friday or Saturday afternoon after sound checks are done, before the first DJ goes on. It would be really cool to meet a lot of the con goers and people that are into the music, and people might appreciate being able to ask questions to some of the veteran DJs to find out their experience with the music & partying, favorite animes, or whatever else people come up with. Socializing is fun. :-)

  6. you know murmasa. what you said actually made sense. but when people on the street start to trash talk and make threats just because you are in costume is not fair. i guess i will try to find another word for them besides idiot. maybe ignorant to another culture is more fair

    Right on. :-)

    Normalcy is such a bizarre thing, and completely defined by popularity. Look at popular dress styles from the 70s & 80s, the punk scene, the goth scene, etc... everyone is made fun of by someone else, IMO it's just how you handle it that dictates how much trouble you're going to run into. I'm not really sure where some of the surprise at the behavior of the bmore residents comes from; Experience suggests to me that if you're going to walk around city streets with unnaturally colored hair and big props, you're going to draw a lot of attention to yourself.

    I guess what I'm getting at is if people aren't thick-skinned enough to handle a bit of light insulting (that they're already anticipating!) for dressing in a highly abnormal way, maybe they shouldn't dress up and then whine about it on the internet. Kudos to those who say 'eff it' and have fun with it.

  7. I think it's very odd for so many people within a subculture (or a sub-subculture if we're just talking about the people who dress up?) to have such hostile views against people with different views on normality while at the same time striving to have their lifestyle accepted by the the same masses.

    'Idiots', 'losers', 'people who just don't get it'... seems like it's the same name-calling from both sides. It's better to be positive, IMO. :P

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