You know you're a real raver when....

*You have sleeping patterns that would kill normal human beings.

*Almost every letter of the alphabet has an alternate meaning to you.

*You have to fight back the urge to beat the shit out of everyone who thinks raves are like the club scene in Basic Instinct.

*You can keep a straight face when you tell people "really, not that many people are on anything....I'm serious!"

*Food, water, air, Vick's...all are about of equal importance.

*You are no longer just a raver...but a promoter, vendor, DJ, etc...

*You hug EVERYONE.

*You don't bother planning to meet your friends ahead of time, your friends are always already there.

*You're white and have dreads. (Sultan, ToneDepth. )

*You'll pay $40 for a ticket to an event that may very well not happen... and you'll pay $50 for a pill that may very well be aspirin...but you WILL NOT pay $4.00 for a bottle of water!

*You have one track in mind. It goes "thump thump tweet thump tweet thump."

*You can't pass an empty warehouse, church, school, big open field, barn, airplane hanger, phone booth, nuclear power plant, etc...without getting that far-off look in your eye and saying..."wow, what a great site for a party"

*You constantly point out the trippy visuals in everyday life.

*You not only notice that household appliances like washing machines can generate a funky beat, you also argue about whether it's Tribal or Trance.

*The total amount of sleep you get on the weekends is the sum of how many times you've blinked since Friday night..

*You feel wickedly guilty when your clueless parents tell you to 'have a nice trip' when you and your friends are on your way to an out of town party.

*You feel subhuman on Sundays cuz you're tired, cracked out, deaf, dirty, sore, and you're still seeing those damn spots.

*You start to describe dates using parties instead of calendar dates.

*You can stand right in front of a 5000 watt speaker for an hour and be loving it.

*You've got a huge pile of dead glow sticks in your room, you don't want to throw them away, cuz of sentimental value.

*When shrugging your shoulders can constitute for a conversation.

*When you're driving your car home and you feel like you're in a video game.

*When you get home and you have absolutely nothing you can possibly talk to your parents about your weekend.

*When you just dont give a shit what you look like anymore and all you wanna do is just dance, dance , dance...

*When hygeine is optional at 7 in the morning.."hey lets head to the afterparty!"



I think we can all relate.


Feel free to add more to the list.

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Last edited by on Mar-14-2007 at 05:26

for sh!tz only. no giggles.

*when you say silly things like, "I haven't taken that many drugs...

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oh fucking christ...

after reading this, i felt like a candy kid again...

priceless...

i need to find the ones about being jaded...

Found it

You might be a JADED raver if...

-You snicker when you hear someone say "PLUR".
-You finally realized that phat pants are heavy and unpractical.
-You refrain from dancing unless the circle is of rather large dimensions.
-When you do dance, you "battle".
-You learn to spin, and therefore have graduated to the "superior rave status".
-You find out just how crooked promoters really are.
-You hate massives.
-You blame candy kids for everything retarded in the scene.
-You say "the scene" a lot.
-You find out how much better european electronic music really is.
-You find out that glow sticks were cool TEN years ago in the UK.
-You have pretended to be rolling at a party just to get a quick laugh out of your friends.
-When you ARE on E, you do your best to act normal.
-You realize how cool Drum n' Bass is.
-You realize how lame progressive trance is.
-You find out that most American DJ's are completely overrated
-You have close friends who don't give a fsuck about the "scene" part of raving.
-You know that YOU don't really care about the "scene" part either.
-The smell of Vicks makes you almost physically sick.
-You can't help but laugh when someone tries to give you a "glow stick show".
-You pretty sure if you wanted to, you COULD break.
-If you want to actually "roll," you have to eat about four pills at once.
-You can get those four pills for the same price that everyone else pays for one.
-You drink beer at after parties.
-You quit collecting fliers.
-You have unsubscribed from your rave mailing list, because "none of those ****ing little kids understand a thing about raving, dammit!"
-You can't remember the last time you went to a regular house party and didn't think it sucked.
-You can't remember much in general.
-You realize that ravers aren't nearly as genuine as the hippies were.
-You wouldn't mind if that kid with the whistle accidentally swallowed it and died. (THIS ONES FOR PINKIE)
-You are actually called by your real name.
-You realize that the general public shoudln't be blamed for hating raves.
-You think ECKO is the lamest gear money can buy.
-You talk as little shit as much as possible.
-You value things in terms of vinyl, (ex: "that's an eight record pair of pants.")
-You DESPISE Happy Hardcore.
-You DESPISE candy.
-You have seen a fifteen year old "raver" on ecstasy and felt like leaving the party because of it.
-You know what a 303 is.
-You no longer feel the need to advertise your "rave-ness" to the world.
-You realize shell toes are shitty shoes. (switch to phat farm kids!!)
-You can't count how many pairs you have owned.
-You know that post-rave sex is aweful. (not true in all cases)
-You've punked kids who tried to get in a circle that was outta their league.
-You can determine where a raver is from just by the way they dance.
-You know that LA ravers can't dance worth a shit.
-You find out that underground parties still happen quite frequently, despite what 98% of the raving populous thinks.
-You party sober and now understand how stupid you looked when you didn't.
-You know who PRODUCED your favorite tracks, not just which DJ bought it and put it on a mix CD.
-You read URB.
-You have day-dreams that involve the Telletubies and a large rusty chainsaw.
-Your parents gave up on you becoming normal a long, long time ago.
-You know why GHB and special K are for ****ing idiots.
-You understand electro and minimal techno now.
-You hate rave ho's.
-You could out-dance any boy band, any day, while smoking a cigarette.
-You begin to notice how often big DJ's blow mixes.
-You think sweaty guys who run around the party shirtless should get thrown out.
-You act like a punk-ass bitch to security, police, and any other authority.
-You purposely wear way too much clothing to parties, because you know that dancing in a turtleneck sweater looks ****ing ill.
-You say "badass" a lot.
-You have replaced Caffiene, JNCO, and Adidas with Technic, Vestax, and JBL.
-You know that raving is all about the music, but RAVERS are not.
-You find the jungle room much more appealing now.
-You can actually dance to jungle.
-You hate Feelgood and Coolworld.
-You laugh out loud when you walk into Jamba Juice and they're playing dance music.
-You see guys from your high school football team at afterhours.
-You know raving is mainstream as fsuck.
-The bigger the flier, the less you want to go to the party.
-You can re-tell the story of how raving came to America quite accurately.
-You hate Anthem tracks.
-Your sleeping, and eating habits are completely fsucked up.
-You sit around with friends and tell old "rave disaster" stories.
-You are amazed that you are somehow still alive.
-You're still finding glitter in your clothes YEARS later.
-You remember when it was ALL called 'Techno'.
-You are "old school at the club'.

*when you know you just had the time of your life, but can't really remember it.

*when you walk out of the club/party with 20 new best friends, then look at your cell a few days later wondering who all the random names are.

*when the WORST FEELING IN THEH WORLD is when they turn on the lights and you walk outside into sudden reality.

*when you can walk up to a stranger and ask for a sip of their water. and they'll actually give you one.

*when you hear 'that' song a few years later, and it kicks your roll back in and puts a smile on your face.

*you buy beer when they start selling again, first thing in the morning, and the employees look at you like a crackhead.

*your sunglasses are your best friend...for different reasons than most people.

*when you wonder HOW you didn't die on the drive back home.

*when you enter the canadian border at 12am, and try to convince them you're going to the bars and it's not too late.

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lol @ driving feeling like a video game

found some more

The different stages of ravers


the Candy phase:
Characteristics include......


-Going to your first few parties, dropping, and immediately start telling all your non-raving friends how cool raving is.
-Being proud of the fact that you wear candy bracelets in public as to let everybody know how "underground" you are.
-Spending $150 on some phat pants that everyone in your family immediately laughs at but it doesn't bother you because they're "out of touch with the scene"
-Referring to raves as "parties" cause that's the only parties you go to nowadays anyways.
-Dissing all other forms of music as crap because they're not electronic.
-Thinking that wearing a soother DOES make a lot of sense and looks kinda cool.
-Not realizing that you're loosing your short-term memory.
-Incessantly dissing the "mainstream"
-Bar stars become your mortal eneamy, because they're "mainstream" partiers.
-Collecting flyers and wondering where you can get old flyers from b4 you started raving.
-Trying to hang out with djs and promoters to seem more in the 'scene'.
-Trying to explain to your non-raving friends (by now there probably aren't that many) the subtle nuances between tech-trancey house with a minimalistic edge and minimal hard tech with a slight trancey overtone and actually being serious about it.
-wearing candy up to your ****in' elbows
-you know everything there is to know about e, and you're constantly telling everyone why they should do it as opposed to drinking.
-you still live with your parents.
-you carry vicks around with you 'for emergencies'



The Hard-core stage
Characteristics include......


-you now have almost no friends that don't go to raves.
-you switch over from wearing phat pants to jeans
-you have ove 40gigs of electronic music on your computer
-you have tried almost all the drugs known to mankind
-you start to hang around more with the 'older' (20+) crowd that smokes weed and bitches about how the candykids are ruining the scene
-you get yourself some turntables, and 10 old records and start calling yourself a dj.
-you think that anybody who hasn't heard the latest record that came out on a tiny independant label isn't a real raver, and who are they kidding? they're just there for the e
- you start giving candykids peanut butter as a joke
-you start talking about how good it used to be "back in the day" (2 years ago)
-when you meet somebody, the first question that used to be "soooo........ did you drop allready?" becomes "so.... how long have you been going to raves?" as to assert that you've been going longer than they have, thereby asserting your superior 'raveness'



The 'old schooler' stage


-you realize with a shock, that everybody you now meet started raving after you
-sweaty kids that want a hug first amuse you, and then you start hating them with a passion.
-you listen to dnb, breaks, house, tech, electro..... pretty much everything except trance, which you can't stand anymore.
- you realize that the kids that are now going to parties were in grade 4 when you started going.
-everybody keeps on saying 'wow, i haven't seen you in such a long time!'
-you skip a few parties and don't even care
-you haven't dropped in 2 years, and don't care.
-you have a real job
-you have your short-term memory back, and you like it that way.
-you see kids that you used to teach swimming lessons to at raves (ok, this one is just for me, but it was quite a shock)
-16 year olds come up to you and tell you that it's so great to see older people like you at raves (you're 24)
-people automatically assume that you can get drugs for dirt cheap (which you could if you wanted to, but you don't anymore)
-you start taking pictures of kids that are rushing, so you can laugh at them later.
-you are now the "old skooler that's so jaded and negative, he/she should do e" that you used to talk about.
-and you hate ppl that say that
-you decide that since you have to work the next day, you're leaving at 3am even though the party is going to 7am. Hell, you might even just skip the rave.
-you cringe every time somebody pulls out a picture of you in your 'candy raver' days
-you have more friends that don't go to raves then that do.
-you can't remeber the last time you tried to convince somebody to start partying.
-when somebody asks you what you do, you say your job title, and not 'raver'

Jesus...you guys crack me up.

Solid gold.

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Originally posted by SummerWolf The different stages of ravers

Those are so true! Great post.

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