I survived Toronto part 2 and brainmatter
April 20, 2003
Well Nick and I made our journey to Toronto Thursday night to see mister Armin Van Buuren! One thing i need to say is The Guverenment is prolly the best club i have EVAR been in. It destroy’s anything we have down here in Buffalo, then again Toronto is 10 times larger (rough estimate). Too bad Nick and I had a hell of a time finding the place. After driving around for about an hour and asking for directions twice we finally found it. After parking and waiting in line for a bit we went got into the place, We wandered around for a bit to get our bearings and find out where the KOOL HAUS part was. After finding it we just kinda chilled for a bit and listened to the one of the opening DJs. I didnt catch his name but i believe he was spinning house music, which we didnt really care for. After that guy spun his set a DJ by the name of Steve Lawler came on. Man he was good, he spun a 3 hour set that totally rocked. From the track selections down the technical stuff, I would highly recommend seeing him if you get a chance. Now as far as Armin’s set, I will have to paraphrase this from Nick a little bit.. “He was not there spinning records, he was up there putting on a show” which i will have to agree with him. He keep the crowd pumped, smiled, goofed off, let people take pictures of him, and generally looked like he was having the time of his life. I reconized quite a few of the tracks he dropped during his set, some were alot of oldies but goodies. All in all i would defintly recommend that you check him out if you get a chance.
Some other thoughts I had on the nights events that i wanted to share are the following. I noticed that people were generally cool at the club, I must have met atleast 5 people over the course of the night. I would be sitting there chilling and they would just come up and start shooting the shit with you out of the blue. That’s something i am not used to, I dont know if thats normal i dont get out to the local clubs that often, they dont play any of the music i listen too and they just seem to suck.
Also they way people looked I found rather amusing. I was expecting to see alot of rave kiddies representing in full effect…man was i wrong. Lets just say that it was a borg’s wetdream at the place. All the guys looked the same and all the chicks looked the same. Most of the guys had the Brad Pitt Fight Club look going for them. Messed up short hair, sleeveless t-shirts (not wifebeaters) and ripped up or bleached jeans. The woman all pretty much looked the same as well, with slight variations. All i can say was i felt pretty out of place with brown cargo pants, a blue stripped poloshirt, blue airwalks and my spitfire hat heh.
Today (well yesterday now) was Easter Sunday, where JC rose from the dead and went to heaven (iirc). Or if you’re not the religious type, a bunny comes around with a load of candy in baskets (where we got them from is beyond me) and hooks up people everywhere. Today was a good day for me, the Easter Amanda got me a basket loaded with goodies. Plus i got a chocolate rabbit from her parents. Also went over to my aunts house to commit unspeakable acts of gluttony on the homemade ravolis(sp?). Afterwards we made a follow up trip to my grandparents place (dad’s side) to say hi to everyone. All in all it was a good day, except for the fact that the sentra is going to need some exhaust system work done (FUCK). Its sounds a little bit on the loud side and i hear a rattling noise. Sounds like something got out of whack. I swear ever since i got the car, every year around this time i need to sink a shit load of money into to get it fixed. But its mostly been maintainence things that normally need to be done on the car.
Well off to bed, Amanda is waiting for me…cant keep a girl waiting 
