I had the honor of meeting this guy when he came to Pittsburgh for one of our events in the early 2000s. Was a great night!

I've seen so many dj's live and he is one of the most genuinely happy and easy going people I've seen behind the decks. And I also like how he hunkers down under the table when the beat drops like a whack-a-mole

Haha yes! He was great to work with and everything. I really miss the old days now...

Ah! Me too! When I was young and could totally dance all night and not feel like shit the next day.

I used to be involved in the So California rave scene but since I moved to Texas pretty much none of my friends have even been to a rave so I get to introduce cool people to cool things and it's really awesome. A friend of mine had her first roll at PVD last weekend, what a great place to be for a first, ya know? It felt really nice to give someone that experience and babysit.

I was heavy into it before I clammed up. I used to promote, DJ and run events a lot here...such a fun times. I wish I could've gotten a fursuit then, but meh.

Omg promoters! I used to call them the sewing circle. A bunch of hens clucking outside a venue. Everyone knows the parking lot is where the party is! I don't know what I really did, I guess I did a little bit of everything. Scouting, a dab of promoting, security, set up/tear down, water runs...mostly just raver herding and using the power of hugs and angry mom voice to stop gangsters from fighting.

HHeh, try setting up and running events, lol 4-12 House Productions Represent!!!

I pretty much did that from 2003-2009. I could just never figure out a title for what I did, I was just kind of always there! Social director? I guess that's how I got the name Familliar. I was always around but people never really noticed me and always kind of recognized me. I worked for and was actually paid with real money *in some cases as much as the DJ's did* 4-5 different production companies but my main production company was called 1W1D. Events were never amazingly large, maybe average 400-1000 people and 2 or 3 6000-8000 events. Out in the middle of the desert, forests and warehouses.

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I'm wearing the red fuzzy thing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/611298.....7/12289901393/

I guess I've always been a little proud of what I did with raves because I was a single female not sleeping with random dudes for free drugs, I was actually working. I never dated ravers or crew.


Nowadays I work anime conventions. My darling boyfriend is the registration director at San Japan and Oni-Con and we do badge printing and various other printing services as well. I actually didn't even know he did conventions when I met him, it came up later. It's way more work than raves, I tell you what! Dj's aren't as good tho.