F N O R D ! ! ! !

I have to admit. I did not know that "word." So here ya go:

fnord
1. A word used in electronic mail and news messages to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humour, especially in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?"
2. A metasyntactic variable, commonly used by hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius.
The word "fnord" was invented in the "Illuminatus!" trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

Discordianism
/dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati

Made up words aside...... there are still no monthly Psy Trance parties in Philly. That I know of. Maybe I'm following the wrong crowd. Maybe I'll start a monthly........

executive-chief-indians-decisions-authority-egos-advancement-organization-sounds like a great party to me. let me know when you find a venue.

Dude, who the hell are you and why aren't you making parties?? The reason there are no more monthlies is because they weren't special. It seems to get harder and harder to get any good artists here in philly, especially if your party is just another bi-weekly that gives people, if they're lucky, three hours of good partying time. Sure we have a good few local djs that rock the house, but when you have a bi-weekly party on a Dj loop of about ten people for main stage and chillout that ends at 2AM, it loses something big.
What I remember about those wonderful times you speak about are parties where we'd be lucky to have 50 people show up, there'd be barely enough money at the end of the night to pay the artists and usually no money at all to pay the organizers. You try busting your ass for hours on end every two weeks when you have work the next morning all so that the same djs can play the same music to the same barely-fucked-up barely dancing fifty people for three hours and then not even have enough left over to help out with rent a little bit.
Well, let me tell you, from SECOND-hand experience, it gets old. The fact is, until certain huge logistical factors are worked out, Philadelphia's psy-trance scene CAN NOT support good parties every two weeks. It's a pipe dream. We need to see more parties like the one in Vacuum happening. Maybe a bi-monthly. Or not even something that's regular. Just a good party like that every once in awhile. Unfortunately, Vacuum was just shut down, so we need to find another space that allows us to party all night long, which is not easy at all.
Say what you want about needing psy-trance parties in philly; for god's sake, I think we all want to party pretty badly, but until you offer some solutions to the problems we face, I find it completely unacceptable for you to say these people who've been busting their ass for years to make parties in philadelphia (MYSELF NOT INCLUDED) are too concerned with their own egos and advancement to make parties anymore. Sure, there's been some drama in management, like there is with any trance scene IN THE WORLD, or any close-knit group of people in the world for that matter, but that's not what stopped the regular parties. Throwing parties, like life, is, on the surface, a numbers game. And if the surface is not stablized, it makes it next to impossible to experience all the beauty that lies within.
Gaian-mind has been making kick ass parties in Philly for over ten years now, and will continue to do so for much longer, I promise, but we WILL NOT settle for mediocrity. So consider this hiatus a re-grouping, or re-evaluation of the scene here in philly and what it needs to move forward. Until then, BUY psy-trance albums, play them to your friends, get them hooked, and tell them about Gaian mind and how they made the most kick-ass trance parties around, and will continue to do so in the near future. Make sure they're there for the new age of gaian-mind. Make sure that by then we'll have more players on our team in this twisted numbers game and we can all dive below the bullshit and lose ourselves in dance. But FOR FUCK'S SAKE, DO NOT GO ACCUSING THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WERE DOING ANY MOTIVATING IN THE SCENE OF BEING TOO SELF-INVOLVED TO THROW GOOD PARTIES ANYMORE. FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!

didnt you get the memo? we all moved out into the woods to live off the land and be hippies! its cold here now and we are afraid our speakers might freeze or get snowed on.