Inside The Woot Writer’s Room: ONLY FOR THE HARDCORE UK RAVER
Friday, May 13, 2011
Last time, it started with a photo. This time, Randy found a video.
Randall C. The dude at :55 is having the best/worst time ever.
Gatzby H. So many GIFs waiting to happen.
Scott L. He’s so gone
Jason T. wow
Matthew S. what in the
Randall C. This is why white people keep their dancing to tightly-confined, dark rooms.
And that’s where it all began. After the jump, enjoy another peek into the Woot Writers’ Room and see our raw, mildly censored real-time chat room commentary as we enjoy a little trip back to the days of rave. Don’t watch too far ahead without us!
Randall C. Even better dude at 3:00.
Gatzby H. 2:38 contends.
Scott L. haha around 2:10
Randall C. Ha at all three of our examples being the same guy.
Scott L. DID HE JUST MIME SHOOTING HIS OWN BRAINS OUT
Gatzby H. He gets worse too. Wow.
Jason H. In my heart, I’m hoping he’s trying to impress the girl next to him.
Randall C. ” In this video which is actually 4 hour long cut down, you will see how some of the people enjoyed the best music in rave culture.”
Randall C. SOMEBODY CALL THE CRITERION PEOPLE.
Jason H. “This is it, Bobby. Don’t screw this up. Show her your sweet finger guns and you’re in.”
Gatzby H. This, friends, is why Ecstasy is a Scheduled drug.
Gatzby H. “OH GOD THE LIGHTS! I WANT TO HOLD MY HANDS IN THE AIR, BUT IT’S SO BRIGHT. AND COLORED. AND JELLO.”
Matthew N. It looks like footage of a music-in-occupational-therapy session for people with brain injuries
Gatzby H. 4:45: It may be the saddest part of a DJs life when someone has to force other people’s hands in the air for you.
Gatzby H. I love how everyone else is completely oblivious to him, even a half foot away.
Scott L. This is like what everyone is afraid they look like when they’re dancing
Gatzby H. And the award for the Sweatiest Man in Europe goes tooooooo…
Jason T. 6:29: White Americans doing the beaded-braid thing = Bo Derek. White Brits doing the beaded-braid thing = Boy George.
Scott L. That punching guy at 8 minutes is going to beat that girl in the head
Matthew N. Is “Mining” the name of a town? Or is the poster saying he quit digging coal to do this?
Jason T. a club, I assume
Gatzby H. “Hey guys, remember when overalls were hip? Back at that club? You remember!”
Jason H. Why is the guy at 8:10 wearing mime gloves?
Jason T. maybe he does actually mean mining
Scott L. he’s like the guy they cut to as a transition in an 80s movie
Gatzby H. He’s justifying his terrible choices as performance art.
Matthew N. That would partially explain the overalls
Jason T. they came with the overalls
Matthew N. In 1992 I left the smelting industry to pursue my passion for LARP
Gatzby H. It’s like a game of Spot the Date Rapist where everybody wins.
Scott L. maybe he’s Mickey Mouse at the local Disney and he just took of his giant plastic head and came to the club
Jason H. Heh. I thought the girls at 8:55 were Twittering, not pulling out cigaretees.
Gatzby H. He may be the reason EuroDisney closed.
Jason H. or cigarettes
Randall C. I’ll spot you overalls, because at some point I remember people wearing them a lot, but the white Mickey Mouse gloves?
Gatzby H. Those guy’s gloves look like Ove Gloves. I’m guessing he took “drop it like it’s hot” way too literally.
Randall C. Oh. Scott made that joke already.
Scott L. sometimes it’s like you think i don’t even exist
Scott L. I HAVE FEELINGS TOO
Gatzby H. Who the hell is Scott?
Randall C. I take medication to help.
Scott L. Did it come with overalls?
Gatzby H. UNCEE UNCEE UNCEE UNCEE
Matthew N. Finger Guns is like “the ‘Cabbage Patch’ dance craze was huge; why can’t there be a ‘Yosemite Sam?'”
Scott L. you can’t unsee it, gatz
Jason T. My new motto: Dance like nobody will you be watching you on the Internet in 19 years
Randall C. “Police believe the suspect can be seen here, enjoying a post-murder dance.”
Scott L. “He was busted by the cop from the Village People in an undercover sting”
Jason T. 9:23: the “Tasha Yar” was big that year.
Gatzby H. 12:10 seems to have an overall-clad go-go dancer.
Gatzby H. Haha, 12:50. Now that’s the kid that spent years trying to start fires with his mind and was convinced it worked when the house lights flared, if only for a second.
Jason T. 12:20: You guys here for the striped shirt meetup?
Jason H. There’s a couple of lady Mime Gloves. *shiver*
Randall C. That guy at 12:50 is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen.
Gatzby H. 13:20: “The service is TERRIBLE here. WAITRESS! WAITRESS! WAITRESS!
WAITRESS!”
Gatzby H. 14:14: Winner of Bulgiest Neck Veins
Randall C. Was this like a Jets/Sharks thing? Why is the room split in half with everyone facing each other?
Gatzby H. Alternatively, following the world’s first high speed Pong match.
3:25 PM
Matthew N. Life is a Euro Rave, old chum. Come to the Euro Rave.
Randall C. I wonder how many people here were NOT high, and just genuinely enjoyed rave culture?
Jason H. The repeating cartoon spring noise that happens from 13:45 to the end makes me wonder how music ever survived.
Gatzby H. I’m honestly rethinking my enjoyment of rave music right now.
Matthew N. It shocks me how many people know the lyrics. Did they listen to this stuff in their cars? On headphones at work?
Randall C. Do you not hear it being repeated 700 times a verse?
Gatzby H. In most cases, I regret not being part of cultural history: Woodstock, Lollapalooza, and the early days of Burning Man, but I can honestly say this would cause me to commit suicide faster than the Seattle winter.
Jason H. HIIIIIIIIGHER
Jason H. I WANNA TAKE YOU HIIIIIIIIIIGHER
Jason T. I’ve been watching this whole time on mute.
Jason H. That’s like every rave song’s lyrics.
Matthew N. “I’m going to slow it down now just a little bit. Here’s a new track I think you’ll really enjoy — it’s called ‘Tears in Heaven.'”
Randall C. These people are what, 40 now? 50? They probably own homes.
Randall C. Well, one of them might.
Matthew N. That girl’s black glitter hat is left over from a costume she wore for a dance recital at age 9. SHE’S BRINGING IT BACK.
Jason T. 20 in ’92 would be 39 today
Gatzby H. The good news is, there’s just another 3 hours and 45 minutes to watch before the after party!
Randall C. I didn’t see the year.
Randall C. God there is a whole rabbit hole of these things to fall down into. Someone should do something. What’s the YouTube equivalent of police tape?
Gatzby H. I start to see why the French have notoriously bad taste in music, if this was the alternative.
Randall C. “This video is surely about the good times… Its about Peace & Love”
Jason T. I don’t know that it is actually ’92, Randy. Just ballparking.
Randall C. I get neither of those things while watching this.
Matthew N. We shouldn’t give them too hard a time. The other things there were to do in their town were all ethnic-violence-based.
Randall C. Guaranteed dry heave: try to imagine what that room smelled like.
Gatzby H. Suddenly a crushing dependence on heroin set to Iggy Pop sounds like a good time.
Matthew N. I made it to the end. Now this video is officially the worst thing that has happened to me today, and my infant son peed in my mouth during a diaper change earlier.
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