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A good time to re-watch Decoder, 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoder_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoder_(film)

bsenftner 7y ago
Oh man, I was at the Einstürzende Neubauten show in Los Angeles that got them banned from ever performing in California again. Their show's climax was cutting cables allowing two 20 foot steel girders to swing down and crash into each other like a gong. The sonic wave knocked the audience off our feet, everyone had bleeding ears and could not hear for the next several hours. The building, The Palladium in Hollywood, had plaster falling and it was said to be damaged by their show. That was an event.
- narrator 7y ago
  This reminds me of being at a Survival Research Lab show and having to run from tear gas or whatever horrible noxious smell all the pyrotechnics were putting out. That was under the 80 freeway in a parking lot in SOMA during the dot com boom. Does wild stuff like that even happen anymore?
  - NelsonMinar 7y ago
    ever heard of this rave in the desert called Burning Man?
    - narrator 7y ago
      Yeah. I was there in 1997 and 2007. I guess I must suffer from old school disease, because it just doesn't have that sense of danger that 90s fringe culture had. Lots of people sitting around in lawn chairs in front of their RVs drinking beer in 2007.
  - bsenftner 7y ago
    I've enjoyed an SRL show myself. Nothing like the fear of sudden death to make a Saturday evening memorable. I think Burning Man is trying to capitalistically monopolize fringe culture now. Inevitable.
    - wutbrodo 7y ago
      What a bizarre claim. In what way is BM trying to monopolize fringe culture?
      - bsenftner 7y ago
        My use of 'monopolize' is not right, I retract that. It does appear to have become a money making enterprise.
throwaway777555 7y ago
Vinegar Syndrome actually restored and reissued this within the last year. I've always been a fan of his part in it: "Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich. Some of us are poor with information. All of us can be rich. Our job--YOUR job is to rob the bank. To kill the guard. To go out there, to destroy everybody who keeps and hides the whole of information."

bsenftner 7y ago

Oh man, I was at the Einstürzende Neubauten show in Los Angeles that got them banned from ever performing in California again. Their show's climax was cutting cables allowing two 20 foot steel girders to swing down and crash into each other like a gong. The sonic wave knocked the audience off our feet, everyone had bleeding ears and could not hear for the next several hours. The building, The Palladium in Hollywood, had plaster falling and it was said to be damaged by their show. That was an event.

narrator 7y ago
This reminds me of being at a Survival Research Lab show and having to run from tear gas or whatever horrible noxious smell all the pyrotechnics were putting out. That was under the 80 freeway in a parking lot in SOMA during the dot com boom. Does wild stuff like that even happen anymore?
- NelsonMinar 7y ago
  ever heard of this rave in the desert called Burning Man?
  - narrator 7y ago
    Yeah. I was there in 1997 and 2007. I guess I must suffer from old school disease, because it just doesn't have that sense of danger that 90s fringe culture had. Lots of people sitting around in lawn chairs in front of their RVs drinking beer in 2007.
- bsenftner 7y ago
  I've enjoyed an SRL show myself. Nothing like the fear of sudden death to make a Saturday evening memorable. I think Burning Man is trying to capitalistically monopolize fringe culture now. Inevitable.
  - wutbrodo 7y ago
    What a bizarre claim. In what way is BM trying to monopolize fringe culture?
    - bsenftner 7y ago
      My use of 'monopolize' is not right, I retract that. It does appear to have become a money making enterprise.

throwaway777555 7y ago

Vinegar Syndrome actually restored and reissued this within the last year. I've always been a fan of his part in it: "Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich. Some of us are poor with information. All of us can be rich. Our job--YOUR job is to rob the bank. To kill the guard. To go out there, to destroy everybody who keeps and hides the whole of information."