This comment could be a post in itself :<)
The CDtheek sounds awesome and you just made me remember that I started out with a radio-cassette recorder ( with double tape deck ), recording songs from the radio in the early 90s and compiling my own tapes, before I owned a CD-player or bought CD's.
I forgot Plato and Boudisque although I only started visiting these around 2000 ( when I went to study in Utrecht ) I believe.
Sooooo, if you dare, why dont you join to a cool music event!? Young people love it when they see the oldies; They all want to become like us; Want to be partying still when they are in their 40s and 50s. The trick is, get to the cool festivals. Not so many around, but I know a few :)
Hahaha! Am I an oldtimer, already, at 38? I guess I am for young people, let alone kids.
I will keep that idea in mind.
I have definitely heard of Boom festival, my Portuguese brother in law has been there several times in the past but I'm not sure if it's my kind of thing. I have to admit that I associate it with drug use and these days I don't even drink alcohol.
I dont see age of people, have (close) friends who are 10 to 15 years older than I, and those who are 20 to 25 years younger than I.
The same is starting to happen to me. I guess it's part of growing older hahaha!
Thanks for your awesome comment, Ed!
Groetjes,
Vincent
Hahahaha, I think I'm on of the few who write more words in comments then in my own posts.... Ah well, maybe not, my posts are (usually) not short as well.
Hey, I didn't know your age but you stated something on the lines of: "I visited Rock Werchter several times until I felt too old for 4 days of camping and dixies" - I know, I know. Nothing about your real age :)
Like everywhere, drugs will be used by people visiting BOOM as well. But I'll assure you, also people go that don't use these substances, other than smoking (also drugs) and alcohol (as you mentioned, also drugs). The cool thing is: Nobody tells you to do whatever, and nobody will blame you for not doing something you don't like. You would be surprised how many people you may meet in the street, are under influence of something.
COOL! Always room to improve :) But how cool does it feel when age is not object?! Maybe when I was in School and Uni I felt age differences, mainly towards adults, but fortunately left that age thing soon after entering this adult life :)
You might be an exception in this haha.
Have you considered partaking in this ( ever heard of it? )?
Hive Engagement League
I went to Rock Wercherd in the mid 2000s, when I was in my early twenties. I guess I grew old early, just kidding ;<)
Nice to hear this and I realize that. Let's say that it's kind of a trauma on my side that I prefer not to talk about in detail ( on here ), I'm working on it.
And yeah, I know that many people are on substances, also here in rural Portugal. Dealing with life on your own and feeling our feelings ( without any form of escapism ) is very difficult for many of us. It's a daily struggle for me too but I try my best with walks in nature, meditation and all kind of self help stuff.
Humans are funny creatures ;<)
Groetjes!
You think? I have quite a number of people around me all in their 40s and 50s and still going strong. Ok, maybe I went to too many parties for too many years, so I know too many people hahaha And it doesnt help some of my closest friends are professionals in de electronic music industry. Every time I want to step out of it, they pull me right back in! :)
Didn't want to trigger you on your trauma. Sounds like you have things under control, and at the same time you seem to explore and going through a healthy life! Best of success! Man, nature in Portugal must be fantastic!
And yeah, I'm part of the Engagement League, for a long long time. With two accounts even. This one and my qsounds account (originally created for my music side of things :)). Last week I made it into the top 100 with both accounts, while I dont write too many comments. But they are LONGGGGG hahahaha. That said, abh12345 told me many short form comments score much much better, than a few super long form comments. I guess he'll not change the algorithm. That said, its really fun to see my accounts at the bottom end, but factors larger number of characters written to the blockchain in response to posts and other comments.
Sorry with the exception I was referring to comments longer than posts haha!
I am often in that list as I comment quite a lot and have some people that keep interacting with me ( which is nice ) but I am kind of anti competition these days, to be honest so I don't feel a need to make it to the top. Still it's nice to find my name up there, I admit ;<)
Alright, this is it for now. Time and energy are precious and I run out of it pretty quickly.
Bye for now!
LOL hahaha stupid me hahaha... Good thing, you made me laugh this early morning :)
Same here... I never entered the league for the competition, but just out of curiosity. For a long long time I didnt even look at the weekly league posts, until a few weeks ago I discovered one of abh12345 posts and remembered he was running this competition...
Great you go around HIVE and truly interacting, since that is the core (or should be at least) of HIVE :)
Wish you some (well more then some) strength for today!
ps noticed you are doing well on your posts: great! and lots and lots of comments! thats what the core of HIVE is about (or at least, should be about) :)
...question: we first met a few years ago on this chain around the topic of old movies and this series that was (maybe still is?) run in Amsterdam at mostly small places in back chambers of bars and other cultural places. Since you are into movies, you may happen to know some cool video creators in our community? Am looking for some who can help to upgrade the HIVE branding (read my post on what I like to see happening: here).