Captain Freeshit: Win Tickets To Making Time And The Soulwax Movie!
As the world’s pre-eminent scholar (and leading dispenser of free tickets) of Making Time, I, Captain Freeshit, feel like I am in a unique position. A quick search on this site reveals that that the past, present, and yay, the future of this noted and notable party all reside on the handy URL you now visit. And it’s the future of Making Time that’s on my mind today. Recently, we’ve noted that Making Time (and danserock, the genre it helped kickstart) as it currently exists simply cannot go on. The bands all suck, it’s getting a little tooooooo close to Hot Topic emo for comfort, and as for the DJ sets, well, here’s the thing: Even when you’re spinning (or dancing to) techno ironically or in quotation marks, well, that’s still techno and you’re only just a few steps away from sucking on a pacifier and wearing big pants and raving like it’s 1999, Philadelphia. My point: New ideas must, and will, prevail. We don’t know what they are, and even though they haven’t yet, you can feel the seismic shift in this week’s lineup alone, as it seems to gather much of what is still good about the curious microgenre of music that Making Time has articulated so well: Soulwax Nite Versions/2Many DJs, The Juan Maclean, Erol Alkan, and the rest of the homebrew crew, all of which begins with a screening of the Soulwax movie, Part Of The Weekend Never Dies, at 7pm at the Arts Bank. It’s like the last stand at the Ponderosa. And you can be there on the night they drove old danserock down. We want you to be there, for all of it — the movie and the party. All of that reality television is leaving you with precious little to tell your kids about. Think about it. To enter, send an email to ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “PART OF THE WEEKEND NEVER DIES” in the subject header. We’ll pick winners tomorrow morning, and you can finally retire your Elf Pants. Because this, brothers and sisters, is change we can believe in.
