ELECTROFRINGE INVITES CREAM OV TROUBLE MAKERS = ~~~~~~~GOOEY ON THA INSIDE~~~~~~~~

"Between Birchville Cat Motel (NZ), KK NULL (Japan) and Maruosa (Japan) there is a multicoloured bouquet of noise musics, worth hearing indeed but less interesting to write about. (“Loud!”) RAVENATION though, is a performance worth detailing—worth, even getting thrown out of for disorderly behaviour and sneaking back in over the beergarden fence. Curated by Melbourne performance collective Gooey On the Inside, the show assembles a kind of mocking electro cabaret that veers between deft satire and simple mockery but mostly hangs out in the vicinity of general mayhem.

Half a generation since the festival was founded, Electrofringe’s early days are already fodder for (re)appropriation by the young turks as much as the pop culture canon; everything from breakcore to cabaret is compressed in RAVENATION into a parodical three hour hyper-rave with smoke machine, lasers and fake MDMA included, not to mention an animatronic latex penis mask, all broadcast in animated GIF art on Myspace. These folks are not just staking out a claim for their area of practice on the fringes of the mainstream, but wresting it back from the ageing cohort who now run the flagship, and producing an impressively slick show while they’re at it.

Programming touring international artists is fantastic for Electrofringe’s profile; but it’s the ability to invite the cream of troublemakers into the halls of marginally-more-power that keep it alive and relevant. I can’t wait until Gooey on the Inside get their comeuppance in turn in a few years’ time."

see tha whole article here from RealTime Arts magazine

see photos of RAVENATION here

love love xx x x x

fashion hayley @ infinity party!!

http://fashionhayleyhome.blogspot.com/2008/08/tokyo-weekend-in-melbourne.html

this is Fashion Hayley's post about the infinity party from august.
its got a bunch of photos too!!!
x x x


kati and holly (by fashion hayley)

DANCESAFE!!!

http://www.dancesafe.org/
erm, chase the lazer?!
Disclaimer: This website provides health and safety information only. We neither condemn nor condone the use of any drug. Rather, we recognize that recreational drug use is a permanent part of our society, and that there will always be people who use drugs, despite prohibition. The drug information we provide, therefore, is meant to assist users in making informed decisions about their use. We do not make the claim, nor do we imply, that the use of any drug can ever be completely safe. All drug use contains inherent risks. We assume no responsibility for how the information on this site is used.

gmail no tities crapb

so it seems that gmail noticed us talking about the crab, and how it, according to eli 'looks like tits' and so they made new rich emoticons!! so the crab doesn't look like tits, and instead it looks like a crab, and it moves:


yeh sorry, blurry and cute, eh!??!!?!

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/picture-is-worth-thousand-words.html


i love you <3

secret admirerers???

SO......
me and holly have been talking and we are realllly confused about how we have so many hits on this blog.... i mean....really??
really???
only two followers are listed!!!
and one of them is gooey on the inside. and the other one is me.
does anyone else we know read this?
you should add yourself to the followers so we can see if this counter thing is real coz it says we get 12,000 hits per day and thats totally wack
xoxoxoxo

WILL THE REAL 3D PLEASE STAND UP!?!

i drew this//i wish i had some 3d shadez...

suxxx about the world economic collapse

now i can't buy shit for cheap.
x x x x x xx x
bring it on
x x x
|?|?|??|?|?|?\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

i <3 gmail chat

www.i.gave.you.crabs.V.v.V.com
www.soz.com
soz.about.that.com

i <3 V.v.V

ps. +/'\
x x x x

do you reckon this dog is real?X?X?X
ps. 12,000 people per day look at our blog, SCORE!!!
x x

holly fluxxibition

drum roll....
get ready for the HOLLY FLUXXIBITION!!!
next friday night @ DISCOBEANS!!!!
with rainbows, string and PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES!!!

and japanese food (by yuka) and booze!!!
x x x xx x
<3

advanced style

look at this blog:
http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/

its like FRUITS!! but its all senior citizen babes!!!
x x x x x x x xx

UV UV UV Ultra Violet GLOWWWW!!!

kati and i went to Thread Den last night and saw Seamstress, 'five solos explorign the dancer's relationship with costume'. it was fucking amzing, each performance was so different
including one under UV light!!!
which led me to wonder.... what glows under UV light!?!?!?

includes PISS, CUM and PLANTS GLOW RED!!!!!!!

that's hot.
i <3 chemistry
x x x x x x

DISCO BEANS ART MARKET HOSTED BY GOOEY ON THE INSIDE!!!

hey1!!
we chucked an art market!!
it looked like this!!!




look at the photos here!! x x x

booyah!
and i love this new spring AND i love art!!!
x x xx

RAVENATION: GOOEY ON THE INSIDE AT ELECTROFRINGE

WE CAME HERE TO PAAAAARTY

SO DANCE CUZ SOMETIMES THATS ALL YOU CAN DO.......

candy pushers!!!

yo check out what's going on in canada!!!!

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/black-market-chocolate-bars


eeeeeat caaaaandy!!!!
<3 <3 <3

SEE US AT TINA

WE ARE GIVING AN ARTIST PRESENTION ON GOOEY ON THE INSIDE AT TINA
ON THE SUNDAY AT ABOUT 12.30PM

WE ARE ALSO CHUCKING THE PARTY ON SUNDAY NIGHT, AND AN AFTER PARTY IN A SECRET HOT FKN LOCATION

XOXOOXOXOX
XOXOX
SEE US THERE......

PANDIE RULES!!!

what a fucken sweet amazing hardworking BABE!!!

like, PANDIE is going to Europe next week to meet up wit HALSZKA her partner in crime from c*genik!
soooo happy for her!!
so glad to know her!!!
x x x x xx
oh my goodness!!!!
<3<3

i want a baby blue satin hat soooo bad!!!

here is one that NAMALEE is wearing. :

she's fucking amzing
my perfect one would say NY on the front or some shit....
ps. do you remember in year six when every boy had this hat!??!:

and the symbol just looks like it says SEX, check it!

hot hot hot hot trans lego toys

hey
our our cooooool friend lisa in ireland, who i randomly met in an elevator in tokyo a few years ago, and at fkn rauberhole gig.......
sent me this photo!! its so awesome, its genderqueer and trans lego!!!!
LOVES IT
LOVES ...IT

hey, we ran into this little guy in the city....<3

alomixta online exhibtion

alomixta .. . . .. . . .. .
online exhibtion collaborative 3d virtual world rainbow sparkle


it opens online TODAY

xooxoxoxoxooxoxox

male dominated festivals are boring!!!!

OI
listen its so weird and boring when you go to something and everysingle person on stage is a guy!!
after like, the third hour i start feeling so weird.....
anyway
i got this email from Meredith music festival pre announcing their line up, and it was all fucking men!! except for that band beaches, and the girl from archetikture in helsinki...and all the music looked so FKN BORING ....
chek it

HOLY FUCK / LITTLE RED / MGMT / SAUL WILLIAMS / MAN MAN / THE BRONX / MUSCLES / FINAL FANTASY / TAME IMPALA / BEACHES / THE MOUNTAIN GOATS / TEN EAST / THE RUBY SUNS / BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES / COMBO LA REVELACION / YACHT CLUB DJS / GRAND SALVO / ADAM GREEN / THE DATSUNS / ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI / REGURGITATOR

....................
i fkn hate guitar music, but even more i hate boring ass dudes up on stage whinging with guitars. fuck. theres enough. doesnt anyone wanna listen to something wierd or different???

and so i sent them an email, it said

"hi AUNTY MEREDITH

why dont you represent women?
why is everyone on the line up a man except that girl from archetetire in helsinki, and beaches???
theres even a band called MAN MAN
and your just bringing out the GUY from mouldy peaches ? ? ?"

they wrote back...

"Dear **************,
We don't chose bands on gender, just good music and who is available to play. I agree though...I wish there were more women. Would you like to start up a band with me and we can apply to perform?

 Love,
 Aunty"



WHAT THE FUCK???
what a bunch of idiots 
and seriously, who the fuck wants to listen the franksinatra-esque
NYC crooning of the guy from mouldy peaches.
un. be. lievable.

DISCO BEANS ART MARKET!!!

hey, if you are in Melbourne, come to this next Sunday!!



hey, yuka and i (and other amayzing cunts) are organizing this artist market next sunday, and then monthly after that!!!

disco beans was like the bestest venue crazy thing run by yuka and john harte in osaka but now they live in Melbourne!!!! and its totally cool!!!!

if you want a stall, or more information, please email me: shotflux (at) gmail. com

its the first eva Melbourne Disco Beans Art Market, and its gonna be nutz, because its HIGH VIBES fest as well!!! which means that High St will be filled with intense drunk munters and party animals!!
fucking crazy and fun and stoopid, like groups of people dancing on bales of hay to LUST FOR LIFE in front of that big snicker's poster wit MR T on it!!!

love love holly!!
x x x x
ps. its totally spring, i lov it!!!!

wow, i want the limelight!!

i love back up dancers' facial expressions!!1
soooo hot!!!

we have a cd!!!!

hi.
this is what the art looks like for our cd
its gonna be so cool once its made and done
you probably will want one, cuz the music on it so fkn swt!!!!!!
its available from the 2nd of october 2008
BUT IS EXTREMELY LIMITED PRESSING!!!!!

GOOEY kids dismantle the NT INTERVENTION at roughly 120bpm

stop the intervention
converge on the centre

we want the government to:
stop the intervention
restore the racial discrimination act
respect and restore aboriginal land rights and land ownership
provide jobs and community services for all
negotiate respectfully with aboriginal people
recognise and respect aboriginal control of aboriginal affairs

ZENTAI better than a bearsuit!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentai

well, i'm totally afraid cos i can't see your face, but, fucken cool man!!!
wow!!!

via Regrette and Kt Spit...

Bjork had some moderate differnces with the press this past weekend, when she reacted to an item in the The Reykjavík Grapevine crediting Valgeir Sigurðsson with writing the arrangements on her 2001 album Vespertine, although this was not the case at all. She took the liberty of correcting the respective article, offering the true full credits of the album and then went on and accuessed the journalists of sexism, not necessarily the Grapevine, but rather press in general. She accuses writers of discrediting female electronic musicians by assuming that the writing and production of much of this music is done by men. Here's what she said, as posted on bjork.com:

"i saw in the last issue of iceland's newspaper in english: "grapevine", that valgeir sigurðsson was credited for having written all the instrumentals for my album vespertine. could i please offer a correction:

i have noticed last 7 years that mr. sigurðsson has often been credited for either writing or producing that album. i´d like to say that he didn´t write it or produce. he was a computer programmer for a third of it and a recording engineer for a third. The other two thirds were done by other engineers and programmers.

here is the creditlist to show you the correct crediting of vespertine. i don´t understand where that misunderstanding has come from

could be one of four options:

1 :the pop critics of this world have not totally yet worked out the difference between engineering, programming, writing and producing electronic music. visually this appears very similar. a man/woman sitting in front of a computer. not as different as for example a drummer, a brass arranger and an engineer. but these are 3 completely different jobs which journalists must start to see the difference

2: it could be that this is some degree of sexism. m.i.a. had to deal with this with the respected website pitchfork.com where they assumed that diplo had produced all of her kala album without reading any credit list or nothing , it just had to be, it couldn´t have been m.i.a. herself! it feel like still today after all these years people cannot imagine that woman can write, arrange or produce electronic music. i have had this experience many many times that the work i do on the computer gets credited to whatever male was in 10 meter radius during the job. people seem to accept that women can sing and play whatever instrument they are seen playing but they cannot program, arrange, produce, edit or write electronic music.

3: i´ll admit that one thing could confuse things: people have to use their ears and actually read the creditlist to get this information. all the music i have made: like for example string arrangements, synthbasslines or programming of electronic patterns, i never play myself live because i want to give 100% of myself into the singing i either ask the computers to play it or i get other musicians to play it. this could confuse things.

4: one thing that could have kept this misunderstanding alive is that neither me nor valgeir sigurðsson have bothered to correct it

but i am doing it now

i hope this correction will be a positive input into more discussion about this
c
warmth
björk.

p.s. just read that pitchfork.com credited nico muhly for the choir arrangement of "hidden place" from vespertine. also that he has done string arrangements for me. this is not true. journalists: please read the creditlist before you write your articles."

GOOEY @ DISCO BEANS!!!!!

THIS PHOTO IS REALLY AWESOME.
WE LOVE DISCO BEANS GALLERY!!!
238 HIGH ST NORTHCOTE
WWW.DISCOBEANS.COM

4 REAL!!!

GOOEY ON THE INSIDE IN SUPERSUPER!!!!!

hi!!....this is an excerpt from SUPERSUPER magazine, where Gooey On the Inside featured......
xooxoxoxox

mini burgers

well, aren't mini burgers cute.
whether they're from LORD OF THE FRIES or the internet.
i tried google image searching 'mini burger' and this came up:
and this, which is cool and also really weird because its my friend Tallace:

but also really weird.. like, is this some google cookie shit?!?!?!
does it come up for everyone looking for mini burger?!
x x x x

who's afraid of kathy acker!?

i went and saw

WHO'S AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER?

last night...

but:::

A couple of weeks ago, one of my lecturers asked me to describe Kathy Acker to the class... I said that she was a feminist writer who explored dream/women's (or at least her own) experiences of sex and childhood sex/incest.

My teacher's face contorted, 'mmmm, I don't think that's what she did...'

I freaked out, embarrassed at my now seemingly 'wrong'/'sexualized' reading of Acker. I went home, couldn't sleep and stayed up all night reading My Mother:Demonology:A Novel. By sunrise, I was satisfied that my description of Kathy Acker was, at least, not inaccurate.

Who's Afraid Of Kathy Acker is a documentary written and directed by Barbara Caspar, released in 2008, which contains heaps of footage and photos of Acker, and interviews with her contemporaries and lots of interviews with students and men who had slept with her saying things like, 'she was like an androgynous little girly sex kitten'.

To start with, Kathy Acker was/is an North American writer... performer, pornographer who died in 1997 of breast cancer. This documentary... seeks to construct Acker as a feminist writer warrior who is simultaneously an outsider punk type, and a brilliant intellectual.

The documentary has its weaknesses, pretty much all interviews take place in front of book shelves, or, if its a musician being interviewed, in front of record collections. There is even some boring footage of Acker being interviewed by some clueless dude on Radio National in Australia... which is just kinda boring and pointless.

And there was footage of her at early readings, and her experimental porn movies, so if you're worried about nudity, prepare to see some vaginal close-ups.

A friend who I watched the documentary with asked, why make such a linear, ordered documentary about a woman who said that very quickly she was bored of standard biography form?

I must say that I loved seeing footage of Kathy Acker, I loved all the seemingly randomly inserted excerpts from her work that made it into the movie, I loved the construction of big bad New York City as a main character in the movie, but I didn't like the sexual banter from the men... many of whom didn't actually seem to know Acker significantly apart from instances of sex! Go and see it if you can. Its not brilliant, but its got rare footage, and you will probably be inspired to write or make some porn or something by the time the movie is finished.

YAH AYHA YAH!!!

also kathy acker interviewed the spice girls just before she died, this is tha link!!1x

we enrolled in sista she hip hop school

hey do you have a big dick?

sista she does.
we are doing sista she hip hop classes every weeek, they are really fun and amazing,
we are making up swt raps and dance moves, and eating heaps and heaps of tim tams!!!!!!
oh and we are making a filmclip!!!

its pretty good.....
FULLY SELF STYLED

INTERVIEW WITH TOECUTTER

3:09 PM me: hay toecutter
can i interview you one day??
like really short and awesome funny and cool???
x x x x
t03cutt3r: like now?
i just woke up to balls on my face pictures
me: yeah ok
t03cutt3r: thank god for digital cameras
3:10 PM me: pictures
you just woke up to it,
like just understood it
or physically woke up to
virtual balls??
what the fuck.
3:11 PM t03cutt3r: woke up to photo on a camera of ahab balls on my face
ugh
me: hahahahaha
so can i interview you?
t03cutt3r: yes
me: where are you?
t03cutt3r: in rome
just finished the tour with ahab and realicide
3:12 PM about to drive them to the airport
me: what is the most memorable show you have played say in the past month??
t03cutt3r: well
err
rotterdam was pretty amazing
robert from realicide recorded it
3:13 PM me: what was special about it?
t03cutt3r: apart from me playing a 12 min version of best party ever there was very little music
me: ahahhaaha
t03cutt3r: it was mostly me hanging shit on everyone
me: do you have any EURO fashion tips taht you can give me??
what is going on wit that???
3:14 PM t03cutt3r: yeah, we are way ahead of the times, in australia
me: really?
t03cutt3r: like they are just getting into tonnes of fake shiny things right now
3:15 PM me: what kind of hairstyles are cool funky or hot????
or
3:16 PM t03cutt3r: errrrr
I think grown out mohawks are the best
me: yeah!!!
3:17 PM t03cutt3r: like floppy dog looking ones
me: in color or natural??
t03cutt3r: eau naturale
me: yes!!
t03cutt3r: but like you WERE punk
but now know better
but only just recently
me: yup yup yup yup yup
t03cutt3r: shit
gotta go
me: it can all happen so fast
x x x x x x
3:18 PM t03cutt3r: hey hey
email me
I will reply asap
x
me: ok
t03cutt3r: dave
me: x x x x x

OK::::
can you still remember australia?


Nothing is closer to my thoughts: right now I really cant wait to get back, although I AM in the best place in the UK, staying with the Backlash crew, Armegge:DON, post Geordie Gabba Mafia (DJ Smurf, et al)... Newcastle!! The further north you get from London the more aussie people get - less stuck up, busy, cheaper, etc.


if so, what was the best product available from alfalfa house when you worked there??


Mmmmmmmm, so much good foods! I can never get sick of it, also, it almost always changing. I am looking forward to going back to work there - good people, terrific conditions, and i love co-operation! It's all the people who hate to work for bosses. But products, hmmmm, I guess Ilike avocados, with salt and pepper, or a fucking apple which sounds like your biting into a 4 month foetus skull, but less juicy. mangosteins, errrr, and the day we were serving the strawberry guavas from the backyard of the co-op!


what are yr music euro tips for oz mutherfuckers??


DONT DRINK OUT OF ANY RIVERS IN EUROPE! Me and Robert Inhuman (from Realicide) were VIOLENTLY ILL with liquids out of control leaving our bodies. I half filled a waste basket with vomit, but robert produced something which was almost a greeny black, like seaweed he said.

Oh, wait. You said MUSIC. Right well, for music you have Electromeca, wot a genius! Hmmm, I really cannot recommend Captain Ahab enough - I love those guys, and their shows were SO amazing - it sounds like they may be coming back to Australia for Electrofringe. I like Felix Kubin, Mr. Oizo, DJ Got Headphones, and of course, Kikifruit!!




tell me about kiki fruit!!!is it girl or boy (or something else)
what do they look like and play and shit??
(you know how i wanted to know about that shit)


Kind of a weird skinny dude, super nice! I got three books of his art, which was our stroke material for the tour. We all found his material to be boner producing. His music is really really great, he dressses up in like a disco klu klux klan outfit, like pointy hat with shiny stuff all over it, and a kind of tunic, with his skinny legs sticking out in gold tights. He MCs with a super heavy vocoder effect
which basicly makes it sound like he is a honking canard from deep space. Looking forward to his record release... Stroboscop!!! Which we thought at first was Like (st)ROBO_COP, which makes me laugh a lot!!


do you have new euro hobbies????if so, please explain...................................


I bought a portable water filter which i use almost every day to purify my water - I have decoded that water is about the most importastnt thing ever for my body
so I want to be conastantly supplied with the best quaility I can get. AND I am NOT going to PAY for water....


what is the best thing you have bOUGHT or been given on this tour??


The best thing I think I got on this tour was from the realicide guys - John who runs a distro called OUT FALL CHANNEL, based in cincinati I think. It was a small A5 zine writtten by this guy calls himself Jim Swill, the book is called "The Great Equaliser". It's A series of poems written in a remote farm, during a churning session of self discovery. SUPER personal drivel. A lot about death and masturbating. Fascinating.



have you experienced any weird or funny weather that you would want to talk about??


WTF?? No, sorry.


what is the best food you've had?where was it from??

Marseille we got fed the ankle of a pig
was really fatty and nice, then potatoes were lush- it was all farmer direct from the local market.
The show was shit tho...


have you made crazy new music??????? what is yr DIRECTION right now?????

No, House, still, babe, 100%house, babe. ____ tiss ka tiss, ____ tiss ka tiss, ____ tiss ka tiss, ____ tiss ka tiss


do you have anything else that you want to say!!!!?????
please do.


Read ENDGAME 1 + 2 by Derrick Jensen - anti-civilisation
Listen to kikifruit, captain ahab, electric kettle.

Melbourne International Animation Festival

THUMBS DOWN!!!!!
could this suck anymore!??!!
last night kati and I went to watch the BEST OF
and so many of the animations were... like... a weird bald man in a prison like setting... being oppressed by a bigger man, and with some insect friend.
totally shit and boring.

there were a couple that were ... ok, like... Energie! by Thorsten Fleisch (Germany) and the one that was an animated movie accompanying an interview that a teenager conducted with John Lennon in a hotel room in... 1968? in which that lennon guy says, 'if you run around wild you get smacked...thats the way of the universe.'(I Met The Walrus)

sweet.
best of sucked.
the end.
x x x xx x

THIS IS NOT ART [tina] electrofringe closing party......

RAVENATION
))>><<((
FOREVER
Leave your boringness at the door and exercise zero caution as you enter the fantasyrealm...

/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_*gooey on the inside*/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_

lose your crapshit pens + paper + mouseclick RSI crusted over heard and SURRENDA 2 the hard (soft + loving) NRG/NKOTB/GIRL RAP MUSIC pulsing thru yr veins.

/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_*gooey on the inside*/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_

Become overwhelmed + mystified as we switch OFF the big lights and switch ON the strobe.

/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_*gooey on the inside*/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_/`\_

Featuring:
Tranny Cops Rave Safe Team)
and starring:
b12shot,ultra violet mc, Fanny Fighters, Pig+Machine, Press Eject, DJ Simu
Dress code: mashed-up rave

ELECTROFRINGE 2008

WE ARE GONNA CONTRIBUTE TO THIS SHIT

WACK COOL CULT HAIR RULES

from the Guardian:
"Hundreds of women and children have been removed by the authorities from a Texan cult accused of forcing underage girls into marriage and subjecting them to physical abuse. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has 10,000 followers, a $3m ranch called Yearn for Zion and a leader, Warren Jeffs, who is in jail.

What is not explained in any of the news reports so far is what membership of a polygamous cult could possibly offer its female members. Yet pictures showing the women and girls being bussed from the sect's headquarters have shed light on at least one unlikely advantage - great hair. As the women were taken into custody and investigators started searching their home, they each sported elegant quiffs, complicated plaits or multiple buns; hair so intricately woven that one hairdresser has called it "classic couture".

GOOEY GOOSEBUMPS!!!!

yo! come to this!!!!!!
oojah and the trash are coming over from auckland jsut for this show!!1
and its oskr's last show before he goes to europe!!
and its gonna be fucking manic!!!!
soooo exciting, film premiere and everyhting!!
and WATCH GHOSTBUSTERS ON THE BIG SCREEN!!!
yeeeeeha!!!!!

IBIZA BEACH PARTY IN SYDNEY!!!!!!

oh my god!!
come get sunburnt!!
and be dressed up!!!
this is gonna be totally SYDNEY CRAZY!!!!
whaaaa!!!

the PLUR FAX--- (happy new year!!!)

yo fkn party class 101--- what is PLUR anyway ?? i got this from wikipedia..

PLUR or PLURR is an acronym that stands for "Peace Love Unity Respect", a credo or mantra^[1] of the rave culture. Many in the rave scene have heard this term at sometime or another, although its common usage is relatively recent. Early 1990s and mid-1980s ravers often followed similar principles, but did not use this coinage to describe their beliefs. It may be interpreted as the way that a raver believes he or she should live his or her life, and how people are expected to behave at a rave. This philosophy of the rave culture often takes precedence over any chemical aspects of the rave scene.^[2]

PLUR can also be viewed as a more mainstream variant of its predecessor LPE (Love Peace Ecstasy), because it removes the drug reference. LPE was mainly used in Europe in the early 1990s, when the rave scene became a youth subculture.

Defined

• Peace - Hostility typically serves no purpose other than to defend an ego that is lacking inner peace.

• Love - Acts and feelings of goodwill towards all others are a moral imperative with their own rewards.

• Unity - This can mean either that:

We are all united in the human condition, or

As social beings, the feeling of connectedness with others is the ultimate end to our efforts.

• Respect - A person must show regard for the feelings of others through their actions and inaction.

And one must have respect for oneself.

Origins

According to legend, the term PLUR was coined by the DJ Frankie Bones in response to a fight that broke out while he was mixing and he stopped the show to say, "If you don't start showing some peace, love, and unity, I'll break your fucking faces."

(ps hahaha that is soooooo funny )

However it wasn't until later on, in discussions of the speech on the usenet newsgroup alt.rave, that "Respect" was added to the Peace, Love and Unity to create the now ubiquitous acronym P.L.U.R.

PLUR can find its roots in the mid 80's with the acid house movement in the UK. at these parties there would be visuals repeating the words "Peace, Love, Unity" with that there was an acid house DJ named Frankie Knuckles who started PLUM the Peace Love Unity Movement. It wasn't until after Frankie Bones' Storm Rave that it evolved into PEACE LOVE UNITY and RESPECT.

[edit] Alternate versions

P.L.U.R.R: Many ravers will also add the words "Responsibility" (due to bad publicity and negative connotations of drug misuse that occurred in the rave scene during the mid to late 90s), "Kindness", "Understanding" and/or "Honor" at the end.

There are also several versions that use the word "Rave" in the acronym. The two most common are Peace, Love, Unity, Rave and Please Let Us Rave.

(please let us rave is awesome...culd also be others like, please let us riot, please let us rap.....)

These alternate versions are typically used with the more known version, that is to say, ravers are aware of the other versions, and aren't in factions over the variants. PLUR means each of these at once.

There are also several parodies of this phrase including: People Look Ugly Rolling, Please Let Us Roll, People Lost in Unobtainable Realities, and others...