Best Convergence Me

[the_siobhan]

Best Convergence memories



C2: Boston
The convoy from Boston to Toronto. Siani lying on the pavement in a parking lot exhausted from 14 hours of constant driving while the rest of us peered down at her. Bowling with Mark. The Sunday night party with Cusraque exhausted and elated and telling us his Valor story. Sitting on the floor of a hotel room full of people I had just met and laughing so hard my ribs hurt. The Haven House crew sleeping on our floor. The US border guard going through the car with a drug dog on our way out of the country and the francaphone Canadian border guard shrugging and saying, "They just got the dog."

C4: Toronto
Axel being blind. The ill-fated drinking contest. Masses of black-clad goths on the top of Castle Loma getting their picture taking. Walking down the street and yelling "FREEEEAKS..." every time we saw a cluster of people in people in black and meeting new cool people each time we did it. The Gothic Gwar. Looking down from the balcony and seeing the mass of dancing people and thinking, "We did that." People taking advantage of the brand new topless law in Ontario. The venue owner twice sending out staff members to canvas other less-busy bars to please let them buy some more booze.

C5: New Orleans
The Naked Armed Redneck. A dozen drunk goths pushing my car at 4 in the morning, all drunk and sliding around and falling over. Meeting Xtabell. Dancing to Vanilla Ice. Karl telling us the story of calling the cops after a mugging attempt - "Did you see which way he went?" "Well down, actually. I have him in this nice headlock." Pastries at dawn and getting black clothes covered in powdered sugar. The firemen setting up lawnchairs across the street from the hotel so they could watch the show. Sandwiches the size of my head. Graceland. A hurricane in a tent. Getting towed across the border.

C6: Seattle
Sushi dinner with Albatross. The Fucking Fun Shuttle. Sitting on the boat and talking to TSM. Getting my boat pass stolen and Ren getting me on board anyway and me telling him, "I am the person i bitch about". Peter Fucking Murphy. Sola walking through the door every single time somebody was mooning somebody.

C7: New York
The berth hotel. Hanging out with Marcus Pan for hours in a corner of Slimelight and talking. Eating roasted nuts on the street corner. The afterparty in the hotel. Walking home as the sun came up and stopping to look up at the World Trade Center. Sitting in the bar of the hotel. RatBastard falling asleep in the back seat in a traffic jam and waking up an hour later to find out we were in the same spot. Marcus' BBQ party.

C8: Montreal
The Chaos Engine cheering lightning. Walking into a room party and having a half-dozen people giving me shit for not being in bed. Purp grabbing me by the shoulders and yelling, "I was in a mosh pit. At a Convergence. PlayBat. The whole CMAFA rediculous hilarious inside joke. Etienne & I being exhausted and giggling and throwing piles of money at each other. (It didn't last.) Being dragged on stage very much against our will. Sitting on the top of Montreal with the Swarfs and looking out over the city below. Bordello & Bella Morte playing strip foozball. Ceremonially raising my glass and pronouncing, "I'll never do this again!" and everybody in the room simultaneously yelling, "Bullshit!"

C9: Las Vegas
Kidnapping The Raphrat whether he liked it or not. The Red Square. Walking the strip in the middle fo the night. Andy from Bella Morte doing Spice Girls during the Karaoke competition. The Kegger Contingent at Treasure Island. Getting a homeless man to find us a cab. Getting lost and climbing over a stone fence to discover it was made out of styrofoam. JV winning at everything. The pool party. The kegger contingent eat sushi. Some of the best Ethiopian food ever, and *no* slot machines.

C10: Chicago
The picket line. The Kegger Contingent at some local pub. RazorJak telling the waitress he was going to share the fish-bowl sized drinks he was ordering or she wouldn't let him have one. Looking down from the balcony and seeing the mass of dancing people. Dancing to New Model Army with JV and Axel. Bohemian Rhapsody on the bus.

(Something tells me I'm going to be adding to this...)

Comments

[ladyclayton.livejournal.com]

JV winning at everything.

How much did he haul home? I remember it was some ghastly large amount that was hella impressive!

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I don't remember numbers just that he won every single time. We'd have a drink, he'd stick a coin in a machine, he'd win. We'd go t dinner, he'd stop at a slot, he'd win. We'd go to the loo, he'd win $100.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

WTF is this Kegger Contingent?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Did you check out the Cabal flamestorm on a.g?

At some point Jack/Damien dismissed all us old farts as "the Kegger Contingent" - a reference to Mac's "backyard BBQ" bid and Ybor's "Bob jumps a kiddie pool on a BMX bike" bid.

Since the Kegger Contingent pretty much includes everybody who has been around since Convergence was invented... We're printing up t-shirts especially for taking to Portland. And we're going to wear them at the Building a Sustainable Convergence (http://www.convergence13.com/panels/) panel that none of us were invited to.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I downloaded ag last night, saw The Thread, but am yet to really get into it.

Maybe I should dust off my Sydney (http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.gothic/browse_thread/thread/6643fbee77f4f5f/e72b66fdc1f856a7?lnk=st&q=convergence+sydney+2000&rnum=1#e72b66fdc1f856a7) bid?

[the-fury.livejournal.com]

And we're going to wear them at the Building a Sustainable Convergence panel that none of us were invited to.

Now I want to go. Just to be in the room for that.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

No kidding.

[melete.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

S, please say someone is going to record video of this.

This is the shit that we'll -still- chuckle over fifty ears from now.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Mac is threatening to put it on IPM.

I think this shit is hilarious. This is why I don't want any of those joyless motherfuckers[1] running our party. No sense of humour.

[1]If I may borrow a phrase

[disastrid.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA. bohemian rhapsody, oh man. best drunken idea i've ever talked someone else into.

and man, i forgot about the Fun Fuckin Shuttle. the disco lights! around every window! a PA in the bus and the driver giving anyone with a tip complete control!

man. good times.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

I think I met you at C6. It was one of those random moments where I was standing in the middle of a big group of people and somebody pointed to each of several people and told me their names and announced me to everybody before I disappeared.

Hopefully, I'll actually get to meet you this year :D

Ren was awesome about those boat passes. I pledged my undying love to him for mine.

I had my laminate stuck to my fridge for years because that was the single best weekend of my life even though I was too damn shy to actually speak to anybody. Hopefully, I'll be able to use my tongue this time around :)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

You did. It was for like five minutes because you were going somewhere with FX & rufus.

That was probably my worst Convergence because I was going through so much personal stuff, but there are still some good memories to be kept.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

RazorJak telling the waitress he was going to share the fish-bowl sized drinks he was ordering or she wouldn't let him have one.

Was that a city ordinance or something? Alaine and I ran into the same thing at Bennigans there. We had to tell the waiter we were going to share, and then just ordered two in a row. Lame!

[melete.livejournal.com]

No, we were at Bennigans as well with that. We have a number of bizarre ordinances in Chicago but none that mandate the maximum amount of alcohol per drink. I think it must be a Bennigan's policy.

[carriemonster.livejournal.com]

that mut be a bennigans law.
I've never had that happen anywhere else!

[krztov.livejournal.com]

i forgot about the singing on the bus, chicago was fun, met you, the goteki crew, and alot of other people

its weird too, i met my current girlfriend (been with her almost 2 years) at c10, but it was like brief, and in passing.

[sola.livejournal.com]

That happened like, four times, too. I must have been some kind of ass magnet that year.

Only started wading through yesterday; had to stop, as i was at work and would have gotten tossed out for laughter.

[nimrodiel.livejournal.com]

I remember meeting you at Limelight (was that the crazy club that used to be a church) in NYC at C7. We both kinda got wedged in a hall outside of a teeny circular room packed full of dancing people.

I remember Marcus' BBQ Party, and the fact that by the time you guys got there it was almost time for those of us who had taken the train out to catch the last train back into Manhatten...

My other big c7 memory was Jak and his scary green drinks...

Fun times.

I wish my health had let me attend c10. It would have been interesting to be able to stumble back home after dancing all night :)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I remember meeting you at Limelight (was that the crazy club that used to be a church) in NYC at C7. We both kinda got wedged in a hall outside of a teeny circular room packed full of dancing people.

That's the one.

I remember Charlie's punk set too, and Marcus, Jak and Dr Pain almost clearing the floor.

[bellafiga.livejournal.com]

Man.. Makes me so very sad I've never particpated in even one of these:(

[threemilechild.livejournal.com]

Me too. I remember reading about C2 and going, "Oh wow, that sounds awesome, I wish I could go," and then reading about C12 and going, "Man, they're still having those?"

[ravensee.livejournal.com]

Me too.:(

[tatyana-z.livejournal.com]

Reading everyone's memories is going to make my head explode!!!! Wheeee!!! I want it to be May 25 already!!!!

[ravensee.livejournal.com]

Maybe there should be an alternative to Convergence, but methinks Axel's pig roast is that already!

Next year we should invite Peter Murphy.

[spikella.livejournal.com]

I remember Toronto
I remember wishing I could go to New Orleans, Montreal and Las Vegas.

I'm also full of regret for never having made it out to one