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stranded in this spooky town stop lights are swaying and the phone lines are down

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amazing night. spectacular. none of these are in order.

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no extensions necessary this night. i almost wore my platinum braided headband. it is too tight and makes my head look funn(ier) i do have an idea for it though.

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i decided to dress like jane goodall. steph and i killed ourselves laughing all night long at our 90’s antics. as i was putting my outfit together i said oh man i am going to look like a fucking explorer.

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and oh my christ you should see the state of my room. hopefully skidfanie is secretly cleaning it right now. ha ha see the hangover patches.

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i got the worst pictures too.

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oh look there’s eric back there. he’s the guy who hooks it all up for me. gill texted i cannot believe you are on the balcony without me.

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side vip pit. love it. so much room to groove. this is the part where i say EVERYONE WAS STARING and then everyone gets mad at me on the internet. whatever. hate it losers.

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in the van i said hey look i’m sharon stone(d) tonite. florence is kinda 90’s, sharon stone’s heyday was in the nineties, get it?

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yesterday was some lilith fair type shit for real. so good.

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i wanted to make us flower head wreaths.

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updated shitty glasses photo i gotta find the other one hahah link to it in comments steph.

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this photo is like one of those find the cat or dog in the city scene where’s waldo rip offs.

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oh man it was beautiful. poetry. we danced so much.

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i said don’t be a dweeb. she died laughing and said that was the perfect thing to say about me. i called someone else a dweeb later on and steph grabbed my arm, NO, that’s MY name.

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i feel like a fucking vein is going to explode out of my forehead right now we are dying laughing in the living room of adventurehouse about all the dumb things we said/did last nite.

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florence was wearing this spider webby designed x-men tight dress. then later a gauzy black bat cape.

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madeline said i look like her.

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gave three raymi drink tickets away to these assholes in vip that were trying to hog the entire couch i just wanted to extend an olive branch of niceness. they were not having it. fine fuck you too then. got whisked to business exec balcony mezzanine anyway suckers.

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there were a lot of people from rogers apparently. self entitled brats not even real fans. you know how it is in the biz nobody wants to like anybody anymore.

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sold out. that long white stretch of balcony is where we were. i saved that for the very end for steph and it blew her mind she lost it i played it really cool and sly as well but in my head i was freaking out too.

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dancing by that glass balcony wall gives me vertigo bad. i never wear heels to sound academy anymore cos i’m an amazon. half my body towers over it. scary.

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best best time.

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we’re laughing about how ridiculous we know we look. the guy was wasted taking this pic and totally mesmerized by steph.

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the IT’S ALL HAPPENING picture. in another one like this that came out a lot darker cos of the pinhole effect i said you look portuguese. i wonder if melodie could hear us cackling.

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this doesn’t look exclusive at all it looks like a truck stop haha.

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our dance floor.

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she threw her drum sticks into the crowd.

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what the fuck this camera is like 2005. not good for concerts at all.

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i got to stand in the photo pit too. my camera is a POS so i didn’t stick around there long. i was there to dance and experience it for myself anyway.

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mega time warp nostalgic powerful.

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messiah complex slightly but it so works and is sincere.

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security threw up a wasted idiot against steph and then dragged his ass out. what dumb things are you doing out in public on your special concert night that gets you evicted? you are an idiot. why would anyone blow a night like that?

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when i come out of my stress fog i might have something more profound to share on the night’s events.

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K….pretty harsh comments but obviously already “Raymi” haters so fuck’em…nothing you or I can say will change their minds. Chalk that up to the price you pay for putting yourself out there in the public eye. Case in point, millions of Americans associate Obama with Nazi’s…A black progressive democrat a Nazi? These people cannot be reached.

Others were more genuinely concerned with the initial act of putting yourself in potentially dangerous situations. A concern you know I share with them. You effectively assuage those concerns in the complete version of your story but not so much in the cole’s notes version you posted. I’m satisfied and happy to see you’re taking something away from this that might keep you more safe in the future so you might point that out to those that were worried about your apparently self-destructive behaviour.

About **’s side of the story…there is none. What could he possibly write about? You did nothing wrong, he did nothing right. It was his warped reality that made the situation escalate the way it did.

Ignore him, reassure those that were concerned that you’ve learned your lesson a give a big “fuck you very much” to the haters and get back to planning your party. Hope it’s awesome!

ps. no problem telling him to forget about his threats since he’d be the first to admit behind closed doors that he was completely off that whole week. He invited a blogger to hang with him for a week then promptly “lost his shit”. Kind of like asking the police to watch you rob a bank…of course you’re going to write about it.

Anyway, like I said…at least you learned something out of the whole mess and hopefully he did too.

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  4. haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa the its all happening pose. and jane/sharon. and dweeb. and your room hahaha omg. thank you thank you thank you so so so so so amazing and hilarious and beautiful and fun and vip. thank you.

  7. Dear Raymi,
    as soon as you said you were going to be posting sth on Street Carnage I was scared for you. The commenters on that website are fkn vicious, and in the main misogynistic as hell, this is the general tone of that website. My comment is that, you would be wrong to entirely entirely disregard all of the comments left there. Although it is NOT my place to tell you how to be (yet the open nature of your blogging somewhat demands it), you should not write off every personality criticism you receive, because some of them may have grains of truth and can help you to grow! On the other hand, you are not dumb, you are not ugly, you are not a bitch or a cunt. You are, as your blog so often demonstrates, straightforwardly awesome at heart. You know this. I hope you can find something to do which can make you very happy, whether that is on the internet or not. The internet is a very harsh thing but that shit is not real (but the position you put yourself in is a overly dangerous one perhaps). Don’t let them destroy you. and also have an epic party!!!! Best wishes x

  8. Raymi,

    you are my heroine!

    I wanted to see Florence in New Orleans for Voodoo Fest but was unable to make my way down South….

    What hangover patch do you recommend? Since you are a professional :)

    hugs and kisses, S

    PS ignore the haters.. they’re just jealous of your fabulous-ness!

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