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Topic: open letter to NYC part II (the shelter)
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Sal Paradise
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Freddy and Timmy threw a curve ball at us and it was by far the coolist move of the entire year to start this new one off.
Early on I heard that Timmy wasn't going to get on and I of course had some feelings of dissapointment. Boy was I a DOPE.
Sting was fucking incredable. Thank You for giving him the chance to comand the entire night. It was the magic move on a lot of different levels.
The club was a conduit. The crowd was beautiful. Sting, man you have truly emerged. That brother played his heart and soul out and the crowd was with him every step of the way.
Never in my short life have I had a night like that. It's perhaps the most important one I've ever had.
While dancing on the floor I started to go through all these old childhood pychological demons. The kind of stuff I would pay a shrink for if I had the money. Any way to my surprise unlocking these pychological doors for the first time was not painful or depressing at all but rather a great relief. To my surprise as I was going through all this shit I was finding a new and incredable power in my own dancing.
After getting through my childhood past I emerged free of everything and was able to get down to the music with out anything else from life creeping in.
I've been going to house parties regurlarly since shortly after the Shelter moved into club Speed. Saterday night was the first time I was ever HOUSE. Holy Fuckin Spirit is all I can say. I've always faked pretty good rythm, but for the first time in my life I truly had it. The control, the freedom, incredable. Us white folks really got to let go of all the numbers and ratios, rythm ain't about math.
I was a lightning rod, channeling the spirit like so many other in the club were. What an experience, indescribable. I hope it doesn't take me another twenty eight years to find that space again. I was getting all the energy from my feet on the floor and from whipping my arms about. I couldn't figure out how to keep it going if I lifted my feet for some reason (next time I'll figure that one out) but my feet were sliding and gliding like they never have before. I could really do anything with them as long as they were stuck to the floor. I'd lift them up and stomp to catch a breath Then start the shit up again. I was flying around that club, gliding through a crowded club with out colliding, up and down and all around the floor. Shelter as my whitness,my shit was extraterrestrial. Never have I done anything remotely like I was doing. I was out on the moon, maybe even mars. Internal and external, shit was in the physical world, not just a feeling. I made it until a little after two in the afternoon and was completely a changed man.
New York I love you. I feel very good about 2005, first time I've felt good about a coming year in a long time. It was a great weekend. Lets make it happen.
Love and Respect
Sam
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Brenda
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Originally posted by 1sam2:
Freddy and Timmy threw a curve ball at us and it was by far the coolist move of the entire year to start this new one off.
Early on I heard that Timmy wasn't going to get on and I of course had some feelings of dissapointment. Boy was I a DOPE.
Sting was fucking incredable. Thank You for giving him the chance to comand the entire night. It was the magic move on a lot of different levels.
The club was a conduit. The crowd was beautiful. Sting, man you have truly emerged. That brother played his heart and soul out and the crowd was with him every step of the way.
Never in my short life have I had a night like that. It's perhaps the most important one I've ever had.
While dancing on the floor I started to go through all these old childhood pychological demons. The kind of stuff I would pay a shrink for if I had the money. Any way to my surprise unlocking these pychological doors for the first time was not painful or depressing at all but rather a great relief. To my surprise as I was going through all this shit I was finding a new and incredable power in my own dancing.
After getting through my childhood past I emerged free of everything and was able to get down to the music with out anything else from life creeping in.
I've been going to house parties regurlarly since shortly after the Shelter moved into club Speed. Saterday night was the first time I was ever HOUSE. Holy Fuckin Spirit is all I can say. I've always faked pretty good rythm, but for the first time in my life I truly had it. The control, the freedom, incredable. Us white folks really got to let go of all the numbers and ratios, rythm ain't about math.
I was a lightning rod, channeling the spirit like so many other in the club were. What an experience, indescribable. I hope it doesn't take me another twenty eight years to find that space again. I was getting all the energy from my feet on the floor and from whipping my arms about. I couldn't figure out how to keep it going if I lifted my feet for some reason (next time I'll figure that one out) but my feet were sliding and gliding like they never have before. I could really do anything with them as long as they were stuck to the floor. I'd lift them up and stomp to catch a breath Then start the shit up again. I was flying around that club, gliding through a crowded club with out colliding, up and down and all around the floor. Shelter as my whitness,my shit was extraterrestrial. Never have I done anything remotely like I was doing. I was out on the moon, maybe even mars. Internal and external, shit was in the physical world, not just a feeling. I made it until a little after two in the afternoon and was completely a changed man.
New York I love you. I feel very good about 2005, first time I've felt good about a coming year in a long time. It was a great weekend. Lets make it happen.
Love and Respect
Sam
Inspiring and Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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Shalewa
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I gave my testimony in another thread but I need to tell it again. I was deep in sorrow, literally fighting back tears when I set out for Shelter yesterday morning. I walked out a 3 in the afternoon a woman with her soul restored. I dance just about every day and it had been a long moment since I felt the depth and power and JOY that I got from being there yesterday. I called up folks I thought I needed to hold grudges against. I let go of things I can't do anything about. I wish those who discount the spiritual dimension of shaking ass in the dark had been there, we might have had a few folks coming forward at the altar call ![[Wink]](wink.gif) .
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Maria
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The combination of things that come together and happen on the Shelter floor at times is a tremendous conduit to release and rebirth. Call it hokey, its allright by me, its the truth as I see it. I'm feelin' you guys and I understand, thank you for sharing.
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Originally posted by 1sam2:
Freddy and Timmy threw a curve ball at us and it was by far the coolist move of the entire year to start this new one off.
Early on I heard that Timmy wasn't going to get on and I of course had some feelings of dissapointment. Boy was I a DOPE.
Sting was fucking incredable. Thank You for giving him the chance to comand the entire night. It was the magic move on a lot of different levels.
The club was a conduit. The crowd was beautiful. Sting, man you have truly emerged. That brother played his heart and soul out and the crowd was with him every step of the way.
Never in my short life have I had a night like that. It's perhaps the most important one I've ever had.
While dancing on the floor I started to go through all these old childhood pychological demons. The kind of stuff I would pay a shrink for if I had the money. Any way to my surprise unlocking these pychological doors for the first time was not painful or depressing at all but rather a great relief. To my surprise as I was going through all this shit I was finding a new and incredable power in my own dancing.
After getting through my childhood past I emerged free of everything and was able to get down to the music with out anything else from life creeping in.
I've been going to house parties regurlarly since shortly after the Shelter moved into club Speed. Saterday night was the first time I was ever HOUSE. Holy Fuckin Spirit is all I can say. I've always faked pretty good rythm, but for the first time in my life I truly had it. The control, the freedom, incredable. Us white folks really got to let go of all the numbers and ratios, rythm ain't about math.
I was a lightning rod, channeling the spirit like so many other in the club were. What an experience, indescribable. I hope it doesn't take me another twenty eight years to find that space again. I was getting all the energy from my feet on the floor and from whipping my arms about. I couldn't figure out how to keep it going if I lifted my feet for some reason (next time I'll figure that one out) but my feet were sliding and gliding like they never have before. I could really do anything with them as long as they were stuck to the floor. I'd lift them up and stomp to catch a breath Then start the shit up again. I was flying around that club, gliding through a crowded club with out colliding, up and down and all around the floor. Shelter as my whitness,my shit was extraterrestrial. Never have I done anything remotely like I was doing. I was out on the moon, maybe even mars. Internal and external, shit was in the physical world, not just a feeling. I made it until a little after two in the afternoon and was completely a changed man.
New York I love you. I feel very good about 2005, first time I've felt good about a coming year in a long time. It was a great weekend. Lets make it happen.
Love and Respect
Sam
Thank you for sharing. The last time I had a night like this was at Shelter and it still brings me joy thinking about it.
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Originally posted by Maria:
The combination of things that come together and happen on the Shelter floor at times is a tremendous conduit to release and rebirth. Call it hokey, its allright by me, its the truth as I see it. I'm feelin' you guys and I understand, thank you for sharing.
it's never hokey when it's real. How could that be hokey? I think it's when the new agers and such speak of lesser experiences as if they were these kind that this talk becomes hokey. unfortunately I think we get more of the wishing I was there testemonies from people than the real macoy. But isn't everything in life that way.
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Thank you all for the kind words. It's nice to share all this and be understood. Most of the world would just think I'm a friggin lunatic.
For those of you that can relate. Do you all find your self getting to this type of space often or is more of an every blue moon sort of a deal?
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that is dope azz heck... I remeber feeling that way. Hope it comes back soon and hell yeah Sting is all that.
k
thanks for sharing that;s whats up
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that is dope azz heck... I remeber feeling that way. Hope it comes back soon and hell yeah Sting is all that.
k
Happy New Year Big Kayo. Will 667 (I can't remember the new name) be going on tommorow?
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I have an addendum to my testimonial...
After the party I found a CD in my dance bag whose label identifies it as mixed by a DJ I know casually but did not see at Shelter. I am not really sure how it got in there but boy did it make my day and give me a flush of afterglow. Even the situation that had me all weepy is turned around. Sure am glad I went dancing instead of cussing and fussing. ![[snoopy]](graemlins/snoopy.gif)
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FEEL IT
FEEL IT
FEEL IT
DON'T YA KNOW I FEEL IT!
P.S. I beared witness to Sam's new dance moves and they were uhm something else.
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Maria
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You have to be open to it, you get from the party what you put into it. Energy in = Engergy out, its true. For me its not just moments of bliss, its also the unbelievable capacity the music has to heal. If you then perceive the dance community around you as inclusive, not critical of you the door swings open.
I have had times like this at the Loft as well, an unbelievable feeling of well being. Your heartbeat and the beat of the music become one. Physically your endorphins spread thru your body, I have no physical pain when I dance. When I reach this point where there is no pain in my physical effort then I am better able to get in touch with my spirit, it opens the way. Sometimes it makes me cry. No, it doesn't happen all the time but when it does, IT DOES!
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Originally posted by 1sam2:
For those of you that can relate. Do you all find your self getting to this type of space often or is more of an every blue moon sort of a deal?
Sam, it happens to me every time I get Shelterized - sometimes it happens at Langston. The music just takes over your mind and spirit; hence, I even dance with my eyes closed. I've crawled on the floor a few times and felt myself being lifted toward the ceiling. Brings back memories of my Garage days.
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Originally posted by Shalewa:
I have an addendum to my testimonial...
After the party I found a CD in my dance bag whose label identifies it as mixed by a DJ I know casually but did not see at Shelter. I am not really sure how it got in there but boy did it make my day and give me a flush of afterglow. Even the situation that had me all weepy is turned around. Sure am glad I went dancing instead of cussing and fussing.
Seems your better sense got through to you.
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