MDMAmbien, that's bad news. Does anyone know how much press this got in the Baltimore area? I caught a strong vibe this year from the very start that the cops were near the end of their ropes with this fine annual Baltimore tradition.
Trainwreckmolly, pleasure to meet you. Sorry I wasn't able to meet more of you. I was a bit preoccupied because a good friend of mine was attending his first rave ever, and the group of people I've come to Starscape with the last 4 times were all helping him enjoy himself and feeding off his vibes as a novice.
I was the dude with one yellow and one orange squishy toy with the light-up balls inside of them around his neck. I've never had my neck pulled and squeezed more at a rave, so I'm sure I ran into a couple of you guys.
Sold out? Ya I believe it. The dnb stage was pretty crowded around midnight, but the sweat lodge a.k.a dance tent was unbearable at that point.
Very dnb oriented, overall. This genre massages my cortex in some really interesting ways when I'm on LSD, so I appreciated that.
Overall I'd say nothing was lacking. I had the best time of any Starscape, and actually can't remember the last rave I went to that I enjoyed this much.
There were definitely a few douchebag teenagers there, but overall I caught a pretty friendly vibe throughout the night. I didn't find the place awash in thugs and whitehats, and didn't miss them.
The parking was ridiculous.
People with fake wristbands who actually get in with them deserve the free show they get, I say. It's not really that hard for event organizers to find wristbands that are pretty hard to fake. You go cheap on that, a few freeloaders slipping in is just the price you pay. One year I went to a festival with some friends, and one of us had a free real wristband she'd won somewhere as part of a promotion. So we first went to CVS, bought a piece of light construction paper the exact color of the wristband, and some office supplies. We practiced showing it in a way that didn't give the security guys that great a look at it. Wouldn't pull this again, but looking back on it, they say the best things in life are free.
Met a lot of people from Virginia, and some of them said this scene is getting more popular in their area.
). Too many kids were too fucked up... I never saw so many people getting hauled off by the medical teams. One girl couldn't even walk and four people had to carry her away from the dance tent... It's a shame that I feel like an old lady at goddamn 25 years old... 
