there's too many dance parties in detroit tonight, and each one is going to be mostly empty, except the one in the venue that nobody can fit into, which is the one people are going to want to go to because it's open late.

the rational thing to do would be to get one of the larger spaces open later, and co-operate in filing out a dense two-room party. but, detroit isn't rational.

i'd no doubt be failing like everybody else, it's just barely warm enough after all, but i picked something up last week and i'm still nursing it in my throat. it's a dry cough and a sore throat. i may have just smoked too much at the painted lady, i don't know. i know i'm sick, i know i haven't slept, i know i haven't eaten, and i know that none of the rock shows are interesting enough to pull me out early.

i will go out solely to dance, sometimes. but, i usually need the early show to get me out of the house, and it's not there, tonight.

so, i'm going to eat and clean myself up a little and see how i feel, but i'm probably actually going to bed early tonight.

we'll see what's going on tomorrow, but i actually think i'm planning something hefty for next week, and it probably makes more sense to stay in this week and get rested up for it.

but, the techno scene in detroit is actually very small. there's three hundred dedicated people, max. if you try and split that across five or six bars, you just get a lot of dead spaces.

it's a prisoner's dilemma, detroit. n-player. figure it out.