Dreams, and how I hate asking for things.

[wolven7]

I dreamed about battles against secret cabals trying to run the world from underground Atlantean cavern temples, and by battles I mean, me, mech_angel, lord_of_smoking, and some other people using hand combat weapons, against the cabal. I used the Stop Being Fucked Up Stick. I'd fallen into the temple, down the stairs, from a pizz place, in a strip mall, but the stairs back Up emptied into strange combination of my father's family's first apartment and my first house in Olney. Before the battle, we had to brush our teeth.

Dream conversations with cailement, with theapplethief, giana and Thomas. I don't remember the conversations, only that they were important, and defining moments of all of our relationships with each other.

Something about Optimus Prime and Lucky the Leprechaun having to hide from the military, becacuse they didn't understand that magic was a relatively unknown quantity, in this world....

Dreams are strange.

So, I once held a $240 Worth of Pudding Party. drstrangeal drunkenly suggested it, and I made it happpen (but ultimately we felt the need to emulate Michael Ian Black).

People-- many of you reading these words-- gave money, for this party. At various other parties, people donated for the purpose of the Final Party. In the final accounting, we had somewhere in the area of $270, which we used for the pudding, the pool, and some of the tarps. This was, then, nit just "my" party. It was Our party. We all had an investment-- of time, money, space, effort.

We all put something into it, and we All got something out of it. It was one of the largest parties ever held at any house in which I've lived. At least 100 people were there, many of whom knew me, but not that it was my house, nor who was hosting the party.

raoin has suggested that we hold a party and charge a cover, and use the accumulated funds for the purposes of repairing my current car or toward the downpayment on a new-to-me car. But I don't know what I would provide, for you, in exchange, you know? You won't be getting the benefit of 61.25 Gallons of Pudding, at the end of the day. Just a one-time party.

My point is, I need a way to incentivize people into giving me enough money to buy a new car. So I can drive about,get to work, and whatever; what's in it for them?

In other news, Berners-Lee Speaks intelligently about the thing he helped create: The World Wide Web.

Thoughts are always appreciated.

Comments

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

There could be the incentive of, if enough is raised, we get to send this car out in style at another party. And by 'style' I mean with hammers and such.

Or similar. My point being that it doesn't have to be something.

[raoin.livejournal.com]

i agree with this.

my brother once held a fundraiser with his school in which people paid $5 to spend 5min hitting a junker car with any of a number of implements including sledge hammers. i dont remember the exact amount raised but i do know they funded their entire prom with the proceeds. i personally would easily pay $20 to hit a car with a large hammer. it neednt even be your current car, there's always someone willing to sell you or donate to you a worthless junker (i'm pretty sure my friends up at North Point Auto would be more than happy to give us a fucked up old car for free or nearly free). we'd need a space to hold the junking in and plans for removing the remains after junking. i dont think we would want to use our backyard for that one, but there's bound to be a public vacant lot somewhere that wouldnt mind us using it for an evening of cooking out, hitting cars, and raising money.

i'm just writing down some ideas here

[raoin.livejournal.com]

i'm definitely thinking a fundraising fair not held on our property would be more conducive to this kind of event. i know its not like we're raising money for a community little league team or anything, but everyone loves an outing and so what if the money goes to you getting a car or to some kids who need uniforms right?

we get a space, a bunch of grills, food is a mimimal charge but beer is free (or no beer, i dont know what the legal rules on that are), we offer games like hitting the car or kissing wenches or throwing tomatoes or whatever, people come out, get their faces painted and ct. maybe we combine it with a yard sale of our stuff (since we were thinking of doing one anyway), we advertise on craigslist or whatever.

my mind immediately jumped to using Brandon's farm, but i think that may be too far afield for most of our local peeps, i think they would be less likely to drive all the way out there just to pay us money, especially with gas prices being what they are.

i think there are public spaces in the city of atlanta or decatur where all you need is to apply for a permit and you can then do whatever you want in that space. we could rent out a park or something. they hold a farmers market in that parking lot in downtown decatur and the art gallery across from sushi avenue in decatur hosts an artists market on saturday evenings. there's plenty of precident for this kind of thing.

and its not like we dont know lots of people with musical talent or whatever, like Mary, we could host some live bands, and then there's kevin, and a performance by mr friskett's, or we could take pictures of people using cameras for mementos and then sell the prints on site using my printer, photo paper, and an extension cable hooked into a plug somewhere.

and Jeremy and Zach's family is with the marching abominables and then there's kasumi's people, all of whom i'm told are into permance stuff and, this is a bit more adult, but there is connie. and mrs. death and her burly-q abilities.

i could print up fliers for free here at my work. and we could paper the campus of GSU and GA Tech and all the other campuses around town.

Re: i'm just writing down some ideas here

[wolven.livejournal.com]

This could work, but the more people, performers, producers we get involved, the more revenue splitting we need to do.

However, these plans are nearly perfect for the booking stages of lord_of_smoking's plan...

Re: i'm just writing down some ideas here

[raoin.livejournal.com]

yes, but i was suggesting that these people do it for free so that they get visibility. and since most of them are your friends its not like they might not be willing to do you a favor or two.