Philly, DC or Toronto?

[Sc'Eric (dj.darkFIN)]

Toronto, hands-down, all the way.  

The Philly scene (club-crowd, at least) is too full of itself.  And if the venue is the Electric Factory, I'm never plan to step foot inside that place again.  [Also, how can you even attempt to call that little hole-in-the-wall Digi-Ferret amazing when you've got Eide's three floors (coupled with the dark-tronic expertise of Jim Semonik, et.al) to compare it with???  I leave Big Daddy Ferret's lair with 2 cds if I'm lucky, while Jim can walk off with my entire paycheck without me blinking!]  DC is too far for the navigation hassles you run into when you arrive and the sheer distance between points of interest.  

Toronto has a healthy mix of pop culture and underground edginess in a relatively compact and easy to navigate area.  They've got dirt-cheap hostels in all the right neighborhoods, reasonably-priced parking (and an ATM-accessible metering system that just makes sense!), all-night porn shops (without the stigma you see in the States), good food and juice-bars on every other corner, pubs that serve amazing brunch (curry chicken with bananas), and fewer worries about personal safety.  Very multi-cultural and friendly to outsiders.  Complaints: potholes, border patrol asking stupid questions (like why I carry a tool box and make-up in my car!), dealing with the exchange rate, no warning that your car will be towed if the meter runs out, and Canadian beer (and Canadian beer stores) suck/s.  (I'm glad I packed the legal limit of microbrews in my car before I left or it would've been a sober trip.)   

That's my $0.02.  I'm with Brian on this one.  I'm not one of those people who likes to dance at a concert.  I prefer to just "experience" the sound without rude interruptions from other concert-goers.  

~sc'eric 


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