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overall i'd say WMC 09 was definately an amazing time. it was my second trip, but my girlfriend's first, and aside from a little drunken drama, it was a great week for both of us. we stayed at the miami beach resort and spa for 4 nights (beautiful) and stayed w/friends the other 2 nights (not so beautiful!)
Started the week of strong w/Markus @ aero bar, which i thought was a great opening party. To who ever said it sucked in this thread earlier, you must've been in the back! i was up front as close to the dj booth as i could get and everyone there was really into it and having a great time!
wednesday we hit up the dj mag pool party, and honestly, it felt it was good but not great. waaaaay too crowded, and while the line up was good, i didn't think anyone really brought their best stuff to that party. I do regret getting there late and missing gui boratto and only hearing the end of way out west's last song!
wednesday night was Danny howells @ bed. this for me was probably the biggest disappoinment of the night, but not for danny's set. we ended up getting there 3 and a half hours into his set, cause my girlfriend took FOREVER to get ready after the pool party! i really wanted to hear him craft that 7 hour journey from start to finish, and to top it off, we left early cause the gf got too tired! i should've just pumped her full of red bull lol. and actually the venue kinda disappointed me. i expected bed to be a lot cooler! it reminded me of a bar back home, except with some snobby vip beds along the back and sides. when i'm in miami i don't want to be reminded of home!
thursday we did the sander k. and desyn yacht party, and that was easily the highlight of our week! it was such an amazing experience to be out there in the open air and the open water with such great music! sander really laid down those nice groovy, funky house tracks to start us off and desyn... well i was too wasted to remember most of what he played, but from the videos i took it was good! i think the crowd was good there too, we met some cool people on the boat, and we were planted directly infront of the dj booth almost the whole time! great, great party and would love to do it again next year!
thursday night i went to space for viva vs. cadenza, but unfortunately my gf was too drunk from the boat to come along. but i met my buddies up @ space and we enjoyed the terrace till about 9am when we decided to get some sleep before ultra.
ultra friday, it was fun, but the mainstage was complete garbage. i'm sorry but shit like black eyed peas, santogold and other assorted crap have no business being at ultra. it makes me sad to think of all the great dj's they could've brought instead of those lame ass indie rock acts! highlight of friday was definately sweedish house mafia and rabbit in the moon. always an amazingly beautiful and eerie experience with bunny and co! oh and by the way tiesto sucks so much balls. i will never pay money to see him again. his sets are so hackneyed and old, he lacks creativity and just relies on the same old shit.
we were going to go AM only, the gf and i were pretty tired so we opted to return to the hotel for some alone time  i really wish we had've gone to k&y for a little bit though, i regret missing that party! and i still haven't been to that venue yet, so next year will have to be the year for karu and y!
saturday ultra rocked, had a much better time than friday. mainstage trance acts were great, from markus, to atb, to above and beyond and armin! booka shade was good, but having just seen them back home the week before, it wasn't as special as it could've been i think. carl cox and friends tent was just off the hook that day though. tong, morillo and the man carl cox himself were frickin amazing! too bad we missed moby though
saturday we were going to sasha and when we arrived, they told us it was sold out! but we have badges we said! too bad, they said! come back at 4am! pshhh, fuck that, so we walked around sobe for awhile, went to the beach at night, helped a drunk girl find her phone, and bumped into a friend from back home @ walgreens at 3am, looking for munchies!
sunday we just missed the badge cut off time for tenaglia's pool party by like 20 minutes, and the dicks tried to charge us 50 each. no way, so we walked around sobe some more and went to the beach. didn't even think of hitting up beatport pool party till it was too late! but we ended the night good back @ shine w/sander k and he killed it once more! armin van buuren was chilling there and i got some pics of him texting! too funny!
monday was the day for R and R, but it was so weird to sobe so quiet! i really felt sad knowing that wmc was over! oh well, it was a great time, not everything went according to plan, but does it ever??? anyway, we had a week of fun and great partying and music that we won't soon forget! can't wait till next year!!!
ps. any TA's here plan on going out to LA for electric daisy carnival???? if you haven't been to a cali massive, its great fun! i'd say it definately rivals ultra... theres nothing like the los angeles Colosseum jam packed with 50,000+ crazy ass people!
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so sad its over...
then Cosmic Gate destroyed the terrace and when they finished, I said goodbye to all the great TAs I met (especially you drEamer) and went back home around 8 since we had to be at the airport by 11am Monday.
