How LORE cured my panic attack at Nowadays
These are scary times. Thank God for Juliana Huxtable and the power of stories.
Hey friends, Delilah here. I’d like to share a story about an experience I had the morning after we did “little red” at Hex House, and how it reconnected me with the importance of the work we’re doing with LORE.
On the night we pulled off this behemoth event, I was too excited/activated to sleep, so I hung out in the living room of LORE conductor Joules with my boyfriend Ron and a couple other friends. We ended up heading to the club Nowadays around 5am, with the goal of staying until 8 to see Juliana Huxtable DJ the morning.
Juliana is, I believe (and many others would agree), one of the most talented DJs in the world—both for her kinetic skill behind the decks, and her knack for spinning gold from chaotically chosen yet intentionally woven tracks. This energetic work, as well as her use of samples including her own poetry, has hugely inspired LORE. But at Nowadays, by the time 8am rolled around, I was crashing.
“Juliana’s sets always open a portal to several episodic stages you have to pass through in order to gain self-knowledge,” I said to Ron. (Yes, I speak like this while strung out; not kidding.) “I don’t have the energy for that right now.”
But sure enough, by 20 minutes into the set—somewhere between her playing Crystal Castles and “Funkytown”—I was already throwing enough ass to justify committing to the journey. I bought us each a maté soda.