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Being Bubble for Halloween worked out smashingly. The hair was the key, definately. I waiting to the last minute, of course, to get my outfit all worked out, but after 4 straight days of watching Ab Fab, I finally got a sense of Bubble. I didn't even leave my house until 5pm to look for the outfit, but after about 30 minutes and $10 at the Value Village (where I ran into my friend Tura who was in town from Ashland...SUCH a small city), Bubble emerged. What made the outfit complete (besides the hair) was some fuzzy bright yellow slippers that I found. Fabulous, darling, faboulous.
Edy, Patsy, and the Sailor that Patsy picked up arrived at 10 and we headed to the first party, which was conveniently one block away from my house. Luv that. It was put on by a group called Space Virgins, an arts collective and Burning Man theme camp. The house was huge and all the rooms were decorated beautifully, with bright neon colors and lots of pillows for chill spaces. The bar was outside. It was so packed you could hardly move. Everyone had a costume. My favorite room was the one with the butt massager. We left the SV party about 12:30 and hit up Mel's party in West Seattle. That was much more intimate and most everyone got the Ab Fab theme. We were there only briefly before we headed to Kevin & Sarah's pad to end out the night. Their place was decorated beautifully. Demetreus commented that you can really tell Kevin & Sarah put their hearts and souls into it. Beautiful. We watched Evil Genius (Kevin) finish up his set in the basement that had wallpaper with trees on it. It felt like we were in a party in the middle of the forrest. Elltee and Audroid played some Drum 'n Bass for the rest of the time I was there. When Elltee spun in a Postal Service song, I almost blew chunks, the mix was so sick! I saw lots of old friends, including Contour Matt, Sarah, and Tina. Tbear ended the night on the decks. A wonderful party.
And after a long night and a long weekend, I finally got home...before the sun came up. Barely.
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I realized at 11:30 pm on Sunday (which was really 12:30 thanks to 'Fall Back' for an extra hour that I desparately needed) that since I'm on-call at work this week, I can take a 'work from home' day. So I did that Monday. Rest. Yum. However, when I checked my email in the morning I realized that I had volunteered to DJ at The Last Supper Club (again!) at a benefit for a local bartender that injured her neck. I was scheduled to play at midnight. Ugh.
I say 'again!' because lately I've been plagued with the Last Supper Club. It's a great club with a decent crowd and excellent music. But lately I've had a lot of events there for some reason, 2 benefits, a club night, and 3 VIP parties. I have a joke with the bartender that I'm there more than he is. Tonight, after a long weekend of playing and partying, I would have much rather stayed in my pajamas and watched movies until I fell asleep on the couch. But I trooped it up: had a 2 1/2 hour nap at 8, a shower at 10:25, 1/2 a Monster energy drink at 11:00 (darn Trader Joes for stocking those things!), and arrived at LSC at 11:20. Just in time to see the last of Misha's set and Julie's entire set. There were surprisingly quite a few people there (for a Monday)! It was great to see everyone supporting Verna after her injury. I lent all my commercial records to Tbear, and I've been kind of bored playing the same stuff lately, so I decided to play some Progressive House (for a guide to generes of electronic music, check out this page). I was a little worried that the crowd wouldn't like it, seeing as busy as it was, but they seemed to really enjoy it. I played a lot of vocally stuff. Some of the crowd kept mouthing for me to 'drop it in!' but I wasn't really sure what they meant. I guess they meant make the first bass beat really kick in. I really need to borrow a Pioneer DJM-600 so I can practice the effects. Anyway, I had a great time playing. I played the 'Get Fucked' song, (a white label by Harrison Crump) which had both Jason (the LSC Promoter) and DJ Stacy (from Girl4Girl) asking me about it. Funny, but the gigs that you least look forward to seem to be the ones that turn out the best.
