If you are not aware, there is an electronic music festival held here in Seattle that is fabulous. It's called Decibel Festival, and it's huge. Please see the website for all the info about the festival. There are so many amazing artists performing, you should really get the weekend pass. Though I recommend all of them, these are the few I've seen in the past. So please show support for Seattle and the electronic music scene by attending at least one show. Chances are once you've seen it, you'll stick around for more.
(Thu Sep 22)
Jeremy Nail 08:00 - 09:30 @ Barca
Electrosect 01:00 - 02:00 @ Bad Juju
(Fri Sep 23)
Eddie 08:30 -9:30 @ Barca
Jerry Abstract 10:15 - 11:15 @ Chop Suey
(Sat Sep 24)
free! - Saigon Sat 2-4 pm @ Broadway Performance Hall
Derek Fisher 05:00 - 06:30 @ Barca
Kristina Childs 08:00 - 09:30 @ Chop Suey
Rob Green 08:00 -9:30 @ Barca
Camea Sat 11-12:30 @ Barca
(Sun Sep 25)
Eddie 08:00 - 09:30 @ Nuemos
Tipper 10:15 - 11:30 @ Nuemos
Osiris Indriya 11:00 - 02:00 am @ Barca
Also this weekend...
Little Miss Large @ SeeSound on Saturday. All the way from the UK!
Julie Herrera, Jeromy Nail and Andy Caldwell on Fri @ War Room
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
Even Hermits Pee Sometime
I've been hermiting myself for a couple of days. I missed my room! But now is the time to peek my head out, if only for a PBR and a pill.
(Tue Sep 20)
Join DJ's Fishlure and Femur for dyke night at the Eagle!
The 20's is the time... Flappers and Mobsters dress theme
Prohibition sets in...where are we to get our Boobs?
http://www.seattleeagle.com/vibratorpresents/vibrator.html
(Tue Sep 20)
Join DJ's Fishlure and Femur for dyke night at the Eagle!
The 20's is the time... Flappers and Mobsters dress theme
Prohibition sets in...where are we to get our Boobs?
http://www.seattleeagle.com/vibratorpresents/vibrator.html
(Wed Sep 21)
UK Drum'n Bass LTJ Bukem @ Chop Suey
(Fri Sep 23)
Perfect Hit & Puma present...
Gettin' Andy Caldwell at the War Room w/
Julie Herrera & Jeromy Nail
DB Festival Shameless Afterparty
2 rooms, 12 performers
Your next change to get Shameless
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Am I ever coming home?
Masil Q. asked me if I'm ever come home. The truth is, yes, I'm heading home tomorrow morning. I've had the craziest adventures here in San Francisco over the last week. It would be nice if I had voice recognition software so I could write the blog entries as they happen. I have to say that decompressing from Burning Man away from my friends and home was really hard. Luckily I had about 10 prospective people to meet up with here in SF. Also, Sokolicky made it out for 4 days which helped a lot. I received the most eclectic view of the city throughout the week. I feel like I got a taste of what it's like to live in the life of Castro, Mission, Nob Hill and Presidio. I did the tourist thing with Alcatraz and ate amazing food at French, Mexican and Sushi restaurants. I met very kewl people here in the city and was able to meet up with Seattle friends that are now living here, including Steph and Jamie. I've only got 1 minute left on my internet card, so I'm heading. I miss you guys and will see you soon!
Friday, September 09, 2005
On the Soft Track
Music is so prevelant in my life, it kind of surprises me sometimes. It's virtually everywhere, I mean literally Virtual, as in Virtual Reality. When I arrived at Sheiny's house on Tuesday night, his friend and co-worker Tom was set out in front of the computer with is piano keyboard. Shein and Tom work for a company that has developed a 3D Virtual World program called 2nd Life. This 2nd life is a virtual chance to remake your personality and live in a world much like our own. Tom was cyber sitting is a pleasant court yard wth two or three others, the sun shining lightly on the neon green grass. He was speaking into the microphone and playing piano for his virtual audience, who are virtual real people listening to actual music from their actual computer monitors. Of course I could only hear one side of the conversation. So in between songs I heard,
'Aw thank you'.
pause
'Well yes, I would say so'
pause
'Only when I'm -'
pause
'Well, I wouldn't go as far as to -'
pause
Laugh 'Aw, you're very sweet'
Shein DJ'ed in the 2nd life yesterday and I threw on a few tracks as well. He played at a club called 'The Bunker' that a user built in the program over the course of a Saturday. The floors moved back and forth to wierd colors and the chairs were made out of granades. Shein hooked up his real-world turntables and played some of the records out of my real life bag to an audience of about 8. They had programmed ways to dance on the floor or in their chairs, spin fire, and even use glow sticks. Shein received virtual money that can be used inside the game, and even traded for real money here on Earth. There are even burning man festivals in 2nd life. It's a very trippy place.
-
In the real real world, Shein has been working on some tracks for a record label that he is starting with a friend here in SF named Henry Navarro. Henry has been releasing records since 1997, mostly on the Urbanloops label. They have two house tracks ready to be pressed to vinyl, and I was lucky to be invited in on some of the finishing touches last night. Henry uses the software program Reason (and many others) along with actual instruments to record tracks. Being able to watch them work (I even have a voice cameo) was a treat.
'Aw thank you'.
pause
'Well yes, I would say so'
pause
'Only when I'm -'
pause
'Well, I wouldn't go as far as to -'
pause
Laugh 'Aw, you're very sweet'
Shein DJ'ed in the 2nd life yesterday and I threw on a few tracks as well. He played at a club called 'The Bunker' that a user built in the program over the course of a Saturday. The floors moved back and forth to wierd colors and the chairs were made out of granades. Shein hooked up his real-world turntables and played some of the records out of my real life bag to an audience of about 8. They had programmed ways to dance on the floor or in their chairs, spin fire, and even use glow sticks. Shein received virtual money that can be used inside the game, and even traded for real money here on Earth. There are even burning man festivals in 2nd life. It's a very trippy place.
-
In the real real world, Shein has been working on some tracks for a record label that he is starting with a friend here in SF named Henry Navarro. Henry has been releasing records since 1997, mostly on the Urbanloops label. They have two house tracks ready to be pressed to vinyl, and I was lucky to be invited in on some of the finishing touches last night. Henry uses the software program Reason (and many others) along with actual instruments to record tracks. Being able to watch them work (I even have a voice cameo) was a treat.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Feelin' the Burn
Two days out of Burning Man 2005 and I've temporarily settled into an apartment on Washington & Hyde in San Francisco. I decided to visit Sheiny here to decompress from my time in the desert and to allow another small taste of the city. SF has been pulling me quite a bit in the last year, as this is the second time in the last 6 months that I find myself in the shadow of the Golden Gate bridge.
Now, staring at the computer screen, it's virtually impossible to recollect the events of the last two weeks in any sort of order. Currently, only a few memorable events weigh clearly in my head: Happening upon a DJ Thursday night who overtook a crowd of hundreds with epical melodies and a lever in the DJ booth that spit fire 10 feet into the air at his whim. Spinning my own vinyl with Robb Green at Playa-go-Round on Friday night. Stopping mid-pee on Wednesday after hearing a familiar Denver name, only to be whisked away within minutes to an intimate gathering where Michael Franti composed his peace. Emerging from a wooden tube filled with assorted stuffed animals on Saturday morning to the 3rd most memorable sunrise of my entire life. And an invite to one of the most kickin' camps on the Deep End of the playa.
Once again I met new friends from all over the world -- the Zu kids from Seattle, Victoria & Crew from London and SF, two Cool Bus Irish School kids from Dublin, a silly couple sharing Jager and vodka tonics from Salt Lake City. I helped devirgininze three of my own -- Sokolicky, Monaco & Freedom. I connected and reconnected with friends close to home, including Demetreus & Kimber Xara, Delicioso, Sean Dee and Mr. Green. And I watched my partner in love and life shine her universal light.
But the magic of the playa sometimes takes time to close its lessons. And there is one event that still looms dark in my heart. For that I wrote a poem in hopes that the golden circle, now ashes within the pile of the Temple, will soon rejoin our infinity once again.
'They say the desert makes or breaks relationships.
Of that, I can clearly see.
Lines once drawn in thick charcoal of emotion
are easily blurred between sleep-deprived thoughts
and drug-enduced experience.
A planet that sleeps so separate from reality
allows so easily
thoughts of persons, places and feelings left on Earth
to slip soundly through the cracks of temptation.
We leave our comfort willingly
in order to re-write rules so confidently placed before us
that we'd forgotten if they were truely our beliefs
or ideals layed out to oppress.
What seemed so right in a place where love lives free
now leaves my heart, once opened bright in the desert heat,
feeling faulted, torn heavily, undone.'
Now, staring at the computer screen, it's virtually impossible to recollect the events of the last two weeks in any sort of order. Currently, only a few memorable events weigh clearly in my head: Happening upon a DJ Thursday night who overtook a crowd of hundreds with epical melodies and a lever in the DJ booth that spit fire 10 feet into the air at his whim. Spinning my own vinyl with Robb Green at Playa-go-Round on Friday night. Stopping mid-pee on Wednesday after hearing a familiar Denver name, only to be whisked away within minutes to an intimate gathering where Michael Franti composed his peace. Emerging from a wooden tube filled with assorted stuffed animals on Saturday morning to the 3rd most memorable sunrise of my entire life. And an invite to one of the most kickin' camps on the Deep End of the playa.
Once again I met new friends from all over the world -- the Zu kids from Seattle, Victoria & Crew from London and SF, two Cool Bus Irish School kids from Dublin, a silly couple sharing Jager and vodka tonics from Salt Lake City. I helped devirgininze three of my own -- Sokolicky, Monaco & Freedom. I connected and reconnected with friends close to home, including Demetreus & Kimber Xara, Delicioso, Sean Dee and Mr. Green. And I watched my partner in love and life shine her universal light.
But the magic of the playa sometimes takes time to close its lessons. And there is one event that still looms dark in my heart. For that I wrote a poem in hopes that the golden circle, now ashes within the pile of the Temple, will soon rejoin our infinity once again.
'They say the desert makes or breaks relationships.
Of that, I can clearly see.
Lines once drawn in thick charcoal of emotion
are easily blurred between sleep-deprived thoughts
and drug-enduced experience.
A planet that sleeps so separate from reality
allows so easily
thoughts of persons, places and feelings left on Earth
to slip soundly through the cracks of temptation.
We leave our comfort willingly
in order to re-write rules so confidently placed before us
that we'd forgotten if they were truely our beliefs
or ideals layed out to oppress.
What seemed so right in a place where love lives free
now leaves my heart, once opened bright in the desert heat,
feeling faulted, torn heavily, undone.'
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