NEXT GIG: Thur Feb 2 @ Nijo

What goes better with House music than sushi? Ah, yes, happy hour sushi!

Jen Woolfe joins Innerflight Music @ Nijo for their weekly 'Hot Saki!'

Seriously, this night is the most fun I've had in front of raw fish. No cover, super yummy sushi, cheap ass wells & drafts and great beats. J-sun, Kadeejah Streets and their friends invited me to come throw down some of my own.

83 Spring Street in Post Alley
Happy Hour is 10-11 pm. Beats continue till 2.
No cover of course.

yum yum.

NEW MIX! electro house. take one

This is my first publishable attempt of mixing with my new CD-J 1000, Priscilla (named so because it's used often at Burning Man). This mix fuses Electro House and Remixes and is a bit on the Progressive side. It's inspired by Demetreus & Delicioso cuz they were chillin' wit me on Friday.

electro house. take one.

Who needs tv when you can Dream

I slept for 13 hours last night. It wasn't because I was tired or sick or bored. I think I did it just to do it. You see, I found a day job, and I think it may be my last opportunity to sleep for a long time.

I started working when I was 15. I woke up early to take Honors classes, then went to school, then participated in sports, then worked a pizza job, then worked a grocery job on weekends. I even had time for Homework and 90210. I didn't go to parties or drink. Not that I didn't want to. I just didn't know where to go. I mean, it wasn't this schedule the entire time in High School. There were breaks here and there. Once Masil & I even snuck out of the house. But for the most part, that was my life. I got 5 hours of sleep a night.

When I got to college, I learned to work hard and play hard. That was even my personal motto for a while. I learned balance. I learned to get things done and still have time to join in on the fun. I did well in my classes -- not excellent -- but well. I worked my part-time job at McD's, I was a writer and photographer for the school paper, I played Intermural sports. I even helped start a female and co-ed Intermural league (so gay). And I drank along with the rest of the 7th-floor girls. They drank every Friday and Saturday. I couldn't do that. It was too much for me. So I worked Fridays until midnight and then drove them all home from the parties. Saturday was my day to play.

When I got out of school, I started working. I learned an entirely new skillset for my career as a computer geek. So after work, I took classes. Perl, Web Databases, Dreamweaver. Once I took a 9 month course in Fundamentals of Security. I'm what you call an Overachiever.

Then I discovered House music. And I became a DJ.

But being a newbie DJ just don't pay enough to sustain. It's an art. And art, in this society, is not what makes the world go round. Most artists must work in order to fund their passion, in hopes that some day the means will shift. I was gifted the unique opportunity to work as a DJ for 6 months. I knew that I was blessed with some 'time off' in my day job and I feel that I used it wisely. I used it to work exclusively as a DJ ... build relationships locally and out of town, increase my fanbase, explore new genres and new equipment, re-design my web site*, throw some kick-ass parties**. And sleep. I needed to sleep. 5 hours may be fine when you are 15. But at 30... I want double. In society today, we do not allow ourselves enough sleep. We work too many hours. We keep ourselves busy with too much 'stuff'. We watch tv to calm ourselves down in order to sleep. Truth be told, when you do sleep as much as your body asks you to, you dream. Such fabulous dreams. I travelled planets, played in bands, had children. I met Tegan & Sarah, seduced Kate Winslet. I could fly.

I guess last night, when I was thinking about how I have 1 week left off from working a day job, I thought about what I wanted to do. I had already said goodnight to my girlfriend. I could read, watch tv, spin records. I could talk to my roomies or surf the net. But what I really wanted to do was sleep. To dream. Your mind is a place where you can create a reality in 7 minutes. In the world, it takes a little longer. It's taken me 15 years to create this reality. Who knows, it could another 15 years to create the next. Isn't that what we are really working for anyway? To create a reality where everyone in this world can live their dreams?

Work for change.

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*I had to part in this, VuDu did it for me. You'll see it soon.
*BTW -- Nothing that I do is on my own. I have a LOT of great people working just as hard as I do.. and they didn't get 6 months to sleep. Sokolicky, Momo Swells, Pink, Da Man, Hei, Fishlure, VuDu, Samantha, Elletee, Masil, Jessica Star, DiRty, Liz ... the list goes on ... That's why I feature everyone on my blog. To say thanks. And give credit when I can.

Eat, Sleep & for Gawd's Sake, Dance

(Thu Jan 26)
Breaks & Freaks @ Contour
Innerflight Music @ Nijo

(Fri Jan 27)
Mark Farina, Inland Knights, Uniting Souls @ Trinity

(Sat Jan 28)
Le Freak @ Wild Rose
VuDu & Jen Woolfe @ Chapel

(Sun Jan 29)
Imogen Heap @ Neumos

(Mon Jan 30)
sleep

NEXT GIG: Sat Jan 28 @ The Chapel

Join myself and VuDu as we soar to new heights at The Chapel.

Sat January 28th
VuDu & Jen Woolfe

The Chapel Bar
1600 Melrose Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
206.447.4180

On Not Quite the Corner of Pine and Melrose.

Obstacles.

Its so hard to tell whether an obstacle that finds itself in your path is one that is there for you to overcome or one that is there to alter your route in a different direction. As I sit and stare at my new web site (soon to be released), a symbol of the next leg of my DJ career, I wonder also what the next leg of my daytime career is to be. What, that is tangible, can I look to as a symbol of the choices I'm supposed to make in order to face forward? 'Feel forward', I always say. But what is one to do when even forward feels unclear? Which is best? To make a decison about a path? Or to allow the path to make its way to me?

Decisions, Decisions

(Thu Jan 19)
LICK @ Chop Suey ... DJ's Amateur Youth and Monsieur Stan

Impulse @ Contour
Martin Röthlisberger (Sweden) - All hardware ACID Live PA>
Justin Byrnes - Shameless/Lab-77 (www.simplyshameless.com)>
DJ Saigon - Hitgirl/Lab-77 (www.lab-77.com)

(Fri Jan 20)
Dubfire of Deep Dish @ LSC
Innerflight's Record Release Party @ Lower Level
Eva @ Chop Suey

(Sat Jan 21)
JD of Le Tigre (DJ Set) @ Chop Suey <-- Yay!!
Tribe Sector 9 @ Showbox (early show)
Jazzanova (DJ Set) @ Baltic Room
Girl4Girl @ Premier

And our monthly Afterparty, Creme @ Leschi Lounge
2am ... $3 donation or BYO

puck 'er up

[Tue Jan 17]
I'm DJ'ing with webmasta beta VuDu on the Fishlure-Femur Fanatic French Kiss (formerly of Vibrator fame). Please join for no cover and yes lover.

The Eagle is located at 314 East Pike Street on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
Seattle's Original Leather Bar in existance.
Open 7 days a week from 2pm to 2am.
All events are 21 and older with ID.
206.621.7591
Smoking on the patio

P.S. Stay tuned for my new web launch built by the webmasta beta VuDu himself!!!

a busy weekend for woolfie

My records are getting quite a workout this weekend. Check out the other exciting things as well!

[Fri Jan 13]
Jen Woolfe @ ToST for happy hour 6:30 -9 . No Cover!

Then I'll be DJ'ing for a friend's private party, but y'all should head to see
Naha, Amateur Youth, Julia & Mathematix @ Cherry

[Sat Jan 14]
Jeromy Nail, Ramiro & Peter Evans @ Des Amis Saturdays
Adlib's birthday celebration with Friends (including me!) spinning @ SeeSound Lounge

Tuesdays are Rough

The Rough Riders, a group of 'very hott kings' that perform at Trax in Kent every Sunday night will be making a special appearance tomorrow at 10pm at Vogue. And you might as well pop next door to Purr for a drinky or two and say hello to Barbie, Bender & Co. I love their Stranger ads. Good stuff.

And don't forget, next Tuesday Jan 17th Jen Woolfe & VuDu tear up the decks for French Kiss @ The Eagle!!

NEXT GIG: Fri Jan 13th @ Tost

Happy Hour!! All of you who have a hard time staying up past midnight for some of my sets (like last week's 1:30am start, yikes!!) can thank Kristina Childs for hooking me up this week with her Friday weekly at Tost in Fremont for Happy Hour.

Downtempo, Trip Hop and Groove

ToST Lounge in Fremont
Friday Jan 13th
6:30 - 9pm ... NO COVER!
Happy hour ends at 7pm

$5 gourmet pizzas + quesadillas
$5 well martinis . $4 house wine . $3 well mixed drinks . $2.50 microbrew pints

yum yum

music is made here

The Leschi Lounge rocks. Last night we hosted a movie party to raise funds for our Theatre room. (Thanks all!) We have visions of outdoor movies being held in our backyard in the spring and summer. Halfway through the movie, our roomie Da Man pulled us aside. The place he was meant to play with his new friends in the band Plane Site was double booked at the venue downtown (a Huka joint!). Can they come jam at Leschi? Dude, totally. After our Double Feature, we headed downstairs to listen to an excellent jam session which included such instruments as Bass and Acoustic Guitars, harmonica, hand drums, vocals and a didgeridoo. This place is like frat house for musicians.

start off the new year in style

Shout-out to Lindsey who is working in Jackson Mississippi for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is 'ground zero for MS Gulf'. Thanks, Lindsey, for dedicating a slice of your life to help those who are in need!

This weekend

[ Thu Jan 5 ]

The kids that brought us our amazing New Years Eve celebration at Columbia City Theatre continue their weekly Thursday, Impulse at Contour. This week enjoy resident Osiris Indryia and guests Kristina Childs and Jesiah. Plus fire by Womanipura and spiritual readings by Spookee.

[ Sat Jan 7th ]

Deep House Originals brings you Mike Huckaby @ Baltic Room.

[ Sun Jan 8 ]

All live PA's for CO-OP @ Chapel.
Senior Frio, Let's Go Outside, & SciFiSol (From PDX) along with residents Anton Bomb and Shameless DJ's.

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Seems a few comments are missing from the blog. I think it has something to do with the way my system is set up and the year change to 2006. I'll take a look at it. In the meantime, keep comments coming!