Tuesday, March 13, 2007

1,000 Different Versions of Yourself

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i'm djing this Saturday in Dr Pong..which is 17th March, aka St. Patrick's Day. I would kind of avoid taking part in anything if I was in Ireland...Traiterous words from one whose sister is working on the St Patrick's Day Festival in Dublin..But I'm in Berlin! Yay.

So watch out for Shamrock shaped cut-outs tacked to the wall and maybe probably some boozy green concoction to get punch drunk on. Come dancing ; )

St Patrick's Day Hop @ Dr Pong, Sat 17th March Eberswalder Str. 21

watch out!

The Shins at the Postbahnhof April 4 2007
Deerhoof plus the Blow, Festsaal Kreuzberg 15 April 2007

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Careless in Our Summer Clothes

there hasn't been a song for a while that made me do AIR GUITAR.

but this "hang me out to dry" by the cold war kids..you know the bit i mean. it's not even a big mad crazy solo. but this hot, echoey bassline and guitar riff. duuuuude. and the clearcut drum beats and the yelling. this week was not cool, so i made a Friday mix to make it all better, including this. i could have just put this song 10 times in a row! Hot damn! i am really regretting missing them when they played with CYHSY recently. there's a couple of videos for this song, i prefer this one:



SXSW - junior senior are gonna be doing a LIVE RENDITION, YO of this song with J.D from le Tigre at their showcase. Dammmmn. Drea I hope you get to this!

Junior Senior Plus J.D Samson

Saturday, March 17 1:00 a.m.
Exodus (302 E 6th St)

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

You Always Come to the Party

1 o' my friends is going to SXSW. Lucky!!!!! Here is my reco'mmendations:

1. GIRL TALK

"Pure Magic"

Sat 17 1AM at Elysium
(705 Red River Street)

2. BEACH HOUSE



Friday March 16th 1am at The Tap Room at Six
(117 W 4th Street)

3. BISHOP ALLEN

"Queen of the Rummage Sale" mp3.

Thursday, March 15 10:30 p.m.
Mohawk Patio (912 Red River St)

4. PETER, BJORN AND JOHN




Friday, March 16 9:00 p.m.
Austin Convention Center (500 E Cesar Chavez St)

(also listed as Wednesday, March 14 12:30 a.m.
La Zona Rosa, 612 W 4th St)

5. AWESOME COOL DUDES



"move something / like you just hit the groove button / on the Casio / i aint gotta prove nothin'"

PLEASE GO TO THE MYSPACE AND LISTEN TO "CLAP CLAP"

Saturday, March 17 9:00 p.m.
Karma Lounge (119 W 8th St)

6. SIMPLE KID



Wednesday, March 14 8:00 p.m.
Copa (217 Congress Ave)

He's irish, get him drunk.

7. MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND

Friday, March 16 10:00 p.m.
Antone's (213 W 5th St)

8. THE PRESETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Thursday, March 15 1:00 a.m.
Beauty Bar Patio (617 E 7th St)

9. SHIT DISCO

Thursday, March 15 12:15 a.m.
Beauty Bar Patio (617 E 7th St)

10. CHAMILLIONAIRE

Tuesday March 13th
Carver Museum Backporch
The Recording Academy at 6:30 p.m.
(1165 Angelina St)

11. DANDI WIND



Saturday, March 17 9:00 p.m.
Beauty Bar (617 E 7th St)

Honourable mentions - bloc party, blonde redhead, the bravery, cody chestnutt, datarock!!!, au revoir simone, cold war kids, my latest novel, oh no! oh my!, the rapture, ron sexsmith,

Saturday, March 03, 2007

young hearts

this one time, au revoir simone and we are scientists were on tour together, MAKIN' VIDEOS:



The Au Revoir ladies packed out Bastard tonight. AND played "Young Turks" for the encore.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

JE VEUX TE VOIR

fri 2

i'm djing tomorrow night with some other djs aswell. it's a new place, so lots to check out. is the beer cheap? do they have cool toilets? will that cute barman be working? hm.

i went to see Regina Spektor at Lido last Friday night. she was amazing. she had a golden chair to hit with a drumstick when she wanted some beats. i love the contrast of her dripping-with-diamonds voice and the funny noises she makes, like the puking on "Magic Box" when she sings the line about gulping the soapy water.

THIS WEEKEND OMG:

Saturday night: Au Revoir Simone in Bastard, and later on, BONDE DE ROLE IN RIO!!!!!

Saturday, February 17, 2007

She's Not Allowed to Europe

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Well that was a pretty great week.

Had a work dinner on Tuesday night to celebrate a visit from the kids from 'merica, Jai-Alai Savant and the Album Leaf. (They came over to perform at the Intro Intime this week.) I had the spicy pizza, and the chocolate mousse for desert (both were melt-in-yr-mouth amazing. You'll never finish a mousse di cioccolato at Il Due Forni). Several beers, plates of food, seat exchanges and slang-from-Philly lessons from Major Taylor later it was all over, and i know how to use "jawn" in the right context.

The Broken Hearts Club affair was a memorable one on Valentine's night thanks to Autonervous.

Thursday evening I went (for my first time in a year and half spent in Berlin) to an irish pub, with my irish friend to have some "irish" food and merriment. I almost even bought crisps. We wanted to have a "real pint", ended up having three with our dinner and desert, and also stealing a book (I love Mary Wesley!).

Later that evening, the Hospitals played a great show in the Festsaal keller, thanks the Hospitals. People went crazy. Even a chick in killer heels and a fifties prom dress.

Friday I just caught the beginning of Leslie and the Lys playing at the Wice party in the Scala. SHE IS AMAZING!

Peaches and Planningtorock were out and behaving like a pair of mischievious kids.

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I couldn't stay long because i was djing at Stella Bar. Which was a little quiet, but fun anyway. They have a fun programme of stuff going on, which includes "russian night" every Thursday. Food, drink, performances, film directors, screenings, djs. Everything russian you can think of!

Ooh, here is a russian-related story from that night too: My friend Max came out to Stella, and brought some new music he's been working on. One CD from his Achtung Liebe Automat project had "She's Not Allowed to Europe" on it. It's a song about a friend of our friend (who is a really nice and lovely girl, but just had a bit of passport trouble once.) There was a night spent in jail and she's ended up being not really allowed to travel to Europe. And so is stuck in Russia. It sounds like it's the hit song from a cult eighties movie about a girl with a moustache who leaves a trail of destruction and broken hearts in her wake as she travels across the capital cities of the european continent.

Wow, i just noticed Leslie's red-eye in my photo there is actually one-red-eye-one-gold-eye, totally matching her outfit! Geez Leslie, you just can't get any better.

http://www.myspace.com/djmajortaylor
http://www.myspace.com/thejaialaisavant (don't even try and resist "Scarlett Johannsen Why Don't You Love Me?")
http://www.myspace.com/autonervous
http://www.myspace.com/hospitals
http://www.myspace.com/achtungliebeautomat ("Not Allowed To Europe")
http://www.myspace.com/stellabar

http://www.myspace.com/eel_pie

i guess the fun really started last Saturday night when I jumped around a room of scrunched up newspaper at Eel Pie. Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Check that place out, it's new. A Bar with the stunning attraction of a room full of scrunched up newspaper which you are totally allowed to jump around in.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

oh, lots!

woah!

(click to enlarge)

tonight:

broken hearts club at ballhaus, mitte:


tomorrow night:

Earsugar 7" singles release party at Bastard:




friday night:

i'm djing for the first time at Stella Bar. It's a best sweater party!

fri 16 flyer

(i just found out that Leslie and the Lys are playing on Friday night at the Vice party. That is kind of funny seeing as i made my dj night at Stella a "best sweater" party...!)


People in England, do you want to have the best time ever? Look what Shit Disco just said:

We're looking for someone to let us play in their living room on the following dates:

28 Feb LONDON
4 Mar GLASGOW
5 Mar LEEDS
7 Mar BRISTOL
8 Mar PORTSMOUTH
9 Mar COVENTRY
10 Mar MIDDLESBOROUGH

We'll bring the soundsystem, lights & smoke machine.
You just let the people through your door.

Ask your flatmates, it will get messy.
Then send us a message & we'll arrange the particulars.

X
SHITDISCO


Yes!

Monday, February 05, 2007

(the only kind that i relate to)

bike i'd like to have.

I can't get last thursday night out of my head. I made myself and Robbeh some cheese sandwiches and we headed over to Porchester Hall in the early evening. Robbeh is a pro at queueing, i believe it's standard procedure in Britain, especially for gigs. i was going to avoid the waiting around bit, but then i thought it would be funner to do the queue thing and go with Robbeh, than not go and then probably get lost trying to find my way to Porchester Hall by myself and miss Arcade Fire.

We get there and our queueing presence fucks with the bouncer's head. (Though, since it's Porchester Hall, and he was really nice, let's say he was the doorman.) He couldn't quite grasp the idea that we'd come a couple of hours early, and told us to go away to the pub for a while and come back. But we were determinded to hang about. So we did. Richard Reed Perry wandered by, and asked "how's life?" He is smiling beautifically, and it's hard not to smile beautifically back. Life is good when in possession of a ticket to an Arcade Fire show that's on later Richard! I give dirty looks to two fat middle aged men who look like touts. (Later i see them up the front bopping around and enjoying themselves tremendously. Could it be?)

The doorman felt a bit sorry for us, and when the waiting crowd grew to a respectably troublesome size, he made arrangements for us to be let inside to wait in a warm and cosy room. How nice is that, seriously. Robbeh's friend Sarah arrived with CHIPS, which might have been a bit much what with the cheese sandwiches we'd already had, but waiting around for Arcade Fire is a very energy-expending exercise. Yes. While we were sitting on the floor in that room we heard the thrums and yodels of the soundcheck. We weren't just sitting there, we were also guarding the doorman's lunch, and keeping stupid americans away from the chairs. Don't ask. Ok do, it's a funny story and involves the line "oh, are you the boss of the chairs?!!?!!?" or something. It's nearly time for the doors to open, and so many people are in the room now that it's very hard to discern any kind of line. Our man Pete was on hand to get everyone in order. "I hate when things aren't organised properly!" Pete said. People congratulated Pete's line ordering skills, and soon after the doors OPEN!

i tried really hard not to run up the stairs like mad and dash into the hall, like a greedy kid running after...running cake. but i totally did. i even ran by the free badges. (oh well, i got better ones at work last week!) so, up the front we are. people are trying to squish themselves anywhere to get in the very front row. Wow. It's an incredible spot. Because the crowd is so well behaved, and noone bashes into me, it's like i'm standing there gobsmacked by Arcade Fire all by myself, but i'm not the only one of course. Win says how nice it is to have a few days to spend in London. That he hated it before, but doesn't anymore. The set list goes to shit because of the heckling from the audience. If you are clever enough to have a ticket to see Arcade Fire, don't shout orders at them. Just let them play! Whatever they have decided on is going to be more magical than you can ever imagine anyway. Leave them alone!

For some reason I thought Win Butler was going to look a bit like Jack White. But he doesn't. He is Win Butler from his giant feet, to his braces and sweaty shirt and big brown eyes. And Regine is Peaches' long lost twin sister if ever I saw one. (Gem fingerless gloves?) Richard definitely brings the suspense element to the show. First of all, he picks the most difficult "picking up" instruments to play and you can only just about bear to look in those moments when he's running from double bass to accordian and he's throwing one instrument down and galloping over to the other one and HE JUST MAKES IT IN TIME. Always. And he even has time to do a little jig, or sing and laugh at the same time aswell. Heck.

So! Bloody hell I can't wait til they come and play in Berlin in March.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Jesus Christ Don't Keep It Hid

God i had the best week ever.

- nearly, but didn't miss my flight to London on Wednesday.

- spent way too much money in Fopp (can only be a good thing, really. Especially when it all went on books. Especially in Fopp. Swoon, thud.)

- spent way too much money in record shops across Lahhhndaahhn tahn. (And definitely could have spent more.) I've come home with a rather fancy bundle of stuff. Colour-dy vinyl 7 inch singles (and also plain sexy black) from the Boyfriends, the Noisettes, Archie Bronson Outfit, Vive Voce, the Organ and Klaxons (Golden Skans might just be the best song of this decade. Shame about the video..) The best part was when I thought I was buying some second hand albums (3 for five quid) BUT actually they had brand new copies. (Pat Benatar, Joe Jackson, Modern English).

- getting stepped on by Win Butler. If you're up the front at an Arcade Fire gig, do not look down. because that is probably the second that the big boot is gonna come down on you. Ow, but OH!OH!OH! most amazing gig ever, needless to say. See you there in March when they play in Berlin. Maybe not so up the front.

-chelsea buns at Borough market. YUM!

- Fish and chips at Toffs in Muswell Hill. (This Fish & Chips establishment has been decreed one of the best by Badly Drawn Boy. he is having a gig there at some stage very soon i believe.) (It really is the best.)

- Bulmers from a can in the queue at the Scala for Cansei de Ser Sexy. Yes, queueing can be fun, when queueing with friendly germans, bezzie mates and have can of cider in hand.

- Shopping for dickie bows at Episode in Camden

I had a look on Flickr for photographs from the night I saw Arcade Fire play at Porchester hall - some of the photos up there are amazing. Please go have a look. Search "arcade fire porchester" or "css scala london" you'll see. Go look!

Oh, Win Butler is very witty. People kept shouting song requests from the crowd. (Which i only found mildly entertaing cos of the funny London accents). But it obviously irked the 'Fire front man, though he charmingly laughed it off with a girlfriend/boyfriend analogy. Because shouting song requests is like telling your girlfriend she looks fat in that dress. He forgot the lyrics to "Powers Out" (which did not make him look fat) but didn't give up and just sort of hung his head and said "it's been a while". That moment actually was probably one of th emost mind blowing. He jumped into this crowd, (with the help of my shoulder) and kept on playing, with people hugging him and patting him on the back and trying to hump his leg etc. He sort of curled up into a ball and suddenly the pounding intro to "Rebellion (Lies)" was happening, and it was a bit too much.

And today, well maybe i'm going splits on a drum kit with my friend. Yesssss I probably could have used the money from this trip to put towards it, but i wouldn't change anything about the past few days.

Robbie took some amazing photographs from the night.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

k-i-s-s-i-n-g

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Hey look at this! RUBY MAGAZINE. Woah. I got some badges at work this week. One is a sort of fat square, with a neon bible on it, and the other is the name of the band, in typewriter letters. I'm afraid to wear either of em. I'm also afraid of listening to the album. But late on a Sunday evening is kind of perfect. I drank too many beers at the Vice party last night. They were pretty lucky that DATAROCK were there to liven things up with some chest-hair sleaze pop. No cherry beer or nothin.

New Young Pony Club were supposed to play here on Saturday but they big fat didn't show up. The venue was this big huge concrete structure that used to be an electrical plant. It's the new Tresor venue, practically identical to Berghain, except the lights were on really bright, there were ice sculptures and flames coming out of the walls, and a mini basketball court. But no NYPC.

If you like dancing to hot chip, the gossip, planningtorock and kate bush, and feeling a bit sad that all the hot boys dancing around you are gay, then NBI on a Wednesday night is just for you! It's the Berlin Hilton night & this past Wednesday Hanayo played. Yeh, she nearly fell through the wall.

This is kind of funny:



Datarock - Computer Camp Love

ps - here is what i wrote the first time i saw Datarock, last May. This weekend they played in Berlin twice.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

It's Like a Picture of a Loved One in Disguise

SHOESOFLOVE
My new shoes. They are so the best.

The Shins put up the whole of "Wincing the Night Away" for listenin'!


Hey, I'm looking to finally get my own drum kit, so if you are in berlin and are selling a drum kit, please let me know! I just need something that is good enough to practise on, for the moment.


Shit Disco + Lo Fi Fnk last week = so good. Plus, I was standing beside a boy who had an "aer lingus" badge on his jacket. It was the night the "orkan" was supposed to blast us all away and even though I had sleepy eyes and it was pretty cold, the Maria is only around the corner from me and it was actually nice enough outside that i could ride out ON MY BIKE!

Seriously can't wait to see them again.

(Dr Pong was deadly on Friday night.)

This Thursday, 28 Costumes at Magnet!

Thursday, January 18, 2007

You Think Its Alright

almost tropical fri 19th

Shit Disco fucked shit up tonight.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Before I Put Another Notch in My Lipstick Case...

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The door bitches got me again. So I missed Peter Bjorn and John last week. It was all sold out, there was a MASSIVE crowd outside, only about 3 people in that crowd had tickets. Maaaaan. I didn't know the guestlist closed at 9pm and there was really no way to get in at the insanely late hour of our arrival of 9.25pm.

OH WELL! IM GOING TO SEE ARCADE FIRE ON 1ST FEBRUARY IN LONDON IN PORCHESTER HALL!

And nobody is going to not let me in. I have a real ticket and everything.

Work this week was very much orientated around the 'Fire. Printing out labels and then packing up promo copies. I even heard the album a few times. The promo copies are all watermarked and numbered for extra precaution against the music getting leaked onto the internet. It's so gorgeous, it's like listening to something that you're not sure is really there. At the beginning of December I was sitting in on a Wednesday morning meeting when their name came up...It has been really surreal to be behind the scenes, some of them anyway. This album is going to SHAKE THE WORLD LIKE A SNOW GLOBE.

Girl Talk Remixes Are Hot!

1. Peter Bjorn + John, "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off". Girl Talk Remix. I am a sucker for kettle drums.

2. Grizzly Bear, "The Knife" Girl Talk Remix. I sort of like this alot, but i would love it it more if he wasn't all "wamp wamp". It's priceless from about 2.12secs. "...we could have never thought of it and finally we can dance to our own music! Haha" Ed Droste, probably.

FEB 16 LESLIE AND THE LYS AT WHITE TRASH, BERLIN

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Friday, January 05, 2007

This is It

Since I woke up and turned on the radio about a half an hour ago, Radio Eins has played this:

the Pigeon Detectives - "I Found Out"
JJ72 - "Oxygen"
Beck - "Nausea"
Tokyo Police Club - "Nature of the Experiment"
the Church - "Under the Milky Way"
Bloc Party - "So Here We Are"
Bright Eyes - "A Perfect Sonnet"
If you're in Berlin, you wouldn't be doing too badly to show up at these gigs:

10 Jan - Peter, Bjorn and John in Lido
25 Jan - 28 Costumes (+ the Bishops) in Magnet

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Wolf Like Me

Say say my playmate
wont you lay hands on me
mirror my maladie
transfer my tragedy

Got a curse i cannot lift
shines when the sunset shifts
when the moon is round and full
gotta bust that box gotta gut that fish

My mind's aflame

We could jet in a stolen car
but i bet we wouldnt get too far
before the transformation takes
and bloodlust tanks and
crave gets slaked

My mind has changed
my bodys frame but god i like it
my hearts aflame
my bodys strained but god i like it

My mind has changed
my bodys frame but god i like it
my hearts aflame
my bodys strained but god i like it

Charge me your day rate
ill turn you out in kind
when the moon is round and full
gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your mongrel mind
baby doll i recognize
you're a hideous thing inside
if ever there were a lucky kind it's

you you you you

I know its strange another way to get to know you
you'll never know unless we go so let me show you
i know its strange another way to get to know you
we've got till noon here comes the moon
so let it show you
show you now

Dream me oh dreamer
down to the floor
open my hands and let them
weave onto yours

Feel me, completer
down to my core
open my heart and let it
bleed onto yours

Feeding on fever
down on all fours
show you what all that
howl is for

Hey hey my playmate
let me lay waste to thee
burned down their hanging trees
it's hot here hot here hot here hot here

Got a curse we cannot lift
shines when the sunset shifts
there's a curse comes with a kiss
the bite that binds the gift that gives

now that we got gone for good
writhing under your riding hood
tell your gra'ma and your mama too
it's true true true true

we're howling forever

Sunday, December 10, 2006

All I Wanna Do Is Ride Bikes With You, And Stay Up Late and Watch Cartoons

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Keep an eye on Wears the Trousers for Robbie's sexy interview with Planningtorock.

..who is playing here on 21 Dec in Rio by the way.

Last night at Dr Pong was wheely great. Apparently yesterday there was a bicycle race in Berlin. There was a bicycle-dude get together after party thing at the bar, so there was an especially invented for the occasion PUNCH for all the bicycle dudes to get drunk on...which they certainly did! Get drunk AND punch. Well, nearly. I was a bit scared of them sometimes. But then they would dance to Cansei de Ser Sexy, or make a "wish" for Whitney Houston, "only one of the good ones, from the 80s."

I hope that everyone is going to see "Little Miss Sunshine". If you are in the mood to go and watch a really good film at the cinema, I highly recommend it.

We had our own smoke machine button at the UDK party on Friday.

My neighbour is so cool. He has fashioned some pretend snowballs so it looks like someone has just splatted his door with two snowballs! HA! I went to the flea market today, and now have my first christmas decoration: a shooting star light. It's small, but fiery. It practically lights up my whole place.

In Ireland, if someone is very, very good looking we say they are "a ride".

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karina, Arlene Dahl.

UDK-PARTY..


There are alot of good things on this week: the UDK university is having a BIG MAD PARTY on Friday night. My friend signed us up to be the "indie" djs. We have a room all to ourselves for the night, and it's quite a beautiful room. AND the party is not just for grotty students. So please come out and dance!

I guess cassette-flyers are de rigeur. i made a flyer up like this only last week...Look closely because everything you need to know is ON THE FLYER.

This Saturday night i'm djing at Dr Pong:

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Beat that, UDK.

KLAXONS just came on the radio!..On radio eins!. Swit Swoo. And there's..extra bits in "Gravity's Rainbow". Scratchy, whiny, excellent bits.

That was exciting.

Also exciting, and a bit troublesome are the upcoming gigs over the next few days. FRIEDA HYVOENEN and LOVE IS ALL are both playing here on Sunday night. I would love to check out Privatclub, I've never been to a gig there. But I think I've been looking forward to the latter for a bit longer. Which means another stuffy, smoky, shove-y night in Magnet.

Monday poses another dilemma. i didn't realise it 'til just now but THE THERMALS and LONG BLONDES are in town playing the same night.

Oh, bugger. Not only will i be totally knackered after the weekend, i will have to make decisions. Hate dah.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

I Can Razmatazz You Honey If You Want Me To


i discovered an amazing song this week. "cherry cola" by eagles of death metal.

so, how's your weekend? hm, today i have a pretty bad hangover. pretty much the worst! i got a last minute job dj job for this dude's birthday party last night. it was held in a pretty cool venue and there was a big crowd. i was happy because people were dancing and there was a really good buzz. But then, after a couple of hours things started to go hilariously downhill. This 4 foot indian called "Moon" accosted me with his USB stick - at first i thought he wanted me to copy my music onto it, and i was a smidge flattered. (i never djed with a laptop before, but i was warned that maybe there wouldnt be a double cd mixer, so i should be prepared. i don't keep my music on it so i spent a good few hours beforehand uploading about 7 hours of music. it turned out that they had some reeeeeeeally nice equipment for cd mixing, which was one of the only nice things about the whole evening...)

so this Moon dude actually wanted me to copy all the music from HIS usb stick and play stuff off it. I started to do it, then the birthday dude came over and said "Whats going on here?..Just ignore that guy, he wasnt even invited" So i pretended there was a problem with my laptop and handed the USB stick back to Moon who said "yeh well you better have the music that we want." with a vicious glint in his eye. From then on he went out of his way to make things difficult. Even though people were dancing and having a good time and coming up to me and saying "MUSIC IS GREAT!!! AWOOOHOOO!!" this Moon dude and his pals kept coming over all serious asking for "more upbeat stuff..like Benny Benassi." Oh i wish i could have seen my face when he said that. I felt really bad because the birthday guy just wanted people to have a good time. and i didnt want people to have a bad time cos they didnt like the music i was playing. but it was really just this little bunch of twats that ganged up against me because they didnt know that a dj had been booked, and they had all thought they would be hooking up their little usb sticks and putting on their terrible, awful, shitty music.

i did have nerd, justin timberlake and amerie with me so i played some of that..I even resorted to some early J.Lo. But these fuckers were just not happy. this guy was sharing his birthday party with his co-worker, and her boyfriend came up and bullied me into letting him take over. He started playing this euro dance trash and all the annoying bastards went "woo!!" but then two seconds later, people were getting their jackets and leaving, and those that stayed were coming up to me and saying "what happened? your music was better.." i didnt really know what to do then, because i was being paid to be there, but drunken control freaks with terrible music taste (possibly the worst kind of human being in existence) had taken over. then the boyfriend stomps up to me and demands to know why i have been complaining and so im trying to explain how shitty this situation is. i felt really bad because people should not be getting angry at a birthday party. and i was also just like "dude, you have terrible taste in music. what are you playing? can you hear this? It is TRASH." To his credit, he actually laughed and said "Yeh." Birthday guy had told me the party would be a crowd of 20-30 year olds who wanted to dance. and i had told him that the music i play is like new indie rock and some electronica stuff and 80s pop. i actually like that one benny benassi song, "satisfaction" but still. those people were absolutely evil motherfuckers. at one point i sort of cried a little bit because i am such a fucking girl and it was just so stressy.

Then this nice girl came up and we talked for a bit and she said she might have music on her laptop which they would like, so she would dj for a while. (i dunno there were alot of people with usb sticks and laptops at this party.) she did play some cool music, but people started attacking her with their usb sticks, and when one drunken eastern european bimbo tried to jam in her usb stick into the girls Mac even though it didnt fit, she got fed up and quit. so we left the boyfriend to it.

i really like djing. but last night was such a shitty position to be in. and i know it came about because it was all so last minute and not really planned very well. and ive wasted my weekend on the resulting hangover of doom - from the alcahol and all the drama. it was like a highschool prom gone wrong or something.

"cherry cola" does nearly make it all better though. it's up for download at their little spot. also, if you click on that cherry bakewell tart it gets really big. like really big.