Chubby Racer

So it's been well over a month since I've posted here.  I swear there's a good reason: I haven't touched my decks in a month and a half.  I've been very ill.  Like, probably should have been hospitalized ill.  What I have has essentially ruined my life.  I spend all night back and forth between bed and taking extremely painful shits, stumble into work half dead, come home and repeat.  God I can't wait for the meds to REALLY start working so I can start getting my life back.  New mixes coming soon.  Just as soon as I can get a solid 8 hours of sleep.

I managed to crack off one mix this week...just one.  It was kinda meh, but I'm getting more fantsy-pantsy and bold with my effects timing.  So that's something. I really need to plan better.  Somehow I made all my dentist appointments during cake month which mad fucks up my schedule.  I'm sure you're thinking "uh...how?"  Well, I chose a dentist based on convenience for my old job.  Now that I work downtown...NOTHING is convenient.  So I have to skip a workout and/or skip a workout and leave early...it's just a fucking mess.  So I'm not getting accomplished what I want to get accomplished outside of work.  BUT.  Last appointment tomorrow, and maybe I can relax into a good mix or two during the week this week.

Today is the second day of my cake month.  What does that have to do with this blog?  Nothing.  Nothing at all.  However, considering how busy I've been at work lately, it's the most interesting thing I'm going to say in this blog.  Shit...I probably should have saved that for something further than the third sentence so you'd continue to read,  Oh well. I made two mixes this week, but decided against posting either.  I have this problem that when I get TOO into the music, my mixing tanks.  I don't know why but when I'm excited and grooving, I went to exit songs WAY to early, and just get into the next cool track.  I guess that's fine when I'm kicking around at home, but it'd be bad if I went there in a club.  Here's to hoping that nerves will keep me under control live.

So I was supposed to go out last night.  In order to pump myself up, I made a mix.  I've found that there's a level of pump above which my mixes go to shit.  I just want everything to play at 138bpm...even if the current track is 125.  Oops.  So I thought this mix was shit, and I wasn't going to post it.  Then I listened to it again this morning (currently...while I'm typing this), and it's only meh.  But the tracks are soo good imma post it. I've hit the stage in DJ progression where my ear is trained well enough to notice a slight drift.  I'm not yet johhny-on-the-spot at correcting them yet, though.  So I'm mid mix and I hear what, to me, sounds like the worlds biggest trainwreck, and I'm like "fuck, I just ruined this!"  In reality, it's only minor when you listen to the playback.  So now I just have to keep charging through until I don't have the drifting mixes anymore. Or just be lazy and hit sync... ;)

not sunday?  Yup.  It's race season which means that one weekend a month my sunday is consumed with motorcycles.  So my blag posts will be a little spastic.  Is what it is.  Because this was the first race of the season, I unassed a lot of meony, and spent a lot of time getting ready which means...no DJ'ing.  Grrrrr.  Soon, folks. soon.

week goes by were I haven't posted a mix.  My weeknight time is pretty limited.  Which is why you see my spitting out ~20 minutes mixes.  That's I'll I've got.  This week, each night I stood at the decks, I wasted the whole 20 minutes trying to figure out just how the fuck rekordbox works.  Yea, it's  that much of a pain in the dick. Pioneer advertises it does all these things, and it does, but half of them are fucking OFF by default.  "Map hotcues for each track and save them to a thumbdrive."  Oh, awesome!  Wait...why aren't they loading when I select a track.  You mean to tell me there's an option to autoload hotcues, and it's fucking OFF by default!? Anyway, I think I've figured it out, and now it's back to traktor. Cuz traktor works.  I spent the time figuring out rekordbox so if I DO get a club gig, I'm g2g to rock up with a thumbdrive.  So this week it's back to business as usual: 20 minute mixes. AND...I've got lot...

for something way out of left field. I DJ'ed a wedding. Not in my wheelhouse at all.  Not my first wedding, though.  About 6 years ago in Oklahoma I DJ'ed a wedding as Barney Groove with my friend as Fred Funk. The marriage lasted 3 months.  I was a little apprehensive I was going to bring that stigma into this affair, and I was also apprehensive about flying solo.  Turns out,  I SHOULD have been apprehensive about flying solo, but not for the reasons you might think. GOOD GOD is there a lot of gear to lug to do this properly.  Prior to purchasing some of my speakers, I rad a lot of reviews along the lines of "don't buy it's too heavy."  In my smug arrogance I figured, hey, I'm a meatball. Most DJ's are skin and bones.  I should have listened. Keg-carrying 3 50+ lb speakers, plus kettle bell carrying 3 20+ flight cases will wear your ass out...and that's just to get the gear into and out of the venue, you still gotta set it all up! ...