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Saturday, December 21, 2002


Its spitting rain, thunder, and lightning down again, but the weekend still managed to get off to a good start last night. Got to ascend to the first level of the Santa Barbara DJ totem pole, spinning at a small party on Del Playa. Wasn't even expecting to play but I guess my karma this week dictated it. Some bloke Shawn, was playing a thing for a friend of Matt (DJ Auhay) and Chris's, Tasmin, and so had invited Matt to take the second shift. So we headed over there after meeting up at my place, ready to rawk and roll. Got there around 10ish and Shawn was laying down a slightly impeccable set of prime-time progressive trance and so we just sat there intimidated for a bit, enjoying the music and chatting with the assorted folks. 27 records later Shawn relinquished the tables to Matt for the last hour or so. Matt, I think knowing there was no way either of us was going to suddenly transform into Christopher Lawrence Jr and match Shawns style and technical precision, passed the buck to me, since I had a few drinks so was properly numbed to trainwrecking in public. Managed to hold things together somewhat (or so my sycophants told me) despite a confusing mixer (setup for volume not crossfading mixing, fixed eventually but ug disconcerting) with more knobs and faders then NASA mission control, and only having access to my emergency record pool (only brought a dozen, just in case. Always be prepared, its your duty), but it was still great practice and hellah fun. Some folks actually danced to my tunes, so I suppose no matter how sloppy that's still a checkmark in the success column. Other random cool event of the night, packing up the equipment and speakers some dude came up to me, turns out it was someone I had run cross-country with at good old Villa Park High, Vic Smith. He was a freshmen while I was a senior so didn't really know him that well, but still quite the coincidence. Love it when stuff like that happens.
posted by Brent at 12/21/2002 10:54:00 PM | permalink |

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