DJ Torsion in the mix

Seriously where does the time go.  I have been living in my new place for over a month, but between that, starting a new job and all my other time spent spinning records I just didn’t make time to update things here and I’m starting to feel bad about that.  Sorry internets, I’ll make sure to try and spend more time with you.

So like I mentioned I’m moved into my new house and I’m close to getting my studio setup, I have almost all of my gear here but I need to get everything wired in through my big mixer and I’m waiting until I grab my patch bays to get that done, hopefully I’ll have that done this week.  The new house is great only downside is I’ve spent so much time cleaning and unpacking that I just haven’t had much energy and there is always more work to be done around this place.   Put on top of that starting a new job as a database admin which is a really sweet gig working for an amazing non-profit in Portland and I just have been brain fried most days.  But I’m getting it together and things really feel ilke they’re starting to turn around for me.

I was out at Good Neighbor on Friday doing what I do on the 1’s and 2’s and it was a great night.  A-Minus was out of town so I was holding it down on my own which I think I did pretty well, although I was definately much more tired at the end of Friday night.  Still I got to meet some cool people who were digging what I was up to and even got asked about possibly working another house party coming up in July which that would be cool if that comes through.  Then on Saturday I was out dj’ing at my office for the Cirque Du Cycling event that was held over on the Mississippi avenue area, it’s awesome working in the fundraising department, hopefully I’ll be able to dj more and more at the miscellaneous events we have.  That was a good day, got to play some good funk and motown records for a bunch of kids and some of them had never even seen a record before so it felt good to drop a little knowledge.  I even let some of the kids who were interested in scratching come up and play with the record for a couple minutes trying to teach them a little bit of what it is that I do.  It’s always fun to see a kids face light up and let them come up and try something out.

So other than that I’m getting ready for what looks to be a pretty busy summer.  I’ve still got my weekly on Thursdays at Good Neighbor Pizza, I have another wedding coming up in about a week and a half, I have a few house parties planned out, and I’m also going to be spinning on a public access dance party show on July 5th.  I’ll post more details on when that will be televised and what channel as soon as I have em.  Things are feeling good, incredibly busy, but still good.  As soon as the studio gets all wired up I’m going to get A-Minus over here so we can collab on a mixtape and I’ll have that posted here as soon as it’s done; I’m being relistic in saying that I probably won’t have that ready until mid July sometime, but hopefully sooner if I can swing it.  I’m also working on getting some professional business cards printed up and need to think about designing a new webpage, maybe buy a URL and get some nifty flash animation and stuff going on.  I’ve got some ambitious ideas, I just need to start putting in the legwork to get this done.