Wow it’s been a month already?
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.
Post party wrap-up
Thanks again to the folks at the halfway house for letting me come out and rock the party, it was fun. Another party another late night till about 5am with lots of good tunes, good people, and most everybody did alright. One or two people might have had too good of a time and I’m sure were regretting it Saturday but all in all I’m pretty glad I came out, it set the tone for the rest of my weekend.
Saturday was awesome, caught the new Star Trek movie at the Roseway Theater and I’m surprised how much I liked it, then went over to Eric’s house to play with his new Roland TD-12 digital drum kit and man oh man I’m glad I moved within walking distance of his place cause I’m going to be over playing with that kit on a regular basis I’m sure.
Mother’s day was nice, cooked brunch over at my old house with my brother and his girlfriend and watched Planet Earth on blu-ray which is always pretty. I then packed up more stuff and a decent amount of the studio equipment and got it moved into the new place, going to set it up tonight after work.
Great news for me too, today is my last day in Clackamas and I’m starting out full time at SEI starting wednesday. I’m super glad to be going back there, I’ve always enjoyed working at SEI and think it’s probably the best fit for me and the added bonus of DJ OG-One works there and I’ll be dropping by to say whats up to him from time to time and maybe get his opinion on some mixtapes and beats that I’m working on. Alright time to get back to work, 4 hours and counting till the day is done.
Moving fun…
I’m in the middle of moving into my new place and things are going pretty good, even though I procrastinated on some important stuff like say getting utilities turned on. But now it seems very realistic that I can be moved in by this weekend, just gotta make sure I get some time to move some big things like my bed Friday evening because that looks like it’s going to be the only dry day for a while. Then I can spend Saturday running back and forth moving all the studio stuff, that should only take like 4 or 5 trips depending on if I can rope in some friends to help.
If all goes well I’ll be sleeping there on Friday May 1st, which is the day I kept commiting myself to being moved in by, yaaaaay. Saturday can be moving/organizing day and pulling records for Kate and Dave’s wedding in Astoria on Sunday. Daaaang, I’m gonna be busy tonight, better get some more boxes.
