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Archive for June, 2005
Not going to see Tiesto
Jun 29th
I called The Docks today, and the nice lady said the tickets would be around $70-$80. So I said, forget it. He’ll be back, and hopefully I’ll be less just-about-to-get-married then.
WEMF happens next week, so maybe I’ll drop by there. None of the artists particularly intrigue me though. However, Mark Farina will be here at the end of July, so perhaps I’ll go to that. He’s a deep house DJ.
Canada Day at the Docks
Jun 24th
DJ Tiesto is playing a 6-hour set at The Docks this Thursday night.
All tickets are sold out, but you can buy at the door for $50. That’s pretty costly, but for 6-hours? I’m still tossing up whether to go or not.
Edit: Doors open at 10pm. I’ve decided to go. Money scrounging begins now! He is the number 1 DJ in the world, after all.
Laptop DJ
Jun 19th
Maybe one day I’ll be a laptop DJ. Like my hero Shane 54. Not that laptop DJing is actually something I aspire to, but Monsieur Fifty Four does it very well.
Anyway, I’ve taken steps toward the dark side in the last two weeks, by A) getting a Numark Axis 8 CD turntable, and B) downloading high-q MP3s to burn and then play on it.
Enter Beatport.com. The iTunes for DJs. I just downloaded 4 tracks that I’ve been wanting to get my hands on for some time.
Moogwai – Viola 2005 (Tek^tonic remix)GTR – MistralVarian – Endless DesireVarian – Endless Desire (Mark More >
Observations
Jun 18th
Matt made a very important observation, and that my profile was outdated. I am no longer a boyfriend, and am no longer a mail room clerk. The problem has been rectified.
ZEO last night went pretty good, but not a lot of people showed. Included in the no shows were (just as I suspected) most of the young adults (where my friends mostly are). To add insult to injury, this page encourages the young adults to stay in the church building, and the youth only to go to ZEO.Thanks for not representing. Heaven forbid you have to worship to a style other More >
June Zeo Party
Jun 14th
For those with legs to dance, which is mostly everyone I know:
There’s a Zeo Party this Friday night (8 pm) at 268 Attwell Drive, in the parking lot.
Featuring DJs: DJ Shagz, J Puddy, Ed KingSpinning: Hip Hop, Funky Breaks, Trance and Hard House.
There’s a 5$ cover, and there will be BBQs and all kinds of great summer stuff.
Come on out, or I’ll be personally hurt.
My school
Jun 13th
I’m now 3 weeks into my new job. I’m loving it. As with any IT job, there are projects and problems that arrise that can cause serious headaches, but I’m enjoying it still.
It dawned on me a week or so ago that TACF has been the perfect learning environment for me. When I left high school I had no money, neither had my parents. At that stage we weren’t landed immigrants, so I don’t think I could even apply for a loan easily. True or not, that was my mindset. Add to that the fact that I hate school and More >
Cinderella Man
Jun 12th
I just got back from Maija’s parents house in Scarborough. We had a birthday/thank you party for Maija/from her Mum, respectively. (Thank you was for helping out with her 25th wedding anniversary.)
After an afternoon full of sausages, hamburgs, swimming, ultra-violent “water polo”, croquet, and other such nonsense, we went to see Cinderella Man.
“The story of James J. Braddock is the best human interest story in the history of the sport of boxing.” – Damon Runyan
The movie opens to that quote, and I would tend to agree with it. It’s the tale of a boxer who breaks his wrist one too More >
They seek him here, they seek him there
Jun 9th
The Lupin Bandit!
Today is 1 year since Maija and I started going out. I really can’t believe it’s been a whole year. That means the blood and vomit encrusted t-shirt that hangs upon my wall has been there for a whole year. Amazing.