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Discontinued
07 years ago
My favourite deodorant body spray has been discontinued. It was discontinued years ago, but I only just found out for sure. It feels like an old friend of my parent’s has died.
If anyone can find stashes of this deodorant body spray left anywhere in the world, you will be rewarded.
Move to the beat that moves your feet
07 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
Wicked weekend. I spun up a frenzy of beats and melodies on Friday night, which was very well received (thank the Lord). Pastor Duncan told me I am no longer Pudd, but have become Dr Pudd. I was amused.
Set:
Zero Gravity – A New Sensorium (Hardy Heller’s Ohral Dub Mix)
Flash – Nobody Scream (Graham Gold Remix)
Airwave – Lady Blue (Original Beat)
Beam – Amun (Original Mix)
Willy J – Play Loud Music (Club Mix)
It was a little shorter than I had anticipated, but was fun nonetheless. People seemed to be feeling it quite a bit by the end, so it was fun dropping the last track in, where every little while this deep voice speaks: “Play… loud… music!”
Saturday saw a bunch of us in Camp Counselor Training for Camp Tsunami ’04. We leave this coming Sunday, so I’m trying to put in as much dj ractuss as I can.
In the eve’ we went to Le Biftheque Steakhouse for an early celebration of Damien’s birthday and a fairwel for my grandparents. I ate so much. It was excellent.
Sunday saw a sleep in and some Xbox, TV and shower. Then to Maija’s for a BBQ and swim, which oddly turned into a gathering of independent video and movie makers.
Finishing it up.
07 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Uncategorized
There’s a couple of new photos in the “Haircut” gallery. The actual shaving part. It hurts. I cut myself so bad the other day, it bled like an unexpected amputation.
Ready… Set… Spin! Again!
07 years ago
Will be laying down some more fine trance music tomorrow night at Youth Network. I’m a little apprehensive, as I have spent very little time practicing for it. About half the set will be new stuff, which I only bought on the weekend, so I’m trying hard to familiarize myself with them. It’s not far off playing a brand new song in a band. You’ll want to learn it good before you play it publicly.
The other problem is that this is session number 2. I don’t want to disappoint anyone who showed up for session 1, plus I don’t want anyone to think that the leaders jumped the gun by letting me dj again so soon. We shall see. I played the set I’ll play just a few minutes ago and it went pretty good. I’m just listening through them all now, making sure I’ve got a good progression. I’m starting off with this really nice gentle track called A New Sensorium, by Zero Gravity and ending in some kicking hard trance (with breakbeat to boot): Wave Guide System, by Organ Donors (who rock).
What is brickbat? Blogger spell check wants to change breakbeat to brickbat. Nonsense!
Oonst Oonst Oonst
07 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
I’m a real dj now. Ask anyone.
So Friday night went really well. :) I played a short set, maybe 25 minutes. I was cut short by the power being pulled from the soundboard. Hehe, it was actually kindof funny. Andrew had just told me I had 2 or 3 minutes left, so I said, “Alright,” and was getting ready to finish off. I was watching the record that was currently playing (Love Comes Again, by Tiesto) and I knew that I didn’t have much left, and so was getting ready to drop in Arya, by DJ Energy, and the next thing I knew, everything went quiet. My monitor turned off, and the PA went out. I immediately figured, “Oh, I must have run out of record. Ahh well.” Everyone seemed a little bit surprised, cause there wasn’t really any wind-down. Only when Ninja tried to talk into a mic did we realize what had really happened.
Hehe, I knew I had more record left. But yeah, it went well. I was feeling it more than any other time. Technically, it went almost flawlessly. Musically, you’d have to ask someone in the crowd, but I think it was good. Here’s the tracklist for anyone who cares:
The Traveller & In Motion – Believe (Key South Remix)
Mas – Chemic (Distortion Mix)
Vanessa Mae – White Bird (Cosmic Gate Mix)
Evolver – Evolver (Wavestate Vocal Mix)
Organ Donors – Rhythms Divine (Pound Your Senses mix)
Tiesto ft BT – Love Comes Again (Mark Norman remix)
Yesterday I went record shopping and got myself some new tracks. I’m pretty pleased with them. Maija, Bethany, Mike and I went out to The Granite Club last night and dined finely in honour of Mike completing his MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). He now patiently awaits his results… which will come 2 – 3 months from now. Haha, sucker.
To help you sleep.
07 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
It turns out that my Dad is not moving to Australia after all. He is going there for 3 months, and then coming back. I was completely un-aware of the coming back part, so I’m rather a bit more joyous now. Three months is a lot better than forever, in my opinion.
The Village
07 years ago
I went to see The Village last night with Damien and Dad. M. Night Shyamalan’s latest foray into thrilling, artistic film. I’ll do my best not to give away any secrets, as I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and recommend you all to see it.
I went into it doubtful, as a good friend had told me it was one of the worst movies he’d seen in a while. However, we disagree a fair amount on movies (like the Spiderman vs Hulk debacle. At least they hired real actors for Hulk.) and so I wasn’t too convinced it would suck. It didn’t. I felt the cast was well picked and performed their roles well. The camera work was good, though some shots tended to be just out of focus, but I suspect that was intentional. The story moved at a steady pace and drew you into the community. Some of the dialogue, especially early on felt to me a little forced, as if they hadn’t been coached properly on how to deliver period dialogue, but if you view it in light of the secret, then it makes perfect sense.
My only major complaint is that they showed a bit much of the creature too soon. There’s a shot were Lucious is hiding from the creature, around the corner of a building, and you get what I think is too clear a view of it. But that’s just me. I had a bit of trouble understanding and feeling for Lucious at times, but as Ivy falls in love with him, you sort of feel for them both, and so it’s alright.
All in all, pretty good. 7.5/10 I’d say.
Shave.
07 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
Cut all my hair off last night.
Maija came over and took scissors and a buzzer to my hair, then after some frantic Halo playing at my buddy Sean’s house, I returned home and used a razor to finnish the job.
Pictures should be up tonight. Today I’m getting used to a bald head again. You feel air currents that you normally don’t, and I need to find myself a sleeping hat, or my head gets cold. Other than that, it’s awesome. I can’t believe it’s a whole year since I did it last.
In other news, today is Maija and I’s 2 month anniversary. Big grins all round.
Video games till we throw up
07 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
Jacob, Thomas and Jon Long came over today and we played Halo it, with some Peasant’s Quest, and spinning of records thrown in.
Thomas and I tried to do some stuff together, but it was kinda hard, as he hasn’t practiced beatmatching since February. Next time, he’ll bring his laptop, and we’ll try and run some stuff. I’m thinking we’ll run a line out of my effects send, to his laptop, and then a line back in through the effects return, from his laptop, and he can sample stuff live. It’ll be fun.
Tonight we had Chinese delivery, for Mummy’s birthday. Dad’s been over every couple of days since he moved out. It’s still strange, having him leave every night.
He’s moving to Australia in September. We don’t know yet for how long. So that will be interesting. It’s sort of unreal right now. I’m noticing strange trends developing though, since Dad moved out. Damien does nothing but play computer all day and most of the night. He’s being bratty with Elliot too. Elliot is noisier than ever and seems to be wanting attention. I’m becoming more impatient with everyone. Which sucks. I’m trying hard, though getting my own place (with house-mates, naturally) is looking a nicer option every day. I don’t think I’ll actually move out for quite a while, cause I’m perseverant, but we’ll see.
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