well, i went to the doc yesterday, and he went through the same thing as me. he says cooling the neck, and general movement will help. that means less time on the computer [yep] and more time walking and such. oh, and he said to go for a massage.

i have never gone for a massage before. i always figured they were mostly useless, my muscles are great and perfect and who needs a massage!? well, this time i needed a massage. so, as paul commented two entries ago, sandra works on wednesdays at Vitality in oak bay. i hooked up an appointment this morning for the afternoon and went.

that woman has strong hands. sandra spent a little extra time and gave me a great massage and, though i don't feel perfect again [i wouldn't expect that with a pain coming from INSIDE my neck], i do feel a lot better, and more relaxed. and she also gave me a few excercises to do, as she has encountered what i was going through many times before. so, thank you sandra! i know that you don't read this blog much but i do know your husband paul does, so please pass on that sandra made my week. sandra is the awesome.

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my neck has been hurting real bad for the last 24 hours. some have suggested seeing the doctor, some have suggested seeing a chiropractor, but i want to try out acupuncture. it took 15 minutes to put my seatbelt on yesterday. i almost pulled over 4 times on the way home from work out of sheer pain. i made it into my haus and sat down on the couch for 4 hours and i couldn't move. icing it helped, and sleeping relaxed the muscles. i think it is a pinched nerve, or something. if i turn my head the wrong way, it is very very painful, and so my neck tenses up as i don't want to move the wrong way, and then the tenseness puts extra pressure on my neck and it gets worse. so sleep was good because i got to relax. i've had pain in my neck after sleeping the wrong way before but this is in a completely different league...

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there's so much to say about SPEC that i feel like i could write a book on it. there would be different chapters with titles that read like "the underground was shaken upside down and look what came out," "why didn't he book me?" "this is an awesome place for photography," "woah he booked me," "creating a culture," "understanding the groove," and many more.

jimi fritz put together over 20 parties in a day and age when such things were considered to be impossible. how did he do it? there would be a chapter on that as well.. the logistics are not that interesting. it is the subtleties that made it work -- from the special cards, to the email list, sparklers, SPEC interpretation, word of mouth, rave at a church, and not getting busted!

so this was it. 2.5 years and the secret society was to breath its last breaths on saturday.

this party was amazing. i don't know how many people were there. i think about 500 would be accurate. a lot of happy people, enjoying the moment and celebrating what has been. 10 hours, 10 DJ's, each playing an hour. somehow i predicted i would arrive during yoseff's set during the ch00n "fixation," which i did. 3:20 AM ish.

it was extra special being the last spec DJ. i played from 6 - 8 AM, double of what i was expecting to play.. an hour set would've been too short. i think probably my fav. part of that was playing the Junkie XL produced mashup of Underworld's "Cowgirl" and Sasha's "Xpander" .. there's something about yelling out "I'M INVISIBLE!!" and then dancing like the mad nutter that you are with a bunch of your good friends.

well then, here are some pictures of the show. this may take a while to load.. there's about 30 pictures in here. i will be posting a gallery of all the SPEC shots together in the future called retroSPECt or something silly like that. enjoy the shots! what a fabulous night.

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remember.. vote monday!

i was approached by ariel lade today, the green party candidate. believe it or not, he gave me less time to talk to him than jack layton [leader of the NDP of canada] did. actually, i believe that. i think ariel is trying to sway undecided voters. i probably didn't sound undecided to him.

ps: my internet connection is REALLY flakey today, so if you are having trouble connecting to davin.ws .. that's why. :)

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featured tracks:

• Formulate - Voice of Qi [Original Mix] (Pacific Front)
  
• Formulate - Rising Edge [AFK remix] (Pacific Front)
  

featured mix: Yoseff - Eyedentify Set

• Arrakis - Acidstuck (Tracid Traxxx)
  
• Overtone - Soulstatic [Part One] (Camouflage)
  
• Andy Ling - Fixation (Fluid)
  
• Moogwai - A Night Out (Platipus)
  
• Marc Rembrandt - Mind [Ravebase mix] (Logic Records)
  
• Mauro Picotto - Lizard [Picotto mix] (Nukleuz)
  
• Re-Move - Justify [Club mix] (Time Unlimited)
  
• Mass In Orbit - Fear [T.B.A. mix] (MASSIVE)
  
• Nick Base - You [Nick Base by Marc O'Tool mix] (Poison Records)
  
• Arrakis - Aira Force [Main mix] (Fluid)
  
• Agnelli & Nelson - El Nino [Matt Darey remix] (Xtravaganza)
  

featured mix: Joshua

• Chris Salt feat. Katie - Distorted Reality (Silver Planet)
  
• Casa Flava - Eterna (Plastic Fantastic)
  
• Kingkade - Virgin Maize [Rhythm Code remix] (Minimal Records)
  
• The Greek feat. Stephanie Vezina - Alive [G-Pal Funky Dub] (Shinichi)
  
• Aquaculture - Planic Stations (Forensic Records)
  
• PJ Davy & Danny Graham - Blind Exit (EQ Grey LTD)
  
• Dan Morris and Shylock - Bahdatu [Chris Fortier and Kolo edit] (Fade)
  
• Shiloh - Latex (Method)
  
• Kingkade - Virgin Maize [Original remix] (Minimal Records)
  
• Andy Ling - Calling Angels [Hamel and Lacy 97 mix] (Fluid Sessions)
  
• Tocharian - Nova Scotia (Intrinsic)
  
• Stel and Good Newz - Particle (Audiotherapy)
  
• Kolo - Fortune (Scuba Records)
  

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i shot this in the same place as the pink flower .. about 3 minutes before. in a small forest, on a sunny day.. the shadows from branches and leaves framed this.

probably of interest to a few people.. tonight on resonance (friday nights, midnight - 3 AM on 101.9 FM).. yoseff and freya. the tracklisting will appear on its surrogate home [this space here] once again.

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seeing as how the weekend begins in 5 hours (!!!!!!!!!!), and almost everyone i know will be doing something SPECial this weekend.. i thought i better get this out now.

monday is the federal election. do you know your stuff? i don't want to get into any crap like democratic duty, but if you don't vote, do you think you have a right to complain about the government we are stuck with later? yes, there is not much to vote for -- more to vote against -- but it is time for us to make a choice. so get out there and make your decision on monday.

on that note, i want to make a recommendation to the folks that read this site to check out a local and excellent website called the public eye:

http://www.publiceyeonline.com/

most, if not all the posts are by local Victoriaite Sean Holman, and -- occassionally -- you can hear him on the radio (www.cfax1070.com - 1070 on your AM dial) with david schreck and joe easingwood, who has had all the local politicians on the show (including the green party), all at once no less.

for someone like me who ordinarily finds politics quite dry and boring, these guys do a great job in bringing the goods to the table. they are easy to understand, very informed, and actually entertaining all at once. they are not boring, stuffed up, double-talking old men, like we see in the debates.

are you informed?

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i was just thinking about how i had nothing in particular i wanted to say on here. and then i decided that it was the perfect time for me to sit down in front of the "blank screen" and start typing. what is it that scares people, myself included, about having nothing on a blank canvas? the only way to fail a blank canvas is to do nothing with it. (everybody's already drawn the invisible castle, sorry.)

anyway, something cool:

me and jim were shootin' the breeze Saturday night in Duncan before heading ultimately to that outdoor gathering in the Cowichan area that i posted pictures of. we were talking about caffeine, and in particular, how much too much is. it followed these lines, sorta roughly:

well, like most things you ingest, there is a formula when it comes to impact. i am not going to draw it out for you, because html sucks when it comes to drawing formulas. basically, the faster you drink all the coffee, for instance, all at once, the more it's going to hit you. it'll drive you past the critical mass of caffeine into that shakey sort of "i can't think of anything because i am thinking of 20 things at once!" feeling, which is not useful. flying really high. and then, you crash. hard. and for a long period of time, you are stuck in the crater, the hole from your impact.

the alternative to this is to drink it ocassionally, in smaller doses over a longer period of time. yeah, now i know coffee is bad. coffee is really bad for your stomache. your stomache hates coffee. hates. but if you must drink coffee to take advantage of the creative buzz that it offers, this is probably going to be the most useful method that you can employ. spread it over time, and when you come down, it'll be no different than you felt before you drank the stuff. it'll be a smooth landing. a groove, if you will.

and that's when i blurted out "don't dig a hole, dig a groove."

awww yeah.

this post was inspired by a friend, blank screen, and no caffeine.

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what a perfect little party. everything you want it to be, nothing that you don't. what, 30 people showed up.. perfect. only those who wanted to be there were there. not a straggler to be seen, not a scenester in the place. it cost denis $50 plus time to put on the show and it stands as one of my fav's.

danny opened the dj sets for the night, playing some sick breaks .. really quite good. after danny, for me, djing was super enjoyable.. i got to playing breaks, downtempo-ish halftime breaks, and four on the floor into tech-trance and prog. everything i wanted. charles whooped everyone with some supreme techno -- really fun to dance to, and an adrenaline rush to listen to. teddy followed up nicely with some fun faster paced house and breaks. i spent some time taking pix with jim and james. iso400, folks.

the weather tonight is the kind you tell everyone in the world about when you describe how great the summers here are. starry skies, warm breeze, and a t-shirt is enough to keep you warm. we left at around 3:15 a.m. and here i am 2.25 hours later posting pictures. sleep time now.. enjoy sunday day time everyone, i'll be sleeping 'til i wake up.

good night.

:)

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check out denis' blog for more info. :)

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i am doing some research on reference checking guidelines and i came across a "professional reference checking" [their words, not mine] company called Allison & Taylor Inc. they have some pretty weird written material online to do with reference checking. this is from their question and answer section:

http://www.allisontaylor.com/reference_check_faq.asp

this is bizarre:

and:

wow. haha! how does one follow the other? silly reference checkers.

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Featured Tracks:

• Fractal Wave - Let Me Echo (CDr)
  
• Fractal Wave - Steppin' Razor (CDr)
  

Mixset 1: DJ ariz0na

• 21st Century Fux - Sunspirit (Inversus)
  
• Duran & Aytek - Future Hope (Deep)
  
• Datar - U [Instrumental] (Rip)
  
• Porter & Blain - Thunkini Brother (Source of Gravity)
  
• Mathew Dekay - If I Could Fly [Madoka's Flying Stand By Mix] (Deep)
  
• Luke Chable - The Shepherd (Vapour)
  
• Matthew Dekay Band - Higher Thoughts (Little Mountain)
  
• Sarah McLauchlan - World on Fire [Junkie XL Mix] (BMG)
  
• Madoka - Distant Memories [Matthew Dekay Mix] (3 Beat)
  
• Nalin & Kane - Beachball [Level K mix] (Superfly)
  
• Josh Gabriel - Wave 3 [Charlie May's Tsunami remix] (Nebula)
  
• Cabala feat. Michelle Chivers - Vision Of U [Nick Muir main mix] (Whoop!)
  
• Black Dove - Capsule [Ocean Wave remix] (Vapour)
  

In the mix: Nick Gurns

• Underworld - Dark and Long (Junior)
  
• Phools Inc - Light It Up [Deep mix] (Phoolish)
  
• Mistress Barbara - A Gate On (Primate)
  
• Chris Liebing - Analog On [Adam Beyer mix 2] (CL)
  
• Pascal F.E.O.S. - I Can Feel That [WJH mix] (PV)
  
• Rino Cerrone - Timeless (GFR)
  
• WJ Henze - Daywalker (Federation of Drums)
  
• Gecko - Flugmacheine (Delirium Red)
  
• Devilfish - Formation (Bush)
  
• Gecko - Boarding (Delirium Red)
  

Tag Session

• Dan Corco and Fred Carreira - The Last Man (Good Life)
  
• Size DDD - Nobody Listens to Techno (White Label)
  
• Devilfish - Man Alive (Bush)
  
• Heckman & Gecko - MKS (Federation of Drums)
  
• Bryan Zentz - D-Clash [Slam remix] (Intec)
  
• Oliver Lieb - Subsonik [filterHeadz remix] (Data)

oh.. by the way! we're live on 101.9 FM until 3 AM. if you can't pick it up on your radio, you can listen to streaming audio here: http://artichoke.alma.uvic.ca:7070/ramgen/cfuvfm102.ra (requires realplayer).

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to offer me a gmail account?

if you hook a brotha up, then i can email you my latest mixes at high quality mp3 levelz!

wootah!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:(

i want gmail.

nobody gives me gmail.

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i took this today whilst out wandering on my lunch break. clicky to download a desktop / wallpaper sized version. [2272 x 1704]

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thanks to aaron (domain name), jodie (maintenance of blog list), and myself (hosting, design, construction) we have a website to call all our own:

www.blogvictoria.com

woohoo!

if you would like your blog added, please contact jodie. [spam protected -- take out REMOVE before sending your email. and fixed. whoops!]

this is post 666!! ahhhhh!!!!! the devil!!!!!!

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well i'm not!

i am having a rather lovely day, complete with awesome weather, desk moving and design. mmmhmm!

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this happens every now and then, but surprisingly often. i am clipping my fingernails, all of them. i finish, and then look at them. fine. i look a little while later and notice that i have missed one fingernail. what?!

it's always a different nail, too. this time, you can see in the photo from today that it was the thumb. well howdy doody! how did i miss that?

does anyone else do this?

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here's a clip of the nine inch nails remix i finished this week:

Nine Inch Nails - That's What I Get [AFK's "Cache's What I Get" remix]

have a listen.. if you like what you hear .. let me know. :)

i'll post a clip of the formulate remix i did next week.. it's done, but i am going to do a few more tweaks to it.

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resonance on 101.9 FM CFUV .. broadcasting live from 11:30 PM - 3:00 AM with guests Fractal Wave and Charles Paul.

Featured Tracks:

• Darkarma - Focal Point Blur [Fractal's Underground Lair Remix] (Blueprint)
  
• Formulate - Rising Edge [AFK's Cart Before The Horse Remix] (Pacific Front Recordings)
  
• The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby [Fractal's Wonder Thunder Remix] (CDr)

Mixset: Fractal Wave (Thor)

• Unknown - Unknown (CDr)
  
• Mad Dogs - Sudden Journey [Ambassador remix] (White Label)
  
• Ozgur Can - Weightless (Plastica Red)
  
• David West and Inkfish - Aftermath (Source of Gravity)
  
• Kung Fu Rodrigez - Streak [Chunked Up mix] (Spundae)
  
• Killahurtz - West on 27th (Hooj Choons)
  
• Perc - Closer (Premier)
  
• Nathan Fake - Underberg (Saw)
  
• Volo - Have No Fear Of Falling (CDr)
  
• Vapour Space - Gravitational Arch of Ten (Fuse)
  
• Nathan Fake - Adamedge (Saw)
  
• Adam Beyer and Hendrik B - Perfect Match (Drumcode)
  
• Chris Cowie - Frisky (System)
  
• Tim Xavier - Skyline (Teknotik)
  
• Chemical Brothers - Electronic Battle Weapon #6 (White Label)
  
• CJ Bolland - Horsepower (R+S)
  

Mixset: Charles Paul

• Gadgets - Gadgets (Gothere)
  
• Preach - South Expedition (Ascend)
  
• Pascal FEOS - I Can Feel That [Thomas Shumacher Mix] (PV)
  
• Bryan Zentz - The Crawl (Primate)
  
• Thomas Krome - Real Jazz [Rock Hunter Mix] (DK)
  
• Hertz - Take Something (Samuel L Sessions)
  
• Danilo Vigorito - Orion Muzic (Orion Muzik)
  
• Timo Maas - Riding on a Storm (Bush)
  
• Marco Bailey - Karma (Primate)
  
• DJ Yoav B. - Club Sans Souci (Teknotika)
  
• Mucho Stylez - Organica (Bush)
  
• Cristian Varela - Pains [Marco Bailey Rework] (Primate)
  
• Leandro Gámez - No Es Otra Cosa [Oxia Remix] (Bullitt)
  
• The Youngsters - Place, Race and Face [Agoria Remix] (F Communications)
  
• Reinhard Voight - Protekt (Kompakt)
  
• Anthony Rother - Bad To The Bone (Datapunk)
  
• Andy Page & Babs - Oblivia Newton Bomb (Trunk)
  
• S.I Futures - Eurostar [FX Mix] (Novamute)
  
• Sven Vath - Cala Llonga [Ricardo Villalobos Remix] (Virgin)

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i have done a tonne of work on a new remix .. formulate - rising edge. the one i am doing is a breakbeat remix with probably my favorite breakbeat to date. pretty simple, very cool sounding, and this really cool-ass cowbell rhythm line that i fed through a super filthy compression unit.

the nine inch nails remix went over very well wednesday night at the club. it had a few people on the dance floor singing along, as well as myself.. that's what i get! note: must bring level of bassline up. man.. that bass drum just kicked so hard.

whew, the week is over, and i can't believe this is the weekend that mina returns from scotland (until late september.) i had a tough time concentrating at work today for that reason.. but i got things done and made it through somehow. now i have a radio show tonight and that's it..

wheeeee!

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.. selections from the last two weeks ..

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i hope nobody hurt themselves jumping off the calgary flames' bandwagon tonight. i don't think anyone did.. even though the flames lost 2-1 tonight in game 7 of the stanley cup finals, i think they earned the respect of many doing it. they didn't let up ever. tampa had puck-luck on their side tonight and that is all that seperated them from the first place losers on this occassion. it was totally crazy hockey.. almost a wrestling match.

by the way..

Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire (Junkie XL remix) ... huuge.

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i had a lovely weekend, pretty low key. lots of pics.. i'll post some tonight. :)

for now.. i have done more work to the NIN remix .. if anyone is interested in hearing it .. you can come to Hush this Wednesday .. I'll be DJing to support the 24hr relay from 12:30 - 1:15 .. yeah, it's a 45 minute set.. which is really short, but at least it's somewhat early (?!). anyway, come support! it's for a good cause.

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Featured Tracks:

• Tiebreaker - Prominence [AFK Mahseev Breaks mix] (Pacific Front Recordings)

Mixset: ariz0na & nickgurns

• The Fact - Contact (White Label)
  
• Pete Lazonby - Wavespeech [Tilt Mainline mix] (Bliss)
  
• Ocean Wave - Clearwater [Traveller vs. Quest remix] (Vapour)
  
• Chab - Matica [Matrix mix] (Undercurrent)
  
• Aurora - Ordinary World [Tarrentella vs. Redanka dub] (Positiva)
  
• Oakenfold - Zoo York [Leama and Moor remix] (White Label)
  
• Polefolder and CP - Apollo Vibes [Kasey Taylor's Ocean Wave remix] (Bedrock)
  
• Multiplicity - Multiply [Main Mix] (Dimension)
  
• Planisphere - Symphotec (Green Martian)
  
• Justin Scott Dixon & Mike Hiratzka - Two Worlds (Propulsion)
  
• Odessi - Moments in Space (Baroque)
  
• DJ Gogo - Anjuna (Cyber)
  
• Kosheen - Catch [Andy Gray vocal mix] (White Label)
  
• Sleepfreaks - P.H.B. [Directors Cut] (Method)
  
• Timo Maas - Riding on the Storm (Bush)
  
• Gaetano Parisio - Advanced Techno Research (ART)
  
• Nine Inch Nails - That's What I Get [AFK's "Cache's What I Got" remix] (CDr)
  
• Simms and Welt - Disco Sucks [Slam remix] (Shine Recordings)
  
• Chris Liebing - Analogon [Gaetano Parisio Mix] (CLRetry)
  
• DJ Misjah & DJ Tim - Access (X-Trax)
  
• Critical Phase - Phase One [Futureshock remix] (Fuju)
  
• Planisphere - NYE (Green Martian)
  

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Nine Inch Nails - That's What I Get (AFK's "Cache's What I Get" remix)

.. hear it tonight on resonance on 101.9 FM CFUV at Midnight - 3 AM.

The tracklisting for the show will show up on this site again tonight .. possibly for a while to come as i want to redesign the Resonance site.

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i am super antsy. why? i don't know.

i went to a conference this morning at the empress. it was on recycled paper. there is this paper company from cali that came up and did a presentation on the quality you can get with recycled paper these days. impressive. they served us breakfast in the crystal ballroom. it was good.

not really sure what to say right now. i've been moving and shaking and either i need to continue at this pace or just stop altogether.

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i saw this thing on the balcony at work yesterday, and i snapped a shot of it:

is it a bee or is it a fly?

???

what is it??!?!

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i helped charles move into his new place, which is my good friend nathan's place today. this is just awesome. two of the most cool people i know now are roommates. dude!

of course if you know me, or if you follow this blog, you know i have been working on music collaboration projects with both of these guys, seperately. i see a lot more finished projects in our future. awwww yeah!

moving went very quickly and efficiently. there were many helping hands and the good-bye scene at charles' old place was heart-breaking [at least it was for me.] it seemed like the oldest brother was leaving the family house, or something. that's what it reminded me of. of course i know it is totally different than that but that is what it reminded me of.

i went to this book launch party tonight with big dog (jay carvy) and walked into this packed room at the hotel grand pacific. this launch event was huge! 300 or 400 people .. very successful. free food, expensive drinks. i passed on the drinks but had some yummy food. before we walked in we ran into julie and leslie and that's when i knew it would be a good event. i ran into a few different people that i knew and met a couple new people. it was very good to catch up with one of my old co-workers from the ministry of education, mary-anne, and the 'keynotes' were excellent and entertaining. well done, boys. in case you are wondering, it was a launch for the book version of "random acts of kindness" or "extremely random acts of kindness" or "extreme acts of kindness" or "random kindness to the extreme" or something like that. i am all about key words so you got the main three there. to be honest i have heard some stories about one or two of the guys from this group that paints them unfavorably. either this guy[s] changed, or he's hiding it. either way, only the good is showing these days. apparently they sure aren't making money [yet], though i could see this leading to something else later on.. not sure if any of them are talented musically or otherwise. maybe a comedy show or something. they're learning how to market, big time.

anyway, it's been a full night, and with swimming, tennis and a workout planned for tomorrow .. looks like it'll be another one tomorrow night after all is said and done!

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