first day o work

Today I woke up at 6:45 a.m.
Whoah!
Had my first day of work today. It was awesome! I’m looking forward to this work term. 😀
Thanks Krishen, Devon and Chrissie for the good luck! And Krishen, haha, you’re so right.
🙂
In other news.. I finished my proton radio mix today.. it should be in rotation soon. Actually half of it already is. I had to cancel the upload to the proton FTP server however, as there were blips in the digital recording and I had to fix it. I didn’t notice that it left half the file there, leaving the head honcho of proton radio to think that it was the full thing. Whoops! I’m submitting the full version now with its massive ending. w0ot!@#

one and a half hour movie

Tonight I saw “One Hour Photo” with Robin Williams etc. It was alright.
To be honest, I expected a lot more out of it.
For all those who are intending on seeing it still, go see it if you want. It didn’t suck by any stretch of the imagination. The sound in the movie is quite well done.
Tomorrow I start training at BC Hydro. woooooo! Er that means I must set my alarm for 7 a.m.
Done.
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Devon: It didn’t work. Unreal Tournament worked though.
Krishen: I attempted, again, to read Jane Hamilton’s “A Map Of The World.” I’m going to try again tonight. Man, I suck at reading. meh.

jimmy van m

Was awesome last night.
But first: the coffee meet earlier in the night was fun. About 20 people came in total. Braeden was able to give out a bunch of flyers that people could use to get into Sugar for $10 with to see Jimmy Van M. He left a few too many, so we decided to get artistic with my black marker:
Jimmy Van Zorro by me:

Jimmy Van Mullet by Mr Gurns:

The opening DJ, Alex Joy, I had been wanting to see ever since I saw him on the flyer some time ago. He’s a local DJ. I have never heard of him until I saw him on the flyer and all of a sudden he was opening for Jimmy Van M. Wild.
Unfortunately Alex Joy was a disappointment, letting mixes slide and then cutting them out when it just wasn’t working. Sometimes he would not even cut them out. He was missing cue points and doing weird fades. His track selection was a bit much, playing peak time stuff for a good half an hour before Jimmy was supposed to go on, and then he played 10 minutes into Jimmy’s set.
One of the big reasons I am critical on this level is that Noble House has a tradition of having quality opening DJ’s like Jimbo, James Boatman and Pascal.
In any case, it must have been very exciting for Alex Joy to be opening up for a world class DJ like Jimmy Van M. Here’s a bit about Jimmy:

  • He has records and remixes out on Bedrock and Fluid
  • He’s with Balance and had a residency at Twilo
  • He put together Sasha & John Digweed’s Northern Exposure tours and club nights, as well as opening for the duo where ever they played on the tours for a good while

That should be enough.
Before he went on, I got him to sign my copy of Sanctuary:

Jimmy Van M came on and there was only smooth mixing for the rest of the night. It was not perfect but it was damn close – possibly one of the tightest sets I’ve heard. And his programming was wicked. He built it up slowly, starting with some house and moving slowly but surely into the progressive arena. About three quarters of the way into his set, he played The Ambush vs. Phools Inc – Assymetric which is a favorite choon of mine.. that was great. By the time 2 a.m. had come around he was playing progressive trance and it was awesome. Everyone cheered for the encore and he played a few more, his last one being the LSG remix of Humate’s classic “Love Stimulation.” Goooood choice!
I had been putting off seeing Jimmy Van M for quite some time — probably 3 or 4 years, but man is he good. If you ever get the chance to go see him, do it. He rocks.

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unstoppable


I acquired this photo from some website many years ago. No photographer was credited, which is a shame because it’s a stunning shot of Hale Bopp. The effects and manipulations were done in Photoshop 7.
It’s almost 4 a.m. and I can’t sleep. So I do what bored bloggers do (besides graphic design.)
I started staring at my stats page.
I was prowling through the user agents report when I noticed that the google bot had been roaming around these parts. Interesting. So, I do a search on google for the words “davin” and “blog.” I don’t find my website anywhere in the first few pages but I do find some pretty weird stuff, like:
“I know, I promised you all a picture of Davin and here it is!! He usually wears glasses but today he wasn’t. I didn’t go up to him to take the pic but Denise and Airene took it for me and my friend Lynn. Goodness, I just love his smile! But, May told me that he might be gay! Doesn’t that suck major ass?”
(taken from www.orgasmic-tendencies.net)
“Hey Davin, Evan, and Greg: I *still* think that you are a bunch of assholes who should be bitch-slapped for even thinking of being such petty bitches.”
(taken from dougsblog.com)
“I’ve read davin’s blog, so I know for a fact *he’s* talking [bleep] about you!”
(taken from www.queue.com)
haha
k gnite
PS: I have finally remembered the name of a movie I have to watch. It is called “walking life.” I think that’s it. It’s animated. Has anyone seen it? Thoughts?

death becomes life

In my dream last night, I was house-sitting for someone. Some guys with guns came looking for him. They came into the house and told me to get down on the ground.
I was told to keep my head to the ground and not to look up. So I did, but then I peaked up to see the person’s face. I looked back down again. He shot me in the head.
So, I was dead.
I turned into a ghost though, which was pretty interesting.
In other news..
I spent 5 hours working on a mix last night for Proton Radio when I got this msg on my screen:
“Peak 3.0 has run out of write requests! [Okay]”
So, after losing 4 or 5 hours of mixing, I have discovered that Peak 3.0 doesn’t like files over 2 gigs in size. Bah. I will try again today, this time I’m going to make it shorter tho. So after that frustration at 1 a.m. I decided that it wasn’t really a good idea for me to spend much longer in this room (my recording studio is in my bedroom, er and so is this server, and umm everything, yeah). I went on IRC to see if anyone wanted to go for coffee.
No.
No one.
So, I went on ICQ and there was Jim, who happened to be up. We went for an enjoyable 2 hour coffee at a 24 hour food and beverage establishment and then I came home and went to sleep. I can always count on Jim for good conversation — especially after something tech-related goes wrong, because I know he can relate to that level of frustration. He has had several hard drives fail him in the last while, which is far worse than losing 5 hours of work. 5 hours is a setback, although it may be a blessing in disguise because there were parts of the mix I wasn’t quite happy with.

brokasso’s torment

What a lazy sunday. It was great though, I watched Panic Room and ate yummy food and drank lovely drinks. Panic room was okay.. definitely a renter though. Well, mind you, being that it comes out on video in a few days, you don’t really have much choice.
I want to see Gus Gus.
Saturday night consisted of shoutcasting with SpyGuy/Ben, then going to my friend Carly’s houseparty, then Hush with Yoseff, Braeden and Brent Carmichael (which was awesome) and then to Alzu’s and back to Carly’s for a bit more of a house party. From start to finish it was a fun night. At Carly’s I spun for a while but it was mostly a kitchen party and barely anyone was in the living room where the decks were.
I had been playing fairly well for about an hour when I decided to hit stop on the tech1200 right in the middle of the Bedrock mix of Underworld’s “Cowgirl” to see if anyone in the kitchen would notice. Nobody noticed.
I started scratching, making some awful noise. Still, no one noticed. I waited a bit and then I hit start again and then a bunch of people came into the room.. rofl.
A bit weird but.. going to a party and DJing is pretty lame when no one is dancing or listening .. not because no one is dancing specifically — it makes it much more fun, but when 90% of the party doesn’t notice a difference, quite frankly I’d rather be in the kitchen socializing. It’s a party and a CD could’ve done what I was doing at that point. Anyway I only stayed on the decks for a few more minutes and then I stopped the music and started scratching until the next DJ agreed to come on and play.
Hehehehe.
I mean, it’s not as though I think that the DJ should be a focal point at a house party, because I don’t. I’d just rather be in the kitchen at a kitchen party, that’s all. 🙂