Author: davin

Today I did something really odd. Well, what I did specifically is not that strange, but what it meant was really quite crazy, In The Grand Scheme Of Things.
I’ve been reading, fairly regularly, a blog of someone who has been writing about a new sphere of existence (for himself), a new environment .. in detail. I had been reading about it, being able to actually enter the environment in real life, but had not until today.
So, all of a sudden, there I was, in a world that he had described in many finely crafted words over the last month or so, since he started work there. It was a place I had been to many times before, but for some reason, it felt like somewhere I’d never been before. I guess I had been looking at the place through his eyes, through his words, for the last while. If there is a word to describe this oddness, please let me know. It was almost like being John Malcovitch (sp?). Except.. not.
And so I was asked what I wanted. I managed to spit out an answer after fumbling for words for a few seconds.
I ordered a Jones Cream Soda and an Earl Grey tea.
The writer, or as many know him, Jim, rung up the order and I paid. I hung out for a few minutes and chatted as the store encountered a brief calmness. I thanked him for his service and left.
In other news.. this evening, myself and about 20 of my co-workers from the Powersmart team had dinner at Darcy’s pub. The food was great and the conversation was excellent.. enjoyable stuff. 🙂
Afterwards I went to see Red Dragon. Worth seeing. Go see it. Okay?
Music: I’ve been listening to Dead Can Dance tonight. What an awesome duo they are. Today I picked up the new Conjure One album. Conjure One is half Delerium (Rhys Fulber) and half JunkyXL. Haven’t listened to it yet, aside from the bonus remix CD which features a new Hybrid remix that I hadn’t heard yet (could have something to do with me getting the double CD.) Also, I finally found the Heat soundtrack. Some great stuff on there, including Moby’s “God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters.” Sooo good.
But that’s all for me. Good night. 🙂

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This was a rather odd weekend.
Saturday I worked from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. and then went for dinner at Il Terazzo. I ended up going to sleep at 10 PM..
10 PM on Saturday night! Whoah, sounds like I have priorities, or something.
Sunday consisted of work. After work, I went up Mt. Tolmie with a friend from work to go see the Snowbirds fly around and do tricks for The Queen.
Well, there wasn’t much in terms of tricks. They flew around in circles for about 20 minutes in a diamond formation (ooOoooOoOooo) and then flew away. Yay. I guess The Queen likes donuts. It all seems like a bunch of hooplah for nothing to me.
The other day there was actually national media coverage to see The Queen step out of an airplane and hobble towards a vehicle.
Wow.
Can you believe that?
Good thing we have this media service to cover such exciting events.
Wouldn’t want to miss that.. really empowering stuff. Congrats on the great news finds, media people. I FEEL IT.
Yeah, so anyway..
I am now going to hobble from my computer to my bed.
Good night!

The Sasha show last night was just huge. The Commodore Ballroom was a great venue. Lights and sounds were great and provided an intense atmosphere for the show.
Sean Cusick was .. sick. Very nice, not as good as Jimmy Van M, but still quite good.
Sasha arrived thirty minutes after he was supposed to go on the decks. He waited a few more minutes on stage before going on to play, which gave me a chance to give him a CDR of five of my music productions. I have my doubts about whether he’ll listen to it, but it is his job.. and the cover for the CDR is quite neat and nice looking. So maybe he will.
As usual, Sasha started at a moderate pace. . by the time he had been playing two and a half hours, it was full on pounding trance. And then all of a sudden, it was over!
I looked at my watch: 2:30 a.m.
Time for an encore, since this thing was supposedly going until 3:00 a.m. He put on his latest mashup — his own “Xpander” combined with Underworld’s classic “Cowgirl.” He played another encore track (sounded like some new Andy Page production, a massive trancey breakbeat track) and that was it.
3 hours went by really quickly. It was supposed to be a 4 hour set .. so I was kind of confused by this “ending early” business. The music was great but it had little or nothing to do with what was on the album Airdrawndagger. Not a single song from the new album was played — I was disappointed by that.
After that, about fifteen of us went to our pal Denny’s where I had a B.T.C.F.S. (a prize for whomever knows what that is) and everyone else ate as well. Then it was to the ferries to catch the 7 a.m. sailing.
I fell asleep for most of the journey back.

I was at work at 5 a.m. today!
We spent a good deal of time preparing lightbulbs for giveaways at Costco which are happening this weekend. From 5 – 9 a.m. we went through a few thousand C.F.L.’s. Yeah.
The rest of the day I spent helping out some of the people setting up a booth at London Drugs and driving extra lightbulbs around. It was a good day!
Tonight: Sasha. Vancouver. 4 hour set.
[say no more]

Here is the people I work with (and me) at The Secret Location:

Today myself and my cohorts at The Secret Location counted most of 108,000 lightbulbs. These are not just any lightbulbs.. they’re Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs. Duuuude! They’re worth about $10-$20 each.. and we’re giving them ALL away. Dude.
Yesterday was my website’s busiest day yet. I’m not sure why.
Time to get my stuff together and make my way out to Hush soon for myself and Yoseff’s weekly “Lift” residency. I missed last week as I had training and I’m not going to be able to stay very late tonight. It will still be good though!
Check this out:
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This weekend sleeping in was a luxury like no other.
🙂
Today I made a casarole that is so good that I don’t want to finish it, just so I’ll have some left.
This afterrnoon I mixed records with nickgurns.. if I had a shoutcast solution for OSX, I’d be using it. But I don’t .. and my searches have proved fruitless.
Alas.
I’ve started work on another CD .. somewhat based on the proton set.. so it will feature many of the same tracks, but in a CD length mix. Also it will have some other goodies in it that you likely wont hear anywhere else. 🙂
My first day of work is tomorrow, and unlike most of my other jobs (except the Ministry of Education), I feel adequately trained to start with confidence. This is good!
Geek stuff:
Krishen recommended an elite new RSS newsreader called NetNewsWire. Basically it reads headlines from news websites and collects the first paragraph for a sample of reading material. It keeps track of what you’ve read and what you have not read, and it automatically checks for new news every 30 minutes. The cool part is that with the version of moveable type that I am running, it’s coded so that entries on my blog and krishen’s blog count as news entries, and so this news reader picks up on whenever I or (more usefully) Krishen makes a new entry, it shows up as new news!

zope!

Today at work — the fourth day of work — we practiced the skit that we will be performing in Victoria elementary schools. At first I was kind of dreading it, but I knew it would be fun.. and I was right! I played the Wizard. I wore a Zope wizard’s hat and had a magic wand of Power(smart).
Tomorrow is our last day of training and then we start going out next week. Thursday we start at 5 a.m. and finish at noon. Later I will be heading to Vancouver to see Sasha play a 4 hour set with Sean Cusick / Sean Q6 opening up for him. This will be radcore!
Speaking of radcore, mr. lefty has hosted the Velocity set as well as the brand spankin’ new September 2002 Proton Radio mix I just finished. It clocks in at 2 hours and 11 minutes and is one hell of a dark ride.
Enjoy. 🙂
Last night I went swimming at the Commonwealth swimming pool. I had not been there in a very long time. I forgot what it was like to jump off thirty-three foot tower. Kind of like flying.. wooooooooooot!