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.. is not a sound that can be described by words. other than those words, that is.
I’m staying over with devon‘s at her new place in Yaletown. I probably shouldn’t divulge the exact address etc, but I do want to say that it’s one of the most zope buildings I’ve been to. It’s got a SWAMP. A SWAMP in the middle of the building on the 3rd or 4th floor. Dooooooood!
Although the weather isn’t so great today, the view is still amazing. I’ve spent at least 30 minutes this morning staring out of a window. 🙂
Last night we had a couple of drinks and then decided to wander around town until we found a place that had decent food. Is it just me, or are the interiors of Pita Pits graphically designed like a flash website?
We’re going to go cruise around town today, no plans in particular yet .. but it’ll be nice to just hang out. We’ll play it by ear.
Zope.

grey frees blue
and time slides
inspirations take flight
and reality hides
black consumes blue
places hold still
move across the water, now
there’s nothing left to fill

I’m getting a haircut tonight.
At 7:30.
Is that late for a haircut?
hahaha
So.. I heard about the Guns n Roses riots that happened last night in Vancouver. What a bunch of losers. I honestly can’t understand
1) how it was that Axl Rose missed a plane from LA to Vancouver and yet the rest of the band managed to make it
2) how Axl managed to do this on the first date of their North American tour
3) how the fans of the band decided that it would be a good idea to trash the outside of GM Place in response
4) how this continued for at least an hour
I don’t figure all Guns n Roses fans have this sort of mentality, but the ones in Vancouver last night definitely did. Wanks. If they were talented, maybe instead of rioting they could write lyrics about how they are so hard-done-by. And then Linkin Park could perform it.
Sweet.
PS: It’s “Axl”, not “Axyl” as SOME would say. Thanks goes to devon for actually knowing that. Woot!@

i think it was about 2 years ago that these posters were up on poles and walls all around Victoria. Chlorine used to be on Thursday nights at the defunct Neptune Soundbar. Neptune Soundbar’s old space is now occupied by Diablos Nightclub. Yoseff, Nigel Haze and Jemma put the night together for the most part, and I ended up helping out. Along the way DJ Brian also joined us to become a resident of one of the most well known progressive nights in Victoria’s bar history.
The clubnight’s attendence tapered off in early 2001 and the night was put to a hault temporarily around that time. I remember just getting over such silly conceptions about being paid for a gig just before then. I had never thrown a club night or a party, nor did I have any desire to. I didn’t want to be responsible for paying people, maybe out of my own pocket if necessary. I had only just dropped the notion that I was entitled to a certain amount of money for a gig.
Since then, in 2002, I’ve thrown 3 months worth of successful clubnights with Craig / Bedlam and Adrian / Mischiff at 11 Stones. The clubnight there was called “Experience” and I’m not certain that Experience is over yet either. The problem there is the actual night club. It has had 3 fires in just as many years. If only it would stop burning down, we could have gotten something special going. In any case, I have a preference for buildings that don’t go up in flames and as such I’ve moved on. Hush provides stability where there was no hope with the other club, but I only see that in retrospect. For the most part, the people at 11 Stones were great and I had some excellent experiences, but also some not so great ones. There was confusion, there was disorganization, there was bad communication.. etc etc. I’m really glad I got to work on something with Adrian and Craig though, that experience in and of itself was fun and entertaining and worthwhile on the whole. We didn’t make much money over 3 months. Probably paid for some records. But we didn’t lose any either and we ended up having a pretty regular crowd by the time the club closed because of the latest fire.
It’s nice to be working with Yoseff again. Experience was also on a Monday night. Monday nights are a hard night to sell. You have to pretty much convince people to go out on a night that follows the most dreaded morning of all — Monday Morning. They even have songs about how awful Monday mornings are. I have to admit, it’s frustrating seeing what Experience had built up, and then having to press reset before anything really blossomed out of the whole deal. Putting the same amount of energy into Chlorine has unfortunately yielded lesser results thus far. We’ve talked to Hush about changing Chlorine to another night but we encountered a straight up stone wall. Through talking we found out that we do have the option of doing one-off Friday nights.
That could be a lot of fun.
Freezing at the door of Hush waiting for about 15-20 people to show up over the span of about 4 hours is not really that much fun. I understand everything about investing time and energy, and that it is required to build a night, but I see time being the biggest resource drain of all in this particular case. I’m not sure what else we can do to get people to come out on the Monday night. We don’t have drink specials.
We do open early — we start at 9 pm and go til 1 am. Myself or Yoseff work the door, switching off when one or the other is DJing. I design posters for a monthly 11″ x 17″ b&w poster that gets printed by Brent and distributed by Braeden. We advertise on www.ravevictoria.com with a banner ad that points to the Chlorine website. Our events are listed on the same website. We book local DJs that spin progressive house or progressive trance or progressive breaks. Maybe we should mention the word “progressive” somewhere on our website or print advertising.
I’m taking Monday night off to go for a visit to Vancouver. I hear John Digweed will be there that Monday night as well but I’m not so sure if I am going to go see him. I don’t think I would’ve said that 2 years ago, but .. times have changed.

In my dreams I’m dying all the time
When I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye.

don’t they look similar upside down?

Hehe. Last night at Hush was alright.. although it was so cold. i wonder if that place has any heating. Working the door freezes you. It really does. I had found an old plug-in heater the week before and so I had that going but it really doesn’t put out much heat.
I played a spaced out breaks set. It was really nice, but at that point nobody had arrived at the club yet, except for Jim. Jim had to leave 2/3rds of the way through so at that point I was playing for myself and Yoseff and Brent. I hope they liked it. A few more people came in .. starting at around 10:45. At least we were able to pay for advertising on ravevictoria.com and pay freya for DJing. Not much mind you.
I spent my take-home on a BTCFS. It had been a month since my last one. Boy, those sure are good.
I feel kinda groggy today. Didn’t sleep that great last night plus I was already feeling a bit off. I have today off from work and thank god. I would be totally useless there today. Some of us from should be going out for beers this week, hopefully tonight. Wee shalll seeeeeeeee.
I’m probably going to work some more on my track today and see if I can find out where Jim and Chrissie are with Lyrics / Vocals. Ooooo it’s getting sunny as I write this. Very bright in my room!

better than sleeping all day.
awwwww yeah.
sometimes I feel like I’m missing something if I sleep in .. today, no. Mmmm mmm sleep is so good.
last nights party was superb. it was one of those parties where no matter when you leave, you feel you’re leaving too early. everyone was uber nice and the hostess, julie, was ultrarad uberzope wickedawesome!
i dj’d at this partay last night with craig / ceedub / bedlam and nickgurns / nickgurns / nickgurns.. girlrepair did an awesome job of setting up the sound and making sure the party had the perfect sound, which it did all night. We got a noise complaint towards the end of the party, so it seemed right to shut the turntables down when we did, which was only two songs afterwards.
it was a costume party. girlrepair dressed up as jim; julie dressed up as a social butterfly; nickgurns dressed up as jerry springer; craig, justin, leaky and james dressed up as a progressive kru; tami dressed up as .. i’m not sure, i know she had a wing on though .. doh; gerry dressed up as hermes (i think); david dressed up as ‘cloudy with a chance of showers,’ which was very cool, you had to see it; i was aladdin.
julie .. i can’t believe you had that unity record .. @%&^(*@()$~!@&%^~@#)(~*(%@#$*~@%(@#&)%*~@#($!@(~*#(!@
go check out the new john b video if you haven’t yet. it’s not super funny, but it is weird enough that you should just see it, if only once. request it on much music, if you watch TV.
speaking of which, I had a conversation (albeit short) with julie last night about not watching tv. she doesn’t have cable, so she doesn’t see tv commercials. i have cable, but i never (once a month?) watch any show with anything you could even remotely call regularity. i don’t miss it at all. i enjoy movies much more .. one that I haven’t yet seen is “last of the mohicans” which I intend to watch tonight.

I’m going to a little get together tonight. It’s Hallowe’en themed and it looks like I’ll bring my Aladdin costume along with me. Maybe.
🙂
picture by girlrepair

you know he’s not the one for you but that’s no fault of mine
he knows that I’m a friend of yours but doesn’t know I’ve crossed the line
i know you’ve got a man in the picture but it hasn’t stopped me yet
we’ve all been in one situation or another we regret
now I’m the other man, no one’s rootin for me
if I’m the other man, nature will abhorr me
you know I want to keep my distance, does it happen anyway?
he knows you’re going to drift apart and there’s nothing he can say
i know that he’s a stand-up guy – but that’s none of my concern
we’ve all been in one situation or another – it’s my turn
to be the other man no one sympathises
when you’re the other man that everyone despises
he’s going to find out that the rumours are true
the love that I’ve still unbeknownst to you
he’ll found out so I’ll tell you because
you gotta find out before he does
—
words by Sloan.