cue and eh

krishen’s cue: very nice shot! what part of nanaimo is that?
davin’s eh: that’s actually victoria eh! that was shot at the panorama leisure centre. i don’t have any USB ports to plug my camera into here. eh.
krishen’s cue: did you post that entry from Auntie Arlene & Uncle Hans place?
davin’s eh: yes i sure did, they have a performa 5200CD. rad, a computer model with CD as a part of it. ol’ skoo!
krishen’s cue: how was the press room?
davin’s eh: it was fun, hardly anyone was there, but i had a good time talking to mzat, ellusive, collin, visa, phil and a few local DJ’s. zope.
krishen’s cue: how’d you get there?
davin’s eh: ellusive / andy and his girlfriend picked me up. he lives close-ish by!
krishen’s cue: is it walking distance?
davin’s eh: no, not really .. kind of though .. maybe if it was warmer out.. but it would probably take about an hour . .so i guess that isn’t walking distance. i was only outside for a bit and it made my cold a lot worse. ack.
kevin’s cue: where are the pictures Dav.
davin’s eh: everywhere! do you mean the ones from Saturday night? they’re still on My Camera. i am USB portless. augh!
kevin’s cue: how are you finding The Mo.
davin’s eh: the mo is not bad. i went milling around the mall today with my aunt. that was cool. i found this hoodie that was looking pretty good on the hanger but i didn’t like it on me. i don’t think that has anything to do with nanaimo though. hmmm.. nanaimo is a lot busier than i thought it was. there’s a lot of traffic on bowen road. i live near something known as “cyber city.” yes indeed. there are strange space crafts and blinking lights on them. it’s amazing i say. i’ll go get a shot of it tonight or another night when i don’t have a cold.
devon’s cue: vancouver > nanaimo
davin’s eh: that’s not a cue, eh!
i miss everyone in victoria!
tomorrow morning is my first day at training.. should be entertaining. 🙂

here i am


in nanaimo! wooooo!
i went for a walk with my Auntie Arlene to see where I would be working.. it’s about a ten minute walk from where I am living. tonight I think hitting the press room would be fun, and then sleeeeeeep. 🙂
oh and i don’t seem to be able to check my shawlink email from here. so send email to my shaw account. i’ll get that.

deep dish


haha 🙂
krishen left for florida (again) today. sunday i leave for nanaimo.
so anyways, i recorded my mix last night. but i didn’t turn the webserver (this webserver) off before i did it. i should’ve. i had many visitors last night and there are some recording glitches because of it.
ugh, so i have to redo the mix now.
gah!

recording time


the decks are all set up and it is time to do my second proton radio mix. this particular mix is a featured artist mix and it’s going to be aired on proton radio on January the 8th. that’s a week yesterday. the thing that will be extra super cool and elite about this mix is that it’ll be the first time anyone hears the finished version of my newest track, “arctic exploration.” i just finished it this afternoon.
yesterday i wrote a new DJ bio. it was easy. i had a really tough time with bio’s before, especially of the DJ variety. there are a few stock phrases and beyond that, it’s all about what the DJ has actually done besides DJing. most DJ writeups / bios that i’ve seen kinda go like:

DJ JOHN-E HAS BEEN SPINNING EPIC TRANCE FOR 6 MONTHS AND IS A FAVOURITE IN THE INTERIOR OF MANITOBA. HIS SETS LEAVE YOU SOARING IN THE TRANCE HORIZON AND ARE PUMPIN’ IN A WAY THAT YOU WILL NOT SOON FORGET!!!!!! PREPARE TO GO OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway, my bio isn’t exactly too different than that. well maybe it is. the point is… is that kind of writing makes me not want to write. writing on this blog has helped me get past that. yay blog!
you’ll be able to see the writeup on the proton radio site on the 8th. or maybe sooner. i don’t know when they’re going to put it up.
change of subject here. one of the people from ‘the group’ named sandra (of paul and sandra.. they’ve commented a few times on here) is in the hospital for something pretty serious. i’m sending my good thoughts to her and i hope everyone who knows her is too. read julie’s website for more info.

2002 was good

i’m going to talk a little about tonight and some more about 2002. but first, tonight:
i must have spent at least half an hour typing ‘dooooooooooood!!’ on ICQ to jemma and mr. mischiff.
tonight myself and ria went to south bay pub and restaurant. i have wanted to go there for some time .. i figured it was some hokey dive because of its radio advertising campaign. their ads have someone with a really bad fake jamaican accent saying “come to south bay mon!” realllllllly cheesy.. but the advertisement had mentioned cheap chicken wings. my interest was piqued.
so we got there. it’s in the jutland area, the new office building wharf (for lack of a better word) on the gorge. i used to work for the ministry of forests in the same complex in 1996. it wasn’t finished then.. i guess it’s been 6 years. things change. it’s done.
we park, we arrive.
we were greeted by:

and so we did. it was pretty busy in there and it appeared that they were severely understaffed on this night. there was only one waitress that i saw for about 30 people. anybody looking for a job? they should be hiring.. hehe. anyway, it’s pretty cool looking in there…

i am listening to dzihan and kamien’s “gran riserva” .. krishen gave it to me for christmas. it’s really awesome.. it would have fit south bay pub & restaurant a lot better than the john tesh they were playing. and the r&b was kind of depressing but pretty easy to tune out.

after some food, we went wandering around the gorge. i messed around with exposure times tonight with my canon and i was pleasantly surprised with some leet lighting. there is a walk way that follows the peninsula and then leads to a bridge over the gorge. we went on that path. it was pretty dark but you wouldn’t know it from some of these pictures..

that’s the bridge that crosses the gorge. the last time i was actually out there was about 8 years ago. the bridge at that time was a broken train trestle.. they have redone it into a really nice foot or bike bridge. i knew about this for several years now but i haven’t had a chance to check it out until tonight. it’s gorgeous out there.. in an ugly urban kind of way. which i quite like:

i’m going to refer to this area as jutland wharf until someone corrects me. it’s at the end of jutland, and it’s essentially a wharf on the end of a little peninsula. jut land wharf. okie dokie. this is the view from the bridge, although it didn’t really look like this. it looked pretty dark, but this is all about me fiddling around with my camera so lets say it looks this way for now.

the path on the other side of the bridge leads to one that goes underneath bay street bridge. it looks like the sky is blue .. krazy! we went underneath the bridge where some guy asked us for a lighter or matches. we said no. seperately. ria sung a song about having nothing at all, and i continued to walk. by the way, it was very chilly tonight .. but all was fine because of the gloves.

that’s just over the bay street bridge in vic west. they’re building it just across the road from save on foods, close to the water. man, this sure is cool looking. haha, i am such a photogeek.

so of course, we had to venture towards the bay street bridge and make the crossing. they say that if you walk on this road long enough, you will get to alzu’s from this point. and, conveniently, if you walk further on this road after alzu’s, you will arrive at the jubilee emergency room. do these city planners know me or what? i knew that, if i was to take a picture on this bridge, it would have to be a lot different than the one i’ve seen on jim‘s website many times before. jim doesn’t post it a lot, i just look at his pictures a lot. there is some distinction to be made there.

you can see many of victoria’s landmarks in this image. i think that, after a while, even those piles of dirt and gravel look like landmarks. haha. we walked up bay for a bit until we could find a road to walk up that was in the right direction, which happened to be left.

we arrived back on the wharf after walking through some of the industrial area. there is activity late at night there, of an industrial nature. pretty weird, we waved to some guy that booting around in a fork lift in what looked like a recycling warehaus. he waved back at us, looked totally confused, and then we disappeared. we assume he went back to work after this.

from the wharf you could see the area where the forklift guy was. well, you can’t really, all you can see are giant piles of garbage. he’s behind that, or to the left. something like that. what i really like about this picture is how one of the cranes appears to be cutting the light. neat. some windows users may not be able to see this. others .. may be able to.

on the wharf near the car, we spotted this weird thing here. i guess it’s supposed to be a plug or something. this image is my new desktop. this was shot at around 11:20 pm. it was dark. want to see how dark it actually was tonight? it is just so zope!
oh yes.. so 2002 for me:

  • i started writing music part time and remixing part time under the alias “AFK”
  • rgm went buh-bye for now

  • i recorded etheric link with yoseff, a pretty rockin’ CD.
  • i have turntables all of a sudden. i know how to spin, but i could never justify spending $1800 myself on decent turntables. thank you rgm.
  • talks with The Zone 91.3 started
  • i recorded stealth, a CD that had about 2 years of planning put into it. i still like it. that’s a good sign!
  • RGM presents “Experience” started up at 11 Stones, with myself, craig/bedlam and adrian/mischiff as the masterminds behind the operation.
  • myself and bedlam put out “experience: paradigm” as the first of series of mix CD’s we were going to put together to exclusively give away at the club
  • i turned 24
  • all was successful until, 3 months into growing and succeeding, the club had yet another fire. such bad timing.. listeners of the radio show had started to come out to the club to enjoy what they had been listening to for the previous 3 years..
  • i recorded elliptical orbit, which could very well be my favourite mix in terms of flow and all that. it featured my own AFK remixes of LSG’s “Netherworld” and Underworld’s “Pearls Girl.”
  • went all the way to campbell river to headline a conkrete concepts event. plenty of fun!
  • i finished all my courses
  • i graduated (this is somehow different than finishing all your courses) from college
  • anand graduated with his degree
  • krishen graduated with his double degree
  • neil graduated from highschool.
  • went on a great spur of the moment drive to seattle to visit liam
  • krishen moved to florida 🙁
  • i started a blog
  • me and yoseff started up chlorine once again!
  • i started working for bc hydro
  • i went and saw sasha and john digweed’s delta heavy tour in vancouver at the rage. 140,000 watts of sound. what more needs to be said about that? man.
  • i performed in plays for elementry school kids grades 1-3. i’ve had more fun only a few times. ever.
  • anand moved to north vancouver 🙁
  • i accepted a job in nanaimo working again for bc hydro
  • i bought a digital camera after spending the last year falling in love with photography from reading and watching jim & julie‘s sites.
  • chlorine ended again. we’ll be back!
  • i met a tonne of rad people. and i remember their names!
  • from most to least amount, people from the united states, canada, the united kingdom, netherlands, japan, portugal, australia, france, hungary, sweden, the czech republic, singapore, switzerland, denmark, new zealand, poland, austria, brazil, belgium, romania, korea (south), finland, israel, and germany have visited this site. there are more. those are the top visitors.
  • since september, 10217 unique visitors have visited this site to put 224342 hits on the server. hello there.

there is obviously much more. click on the months to the right to read about it. 🙂

2002 was good. 2003 will be gooder. see you all next year! i hope you have a massive nu year! noice one!!!!!! i said, noiiiiice!@#%(%^&

crontab

last night was pretty good times. first, i went for dinner with greg, nick, adrian and aaron at a restuarant on lower fort st. named Siam. it is a thai restaurant and had thai food. so that means we went for thai food last night.

i didn’t take a picture of it with my camera, but they served me a big plate of (i presume chicken) animal parts, half of which were useful for eating purposes. the other half, i’m not certain about. i wasn’t too happy about that but the dipping sauce was great and so was the rice that came with it. (bit of an inside joke there..)
for desert we all (except adrian) had deep fried banana with ice cream. this was so good. i have had deep fried banana-like fruits before, but never quite like this. they battered the banana and added sesame seeds to the fray. (i use that word because i read adrian’s blog before posting this. and i can’t think of anything else that really fits as well. plus it’s interesting to make reference to the fact that reading other peoples blogs can influence the way you write on your own. neat.)
so we went off the The Mill to hang out. considering i already want to work at this place, seeing their office didn’t help matters. it looks like the coolest place to work, with blow up giant animals hanging in the air and inflatable palm trees. (you can’t go wrong with me and palm trees.) we yapped for a while in the board room and spied on a less fortunate in the alley for a bit. we got bored of that when he started staring us in the eye. i think he saw straight into my soul and then got distracted by an apple he was eating. whew! that was a close one.
we watched one of michael moore’s films, “roger and me.” it was good, not as good as bowling for columbine. i guess at the time of the film being made, michael moore had a hard time understanding why multinational companies do stuff like what GM did in Flint. it just didn’t seem as meaningful as bowling for columbine. it just didn’t have a message, really. it told the story this way:

  1. a company shut down a plant
  2. a bunch of people lost their jobs
  3. a bunch of people got evicted
  4. a town suffers as it tries to stay afloat financially
  5. a person at the company who made the choice to shut down the plant and move operations to a place that would be more economical had no comment on the previous three items
  6. a movie ends

i feel like i really know the town of Flint now. don’t get me wrong, it was a great story. it seemed more targetted at the person (roger smith) who made the decision. sort of as if, if roger smith sees this, he’ll really see what happened to the town when GM moved out.
one of his GM advocates says during the movie (something like) “people say that GM took their opportunities away, that there’s less opportunity in Flint now. i say to those people that there’s just as much opportunity in the wonderful city of Flint as when GM first came to Flint.”
i disagree with that, simply based on a guess. there’s probably about 30,000 more people after GM left. i’m just guessing. something about people having kids, and their kids having kids .. i would not use the word opportunity without considering the implications of how many people are seeking those opportunities. what i mean is something like this: if there are 5 job openings and 5 unemployed people in Flint before the GM plant opened, those are some pretty good opportunities. if there are still 5 job openings and 3605 unemployed people after the GM plant closed, i would say that the opportunities are not as good. this guy was saying that they were.
no. there were not.
plus, if we’re speaking opportunities, we are speaking in economic terms. we also have to consider all the jobs that aren’t needed any more because the workers do not have money to spend. just for example, consider people in the service industry that are no longer receiving as many shifts, as many tips, etc. or any at all. anyway, he lost his job not long after saying that kind of stuff. one of the things i really like about michael moore’s investigative interviewing process is that after a while, he really leaves people to hang and dry. they pretty much do themselves in with comments that make you say to yourself, “oh boy! i don’t know if i would have said that!” reminds me of a certain Burger King [tm] drive through worker. but, that is another story for another time.
there are mill closures all over BC these days. and so if you want to see what kind of impact this stuff has on mill towns, roger and me will give you a pretty good idea. i’m glad i watched it.

it’s nice to see stuff like that. i am not sure who wrote it, or who it was to.. if anyone. i found it though, so i say it is to me.
well, thank you someone.
and now it’s to everyone reading this.

i ended up at hush later in the night. i hung out with yoseff, talked a bit to lindsay (on the right) and met a nice person named jolene (on the left.) for my last saturday in victoria for a while, it was a good night. 🙂
tonight i am headed to a potluck at mike and steve’s place. oops! i should get cookin’.

i am making a victoria blog page


if you have a blog and you’re from victoria, or you live in victoria, email me at daving@shaw.ca with your name and website URL! 🙂
oh yeah .. for christmas, i gave myself a MySQL server and i already have a database set up. how leet is that? i have to start learning PHP again so i can interface it with this site. i started learning a long time ago when dev0n tried to teach me, but i forget all i learned. plus it was harder to learn, not having a server to connect to and all that. having my own MySQL server set up makes the purpose of PHP much more tangible. it will also be useful for one of my other projects that i’m involved with, www.ravevictoria.com. although development on that site is pretty slow, it should pick up in the spring. if there are any more raves, that is.
i also gave myself U2’s ‘elevation’ tour DVD. i wish they made a zooTV DVD, but all i can find is the VHS pieceofcrap. U2 is my favorite band and they sucked me right into their musical vortex with Achtung Baby. ahh, i am still kicking myself for not going to see the zooTV tour when it came to Vancouver about a decade ago. dough!
the picture above is of a type of brace that holds two pieces of glass together at most hockey rinks. the rink that this picture was shot at is the panorama leisure center out near the pat bay highway.
ps: if you know of a victoria blogger with a site, please pass the message on that i’m putting together a victoria blog webpage.
pls k thx bye!