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Work was good today. Visited Sooke Elementary and put on the skits and the presentations, 2 of each. I am exhausted. Time to nap. And then I’m not sure what. 🙂

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the potluck was awesome. lots of fun. rodney did an excellent job, was an uber host, and someone even voted for my casarole as being the best dish there! yay! i voted for the sushi though. mmmm that was super.
seems lately i’ve been visiting people and people have been playing host. i can not say that i am sure what that means, if anything. i think it could explain my recent desire to have all my co-workers over for a similar potluck-type-dinner.
when i was in vancouver i picked up the new bjork – greatest hits CD. i also got the U2 – greatest hits double CD. how can you tell that i’ve been buying records the last few years and not CDs? catching up..
the bjork CD has isobel on it, one of my all-time favorite songs. and human behavior. elite. perhaps i should be putting this CD in the stereo instead of simply posessing it. eh? heh.
oops.
i have to be up in 7 hours. i thought i had to be at work for 10 am. doh. feck.
well i’m going to lie down and see if bjork can wash away this mood i am in. i have to confess that i have always been a bigger fan of the production on bjork’s songs than her voice in particular. is that wrong? who produces this stuff? hmm time to find out.
isobel: written by bjork, nellee hooper, marius de vries and sigur jon birgir.
human behaviour: written by bjork & nellee hooper
hyperballad: written by bjork, produced by bjork & nellee hooper.
it would seem that she is in cohoots with this ‘nellee hooper’ person!
startling.
and now..
..words: human behaviour

if you ever get close to a human
and human behaviour
be ready to get confused
there’s definitely no logic
to human behaviour
but yet so irristible
there’s no map
to human behaviour
they’re terribly moody
then all of a sudden turn happy
but, oh, to get involved in the exchange
of human emotions is ever so satisfying
there’s no map
and a compass
wouldn’t help at all

feeling pretty distant

tonight i arrived back from vancouver
but i didn’t feel like i was home
i still don’t.
vancouver was awesome and superrelaxing. kind of confusing though. last time i went there, i didn’t feel like there was anything left in that city for me. this time i am questioning how much there isn’t in victoria for me.
dev0n was a supreme hostess and had me drinking root BEER pretty much as soon as I got there. we saw 2 omnimax films. did you know that an omnimax film screen in Science World is just over 1000 square metres? that is 10% of a hectare! that’s a pretty big screen.
overall the trip was needed and it was entirely zope.
i would post pictures. .but i don’t have any.

the sweet sound of patent approval

.. 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.

hmmmmm

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!@

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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.