likely more than not

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i am super antsy. why? i don’t know.
i went to a conference this morning at the empress. it was on recycled paper. there is this paper company from cali that came up and did a presentation on the quality you can get with recycled paper these days. impressive. they served us breakfast in the crystal ballroom. it was good.
not really sure what to say right now. i’ve been moving and shaking and either i need to continue at this pace or just stop altogether.

moving experience

i helped charles move into his new place, which is my good friend nathan’s place today. this is just awesome. two of the most cool people i know now are roommates. dude!
of course if you know me, or if you follow this blog, you know i have been working on music collaboration projects with both of these guys, seperately. i see a lot more finished projects in our future. awwww yeah!
moving went very quickly and efficiently. there were many helping hands and the good-bye scene at charles’ old place was heart-breaking [at least it was for me.] it seemed like the oldest brother was leaving the family house, or something. that’s what it reminded me of. of course i know it is totally different than that but that is what it reminded me of.
i went to this book launch party tonight with big dog (jay carvy) and walked into this packed room at the hotel grand pacific. this launch event was huge! 300 or 400 people .. very successful. free food, expensive drinks. i passed on the drinks but had some yummy food. before we walked in we ran into julie and leslie and that’s when i knew it would be a good event. i ran into a few different people that i knew and met a couple new people. it was very good to catch up with one of my old co-workers from the ministry of education, mary-anne, and the ‘keynotes’ were excellent and entertaining. well done, boys. in case you are wondering, it was a launch for the book version of “random acts of kindness” or “extremely random acts of kindness” or “extreme acts of kindness” or “random kindness to the extreme” or something like that. i am all about key words so you got the main three there. to be honest i have heard some stories about one or two of the guys from this group that paints them unfavorably. either this guy[s] changed, or he’s hiding it. either way, only the good is showing these days. apparently they sure aren’t making money [yet], though i could see this leading to something else later on.. not sure if any of them are talented musically or otherwise. maybe a comedy show or something. they’re learning how to market, big time.
anyway, it’s been a full night, and with swimming, tennis and a workout planned for tomorrow .. looks like it’ll be another one tomorrow night after all is said and done!

the biz of the weekend


having my own camera back is nice.
myself and maria went up to a party last night near lake cowichan called stimulate. it was cool to see something going on that we had nothing to do with.. it was good to see some younger promoters putting on a successful party. tonnes of new DJ’s that had not spun out before.. some trainwrecking.. but tonnes of enthusiasm and energy. skills will come later.. some of the mixing was actually quite good, and there were a lot of really good tracks being spun.
it was great to see jessica, someone who i don’t see enough of ..
one of the girls working the islandkidz booth is named jessica as well, i helped her and jeremy get set up..
the waitress at the beagle yesterday that i went to college with is called jessica..
jessicamania!


dinner at süze on friday night with chrissie and rich was just sooo yummy. süze is where chrissie and rich first met. later that night they showed up at the extreme 107.3 FM studios together. that’s when i knew chrissie had met someone special.. she brought him to the radio station! rich is one helluva cool guy. it’s awesome that chrissie and rich live close to where i work now.. i can drop by to visit them any time now! ha ha! so long süze.

the sheer amount of paper that collects in my room every month is insane! it clutters up my desk.
i wanted to show you something from monday magazine but their new web presence is a powerful display of the way not to put together a dynamic website. augh, it’s awful! here, look: mondaymag.com.. some of the website looks old, some of it new.. and it bounces you to a portal to do all of this. weak sauce. and how do you search the damn thing? i hope they didn’t pay for their website.. by the looks of it, if they did, they didn’t pay much and they got what they payed for. heh.
so anyway, that old phone was a piece (nokia 5125). pretty good for a year though.. only the odd problem every now and then.. usually involving the battery coming off on its own.

i have a new phone now. it is a motorola T720. it’s a flip phone with dual LCD displays.. big color one on the inside (good for phone book navigation etc) and a little b&w on the outside which is good for call display, time, signal strength and battery power. neat little thing. it came with a clip but i think a clip and a phone like this is recipe for disaster.. its really little when it’s flipped in so it’s small enough to fit in my pocket and i wont even notice it’s there. so why put it out on my belt? yeah. forget that!
kimli is highly entertaining. i know her from STS days, a weird era of geeks of all subgenres uniting to make fun of eachother online ’cause they could and no one else had figured it out yet.
it looks nice out. today i want to get into the fresh air and also i want to work on some music. slept in yesterday, slept in today, and i’ve been taking care of stuff that davin needs to do. although uneventful, this has been a really good weekend and probably just what i needed.
listening to: Ulrich Schnauss – In All The Wrong Places

stupid phone

my stupid nokia 5125 is convinced there is a headset plugged into it and i can’t hear anything that is being said over the phone. not only this, it is convinced that the headset is being plugged in randomly every second or so, so i can’t navigate through any of the menus or anything. i don’t know what’s wrong with it. it started doing this last night for no reason.. help!

resonance: may 28th, 2004

Resonance on 101.9 FM, May 28th, 2004.
Featured Tracks:

  • Shiloh – Will You Ever Come Around [Infusion vs. Gwill Morris remix] (Electrofly)
  • Kylie Minogue – Slow [Max Graham Mix] (Unreleased)

Mixset: DJ ariz0na

  • Momu – Descolada [Dislodged Mix] (3 Beat Breaks)
  • Habersham & Numinous – Leaving Tifton [Digital Witchcraft Mix] (Blueprint)
  • Quivver – Space Maneouvers Part III [Breaks Mix] (Bozboz)
  • Duran & Ayter – Elysium (Deep)
  • Planisphere – Frogged (Green Martian)
  • Tiebreaker – Prominence [AFK Mahssive Breaks Mix] (Pacific Front Recordings)
  • Luke Chable – Melburn (Bedrock Breaks)
  • Steve Porter – Definite Form [Remy and Roland Remix] (Little Mountain)
  • Ficta – Ela [Zabiela’s Rave Lizard Remix] (GU Music)
  • Hyper vs. General Midi – We’ve All Been Waiting [Fretwell Remix] (Kilowatt Recordings)
  • Sasha – Motorola (BMG)
  • Conjure One – Centre of the Sun [Junkie XL Mix] (Nettwerk)
  • Spooky – Andromeda (White Label)
  • Amber – Anyway [Steve Porter’s Mix 2] (Bedrock)
  • Madoka – Distant Memories (Private Reality)
  • Kasey Taylor & Chris Meehan – South of the Border [South Eastern Infirmary Main] (Vapour)
  • Tkac & Havarlik – Tyra (Baroque)
  • Mike Hiratzka & Justin Scott Dixon – Two Worlds (Propulsion)
  • Gill Norris – Forme [Leama & Moor Remix] (Precinct)
  • AFK – Dreamcache (Pacific Front Recordings)
  • DJ Gordon – Moonshine Boogie [Ocean Wave Mix] (Vapour)
  • Pete Lazonby – Wavespeech [Parks and Wilson Mix] (Bliss)

moving into the blog

resonance will be moving into the davin.ws blog tonight because our website (on lefty.ca) is shutting down and moving to the conkrete concepts webserver! yay tech nerd junk!
i will be DJing on the show tonight from Midnight – 3 AM on 101.9 FM. expect to hear some new goodies from AFK, Tiebreaker and Formulate.. as well as others!
things are moving and shaking for pacific front recordings. we finalized logo this week and are working on finalizing a web design in short order. we have secured web space and are putting together a release schedule which is actually more fun than it sounds! we’re also scheming up remix competitions, gathering more people for a&r, setting up “flagship DJ’s” who will get Pacific Front material ahead of release schedule, and having a blast doing it! it is kind of daunting to realize how close we are to opening up shop. i don’t know what our timeline is but we seem to be moving a lot faster than i had realized was possible. justin is a big reason for this — he is a production machine and gets a lot done in a short amount of time. wicked! soon you will be able to hear all the AFK material i have been mentioning here for all this time..
there are few things cooler than designing, earl grey tea, ulrich shnauss, and burning rubber in the parking lot. okay that last one i didn’t do, someone else did.

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