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Monday, 07 November 2005
Staying busy keeps me out of trouble
The past two weeks have been pretty busy, but nothing too stressful. Just the usual stuff that goes into my ever-glamorous "life of a rock star/club promoter/DJ." (Ha! I'm kinda being sarcastic, just in case you can't tell.)
New A+D mash-up: Real Big Time
I finished up a new mash-up, one that I've been conceptualizing for a long time. D introduced me to the song "Real Big," a hip-hop single from this past summer by Mannie Fresh. It wasn't a huge hit or anything, but we both fell in love with it. When she tracked down the acapella, I knew I had to do something ... BIG! So I mashed it up with Peter Gabriel's "Big Time," along with some other "big" songs. I had lots of "BIG" ideas for this mash-up, but it ultimately got distilled into an A+B+C ... along with a little AC/DC thrown in at the end for good measure.
Download it here: A plus D – Real Big Time (Mannie Fresh vs. Peter Gabriel vs. Jean Knight)
Blah-haus
D dragged me to the Bauhaus concert at the Warfield. Yawn. I saw them during the 1999 "Resurrection" tour, and I really didn't want anything to sully the memory of that experience. Well ... this show did. The band played okay and all, but ... something was just lacking. I don't know. Maybe angular, dark, moody, pretentious, post-punk, goth rock with no hooks just doesn't really do it for me anymore. Besides, Peter Murphy – the "Neil Diamond of goth rock" – had a bald spot and a cheesy moustache. And it says something that the two best (and last) songs of the night – "Telegram Sam" and "Ziggy Stardust" – are both covers.
Horsepower
I suppose I should say something about a new musical project I'm working on. It's definitely still in the gestation stage, but it's nice to be working on original music again. We're tentatively called Horsepower, and right now, it's just me and Dave Dasher (ex-Diamond Galaxy, former touring guitarist for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult). Just the two of us sitting in his studio apartment hashing out ideas and listening to tracks. He plays and programs, I sing and write lyrics. We'll see where this ends up ... exciting!
I'm so sick of Halloween
I spent Friday night in a pirate costume for 11 hours straight, DJing a corporate party at Fluid, then racing over to DJ the Bootie mash-up lounge at Pop Roxx at the DNA Lounge. Then Sunday night, there I was, dressed as a pirate yet again, bar-hopping with friends. By the time it was actually Halloween, on Monday, I was so sick of pirate drag. So I dressed up like a red-sequined devil, which was such a half-assed costume – it was basically just an old Blue Period stage outfit with devil horns on my head. Big whoop!
But at least I matched Trixxie, my co-singer in Smash-Up Derby. We played a show at Halloween in the Castro, debuting a couple of new mash-up creations – I get to sing Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" while the band plays The Cars' "Just What I Needed"! Yay! I love singing that song! We also did "Jerks On Film" – The Caesars vs. Duran Duran. And of course, we did "Smells Like Monster Mash" as our set closer. It all went over really well. Definitely better than last year. We went on at 9:30 PM, which was great for us. No "hurry up and wait."
I actually got to walk throught the throngs of people this year ... something I hadn't done in years. Only about half the crowd was dressed up, and of that half, only half of them had decent costumes. The rest of them were like, "If I wear this funny hat or these horns, then I'm in costume!" Lame. But I walked over to Marcy Meow's, who was hosting a little refuge from the Halloween madness. Hung out with Princess Kennedy and Jordan L'Moore of our sister band, Pepperspray, who played right before us. Fun!
Good times! The doors opened at 10 pm, and there was a dance floor going by 10:20! What made 'em dance? How Obie Trice vs. The Faint? It shouldn't work, but it totally did. I followed that up with our new one, "Real Big Time" (see above) and it went off!
DJ Axel then took over, and he played a rock-solid set of crowd-pleasing hip-hop mashes, riling everybody up. Then DJ Paul V. took it into an indie direction, firing up the crowd before the midnight mash-up show, starring ... ME!
Princess Kennedy had flaked on us that evening, informing us that she had spent her plane ticket money on Botox, and was still in San Francisco. (I'm not making this up!) So I filled in, pulling a number out of my ass by singing live to an instrumental Smash-Up Derby track (Franz Ferdinand vs. Talking Heads), which went over quite well. Then Mysterious D slammed down a great set, finally spinning solo, since Party Ben had to sit this Bootie out.
Paul and I finished off the night, much booty was shaken, many CDs were given away, and ... someone even stole our Bootie pirate flag! Aaaargh! Those things cost money, dammit! Now we've gotta get a new one made. Grrrr ... as our friend Buck from The Mutaytor said that night: "The rock star in you loves it. The Jew in you hates it." Next time, we're wiring that thing with an alarm!
We've got four DJs from the UK coming this week for Bootie here in San Francisco ... plus Strangely Familiar from Nashville! It's going to an insane weekend. And then in two weeks we leave for Paris! Aaaaigh!
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Comments
hey adrian - fab blog. you know - i posted the same thing about bauhaus on mine:
http://whitegas.blogspot.com/2005/10/bauhaus-ho-hum.html
it's too bad, but what can you do.
see ya sometime soon,
xo,
~andrea
Posted by: spacegirl | Wednesday, 09 November 2005