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Monday, 21 August 2006
My month of stress is over!
Well, August is almost over, and I survived, with my sanity and relationship relatively intact. DAMN.
It was just NON-STOP there for a while ... mostly gearing up for our MASSIVE Bootie 3-Year Anniversary Pirate Ball, which turned out to be the biggest party of our career. Over 1000 people there, with over half of them dressed up in some sort of pirate attire! Nine DJs, three performances to coordinate, plus, Smash-Up Derby performed a fucking mashup rock opera ...yes, we finally did Dean Gray: American Edit - The Theatrical Experience. It's been a dream of mine to perform that as a stage show, and with Foxy Cotton's help, we pulled it off!
The party was absolutely INSANE -- I practically had a nervous breakdown about four hours before the doors opened, and afterwards, I needed two days to recover. There was just SO MUCH going on, and so many little details to stay on top of. But it was A GREAT NIGHT, so much fun. I feel immensely proud. 
Two weeks prior to the party, the San Francisco Bay Guardian's annual Best of the Bay issue came out, and Bootie was voted "Best Dance Club" in its Readers Poll. To say that we were ecstatic would be an understatement! Over the past three years, we have worked so hard to create a party that is as fun and as mashed-up as the music we play there.
What surprised us the most is that this award didn't go to a nightclub venue (as it has in years past) but to just a single club night -– and one that happens only once a month! For a genre as wonderfully niche as bootlegs and mashups, it's a testament to the vitality of the Bay Area bastard pop scene that a club devoted to such a specific style of music could win this award. Plus, Smash-Up Derby won an Editor's Pick award, for "Best Slayer Meets Tori Amos." The great thing was that we all got to go to the Best of Bay award party!
So, in the midst of all of this, I also hosted "Smashed & Trashed" mashup night at Trannyshack, and did Bootie LA with DJ Tripp. Oh yeah, and then right after the Bootie Pirate Ball, I had to start working on Piss Clear, the newspaper I publish out at Burning Man every year. 60 hours of work in four days ... I ended up sleeping at my office one night! 
I was stuck there for 36 hours straight, working on that damn thing. But I think we've got a pretty good run of issues this year. I especially like the cover of the obligatory Drug Issue that Eric Shutterslut shot. Yes, that's my tongue.
But now that's all done, and really, all I have to do this week is get ready for Burning Man, and get all my ducks in a row for Bootie LA (the one we'll be missing while we're in Black Rock City) and the Bootie SF that happens six days after we get back from the desert.
Packing for Burning Man should be easy ... this is my 14th year, and I pretty much already have everything. The thing D and I are really excited about this year though, is that we're going to be DJing for the first time out there! 
We're doing Bootie BRC on Thursday and Friday night! Woo-hoo! Black Rock City really needs some dance music that's not JUST trance and techno ... and we're happy to bring the flava! It should be a blast. Plus, we're camping with a bunch of cute gay boys who are bringing a big 16-foot dome, so for once, we'll have a cool chill space in front of our camp.
Damn, it is SOOO NICE to have a week of relative calm before heading off to the desert. Time to breath, get all our shit together, not have the stress and anxiety of a looming deadline always bearing down on you. Ugh ... because that's what the past month has been like! Anyway, still got lots to do, so I'm not going to write a book here ... just a lil' update before I head off to Black Rock City.
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