“Be well stocked and well prepared. You’ve got to be mobile. Don’t try and go with a posse of friends. If you try to organise ten people you’re just going to end up chasing your tail constantly. You’ve got to be a tight unit, you’ve got to be stealth, you’ve got to be ready for the rain and ready for the dust. You’ve got to be prepared.”
Completely unpublishable on my DJ blog, as you’ll see. It’s in response to a post about how to choose a DJ name:
WELL ONE DAY I WAS WALKING ON THE STREET AFTER GOING TO THE DOCTORS AND THESE GUYS (TEENS) CAME UP TO ME AND STARTED HARASSING ME, THEY STARTED KICKING AND PUNCHING ME AND CALLED ME TWATTY NIGGA SO NOW MY STAGE NAME IS DJ TWATTY NIGGA AND I MAKE LOADS OF MONEY, I GET ALL THE CHICKS, I CAN AFFORD HEAPS OF DRUGS, AND IM A WORLD FAMOUS DJ. IF YOU WANT ME TO PLAY SOME DUBSTEP/DEQTH METAL AT UR WEDDING EMAIL ME OR CALL ME, IF UR HOT ILL DO IT FOR FREE AND YOU’LL HAVE TO FUCK ME.
-DJ Twatty Nigga
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“Retirement” has no real meaning any more. Most productive people, young and old, continually seek out new ways to express their talents and rejoice in life. To foresee an arbitrary age — when many are at the height of their powers — as a time to cease being creative and active is merely a form of conscious decline. Producing value and providing happiness are endeavors that should never be “completed.”
Eight-week fitness programme including calorie controlled diet starts today… current weight 88kg, aiming at 76kg which is 1.5kg weight loss a week.
It’s a big ask but there’s plenty of low-hanging fruit, so to speak, so I’m confident and determined. And scared.
Lady Gaga is one of the smartest marketers I’ve yet seen. She brands herself as a “show without an intermission”! The arbitrary compartmentalization of our lives drains us of energy and prevents synergy. I know people who won’t answer email while on vacation or take time out to play with the kids or dogs during the “work day.” We have a single life. Our house has different rooms, but our lives should simply have one “great room.” A little discipline and a lot of judgment will optimize your time, which is not a resource but actually a set of priorities. Real wealth isn’t about “to do” lists, or “bucket lists,” or even money. It’s about providing yourself with discretionary time to attend to the real priorities in your life. “Intermission” is when you sleep.
- Alan Weiss
Wondering whether when blogs get past a certain size / reputation / age, they automatically get a sour edge to reader feedback. Digital DJ Tips thankfully has a lovely readership so far, but two other blogs I work with - DJ Tech Tools and Resident Advisor - seem to suffer a share of carping, lurking negative people just ready to pop up and slag off the sites or their readers. They’re both great sites with hard working people behind them. Seems a bit sad.
Hopefully not something I’ve got to look forward to.
My new DJ residency starts this Saturday… let’s hope the sun comes out…
Hot Magazine, Marbella - My 40th birthday. Venue is where my new night, “Sunset Rocks”, is held every other Saturday throughout 2010…
Click above to view or download PDFs of two recent internet articles I’ve written for Essential magazine in Marbella, on behalf of our company Reedus Design.
