A lightbulb went off in my head the other day trying to figure out what happened over the last year or so as to why I wasn’t getting excited for music, any of it. Tons of good music being released, everyone going apeshit on my twitter feed about artist putting stuff out but I never checked it out. The motivation train to go out and find new music had left the station about 2 years ago. Even songs I like just didn’t do anything for me anymore. No emotion or feeling was to be found. My music soul was on life support until I figured out the problem. I don’t say anything about it promotional wise but I do top 40 gigs on Friday, sometimes Saturdays. I’ve been doing them for a good 3 years now, every week even holidays. It’s your typical top 40/college crowd that requires little to no effort to hype up if you play the easy mainstream radio shit they like. I didn’t do this post to do a DJ 101 class but you get the idea. Even tried to make things fun by dropping hype shit, throw in Bmore, top 40 electro dog shit remixes blah, blah blah.
Should have seen the train crash coming because before that I never liked to do those gigs, made me miserable. Hated that type of crowd! What happened was that my day job got cut off and I decided to do it in order to keep a cash flow goin until I found something else. At this point I was like hey, I can DJ and bring in money too, awesome. So I fucked up already because it became a money thing before a DJ thing which is cool but if you don’t enjoy what you do for a living, you’re going to eventually hate it right? Even if you enjoy what you do as a career, if you work with someone who’s a cunt, it’s going to make your job suck a little bit. In this case everyone who walked through the door was my office cunt. I know I’m going to come off as some old fart shaking his fist at the neighborhood kids bicycling by the house but the music that is put out today on a mainstream level is the most feminine, irritating, watered down shit that trumps any past generation of garbage. I haven’t exactly reinvented the wheel with that statement, music hating has gone on for decades. Rock fans hating disco, rap fans hating Country, there is something for someone to hate I know, but if you take the body of music from the past 10 years there is no doubt it’s the worst thats ever been created. The pioneers for this dog shit are the Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull, That fat non-jet skiing fuck Sean Kingston, Beyonce, etc. Music created for a demographic as opposed to music being created with a feeling or purpose.
Shit got repetitive fast. Even trying to take chances steering people in a musical direction exposing them to new music you know, eventually you would have to take it back because people are fucking dumb. I got my day job game back on track and kept spinning on the weekend in addition to running this blog, group, HOR brand, promoting for parties I’m throwing, trying to learn production, trying to get music, clownin bamas, stalking women on Facebook. Oh Football season? Give your Sundays to the Vikings while they buttfuck whatever soul left from the week. So all that and now I gotta give my weekends to ungrateful people who want to hear shit music for a few hours?
I quit. In order to love music again (the reason I got into this) I have to rid myself of bad music and I know that shit is BAD music. So for you DJ’s out there who are just coming on because you like doing what you do, my advice to you is if you want to work at places like that you can do it, but have an exit strategy. An ejection seat that you can pull the lever and sky the fuck out. One good thing that it will do is help you with your crowd awareness which is what most start up DJ’s lack. If you get diverse crowds you will learn to read them better. Honestly, if you don’t like certain music, then you’re not going to have a passion for it when you play it in front of people (sorry, DJ 101 bullshit) and a smart crowd will sense that. Luckily for me, I played in front of dumb fucks that couldn’t read the fact I want LMFAO to die in a train accident. If you want to do these gigs just so you can say you DJ plus you actually like the music, then go for it. Personally, I think you’re cornball but more power to ya.
In the meantime, I’m still going to do 2 parties, CLOCKWORK every 2nd Friday at Rock & Roll Hotel and Reed VS Reed every other 3rd Friday of the month at Little Miss Whiskeys. Those are gigs that I still have fun and enjoy working with Reed, Phil, and Will. After this H.O.R. weekend, I’m going to fall back for a while, bring back the music kid at the playground in me, reinvent the brand and bring it harder than I ever did, IF the passion is still there. If not, I’m not mad at all, it’s been an amazing 10 year run and I’ve been able to meet the best people, travel to places I would have never gone to, and see things I would have never been able to see if it wasn’t for being a DJ. For the first time in a long time, I’m really looking forward to what tomorrow brings just as long as it doesn’t involve a Pitbull hook.
Thought I would share my internet findings of glorious, outside the box thinking websites and foodies around the galaxy. I didn’t make any of these but I sure as shit would eat them.
Cake Batter Popcorn: imagine adding a frosty cake flavor to your movie theater popcorn? The think tank over at FoodBeast beat you to it. MORE
