Musings on music and DJing
There have been some interesting posts flying around on one of the rave mailing lists I’m on talking about. A lot of it talking about things like how much an artist a DJ really is. I’m not really sure that I’d think of a DJ is an artist. If anything he is more like an actor in a play, or someone reading a story to someone. If they are really good, and the source material is really good, they can move you with it. On the other hand, it could just as easily bore you (I guess the other half of this could get into the whole idea of what someone’s personal repetoire brings to the plate). But in the end, I think a lot of being a DJ is just about playing music that you like, that you hope other people will like too. And that you’ll be able to make them dance when you play it.
I do think about how the music will affect the people listening to it. I do like to think that I can affect their mood to some extent. When I look out across a crowd of people and see them dancing and smiling then I’m pretty sure I’m achieving it.

I’m still not coping real well with the idea that I might not be able to spin out at clubs after the transplant. I’ve got my fingers crossed and I’m playing it all by ear, but it still sucks. It’s probably going to be close to a year before I can even think about doing it again.

holy crap.
They’ve been tracking me somehow. I found a scanned in document at USDS that had my name, and that indicated some kind of tracking they’d done of me. And it wasn’t even recent, it was from years ago. I dunno, the whole thing seems kind of creepy. My name was the last I expected to find in there. Damn. I’m not sure what this means at all.

Ha. I got this guy’s secretary to give me his login and password. I hope to be able to hack into the USDS site this morning and see what I can dig up there about Majestic. I’m a little nervous doing this, but I just have to know what the heck is going on. I hope I don’t get caught.

Augh, damn blogger. (actually, it works more often then not so I shouldn’t complain)
Anyways. I was just saying that I woke up coughing at around 4:30 this morning. I hate it when that happens. Because it’s always this dry raspy cough. Well, actually, it’s always a dry nasty cough. There’s something about laying down that does it. I wonder if it has to do with needing more oxygen when sleeping. I seem to remember reading that you require more oxygen when sleeping then you do when just sitting around. Anyways. I’m awake now. Considering heading down to work early. I’ve got that coffee craving and it won’t be quite as warm out.

So I realized today that I haven’t spun in about 2 weeks. I had unplugged everything to use the powerstrip for my computers as I was rewiring them. It’s weird. I keep going over to spin and then remembering that nothing is plugged in. Spinning has been such an important part of my life and to now have practiced in this long feels weird. On the other hand. I have been quite busy with getting the whole network set up in my apartment and that has taken up that other time. Now that I think of it, I think I’ll spin for a bit now.

So I finally got around to learning procmail. I have to say this is actually quite cool. I’m pretty amazed at the level of power you can have in filtering messages. I’m not sure why I never did this before. No, wait, I do know. I’m lazy. I have a wonderful knack to just put off things until I really need to learn them and then go “damn, I was such an idiot!” Of course this now means that there must be something better then procmail out there that I just haven’t heard about yet and I’ll have to change everything in another 6 months.

LOTD: Sheep Across the World
A page about sheep. Everything you’d ever want to know. In fact, probably more then you ever wanted to know. BAA RAM EWE.
(shamelessly stolen from zannah’s blog because I thought it was hysterical)

While this isn’t the link of the day, this is a great article on Mac OS X. It is written from the standpoint of someone who is a unix user (specificly BSD). It’s nice to see people looking at OS X as something different then your typical Mac OS. Existing Mac users will still have issues with it. But that is to be expected. In many cases you’re asking them to change how they’ve been doing things for years. I actually think it was pretty cool for apple to make the drastic a jump.

Another quick anime review:
I just picked up some of the later DBZ episodes on DVD. After the intensity of the episodes prior to this (The Cell Games), these are great. They are hysterical. I can’t wait to watch more!

While browsing through news stories I ran into a story about some guy being chased through a Maryland Motel. I wonder if this is Mike. That idiot is going to get himself killed if he’s not careful.