Really Rich Italian Satanists

Well the El Cortez project may very well die in it’s infancy. Had a meeting with the owner and he wants a mixture of soul/r&b and modern pop in order to appease the under 25 female crowd. This was of course after he stated that he didn’t want the younger crowd in the first place (2 days prior). He still wants a lack of hip-hop but who knows how long that will last? I will be seeking out other bars who perhaps have less of a need for the top 40’s shit. Don’t get me wrong I can play that kind of music but there is a principle. I have sold out much to the modern Reno beast, I have played (and perhaps even enjoyed) music that I would not even have considered 2 years ago. But even a DJ has scruples and mine is turning into the very thing that turned Downtown Reno into the hole it is today. The line has to be drawn here! This far and no further!

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My birthday is coming. Dec 22. I will be 26 years old rapidly approaching my late 20’s. I am not sure I have an issue with it per se. I do have an issue with the fact that I am not doing much more than DJing. The Grant Writing program at TMCC has been dropped down to a workshop, so therefore I have very little options left to what I actually want to do with my life. I think I need to live in a larger city, New York or SF (preferably New York) and see where I can make my fortune. I am rapidly approaching 30 and I think it’s time I left this city permanently to find my fortunes elsewhere.

The December depression has not been as bad as it has been in the past. It has not proceeded to the December death wish yet and we are getting a lot closer to the end of the month. This month has been terrible, don’t get me wrong, but I have been able to distract myself and cope better with events that have transpired. I keep feeling like I should do more with this site but so far I haven’t had much time for anything except to write in it. I might need to figure out a way to manage my time better. After December I will look into it more. For right now though things will just have to be what they are.

I am going to load up Adult Swim.com and watch the Venture Brothers from last week. I need a laugh.

The Lords are here!

It’s that that ladies and gentlemen for the list of bad things that have happened this week. You might ask yourself “How long could this possibly be?”. Well why don’t you pull up a chair, make yourself a hot beverage and listen to the bitching I am about to lay down.

1. Mom had to return to the hospital. You think it is routine to occasionally have to show up there when you are going through Chemo. She was there for about 4 days. Apparently her leg was starting to swell up, and it turned out that she had blood clots in her leg. She will need to take medication for it for the next 9 months. Even with insurance there is a bit of money owed for meds and the hospital stay.

2. Our Television died. It had been acting weird lately and finally it just stopped turning on. My parents decided that another TV is necessary (personally I don’t think we need one) so they put in more money for another television. Another big screen with HD*.  More money my family has spent this week.

3. My car battery died. Once again something that has been threatening to happen for some time. The -3 degree weather finally put a nail in that coffin. More money to be spent on replacing it. Plus an entire day wasted at the Wal-Mart waiting for the garage to put in the battery. Wal-Mart is inefficient and the employees are soulless automatons in a machine that has cogs running in opposite directions.

4. My cat has an abscess. It would be a very  simple thing (albiet more money) except that during treatment the cat is carcinogenic, so she has to stay at the vet for 4 days (equals even MORE money!)

This has all added up into an expensive headache for my family. We have had enough troubles thank you very much and we would thank to universe to stop taking a dump in our pool. My birthday is in two week and I don’t need anymore reason to dread this time of year than I already have.

On the plus side school is now over. My finals are done. However it appears that the whole school thing was wasted. TMCC no longer offers a certificate program for grant writing. All of the other majors they have available  that are worth anything (job wise) require a level of Math so beyond me that I would be in school until I was a little old man. So I will not be continuing on with my school. For the time being I will be concentrating on selling myself in both DJ and gaming projects hopefully making a large enough name for myself that I can get a constant stream of independent contracts. So very soon there will be an info page on this very site letting you know what gigs I am doing and when. Look for it soon! I will be coming to a record store and giving out Hot Dickings!

I’ll just be passing them out.

Hot!….

(screams)

DICKINGS!

* HD is the largest waste of technology I can think of. The only thing that looks good in HD is documentaries about very very pretty countries. Ones with lots of snowy mountains and lush greenery. Otherwise you just see blemishes on actors you may have once thought were attractive.