GUYS IN CLUBS: LESSON 4

You're most likely going to scare off girls if you go to the club with a huge group of guys. Unless it's a special occassion limit your groups to four or less. Two is ideal. If you're competing with your wing man you should probably find another one. It's not about who gets the most beautiful girl, it's about complementing each other, making each other look better than if you were alone i.e. no cock blocking* [check upcoming blogs for a series about such matters]. A good wing man is hard to find. If you develop such a relationship, cherish it, as all things in life, it probably won't last.

WHY I LOVE TECHNOLOGY & FEMALE VOCALISTS

Look at what she can do with a Tenori-on and a little love...

GUI BORATTO

The Paradise Lounge, in San Francisco, may not have been the best venue to host him, small dance floor, an array of SF hipsters, few ladies, or way too many guys, but redeeming itself was the crisp new sound system and cathartic techno Mr. Boratto played off of Ableton using a JazzMutant Lemur, a Monome, an Allen & Heath Xone 92, and another controller to keep his hands tied as he chain smoked cigarettes and lit up the dance floor. Sure he played "A Beautiful Life" and some other big tracks that are paying his bills, but he also played some monstrous techno with bass lines galore generally complemented with almost, but not quite, dark and techy tones, a pleasure for my ears.

Many of times have I heard a great producer disappoint me as a dj, he did not. Not to say he didn't loose my attention for some moments, but overall it was refreshing to hear a producer play his tracks live all night long and not suck at it. Yet another experience that is pushing me towards learning Logic. I will and it will take a few years for me to come up with some decent tracks, but I have learned that baby steps are the foundation for success in any endeavor.

I wasn't able to get in the groove dancing as every time I started, someone would come bump me or even better just stand behind, next to, or in front of me. What's up with standing on the dance floor? On a tangent I will say this for gay guys: They are up front about what they want, although that's not in my favor when what they want is me. On a more serious matter, since when do people take e and get angry? Being sober in the club I have less tolerance for drunk idiots, idiots in general, and now guys on e with anger issues. I haven't been in a fight since eight grade but I found myself imagining, no fantasizing about breaking this guy's nose for being so obnoxious on the dance floor. Just as my pacifism with getting phone numbers leaves them out of my phone, broken noses and imaginary fights remained just that, imaginary.

GUYS IN CLUBS: LESSON 3

Wear deodorant.

SATISFACTION!

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KING CORN, THE CHANNING BROTHERS & ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Just watched King Corn, interesting little documentary. Makes me think of the similarities between how America uses food and entertainment. Corn is turned into high fructose sugar, stripping it of any nutritional value whatsoever. Not to mention over the last one hundred years the corn varieties with the most protein and nutritional value have been swept aside, or worst yet genetically modified to maximize yield. Difficult it is to find foods in grocery stores without corn fructose, without sugar, just as it's harder and harder to find television or film that isn't style over substance.

Cutting sugar out of my diet for the past three years has been quite a challenge and learning experience, one I can safely say I would of never embarked on had I not been somewhat forced to. Ironic it is that by being diagnosed with Candida and cutting sugar and lots of other foods out of my diet I found it too difficult to remain a vegetarian, and once again started eating meat. In recent years learning that most meat in restaurants and grocery stores is produced by corn and corn remnants which makes cows sick, and would kill them if were not for the antibiotics fed to them in the corn, well, it all makes me kind of depressed and pensive. It's nothing new to most people, but it makes me wonder about the values we choose to follow and instill on our children. Boils down to a simple question: Is more better?

Perhaps my good friends, the Channing brothers, were onto something when years ago they decided to start their own organic farm. My lack of knowledge concerning the agricultural industry did not allow to fully understand the reasoning behind their choices. Still, it made perfect sense to me that they would embark on such a journey. I sometimes tell myself I should go live on their farm, learn and help them. Soon after, these days not more than a few minutes later, I realize that is not my path, for one I'm not passionate about farming, and more importantly I don't think I have that kind of work ethic. Not that I can't and haven't worked long hours, but in the field, digging, planting, watering, harvesting, waking up and going to bed with the sun, add all those together and my self thinks, that would be rough. In reality if I had to I could, but that's not saying much considering humans have done one thing really well over time, that is to adapt. Which makes me think and even believe that somehow, through all this madness we have created on this earth, we will find a way to make things better. We will learn from our mistakes, and hopefully not let the bottom line, and profits guide us through our lives.

Is it just me, or does everything that grows large become detrimental to something or someone else? I guess it's simply a law of science. I would just like to know how to change that law when it comes to business and businesses. For the depleting of the earth has all really come about in the name of profit. Not only monetary, but in tangible goods: clothes, cars, houses, boats, airplanes, and the list goes on, all things I either own or use. Instead of trying to produce more cars, why not one that would last centuries, instead of more corn, better corn, instead of more movies, better ones. In some cases, more so with art I believe, more creates interesting sub genres and off shoots, as is the case with electronic music in the last ten years. With a studio that would of cost over a hundred thousand dollars in the eighties in my lap right now, people all over the world are now able to create music from their homes and spread it across the globe instantly. For this I love technology. Of course this doesn't mean it's all good music, but it's blurring genres creating new ones and putting people on the map that ten or twenty years ago would have never had the opportunity to make music (I won't go into the debate of whether it's even considered making music as some musicians would certainly have their opinions concerning computer based production). It is getting late and I feel like I am rambling so I will cut this short.

I'm not sure how I got from King Corn to electronic music, but I did. I shall try and follow this up at a later time when I'm not so tired and actually know what I'm trying to write. Something so nice about wandering with words...