but proposition 8 was passed in california. Yay. One of my best friends was planning on moving to california for a job offer from Konami, and while living there planned to marry his lover.

I'm so fucking sick of religious conservatives.

Apparently there's an event going on at my school that I just found out about today, called "Battle of the Spinners". It's basically a competition for producers/DJs to play their stuff to an audience for 15 minutes while getting evaluated by judges or whatever, and whoever WINS the competition gets an opportunity to preform during the "Sting Break" (hurf durf) concert festival held by my college next semester. I would love that sort of opportunity.

The only problem being I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING Q_Q

I've never DJ'd before.
I've never done a live performance before.
My only piece of hardware is my midi controller which I don't even have right now (long story), and even if I did I don't know how to use it still.

I have some ideas and maybe a few people I can ask for help with planning my performance, but, ugh. I'm really nervous right now with if I can pull it all off amongst all my other college work.

I need to add more people onto my watch list. I'd like musicians, but what I'm really looking for at the moment is really good artists. I'm a bit disconnected from it at the moment and I'd love if people could help me get immersed. I'm not very interested in writers/poets.

recommend away please! :3

My external hard drive has all of my samples (a gigantic database) and all of my VSTs. I can get dblue glitch again but getting Nexus, Edirol Orchestra and the 5 different Vengeance packs I had again's gonna be a bitch. I hope I find it.

/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZubUCYOc4

Last three tracks off of Sphongle's album "Nothing lasts.... but nothing is lost."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUVSp-mfCM

A Cause De Garcons (Riot In Belgium Remix) off of the Need For Speed: ProStreet OST. Original by Yelle.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vozNQX6Ye1A

All Mine, by Trip Hop group Portishead.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RUS3PJ2PtpI

Killing Game, an attempt at a ballad by the Industrial project Skinny Puppy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bdc2DL-GWn8

Man I Used To Be, by Canadian Hip Hop artist K-OS.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aVjgRlto8PI

Kemuri, by Japanese Hip Hop artist DJ Krush.

Next week: starting summer classes. Summer is already starting to bore me. DM Ashura's coming back from ACen (special guest for performing) and told me he'd give me a CD of every DJ's performance at the event, Hardcore Synergy. People like DJ Chucky and Jakazid will be there. It's the next best thing to going there (which I can't).

May 30th: Psytrance party called "Swamp Stomp" being held in Atlanta by the nearby psytrance crew, ATL Psy. I'll be meeting a girl in the crew who I've only talked to on forums thus far.

July 11th: BT's coming to Atlanta, some night club called Swerve, probably to DJ. I'm so all over that.

Being drunk is pretty fun! Except when you have panic attacks. That's not very fun at all. And the hangover isn't very fun either.

I just got this amazing album today, along with a t-shirt sporting a The Flashbulb logo. I'm ecstatic tonight.

If anyone likes ambient, instrumental music at all, I recommend this album SO hard. Some of his drill 'n' bass style works its way into a few tracks, but for the most part it's very soothing melodies on their own or accompanied with breakbeat percussion. So beautiful <3