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On tour for a couple of weeks
So, gosh, there's lots to tell you, but i don't really have time right now.... I'm in Vancouver for a Dj gig tonight - had a nice couple of days here so far, lovely weather and scenery and fine wine by the harbour etc. Got some gud pics so far and will continue to take a bunch at the events i do this week. Apologies for lack of updates the last 2 weeks, I immersed myself in studio work recently to the detriment of any other work! haha. See ya lateR baybee!
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3.9.03 06:30
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YeeehaRRRR! - I shoT JR - NoT BoBBy - in DaLLaSS
OK im fed up with this thing crackign out on me and having to retype shit. ARG. I jstu have to remember to copy stuff in case it lames out again. FIX UP!!! I can't rememeber what i wrote at the beginning b4 i lost half of what i jstu typed, but basically Vancouver was faB - the party was ace, the people were lovely, and some nice dude brought me an organic peach pie as a gift, seeing as I don't take drugs or anything, thought it was really nice of them!  MMMMmmmmmm. My friend Ange took me out for the besttttt sushi evAr, and we went and bought some of my fave japanese tea with roasted rice in it, and got some special 80s printed T-shirts with ferris bueller on adn stuff. Sunbathed a bit too, was glorious weather there and the harbour area was sooooooo chilled, had a really nice time! Thanks guys, if you're reading this! I think there's some photos around at www.nwdnb.bc.ca if u scan around in the forums. On the way the airport we dropped by the C1rca clothing warehouse and picked up some new shoes and shirts for the hoookupsponsorship styleee. I love em - got a coool hot pink adn zebraprint logo shirt and some really cool white sneeeeeaKerz. LA was great too, just a shame I was only there for one day. Met up with my friend Heather and had nice dinner overlooking hollywood. Some old dude drove up in a posh viper sportscar, but he was so fat he looked really comical tryign to sorta rock adn roll mhimslef out of the little low car. I thought for a minute he might have been Ron Jeremy, the porn star dude, but it wasn't. REspect at the martini lounge was great, as ever, was good to see eveyone down there. Loaaddddds of mega hot chicks appeared too which was great motivation and scenery to look at while spinning! haha. At the end of the night a cute little lady came and flashed her bOOOObies at me and asked if i wanted to lick one! hahahah. ROCK ON. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that. So anyway, I'm in Dallas now. Had a MMMAAAAD night last night. The promoters took me out to a big Cowboy superclub place so I could ride a mechanical bull, something I've always wanted to try when I'm in texas, but never found anywhere - so yeeeeehar this was the chance! THe carpark was jstu full of trucks, hardly any normal cars, just cowboy mobiles! haha. All the dudes in there had cowboy hats on and people were doing a sorta cowboy walz around a circular dancefloor with a bar in the centre - there were little booths where u could get your cowboy boots polished and a full on rodeo thing round the back! Like a grown up fairground for cowboy people! NICE. So I had a drink to get the courage up, and stared down the Sccccarey looking buLL, my god it was DARK and evil that thing. Had to sign a badasss leglal disclaimer too. A cowboy dude explained how to balance and stuff and i just went for it! yeeeehaR. was great fun, ROCkkkkin Buzzz, my knees were a bit shakey afterwards but yeah, i rekon i held my own, I managed to stay on for a good while, but the controller dude went easy on me - the bull went mental on teh next guy! So anywayyy, here's the photos! EVIL BULL  MORE EVIL BULL  YEEEHARRRR  WHoooooooo!  DOH!  Then we went off to another bar, and the barlady was really nice to me and kept feeding up freee shots like this. I think these were called "sexy bitch" - yuMMMM.  Then we were walking to the car, and I guess were a bit drunk, and there were some traffic cones knocking about, so we picked them up and used them to make announcements. All these dudes were crusing along in blingbling cars like ocean drive and we were rating them through the megaphone-cum-trafficcones. Nice. Then some guys started a bit of a fight in the parking lot, so we all pointed the cones at them and told them not to fight, we were the crimefighting cone warriors and it was bad. Then the cops came on mountain bikes and broke it up, and thanked us! Hahaha. I got a picture of me with one of them, he was a cool dude. Wasn't interested in my theories on who shot JR tho.  Anyway folks, hope that's interesting enough for now, apologies again on recent slackness on the updates front, just a busssy beeeee sometimes. Gotta go have a nap now and get ready for the ClllURBBBB tonight - I jsut got back from a HuGe TexaN buRger and interview things. Its gonna be MaSSSSSiiiiVE tonight. U can also check out the general buzz at www.dallasdancemusic.com the forums on there are pretty cool. LINKyLinK
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7.9.03 01:31
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Planes, Trains, and AutoMoBilE RoboTz
OK, im being super geeK now. I'm blogging at Baltimore BWI airport in America, with a wireless connection to the internet on my laptop, no wires! WHooo. and I used some mad seeking software to find an available network - was walking around the terminal like a crazy-haired ghostbuster with my laptop beeping at signal strength fluctuations... NERRRRDDD.
Anyway, Buzz in DC last night, was MAAAAAAAD. Had a fabulous time, the crowd was super NUTS and the promoters got me rather DrunK - I was reallly spazzed out after my set. Anyway, I'm okay now - the hotel i stay in in DC has free bloody marYs and cold Pizza for Breakdfast at the weekend! NICE ONE!
Ok better be off. I have tonnes of naughty photos to edit and post up when i get home!
Oh, and for those of you that are wondering, alas with set times last night, I hhad to change my flight to later than originally, so I won't be back in time to play Gridlock at the Fridge in Brixton tonight - BUT I ammmm gonna be at Herbal on wednesday! YeehaR!
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13.9.03 20:34
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Air CanaD-ASS
Ok im back home finally - not a bad trip, but a bit whaCk. Toronto airport was BohOLDDD - the toilets were small adn ruBBish - some guy was staring thru the gap when i was having a poo. RUFF. And you have to get a lame bus that takes ages to come, to get you from terminal to terminal and the air con is crap and it all smells. My seat was creaky, adn the pocket that holds your books was broken and was pressing on my kneee. And there were no personal movie things so my neck hurt when i was tryign to watch the movie. And they make you pay 5 bucks for a bloody mary, but i didnt realise you had to pay, so i got on the wrong side of the stewardess immediately because i thought it was free, so played the part of apologetic english gentleman all the way home. she gave me wine, but was stern with me thereafter. Air Canada made an old german lady sit next to me, adn she spilled coffee everywhere, and then tried to keep giving me 7up after she'd overheard the nofreebloodymary debacle. and i had a little kid behind me stickign their foot inbetween the seats. Nice. Even so, It wasn;t that bad a flight - i finished the Ben Elton - 'high society' novel - which was FaBBBBBB. Anyway, today i think air canada sorta sucks, im glad when i go to NYC next week its on Virgin, they are so much more fun, I don't understand why other airlines dont jsut improve their service to be like them a bit, it doesnt take much. A nice goodie bag, free eyemask and ice cream when they show movies makes all teh difference. haha. AnywaYYYYY. im back now, got heaps to do this week - playing herbal in london on wed night, then i think im opening for the Howard Jones 20th anniversary concert at Shepards bush Empire on Sat night - when ppl come in or soemthing! shoudl be Rockkkkin! Right. have to go unpack. GOt loadddds of ace photos from the tour to upload 2moro. YUM.
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15.9.03 00:34
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YuMMMM
My friend Ange Chen from Vancouver took heaps of ace pictures during my stay there 2 weeks ago. I'll gradually feed you them over time. I like SuShi. MMMMMMM. 
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15.9.03 13:53
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> Assassin Dream <
Ok, so I had another weird dream last night. I dreamed that I was actually an international assasin, not a DJ and woke up matrix style to find I had been hypnotised into thinking I was DJing every time I went on tour abroad for what were actually Assassin Hits! Nuts. So in the dream I was in Poland, and I was in the Hotel room getting my gun together reaady to shoot some dude through a hotel window with a sniper rifle. Then the cops say me adn we had a shootout by the beach, but i survived adn my dad picked me up from the airport. When we got back there was a letter from the police police asking where we lived (which doesnt make sense if they got a letter to us) but i was actually up in Durham where i was at uni, adn my dad was saying its, okkkk you'll only go to jail for 3 days, we'll give them grandma's address and you can meet them there... Nuts. The dream sorta ended there really. Strange. So anyway, Its a nice sunny day over here, I'm gonna try to go for a jog - I hope my shagged-out knee doesn't break. Got lots to do later anyway. Oh and apple's new powerbook laptops are finally out! YAY. ive been waiting and waiting for them for soooo long. Yesssssss. Will be ordering a 15" one ASAP. BOHH! OH here's some photos from the tour, one from when i was DJing in Dallas, and 2 with my friends Yvonne and Jessie on the steps that were in the Exorcist films!! Neat!   
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16.9.03 17:01
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Strip Clubs
Tonight, i went to the "honeypot" in maidenhead. With a big gang of people, not on a sleazy mission. There are now no clubs apart from that one open past 11 on a Tuesday in maidenhead. Great. We had fun anyway. no one got lapdances, but it was ok in there. not spectacular. so anyway. today, i jsut dealt with admin, organised my new websore bizniz, sorta - and ran 4 miles in 29m30s ish. ok i guess. new apple powerbooks were annpounced, so im excited, been waiting for them for a while, so will get one when im back from NYC eastenders was good. i hope lisa doesnt shoot phil tho. oh. and. the. big. news. i've been asked to Dj at the HOWArD joneS 20th anniversary concert on Saturday in london!!! I get to sorta warm up when people arrive 7-8pm then I play the after party too! whoooo! Fun baybeeee fun! here's the flyer... 
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17.9.03 05:02
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