Music is my life

After much procrastination and neglect, I'm finally writing in my blog again. I think the reason why it's been so long is because I promised myself to repost all the images that went down a few months ago before making any new entries. With that looming over my head, you could probably see why I kept putting things off. Regardless, I finally got motivated today to get this thing up to date and add some new content.

Since my long lapse of blogging, I've been having a considerable amount of fun. Work takes up a lot of my time, and whatever time I have left seems to go to DJing. Over the course of the summer from the time I moved into Honolulu, I've made friends with some people that put on "Open Turntable Tuesdays" night at a local nightclub in Honolulu called Anna Bannanas. Basically it’s like an open mic night but for DJs to come and bring their own records and take a turn DJing for a crowd. I first played there earlier this year (I think it was in April) and since that time, I've now designed several flyers, spun at every event and weekly, and had a lot of fun in the process. Halloween was a blast; we flew out one of the top Drum and Bass DJs in the country, DJ Dara, for a special Halloween edition of what has become a weekly open DJ night with a strong following. We have about 30 people on average who come every week and half of them are DJs, which makes for a good social setting to meet people within the music scene.

Open Turntable Tuesday's DJ Competition 10.3.06

(Just so you know, those silhouettes are all just me and my friend Tara. Photoshop rules again.)

Halloween w/DJ Dara @ Anna Bannanas 10.31.06

I've also joined up with another production crew called "Pacific Jungle", who puts on a monthly drum and bass event called Subphonix, which has been my primary source for seeing industry leading DJs in Hawaii. They do it the first Friday of every month just across the road from my apartment building, which is really convenient! I’m going to be playing there this coming "First Friday", as you can see here (I'm BillyZane down at the bottom):

I'm also going to be heading to the mainland for some vacation time over Christmas. I'll be flyinng into San Diego December 22nd, and back out to Hawaii January 3rd. I'm definitely looking forward to it!