Definite Eleven - January 2008
Current mood: amorous
dj chauncey d definite eleven january 2008
1. hot chip - ready for the floor 2. buddy akai - cut me up (villians remix) 3. the black ghosts - any way you choose to give it (boy 8-bit remix) 4. don juan dracula feat. sally shapiro - take me home (johan agebjorn remix) 5. remi nicole - go mr. sunshine (punks jump up remix) 6. cansei der ser sexy - computer heat 7. vhs or beta - we could be one 8. midnight juggernauts - shadows 9. firefox - sex shooter 10. shinichi osawa feat. princess superstar - detonator 11. tegan and sara - the con
i got a promotion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Current mood: quixotic
As of today...I am the Store Manager of Housing Works Thrift Shop in Chelsea!
It's definitely a dream come true...it's a fantastically worthwhile non profit organization...and the thrift stores raise tons of money to aid the programs that help house homeless men, women and families living with hiv and aids. For more information about what i do during the day please visit either
www.housingworksauctions.com (the stores) www.housingworks.org (the programs)
I'll definitely be campaigning for volunteers to help out either my store or any of the other 6 stores located around nyc. Expect a brand new myspace page devoted to the store with special discounts offered to those who are in my friend list for the store only!
It's an amazing month for me! November 17th marks my five year anniversary as a dj. Five years ago I first stepped foot behind the booth at The Urge in the east village! It has been an amazing five years...spinning at tons of different venues around the city, becoming a staple for the Metro Bears...spinning a quite memorable day on their Gay Pride Float in 2006 and many other gigs here and there and....at Nowhere!
Come celebrate with me at some point this week...here's where you'll find me Tuesday Night and Friday Night!!!
Love Beams, Dirty Beats and Hopefully Another Five Years of Turntablism!
Fashion 4 Action Benefit @ Housing Works 11/8-11/11
Hosted by Rashida Jones
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The Rubin Museum Of Art 150 West 17th Street New York City
Music by DJ Christopher Sealey Hors d'oeuvres Silent auction
Buy Tickets to the Opening Night Benefit by visiting www.fashion4action.com
Be the first to shop our collection!
Free and open to the public
Housing Works Chelsea Thrift Shop 143 West 17th Street New York City Friday 10am - 7pm Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 5pm
All proceeds from FASHION FOR ACTION benefit Housing Works, New York City's largest provider of housing and supportive services to homeless men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS.
Participating Designers & Brands
3.1 Phillip Lim 7 For All Mankind Adam + Eve AG/Adriano Goldschmied Angel Sanchez Armani Exchange Bally Barkley Kalpac Association Ben Sherman Bloomingdale's Bottega Veneta Bromley Group Burberry Calvin Klein Carla's Closet Catherine Stein Designs Inc Charlotte Ronson Citizens of Humanity Coach Leather Cockpit USA Company Agenda Completely Bare Spa DSquared2 Diane Von Furstenberg Diesel Dior Dolce & Gabbana Donald J Pliner Earnest Sewn Elie Tahari Energie Ermenegildo Zegna Etro Fendi Foley & Corinna Frye Ghurka Giorgio Armani Gucci Guess Hugo Boss ICOT Showroom Issey Miyake Jean D'arc John Varvatos Juicy Couture L.A.M.B. Lacoste Levi's Libertine Limited Brands Louis Vuitton Luba J M2L Marc Jacobs Martin Gordon Designs Max Leather / Cipriani Accessories Mayle Michael Kors Milly Miss Meghan Mulberry Nanette Lepore Narciso Rodriguez Ogan Dallal Oliver People's Sunglasses Paul Smith Port 1961 Prada Real Simple Robert Graham Rogan Rosasen Shoshanna Stephen Burrows Steven Alan Swiss Army The Palm Theory Tom Ford Men's Wear Tory Burch Triple 5 Soul True Religion TSE Cashmere Valentino Versace Veuve Clicquot Vince W Hotels The Wall Street Journal Yves Saint Laurent Zegna Sport
these are so funny but they are so TRUE!!! welcome to our life hehe
*THIS LIST WAS TAKEN WAS ORIGINALLY FROM DJ CHACHI*
THINGS TO NOT SAY TO A DJ!!! ATTENTION: Before requesting songs, making comments, or asking questions to the D.J.
please... CHECK BELOW FOR YOUR REQUEST:
1. PLAY SOMETHING GOOD...SOMETHING WE CAN DANCE TO! The D.J. has to play for more than one person...so, what you may hate may be another's favorite song and EVERYTHING played here can be danced to one way or another.
2.WOULD YOU PLAY SOMETHING WITH A BEAT? BE SERIOUS! We know of NO songs played in a club that don't have some sort of a beat!
3. I DON'T KNOW WHO SINGS IT AND I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG, BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS... Please don't sing for the D.J.! They have to put up with smoke-filled rooms and dangerous decibel levels all night. Do them a favor and DON'T give them a rendition of your favorite song!
4. EVERYBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT! Oh sure, you polled EVERYONE in the club and, as their spokesperson, you are requesting the song.
5. I CAN GET LAID IF YOU PLAY IT! If you are GOOD ENOUGH, you can get laid to anything!! (also been known as "buy the album and get laid for a month!")
6. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT! The only people who can get away with that statement write the D.J.'s paycheck!
7. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANNA HEAR...WHAT DO YOU HAVE? It's a lot easier for you to go have another beer and figure out what you want to hear than it is for the D.J. to recite the name of EVERY record in the booth!
8. HEY YO, NOBODY CAN DANCE TO THIS! It is not advisable to say this when the dance floor is packed (but, some people do anyway)! However, even if there is only ONE person on the floor, it STILL contradicts the statement.
9. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE TO IT IF YOU PLAY IT! The D.J. won't...I guess that blows a hole in that theory!
******10. (THE TECHNO/HOUSE/PROGRESSIVE/TRANCE/DRUM N BASS/TECHHOUSE/ETC CLUBDANCE DJS WILL LOVE THIS ONE, CHECK IT OUT!!!!): If your at a club or event that doesn't play any Hiphop, don't ask "you got any hiphop"? Just go outside to your car and turn on the radio or watch mtv cause they blast it 24 hours a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOME ASSORTED THINGS NOT TO SAY If you ask for a song and the D.J. says he just played it, DON'T SAY, "Well, I just got here." It makes absolutely no difference. DON'T SAY, "Is this the only kind of music you play?" If you go to a Chinese restuarant, you wouldn't ask for Italian food. Rock clubs play rock, alternative clubs play alternative, discos play disco, etc., etc., etc... If you ask for a song, BE SPECIFIC. DON'T SAY, "I wanna hear something, anything but this!" Try going to the bar and saying, "I wanna drink something, anything but this..." You can't complain if you're not SPECIFIC. HOWEVER, if you ARE specific and the D.J. says he doesn't have the song, DON'T SAY, "What?!! What do you mean you don't have it? What kind of d.j. are you? Why don't you get into the wonderful world of fast food! You obviously don't know what you're doing as a D.J.!"... THE DJ MAY SHOOT YOU!!! OR DROP KICK YOUR ASS MATRIX STYLE!
Special Note A nightclub D.J. gets very little respect. They are expected to play everything for everybody. It is impossible to satisfy all to the people all of the time, yet club jocks are expected to do just that. If a radio jock tells his listeners a song is a hit, the majority of the people think it must be "because they said so on the radio." However, 80% of the time that same song was being played in a club long before the radio "DISCOVERED" the "NEW" song. So give the D.J. a break! The next time you request a song, stop and think before you speak. Remember a request is just that... a request!! It's not a guarantee your song will get played!! Ask once for your song and the DJ will try and play it. Keep asking and you're being a pain in the ass!Don't send all your friends to request the same song hoping to get it played. DJ's aren't that stupid!! They get dozens of requests in a night and there isn't enough time to play them all.
And above all, if the Dj has one hand on the mixer, one hand on a TURNTABLE - wearing headphones, DON'T BUG US unless you know us!!!!!!!
Oh, I almost for got one more thing. Don't flash us any money for your request unless your "DONALD TRUMP"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That Almost Perfect Emergency Date....9-11.....blah blah blah
Current mood: drunk
Category: Life
September Eleventh.....9-11......Dial 9.1.1 for an emergency.....what does it all mean?
It's all Bullshit with a capital B my friends! Oh no...that's so disrespectful and mean and inconsiderate.....
Considering all the completely real people who passed away on September 11th, 2001...I must say....damn....it's horrible.....I certainly would love to have the magical power to resurrect them all like Lazarus and I was Jesus...back in those wonderfully biblical days.....but I can't.... I'm not a superhero yet....be patient.......
I am by no means....by no means at all....trying to dissolve what happened five years ago to the country I grew up in...to the country I don't necessarily believe in...to the country I don't necessarily prefer to call my own.....my (and I unfortunately prefer to remind you that I am intoxicated thoroughly right now but through this alcohol I am lubricated to speak my mind profusely without any regret) words that follow are completely my own and I take full responsibility for those words that I shall type....
Blah, blah...blah...on September 11th, 2001, I was awakened by a startle...a dear friend of mine at the time....Rob....was shaving his head of stubble, as most of us balding, testosterone engorged, gay men do about three to four afternoons a week times a week. He screamed at me that someone had bombed the World Trade Center. My initial reaction was..."I know I am difficult to wake up but you don't have to make up that kind of crazy shit to get me to sit up"....or something like that....and obviously as we are all aware...the rest is history....
"Five years ago...America was attacked!" I am listening to the news right now as I type this and I am begging myself to refrain from vomitting....because George W. Bush's voice is emanating from the television...someone who has disgraced the magic of America over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again....
9/11 brings such violently uneven feelings for me. That day I bartended and had possibly the most originally horrible experience in contrast to what changes the world was going through. Over and over again on the television to my left, the phallic towers down in the financial district fell down. The stock market grew flaccid and every single person I knew and met that day lost a major percentage of their innocence that morning. I immediately called my father to let him know I was alive....but I must rethink my existence...did I die that day and have I been reborn with anger....disgust....doubt...bitterness.....questions...intolerance....and tolerance...unsteadiness...excitement....uneasiness....nausea....the will to live and be alive because the day that I die could come sooner than I expect...?
September 11th eventually changed its meaning for me....my dear friend Marcus dies on September 11th, 2002 due to complications from HIV/AIDS after a long and desperate struggle that myself and many were warriors within. He was certainly the first of my dear and closest friends who I lost to that evil disease that hangs like a dark storm cloud above myself and my fellow heathens....I have managed to escape the tattoo...but my heart is plugged into so many who are within the reach of the hurricane...
Conspiracy theory after Conspiracy Theory....the truth is still playing hide and seek with us all...and the puppet in the White House is still alive and kicking us in the ass....my confusion overshadowing my libido...yet allowing me, unfortunately, an excuse to confiscate my progress.
Usually a birthday one swallows becomes the catapult for emotion and purpose, but I have chosen this day which holds such political prowess and unintentional integrity to shoot me out of a cannon of confusion and cacaphonic calligraphy to send me further onto my fantastic journey life...
I can manipulate words....I can be a cerebral jester....but the real question is whether I can make a difference in this violently dicombobulated world....self help books aside.....I need to work it out....and do something...instead of just waiting for my winning lottery ticket....instead of waiting for someone to find me in the crowd...instead of waiting for a miracle to happen....
I need to stop typing and take control of my world and find my throne...
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