LODO ALL STAR DJ

so fly back from LA monday and have a week off in CO before i bounce again. so make some calls and find some places to spin this week downtown. being such late notice and not being a good dj.. had some things set against me from the get go. so i spend 2 days finishing off the long procrastinated organizing of serato crates. 7000 tracks and 7 cups of coffee later, i get ready to head up to D-town about an hour and 15 minutes away from my house thurs night. i show up on time and wait for about 45 minutes for the others to show up and get everything set up. now i have gear that works. but from this weekend i think i may be one of the only DJ's that have that luxury. the guy who let me come guest DJ on his night is none other than the director of monolith festival himself. so obviously aside from being friends with him, i also want to show off a little bit in hopes to impress him. playing at red rocks would be bar none THE peak of my dj'ing career. lets face it. so after we setup, i begin to open for him at a bar with no more than 30 ppl inside it and a completely empty dancefloor. now this night was labeled as an "INDI" night. and from what i understood, i was told to play top40 to try and get ppl to dance. now just playing a show for the dallas mavericks 2 weeks prior, i was convinced i had a good handle on solid mash-up/pop/top-40. so i start the night off and start gettin goin, and about 2 songs in some total faggot tool walks up to me and says 'hey man, where's the INDI?' 'have any modest mouse?' and then in turn the director of monolith.. tells me it's important to cater to the crowd. SO here's my deal. EVEN IF I HAD ANY EFFING FAGGOT INDI MUSIC TO PLAY TO PPL THAT WON'T DANCE TO IT BECAUSE U CAN'T DANCE TO INDI, WHY WOULD I PLAY MODEST MOUSE. ? that's HIP. careful bud you keep going down that path you're going to start thinking that avril lahveeen is INDI too because it has a guitar in the background you faggot. So, at that point im like, well.. they want INDI, i'll start playing every dope obscure hipster track i have so they won't recognize a single tune and throw in an empire of the sun track and call it good. I begin to mix out of the first track.. and one turntable stops working. skipping like a beast. MONO walks up and says to just dj in internal mode, however i wasn't set up for that whatsoever. so here comes train wreck city. in front of everyone. SO i wreck miserably, and then start only playing songs that are at the same bpm or DARN near. so the mixes suck. everyone wants me gone. and there's my big audition for monolith. now the funny thing is before i started playing.. the director of monolith tells me that he may let me play monolith during the day. now that was also BEFORE i spun that night. so... my DDW once again. cheers.

Now if that wasn't aggrevating enough.. i'm booked at a lounge the next night downtown again. i get told that one deck is broken (go figure). so i bring one of my turntables up thinking i have everything covered. i show up, and not Just 1 deck is broken, but 2!!!!! GO FIGURE AGAIN. so as a solution, they have 70 dollar numark cdj's. without pitch bend. only pitch control. and the crappiest spin wheel alive. (you never know when you've spun it too fast or too slow to touch up a track getting mixed in). So i have to burn 2 cd's while the other dj is opening for me. and spin off a busted azz cdj i've nvr played on before and 1 turntable with serato. needless to say the first half n hour i was making one good mix out of every 2. going from cd to record. but record back to trainwreck cd. this being said i'd like to thank myself for not bringing up both turntables. and also the kind ppl i was able to escort out of the bar with my god awful mixing last night. my ddw again. thank you denver for my impotence.