Chop! Chop! Chop!
I seem to be getting worse at keeping this thing updated lately.... not that there's been a whole lot going on, exactly! However, the things that I am doing seem to take up an endless amount of time -- to the point that it seems like I never have any time for anything at all, like I hardly have the time or energy to even think my own thoughts anymore! Something needs to give way here obviously, as I can even feel my own health withering away under the strain.... Nothing I can do about having to work for a living, I suppose! But a few other things are on the way out, or in need of change, for sure.
One occasional recurring nuisance is the telephone! I'm on a weird enough schedule without being woken up by unwanted calls, or having my time wasted by people who have nothing else better to do with themselves -- so 95% of the time (and more like 99%, lately!) I don't even have it plugged in anymore!! Time to get a new number soon, I think.... an unlisted one! Another thing that's being put on the chopping block lately is all the DJ stuff that I've been doing at Stage Nine. Aside from the fact that the only days when I have more than a couple of hours at a time to do ANYTHING is on the weekend, and most of that time hasn't even been mine anymore, I'm sick to death of the whole scene there anyway!!! An occasional handful of different people might show up once in a while, but mostly it's just the same hangers-on who only want the same old songs; plus, there's no real atmosphere to the place, so the vibe (or lack thereof) doesn't really support playing a lot of music that might have worked at The Marquee, or elsewhere. Rather than giving me a reason to get more involved with the music scene in general, it's doing exactly the opposite, and just getting in the way of things (and paying me next to crap-all for being there, to boot!); and, that's just.... unacceptable, really!
The Blue Sunday nights are well enough in hand to get along without me (although I still might do a guest set there at some point!), and the next thing to go now is the Shadowplay stuff. I was going to announce my intention to pull out of it after October ends, actually.... but it looks like the events will be ending then, anyway!! I guess that I'm not the only one of us to see the logic in ending this thing! Particularly, taking it out with a bang on the Halloween anniversary seems to be a good way to end it. On the subject of Shadowplay however, I have managed to get a few of the old playlists from the past few months typed up, finally!
There's getting to be so much repetition with these things, even with my own sets, that I won't bother putting them all here! For this one, because there was no proper CD decks (i.e. ones that won't skip with the slightest vibration!) I did the whole first half myself, while Frank went home to collect his laptop for the second half -- which was the only way that we could actually turn up the volume after 11:30....!! But, I liked my set better in this one on the whole (and the Ultravox/ Depeche Mode combo here worked especially nicely, I thought!), even though it's still very much along the usual lines for me:
June 11/06 SHADOWPLAY at Stage Nine
Megalon: (09:00-11:30)
Adult. - high Heels On Tiled Floors
Karl Bartos - Another Reality
Anthony Rother - Biomechanik
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Liv Kristine - 3am (Club Mix)
Wallin & Tisa - Visions Of China
Mortiis - Everyone Leaves
The Chaos Engine - Angel Of Ruin (Inkubus Sukkubus Mix)
Apoptygma Berzerk - In This Together
Poesie Noire - Deja Vu
The Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme Shelter
Ultravox - Waiting
Depeche Mode - Waiting For The Night
New Order - Elegia
Death In Vegas - Dirge
Goldfrapp - Tiptoe
Lolita Strap - Video Screen
John Foxx - Sex Video
Vitalic - Poney Pt. 1
Covenant - We Stand Alone
See-Saw - Obsession
Swarf - Fall
Black Heaven - Damonen
Diva Destruction - The Broken Ones
Client - Rock And Roll Machine (Sie Medway-Smith Mix)
Ping Pong Bitches - Beat You Up
T.H.E.M. - Here We Go (The Blow-Up Version)
Beborn Beton - Im Innern Einer Frau (Apoptygma Berzerk Mix)
VNV Nation - Perpetual
Die Krahe: (11:30-2:00)
Seraphim Shock - Joyride To Hell
The Retrosic - Tale Of Woe
Velvet Acid Christ - Pretty Toy
Assemblage 23 - King of Insects
Wumpscut - Wulf
Apoptygma Berzerk - Deep Red
Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight To Video (Combichrist)
Front Line Assembly - Millennium
KMFDM - Ultra
VNV Nation - Electronaut
Nine Inch Nails - Ruiner
White Zombie - More Human Than human
Rammstein - Du Hast
Ministry - Just One Fix
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Pig - Here to Stay
1000 Homo DJ's - Supernaut
My Life With The TKK - After The Flesh
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate
Jesus Jones - Zeroes And Ones
Wolfsheim - Sleep Somehow
Blutengel - The Oxidising Angel
Razed In Black - Cyberium (On Speed)
Velvet Acid Christ - Fun With Drugs
Wumpscut - Witches Dance
VNV Nation - Voice
Assemblage 23 - House On Fire
Seraphim Shock - Halloween, Sex 'N Vegas
Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
Electrick Hellfire Club - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Joy Division - Dead Souls
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Where to go with things from here, I'm not quite sure -- just cutting myself loose from some of the things that have been dragging me down is enough for the moment! I've still got hundreds of hours of things that need catching up on here.... probably more than that, actually!! (Not just things on the LiveJournal, I've also got a little matter of getting some more sleep to attend to -- and certainly no shortage of other things here, really!)
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One occasional recurring nuisance is the telephone! I'm on a weird enough schedule without being woken up by unwanted calls, or having my time wasted by people who have nothing else better to do with themselves -- so 95% of the time (and more like 99%, lately!) I don't even have it plugged in anymore!! Time to get a new number soon, I think.... an unlisted one! Another thing that's being put on the chopping block lately is all the DJ stuff that I've been doing at Stage Nine. Aside from the fact that the only days when I have more than a couple of hours at a time to do ANYTHING is on the weekend, and most of that time hasn't even been mine anymore, I'm sick to death of the whole scene there anyway!!! An occasional handful of different people might show up once in a while, but mostly it's just the same hangers-on who only want the same old songs; plus, there's no real atmosphere to the place, so the vibe (or lack thereof) doesn't really support playing a lot of music that might have worked at The Marquee, or elsewhere. Rather than giving me a reason to get more involved with the music scene in general, it's doing exactly the opposite, and just getting in the way of things (and paying me next to crap-all for being there, to boot!); and, that's just.... unacceptable, really!
The Blue Sunday nights are well enough in hand to get along without me (although I still might do a guest set there at some point!), and the next thing to go now is the Shadowplay stuff. I was going to announce my intention to pull out of it after October ends, actually.... but it looks like the events will be ending then, anyway!! I guess that I'm not the only one of us to see the logic in ending this thing! Particularly, taking it out with a bang on the Halloween anniversary seems to be a good way to end it. On the subject of Shadowplay however, I have managed to get a few of the old playlists from the past few months typed up, finally!
There's getting to be so much repetition with these things, even with my own sets, that I won't bother putting them all here! For this one, because there was no proper CD decks (i.e. ones that won't skip with the slightest vibration!) I did the whole first half myself, while Frank went home to collect his laptop for the second half -- which was the only way that we could actually turn up the volume after 11:30....!! But, I liked my set better in this one on the whole (and the Ultravox/ Depeche Mode combo here worked especially nicely, I thought!), even though it's still very much along the usual lines for me:
June 11/06 SHADOWPLAY at Stage Nine
Megalon: (09:00-11:30)
Adult. - high Heels On Tiled Floors
Karl Bartos - Another Reality
Anthony Rother - Biomechanik
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Liv Kristine - 3am (Club Mix)
Wallin & Tisa - Visions Of China
Mortiis - Everyone Leaves
The Chaos Engine - Angel Of Ruin (Inkubus Sukkubus Mix)
Apoptygma Berzerk - In This Together
Poesie Noire - Deja Vu
The Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme Shelter
Ultravox - Waiting
Depeche Mode - Waiting For The Night
New Order - Elegia
Death In Vegas - Dirge
Goldfrapp - Tiptoe
Lolita Strap - Video Screen
John Foxx - Sex Video
Vitalic - Poney Pt. 1
Covenant - We Stand Alone
See-Saw - Obsession
Swarf - Fall
Black Heaven - Damonen
Diva Destruction - The Broken Ones
Client - Rock And Roll Machine (Sie Medway-Smith Mix)
Ping Pong Bitches - Beat You Up
T.H.E.M. - Here We Go (The Blow-Up Version)
Beborn Beton - Im Innern Einer Frau (Apoptygma Berzerk Mix)
VNV Nation - Perpetual
Die Krahe: (11:30-2:00)
Seraphim Shock - Joyride To Hell
The Retrosic - Tale Of Woe
Velvet Acid Christ - Pretty Toy
Assemblage 23 - King of Insects
Wumpscut - Wulf
Apoptygma Berzerk - Deep Red
Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight To Video (Combichrist)
Front Line Assembly - Millennium
KMFDM - Ultra
VNV Nation - Electronaut
Nine Inch Nails - Ruiner
White Zombie - More Human Than human
Rammstein - Du Hast
Ministry - Just One Fix
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Pig - Here to Stay
1000 Homo DJ's - Supernaut
My Life With The TKK - After The Flesh
Skinny Puppy - Assimilate
Jesus Jones - Zeroes And Ones
Wolfsheim - Sleep Somehow
Blutengel - The Oxidising Angel
Razed In Black - Cyberium (On Speed)
Velvet Acid Christ - Fun With Drugs
Wumpscut - Witches Dance
VNV Nation - Voice
Assemblage 23 - House On Fire
Seraphim Shock - Halloween, Sex 'N Vegas
Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
Electrick Hellfire Club - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Joy Division - Dead Souls
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Where to go with things from here, I'm not quite sure -- just cutting myself loose from some of the things that have been dragging me down is enough for the moment! I've still got hundreds of hours of things that need catching up on here.... probably more than that, actually!! (Not just things on the LiveJournal, I've also got a little matter of getting some more sleep to attend to -- and certainly no shortage of other things here, really!)
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