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There's a father and daughter making tamales in the kitchen of a house off a canyon road on a clear day at the dulled edge of the decade. I'm waiting to jump in, somewhere in the process.

It's all a process. The last few years, the late nights, a great deal of laughs. All amid the stress of wanting to squeeze the hell out of a few bad people but failing to do so because arms were already wrapped in a bear hug around the good ones.

I've been collecting music, and conversations. It's a process I started around age seven. That was ninety game systems and a pope ago. We measure time in entertainment.

In this decade we discovered limitations. New roads. Learned to know and love the musty smell of car seats in a dead rain. Mountains where we used to climb trees. Otis Redding. Cigarettes. The cold stop of certain girls' progress. Boys who can't think to care for themselves. Starlight through a hot wind. Dramedy. Dogs. Bridges. Blood. The warm heart of whiskey.

I'll be on the couch at 12. I'll be watching for something. Maybe me. Maybe you. Maybe no song could fit the space. But you have to keep trying.

Here's a small list for the waiting face of next year:
+ A struck balance between truth and tact
+ A collection of produced works
+ Breakthroughs in the field of social grace
+ A path to career
+ A Post-season Dodgers
&
+ More and better homemade beer

In this we believe.
Bring on the dancing horses,
ready for the closeup
Mister Mix.

first impressions

We tripped the light rain fantastic Saturday last, in the first of many planned outdoor DJ settings. Special thanks goes out to George Olivos of Pico De Gallo Seasonings, for allowing us the use of his humble parking lot in the venture. The atmosphere was wet, dreary and shaped by the industrial grime. In other words, it was perfect. The set was pleasantly dark, driven by minor notes, all the while rain fell throughout the gig. A set list and video will be posted here soon.

Thank you to Red Ram & Kevin Binkley on video, and DJ Dave Share for the support. It was really a great experiment. One we hope to repeat as soon as the weather allows.

Currently, I am in the process of setting up the latest software/hardware additions to my DAW setup. In the New Year I will be bringing out a slew of remixes, and for the first time, originally produced work from Jon Paul Joe and friends.

Though I've ditched the stringent religious constraints of childhood, there's no proper way to say how lucky I've been to have all of this come together other than being blessed. But if you can't do anything with the gifts you're given, then WTF is the point anyway? : )

Now comes the hard part: integrating the workstation into some tangible sound. From my head, to your ears, and their feet. A digital age Walt Whitman might've said, "I hear America looping." And a green beauty on an eastern seaboard lifts a lighter as if to say,
"Give me your bored, your restless,
Your desensitized listeners yearning to dance..."

We be ready.

Launch Party / 30th Birthday / December 18th

In light of the early onset of freezing temps in SoCal, we've decided to move the venue from the middle of the Mojave Desert to someplace with easier access to power sources and heat lamps. Ladies and Gentlemen, we'll be kicking off the first ever Intros&Exits event in Glendale, CA.

In a heavily industrial side of town, off Western Avenue, sits the parking lot of Pico De Gallo Seasonings. Our good friend George has been gracious enough to lend us the site for the start of the project.

The time frame and concept remains the same: I will be DJ-ing a chill, relaxed set in the great outdoors starting promptly at sunset, and continuing until 8pm or so. Light food and drinks will be on hand, though feel free to bring anything else you'd like. Invitations will be going out by the weekend, so Fbook or text me your address asap.


1714 Standard Ave., Glendale
The directions are as follows:
FROM OC/DOWNTOWN
5North to Western Avenue east
left on San Fernando Road
left on Thompson
left on Standard

FROM Santa Clarita
5South to Western Avenue east
left on San Fernando Road
left on Thompson
left on Standard

FROM VENTURA
101 South to
134 East
to Victory Blvd, left
right on Western
left on San Fernando Road
left on Thompson
left on Standard