20050829

Post #250


Ok... update...

Job is fine. mostly i eat and stare at the ceiling.

Sara is still beautiful and as encouraging as ever. I took her to dinner the other night, and out to see The Skeleton Key today. Worked out well.

Getting a car in a week, (woot) it'll be nice. It looks vaugely like the one in this picture. Its a red pontiac Grand Am, owned by my cousin Julie's husband's mom. She died, and now i get her car. Sort of macabre eh...

anyways, i'm holding in there OK and have no real bad problems. My charts are doing well, and i just got some gorgeous new mixing equipment, so expect new material soon.

On a side note, it sure is odd getting calls at 1am from a friend who just outran three pennsylvania state troopers on his ZX7R and is trying to see if they are coming up his street. Am i the only one who this person can call? heh...

Whatever, it was funny.

20050816

Heh heh...





Ok, so this is cheating a bit.

I'm posting my header in here so i can use it on my page.

heh heh.

Also, a this nifty profile photo, added to this post quite some time later.

I need to fucking do something...

Ok, time to do some shit. This sitting around being antiworld isn't helping me much. So, now that i have a source of income, i need to put it to good use.

Things i need:

Passport for Germany Trip
Car Title Transfer and Registration
Car Insurance
Car Inspection
Capitol for Business
Demo CD for Metropolis Records
Cell Phone Bill

This all totals somewhere around $400-$800, so its going to take time.

Erm...

Not much else. Life has been pretty good. Parents gone for two nights, just been hanging around. Same as usual.

Anyways...


Off i go.

20050813

Another brief update

Uh... got a job at, of all the god damned places on earth....

Subway.

Up the street from my house.

God damn.


Now, its a great job, and i like the place, and my manager is freaking amazing, but for those of you who have followed my dear life story...

The irony is devestating.


I *technically* have a car. A bright red 95ish Grand Am. Just needs to be inspected and insured, and i can drive it, baby. I plan to airbrush (and by airbrush i mean get cans of automotive touch up spray paint) some cool shit on the sides using black and white paint, and some stencils.

woot.

Also, lots of custom made bumper stickers. Ohhhh yeah, stickers. No "Save the Llamas" stickers, either. Good, old fashioned, "If you can read this bumper sticker, you are too god damn close to my car." sort of stuff.

Definitely a custom lisence plate. they call them "vanity Plates" i think. Acording to the state law, you can have seven characters. I'm shooting for something like "DJ DC" or "S1DC" or maybe even "J" or "S1"

Actually, i have a few ideas.

DJ DC
S1DC
J
S1
BLACK
DEVART
DEVIANT
NOIR

etc etc.

ok i go now.

20050804

Job

Long story short, i have a job. more later.

A new hope (episode, er, 4?)

Ok, things aren't terrible.

I'm just have a way of digging myself into a big, giant hole.


She loves me to death, and i just have to work hard to show her that her love is not misplaced.

20050803

Enter villian stage left

The world is harsh.

Its not easy always being the bad guy, always being the one who takes the heat. Some people tell you that its not your fault, you are a great person, everything will be ok. Other people spit on you, smack you down, destroy your thoughts and dreams and faith. People scream and yell and ravage the ones they claim they love.

I hate to hear someone speak down to another. I hate when people are torn apart, told they are idiot, told they can not have what they dream about, told they are not good enough, they are average, and they will never succeed in thier endeavors. It makes me sad, and angry.

Am i a bad person?

Am i doing something wrong?

I've been trying to get on my feet, get a good job. Not some stupid, run of the mill, hundred bucks a week job. A solid job with a solid income.

The world is not an easy place to get by in.

I get pushed in all sorts of directions, and my mind screams at me to just give up. Just let go. Let them be right. Be a failure. Be a loser. Die inside.

I am just an artist. I create things. But it means nothing in a world, in a country, that revolves around money.

i hate money. I hate the walls it puts up. I hate the tranquility it destroys. I hate the power its given. I hate it stupid shallow meaning.

Why must simple things become so complicated... why is everyone so worked up about a life that is fleeting? Why do people spend hours upon days upon weeks screaming into a life that can't hear them? Whats the use? No one seems to just live anymore. just be. just get by. everyone needs more stuff and more money and better things and new experiances. Everyone forgets the simple things that make all of the good things in life better.

Love. Companionship. Trust. Peace. Devotion. Simplicity.

Things which are complicated are doomed to fail. Systems fail. Plans fail.

Look at a stone. A stone is infallible. The simplest of simple. It does everything it needs to do, and can not fail. It sits. It takes up space. It exists. You can smash it, and it just becomes more rocks proforming thier intended purpose. Exisiting.

Build a system, and any link in that system could fail. It is only a matter of time. Everything system based needs repaired, and taken care of. The more complicated, the more likely the failure.

Life should be as close to a rock as possible. Find what makes you content, and live to better experiance it. Most of all, find someone to share it with. The most terrible situations in the world are constantly survived by those who grab hold of the one they love and do not let go, no matter what.

If one person can be strong, two can be stronger.

Anyone reading this, please for gods sake remember this:

Nothing worth loving can be loved at a distance. Someone worth loving will bring a lifetime of challenges and trials, but also brings happiness and peace like nothing else in this world.

I find great peace in knowing i am loved.


Although i do not always believe i deserve it...

and some would go as far as to say i dont.

Its hard always being the bad guy.

20050801

The Damage





Ok folks, here are the absolutely insane details of my download explosion.

Rank in Lititz; #1 of 3
Rank in Pennsylvania: #1 of 369
Rank in United States: #26 of 10,861

Rank in DnB Spec: #1 of 58
Rank in Drum and Bass: #2 of 206
Rank in Electronic: #4 of 3,141
Rank in Electronic and Dance: #11 of 4,728
Overall Rank on MDC: #39 of 19,751

I am defeating famous european artist Pendulum by a margin of 1300+. I am one chart position off the top ten most downloaded dance and electronic artists on MDC. Three #1 chart positions, five top ten chart positions. And ironicly enough, still no editor review or feature. heh.

I honestly have no idea why my music became so popular all of the sudden. I hope its not a fluke.

However, bear in mind, this could not have happened without the support of my beautiful and brilliant lover Sara. She was the first person to hear this piece, and she told me it was great, she liked it alot. On top of that, with her input and generous kindness in letting me use her laptop all the time, she helped create this work. I love her :)

Whoa...


Long story short, with the release of my new track Corrosion, my downloads have quintupled. I went from almost 600 last week to more than 2,400 this week... its insane.

more on this later.