repetition/ revolver

so whereabouts in japan are you living?

what are you doing over there?

or yeah...so you must like it..

can you speak japanese?

how long do you think youll be over there for?

my friend was over there.

when are you going back?

whats the food like?

and the awardfor most irritating question goes to... "so whats it like over there?"

i really should get around to forming some snappy replies to these questions instead of standing there vaguely trying to construct an opening pararagraph for my 15 word essay; "japan: what its like over there"

i introduced myself to a japanese girl the other night. her boyrfriends spine seem to straighten when i spoke some japanese, rudely cutting me of as if i was making moves on her...coz why else would you want to go out of your way to talk to a girl. welcome to bastard logic 101.

thanks to neil and richard for letting me play a few records at for no standing at revolver last night. i think the crowd liked the music...no dancefloor would be complete without a raging queen in a cowboy hat and if i remember correctly i had two of them (perhaps they got there dates wrong) so i guess it was a success. i think i even saw some people smiling which for that place is nothing short of an achievement.

i forgot about the politics of deejaying, what you can and cant play, the potential to tread on peoples toes if you pick things up too much. everybody wants to be the star and play the hard stuff so it was extremely courteous of neil, much like our lord jesus would have if he were a deejay in a seedy nightclub, to go completely left field before i came on and enabled me to look like a star when the kids finally got their 4 on the floor stuff. its like funkadelic said, give the people what they want and they want it all the time. later on i listened to richard recount the time when he was on a bus with the mizell brothers (the guys who wrote i want you back and abc for the jackson 5) and the perils of trying to order 400 dollars worth of fish and chips for the red bull music academy participants.

for those of you who might care some of the songs i played were

cornelius - ? ? ?
bob james - spunky (re-edit)
freez - i o u
lindstrom and prins thomas - the contemporary fix
kano- im ready
afrodisiac souns system - another one bites the dust
mainline-somebodys watching me
afrodisiac - moustache
loose joints - is it all over my face
evelyn king - love come down
jago - ???
northend - tees happy
kathy ?? /maurice fulton- woman
electric funk- on a journey
buddy rich - and the beat goes on


i didnt take many risks and some of my mixes were plane awful but nobody threw anything at me so i guess it cant have been too bad

and so i fly back to japan on thursday...any more time back in australia and id need to book into rehab. i need a job.

i will be having some drinks on tuesday night for anyone who can make it..maybe dinner somewhere but fairly lowkey. if you read this blog consider yourself invited.

peace