ask Dan Selzer!

(i don't have insurance so don't get steamed)

not necessarily if you're a 1099 mofo.

I take these simple pills every day and after 6 or whatever months am supposed to have thyroid levels checked. I often forget and call dr. who gives refill anyway, which I figure is fine because when I DO go, my levels haven't changed for like 5 years. So they ran out today and I've been busy and I call dr. and he's like "come get blood test tomorrow" and I'm like "my manager is gone for the day so I can't not come in tomorrow, can I get a weeks worth of pills and I'll come in later this week or whenever" and he says "I can't do anything for you without a blood test, so you need to do that goodbye" and hangs up on me. You're not supposed to notice when you miss a day or two but I swear I feel way weird, so I didn't want to wait a week days for pills. But he's been rude before and I was like fuck that hanging up on me. I went to the pharmacist and she gave me a few days worth and now I'm gonna find a new doctor, which I should've ages ago anyway. I may have to go a few days without pills, which will feel like getting sick and exhausted and tired and even weak but I'd do that as opposed to go back to his office.

I already have one tip, but am fielding others. I just prefer to hear from an actual person that so-and-so was nice and/or professional rather then whatever some healthcare website says.

Drew...I though you asked for Cherish 8? We just signed the contracts so now it's official. They're checking to see what they have in multi-track format for transfering, will be in touch.

so yeah, Acute Records is proud to reissue Ike Yard's 2 releases, the LP on Factory and the EP on Crepuscule, as well as some unreleased stuff, including a track recorded live when they opened up for New Order's first show in America, at the Ukranian National Home (on 2nd ave behind the Sly Fox, see concert film Taras Shevanko)

good news on the reish, tho.

congrats on Ike Yard. been meaning to email you to ask when a John Bender reissue will be forthcoming .

my guy is decent and efficent..but hes on 28 and lex...

thanks for the thoughts though dudes.

good luck with the doc stuff. we wrestle with all that business. usually our woes are more insurance-oriented. we have it. it just sucks. better than nothing. well, i tell myself that.
m.

those embeds never work for me either

why are you not on ichat anymore?

re: iChat, I've just been too busy. I was in mexico for a week, came back dj'd Dazzle Ships and Lit, had a 2 year anniversary, had to go to a funeral, helped John Allen out on a CD, trying just to catch up on emails for me is a mess, working 40/hrs on the mercedes and arbys ads, some other stuff, I'm just not a very disciplined or motivated person and I stretch myself way too thin. Just celebrated valentines day. Girlfriend bought me the Tom Snyder New Wave DVD and Lipstick Traces. I'm going to go celebrate my life be treating myself to the watching of a DVD, Herzog's Invincible, instead of doing any actual work.

I DO really need to do some serious work on the Acute website and my big plans to turn nyhappenings into a revolutionary website so I can get bought out for 25 million dollars.

but yeah, when I'm at my computer I don't always log onto ichat because I know I'll just get sucked into a long discussion about this or that. I know I owe you some music though cutty. Oh that's the other thing, fucking mp3 blogs. I can't take it anymore. There's so much shit being shared and discussed out there it's driving me nuts. I try to keep up with stuff and on top of that I subscribe to mp3 podcasts so like every day it's like "hey, here's 20 more songs to listen to!" And youtube. Jesus.

NONE OF US ARE GONNA HAVE TEETH AT THAT AGE

Dan,
How long have you lived in the NYC?

Steve

But I grew up in West Orange, NJ, which is very close by.

I was in Ohio from 1993-ish to 97-ish.

New York City Technical College
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY
718.260.5074
Provides cleaning, fluoride treatment, and x-rays. All services performed by dental hygiene students and supervised by licensed dental hygienists and dentists. All services are $10.

from http://www.lacnyc.org/resources/healthlit/dent-vision.htm

Hahaha. It's more than just the holistic stuff, really, my doctor is honestly a little crazy: she can't keep a receptionist, for one thing, and she's always taking calls for, like, insurance coverage while in the exam room with me. Then there's the way she champions her Baptist church attendance and raises her hands, palms up, over her head while she describes how it feels to cast all her cares upon God. And at one visit she said to me "you could lose a little weight, why don't you cut the dairy?" and then she took blood samples and when she got my calcium results a while later, said "these numbers could be higher -- do you eat enough dairy?" So you see, I take salt with me.

Also, the last time I saw her it was because one of my eyes was swollen and weepy and I suspected pink eye, but she was more interested in de-clogging my sinuses and asking about my bowel movements. I was like, "I know colds are viral. I promise to go home and sweat it out with ginger tea. And eat fiber, yes I PROMISE. Can we PLEASE move on to the eye now, because I can't touch anyone as long as I have a contagious eye infection!"

http://www.longevity-center.com/thyroid_interview.html

but, i like the word "synthroid."

If you are at risk maybe it can be prevented. Maybe taking care of yourself. Stress has something to do with it, apparently a stressfull situation can set it off. My mother's only kicked in just after her divoce. And I know this sounds melodromatic, but mine kicked in quickly after being dumped by my first girlfriend in 10th grade, who I had convinced myself was going to be with me forever. I mean, of course in retrospect it seems silly, but at the time, I was devasted. The hyperthyroidism kicked in and I lost 40 pounts over a few weeks.

I have downloaded a version of the awesome 'walk the night' by the skatt bros, which is about seven minutes long and starts dropping lyrics from frankie goes to hollywood's 'relax' halfway though. isn't there about five years between these records? wtf have I got here exactly??

thx in advance,

xpost

for $22:

Class Action - Weekend 12", Extra T's - E.T. Boogie 12", Tom Tom Club s/t, Brooklyn Express - Sixty-Nine b/w Change Position (Tee Scott mix) 12", Herbie Hancock - Grandmixer D.ST. Megamix b/w TFS + Earth Beat,
Maurice - This is Acid 12", U.T.F.O - Hanging Out b/w Roxanne, Roxanne, Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines 12", New Edition - Candy Girl 12", Run D.M.C. - It's Like That/Sucker M.C.'s, The Jonzun Crew - Pack Jam 12", Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (Larry Levan Mix) 12",
Strafe - Set It Off 12"

it was like buying up one of pappawheelie's slsk folders.

this isn't working out well at all.

Where is PS321 flea market? Could be the guy from Iris records in Jersey City who always sells at flea marktets/street fairs and the like around manhattan and brooklyn.

I haven't seen the Moulton thing, I'm really broke right now and haven't bought any music in a long time except for 2 things I just got on ebay for "research" purposes.

As far as mancuso, even those loft sets are pretty eclectic, you could say in some ways disco is what is played by David Mancuso and not the other way around! Maybe not, but a lot of those records weren't disco then and are only considered disco because he played them.

I think that was the only thing by Strafe, though there were many mixes of that, and cover versions, and I think another Strafe? Walter Gibbons gets credit for mixing it. All that talk about Moulton and Levan comp CDs makes me wonder when the proper Walter Gibbons compilation will come out, or is there one?

Nice job scoring the Brooklyn Express, Mike. I got a beat up copy of it years ago and now just play the version they bootlegged on Ballroom because Cowley's I Feel Love is on the flipside, or something else good.

For those who dont't know it, Began Cekic getting Tee Scott to produce a slamming cover of Jimmy Bo Horne's Spank, where halfway through it this cool synth arpeggio comes in. You flip the record over and it starts with the synth, thus "69/change position". It also features the "Hey you" from Madness I guess?, some killer sirens, and the "It's Partytime" shout later used by Pal Joey...not sure if this is the first place or if it's from somewhere else, but it's a good way to get a party started, to play records where someone goes "It's Partytime".

it's here:
http://www.subwaywebnews.com/Park%20Slope/park%20slope2.htm

though up until Saturday I would have never rec'd going out of ones way to hit it. i think it was a fluke thing, the guy bought out a storage locker or something. don't know who he is.

(and I wish you'd stayed in London, I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!)

is the "weekend groove" comp any good? i already have the todd terry tracks but i know jack shit about the rest of it.

You seem sorta young (too young to have "been there"). so does your musical expertise extend beyond the years 1977-1987? i don't mean this as a dis, i just don't understand how it could, being you're so versed in that period.

jaxon

I don't profess any expertise, I just like different things from different periods, and yeah 1977 post punk rock diaspora into new wave I like a lot, and that early/mid 80s confluence of italo-disco, new wave, electro-funk into house/techno etc, sure.

but maybe you haven't been on the threads where I talk about Gene Clark or Slapp Happy or Del Shannon's psyche records or Terry Riley or Renegade Soundwave or any other personal obsessions of mine that don't fall within those very golden years...

I mean...iTunes most played =

Van Morrison
Roxy Music
Bert Jansch
Colin Blunstone
Peter Hammill
Glen Campbell
Them

and yeah, I'm the nicest guy one could ever meet.

I'm not Mayor of NYC for no reason, people.

DAN U RULE, GET OVER IT.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/547/dvdkingofnewyork6nh.jpg

ESPECIALLY FROM INTERNET PEOPLE!

VERY FRAGILE EGO HERE.

There also was a rare version of this song on the Disconet remix service label; which incorporated sound clips from a Jeff Styker gay porno film. Very good and collectible.

it has those! that's that sorted, then.

steve S

I know A*MOMS from Hyped2Death. They were on Homework 6, which I think hasn't been re-released since Chuck's been going back and making sure he has everyone's approval.

am i making any sense?

There's another old guy, when I was djing at Sapphire a few weeks ago, where I hadn't been in ages, this guy comes in and starts tap-dancing. Nobody else in the room. And I remembered him, same thing, back from when Sapphire was a regular techno then disco party on wednesdays.

Then there's the guy, I'm sure you've all seen him, old with the close-cropped white hair who gets 2 amstel lights and dances around all jerky at the back of all the rock clubs to whatever band is playing.

i guess i owe that guy one.

what does this mean?

http://www.djhistory.com/images/ftop04.gif

deoxit pen may help...

a good cleaning with the rubbing alcohol that has little/no water in it.

scrubbing with a pencil eraser.

what kind of cartridges are you using? Some, like the Ortofon Night Clubs, are infamous for having shitty contact. I just bought the Ortofon Electros and have less trouble. I put the Night Clubs on my home tables and keep them on, so they're not dropping out, and use the Electros for dj gigs.

thoughts/feelings on the "looking for a perfect beat" citibank checkbook commercial? i dont even watch that much tv and i seem to see it everyday.

Fuck citibank though...it should be "looking for a bank that doesn't have a million charges if you maintain a balance of less then 6000 dollars".

I need a new go-to store for $1-2 LPs. Not looking for 12" singles, hip-hop, house/dance or anything like that. Looking for classic rock, new wave, pop, country, r&b, jazz, etc. from the 70s-80s. Boz Scaggs, Chuck Mangione, Night Moves, Tubular Bells, et al. You know what I'm talking about.

Not a fan of Academy, Gimmie or Eat, to be honest--dollar bins are weak at these places. I love the PREX and Vintage Vinyl in NJ but I'm getting tired of hauling out there. How about that giant place in the Bronx that always gets mentioned, does that have this stuff? The place on Fulton downtown? The Thing? A-1? Places in LI maybe??

Thanks in advance

various flea markets? Not a lot of 1 dollar LPs in this city any more.

Housing Works on Crosby below houston.

That was all the info the guy gave me, do you know what they are?

hey, can I tell you about some parties?

a quick rundown would be:

1. Wed night...Dazzle Ships listening party at heathers with me, jeremy, matt and ryan
2. Fri night...Fixed at Don Hills with In Flagranti, Dave P. and me.

and now for the details:

1. Dazzle Ships return for another voyage, what is this, number 4? 5? Collect them all! Don't remember what Dazzle Ships is? It's where we play whatever records I feel like it, and you don't dance. Wait, that sounds like all my parties! No for real, early evening, low-key, great bar, nice people, great music. I bought a TON of AMAZING records this weekend, so you have to come check them out! Our guests this week are our great old friends Ryan Chowdhury of Mazing Vids (the one with no glasses) and Matt Radune of Oberlin College. Ryan used to join me at Transmission sometimes, we did 3 entire hours of Cabaret Voltaire once. That one was a winner. Expect more of the same. Matt bought all the great disco records in Texas. Expect to hear them all. Here's Ryan's email:

I'm going to play records at this neat bar called Heather's in the East Village tomorrow. The night is called Dazzle Ships. That's British for "cheap beer & spaced out music." Expect OMD, slowed-down disco, white funk, minimal synth, plain old minimalism, what they used to call "art rock," reggae songs where the city is too hot.

info:
"Dazzle Ships
w/hosts:
Dan Dna Selzer (Acute Records)
Tropical Jeremy Campbell
& guests:
Ryan Chowdhury
Matthew Red Hot Radune

8pm-1am at heathers
506 e13th at Avenue A
1/2 price well 'til 9, $2 tecate 'til 10

2. I'm djing at Don Hills for the first time ever! It's where Misshapes takes place on saturdays. Friday's has alternating great parties like Nite Time and Fixed, which is the old party that used to rock the Tribecca Grand on saturdays. Dave P. you know from RVNG, who put out that awesome Crazy Rhythms mix and the new Tim Sweeney edits 12". You also know him from DJing at Motherfucker and his legendary party in the 6th borough, Making Time. I haven't dj'd with him since we destroyed Table 50. Literally, they don't even call it that any more! There's also an awesome live band who should be cool, and best of all, it's FREE so long as you RSVP to getrad@igetrvng.com

So c'mon people...this is your chance to come to a seedy nightclub and dance. It may even be dark enough that nobody will recognize you and your stupid dancing! I'm going to play a lot of music, I'll play some of your favorite hits, but I'm going to play some really loud techno if I can. And some loud disco. Some loud New Wave. Some of the crazy records I bought last weekend, really loud. I learned the secret to exciting DJing. Play LOUD. Thanks to Scott Z. for that, you know what I mean if you came to Jeremy's bday party last week. What did you say? I can't hear you, it was so LOUD! I'd put on the most boring song and mix it really poorly and it still sounded like a life-changing moment. Know why? It was so LOUD! Anyway see you at these parties, friends. Please spread the word.

Friday, June 2nd
FIXED

w/ very special guests IN FLAGRANTI (Codek Records) LIVE @ midnight!!
www.codek.com

and special guest DJ: DAN SELZER (Acute/ Crazy Rhythms DJ Crew)

Plus residents JDH & Dave P

@ Don Hills- 511 Greenwich
10pm, $10 at door or FREE W/ RSVP to: getrad@igetrvng.com

FREE Sparks 11pm-midnight, 2 for 1 drinks 11pm-midnight!!

In Flagranti are producers Cosmic Rocker and Alex Gloor, whose sound
combines elements of disco, electro, house, funk and more. They have
numerous releases under their belt on their label Codek Records,
notably FIXED staples "Genital Blue Room" and "Just Gazing". They just
released a solid remix of Who Made Who's "Out The Door" on Gomma
Records, and their tracks are regularly included in DJ sets by Tiga,
Black Strobe, Trevor Jackson, Chloe and more.

or come to dazzle ships tonight and drink yr pains away.

i was talking to a friend of yours online (his name is the name of a famous r'n'b pedophile) and he told me one of the biggest parts of being a dj is being very network-y and marketing yourself all the time. what do you think of this statement?

jason

YES. Particularly in a city as saturated with DJs as New York, first rule is, it isn't usually about the music, it's about your friends. Personally, I found that when I was 26 and going out every night and staying up till 4 every night and knew everybody in NYC, more people came to my parties. Now that I'm 31 and I stay home every night and my friends are all entering their mid-life crises, I find it harder to drum up interest.

I mean, there's simple things you can do, just go out, say hello, remind people you exist. And if you go to their parties, often they'll come to yours. It's a you scratch my record, I'll scratch yours kind of situation.

And I don't think all that is an inherently bad thing, I think, personally, I'm a very good example of someone who's a good social networker and self-marketer who's been able to do that without coming across as sleazy or shallow or whatever. I had a long discussion with someone about some younger DJ who was a real problem child and our basic conclusion was that...being shitty, you can go really far really fast, but in the end it ain't like you're making friends. After a while you know who you can trust anyway.

But as far as the music is concerned...in some cases it matters, but often not. I'm sure there's some mathematical chart you can configure. There are plenty of successfull parties where the music and djing is just crap, or just barely adequate, but it's a place to be, it's a scene, the DJs have the right friends or whatever it takes. As far as the good parties, I believe even with those there's a quality of building up a crowd and having the right friends. Does No Ordinary Monkey or Rub-N-Tug have bigger mailing lists then I do? Probably not, but their mailing lists are filled with people who are really into going out at 4 in the morning to dance to disco, whereas my mailing list is filled with people into going to their computer at 4 in the morning to discuss disco on the internet. That's a key difference there, folks!

There's so many other issues, like frequency. When I started, all my friends came out and I had lots of support, but anyone who djs or is in a band knows that once you've been doing it enough, after a while the friends start to stay home. Maybe you get a few people who you don't know but if there's not enough people, you know that and everything else that can or can't make a party successfull.

Tell you this, almost every time I dj I have total strangers coming up to me complimenting me and asking where I dj. I get their names for mailing lists, I give them business cards. These people are so psyched, they love the music and want MORE MORE MORE....and I almost never see them again. You really just need to get that crowd who represents some aspect of NIGHTLIFE as opposed to people who may occasionally go out on a friday and be into what I'm playing. Maybe you're misshapes and it's a younger crowd in school and this is their scene or you're Rub-n-tug or A Touch Of Class and know all these older fashioned out night-life denizens, they'll come out. I have no doubt a LOT of people like what I play and have had good times when I've DJ'd, but I can't get them to all come out at the same time to every party I do.

And it helps to be part of the scene, and, despite Tricia's article in the voice this week, I think really PARTYING keeps you down with the other djs, gets you gigs and such.

There's other issues regarding the relative popularity of the music you play, or the perceived popularity. I know i've had some people who think I only play weird old stuff and some who think I only play really big cheesy hits. They're both right. But some people def play stuff that is just more popular then others. I'll never get around how people perceive what I do, some people are like "you're an indie-rock dj" or "you only play italo" or whatever, when I try to be really fun and eclectic. Oh well.

my response to "R.Kelley" (i thought you knew him) was, well, i've got a full time job and a full time wife, i think that's too much as it is.

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), May 31st, 2006 3:51 PM. (hstencil)

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guess what? record player broken! i'm like a toothless person with a giant box of peanut brittle. this is killing me!

http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/HT/06/05/numbers_band.jpg

8pm

YOU'RE GOING HOME EARLY?

I have to pack.

YOU'RE MOVING?

yeah, to queens.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH LOTS OF CRAP?

giving it away sunday at stoop sale in front of girlfriend's house.

IS IT ALL CRAP?

no, in fact there will be a few really fucking cool things amidst the crap.

LIKE WHAT?

forgotten nz noise comp CD and UK FREEK CDs

WOW!

don't get yr hopes up, it's mostly She Wants Revenge promos.

TELL US MORE!

later.

(don't play too many songs everyone knows)

(also don't play too many songs nobody knows)

watch to see if people are enjoying it. If they're not. Change what you're doing. Or, don't change what you're doing, be persistent and they'll come around. Or they won't.

Michael Jackson.

She works at museums.

With lil ghetto kids.

(please feel free not to answer any of these if you find them weird or stalkerishy)

my gf works for the Museum of the City of New York, doing education stuff for kids who come from all over the city. She also works/worked through Symphony Space and/or doing after-school stuff in East New York. She's really really good with the little kids, and tells me insane stories about their circumstances.

also good luck with your move, i live on the woodside-astoria border but (i think?) you are really close to where my friend shannon just moved AND ALSO some awesome delicious food places.

People, Sunnyside is just cross the creek from Greenpoint. Move to Queens already. Brooklyn is over. Done. They're trying to rent my apt for 1750$!!!!

LEAVING BROOKLYN SALE

471 HUMBOLDT ST (BTWN FROST AND RICHARDSON)
SUNDAY JUNE 18TH @ NOON

CHEAP
DRESSERS
DESKS
SHELVES

VERY CHEAP (maybe even free…)
VHS COLLECTION
CD RACK
BOOKS
RECORDS
MAGAZINES
FEATHER BOAS
BELTS / ACCESSORIES

NEVER USED
CANDLES
STATIONARY
TOYS
OTHER GIFT ITEMS

xoL

Nicole lives on Humboldt. I'm over there plenty. And Rebecca lived around the corner, and Jen Blk, Gabe. Everyone lives over there.

DJing is stupid. But we do it. You know why? Because....

a) Sometimes the sound is good and you get to play your records at incredibly loud volumes

b) Sometimes everyone has the best time in their life and with a flick of the switch or the turn of a knob, 100s, dozens, or just a few people scream at the top of their lungs because they've never had such fun and you feel so powerful to cause this reaction even though all you did was turn up the volume.

c) Sometimes girls you've never seen before walk up to you and say nice things.

That about sums it up.

pizza parlor
record store backroom performance space
hipster bar
house party
yuppie booze cruise
loft that normally hosts noise dude performances

serious inquiry. thank you.

i could play 'white soul' (whatever that is) all night and get away with it on a yuppie booze cruise. plus, open water...mmmm.

noise dude loft spaces (i'm sure) and house parties are often the best places, but a yuppie booze cruise? that'd be totally fucking awesome! i guess that i think mainly of aging yuppies, though, and one could just play tons of soul and funk and disco and they'd dig it, especially if the bar was stacked.

OTM. hearing mike s. blast maximum joy's stretch is an entirely different experience than playing it at home. particularly the screams.

what use are they? i can see how radio DJs could have used them but it doesnt seem like collectors would go for them and i dont see how a live DJ could pass off someone elses mix as their own.

in your experience, will a crowd of indie kids who are, let's say, less educated in the ways of the dahnce musics be more forgiving of crap mixing? I figure if the tunes are good enough I miiiiight be able to get away with it on saturday night with no practice. am I deluding myself?

u feel me,

those songs are Common People by Pulp, Since You've Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson, and that's it.

though good mixing always makes it easier to keep people dancing.

in that ongoing and idiotic debate about beatmatching, people seem to forget that it just makes the transition less jarring. It's really not complicated. But it's not like you're gonna fool them into dancing to something they don't like. If you've got that crowd who only wants to hear what they know and love, it doesn't matter how smoothly you mix Blue Monday into soon as they realize it ain't Blue Monday, it's back to the seats for them.

But if you really trainwreck, you can ruin the party for anyone who wants a little more then a jukebox, I mean I've been dancing to my favorite song and it trainwrecks into another favorite song and been forced to stop dancing, because the beats are all fucked, you know?

If you can't beatmatch, DON'T play both songs at the same time, quickly fade from one to another. Or quickly fade the first one out then immediately start the next one. Or even better, have the second record cued up and spinning but held in place, at a good moment on the first record, just hit the stop button. Wait 1 second. Let go of second record.

hahaha oh shit. at least I have a few versions of 'blue monday'!

robble at Steve Shasta

Telling you the tempo and locking it in isn't relevant, just try DJing with songs that have live drummers that speed up and slow down during the song. Only Ableton Live I think can handle that.

Are you talking about something where Traktor has different outputs so you can use the real mixer, or mixing in the computer? I don't think I'd be a big fan of mixing in the computer. So much of djing involves too many things to have to move 1 mouse pointer around. With you're left hand your manual speeding up or slowing down a turntable while with your right hand you're fading one up and the other down, that's 3 functions at once, how do you do that in the computer?

I'm ready to switch to CDJs...they have the feel of vinyl, which I like, but CDs don't weigh as much as records.

-- jäxøñ (jaso...), Yesterday 10:28 PM. (jaxon)

dude, i first heard this 2 weeks ago! I am a pop-laggard.

I MEAN...

WHO WANTS A COUCH?

FREE COUCH.

Big. Brown. Corduroy. Totally vintage.

Someone has to come take it next week.

xoxo
Ian Johnson

Academy record buyer did me right on vinyl that day.

you can always check:

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyhappenings/

http://www.acuterecords.com/free_couch.jpg

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/zip/176609597.html

heard them on a few mixes and am completely won over by Sounds Of JHS 126 Brooklyn
http://www.discogs.com/release/500311

i'm seeing internet prices ranging from $9-$80 for the Chill Pill 12". could it reasonably be had for $20 or so? likely to turn up in area stores? (i hate buying off the internet)

btw, ask Dan Selzer where he is now and why he's not posting to the internet? He's now in manhattan at his girlfriend's friend's house using the computer. A very sizeable portion of Queens, including the area I moved to just a few weeks ago, has been out of power for several days now. This is so important that NY1 has finally covered it. Thousands and thousands of people without electricity...we don't even have hot water for some reason, and the rest of the city goes about it's business. Not true, parts of brooklyn were out and browning out yesterday as well. Anyway, in Queens, Con Ed is going HOUSE to HOUSE to find out where the electricity is out! And they're distributing ice at various parts of Queens. Thanks for the ice, Con Ed! This happened the last time there was a heat wave, but then I was living in brooklyn, I remember saying "Thank god I don't live in queens!".

just saw ap report on nytimes.com re: queens, they say 25,000 without power but "we thought it was only 2500 because we were only counting those who called us about failure"

Note to Con Ed...a)many of the people who live there don't speak english. b)the rest of us may have looked out of our window and saw NO POWER and figured everything was out.

good thing con ed reads the noise board.

My boss's girlfriend is wicked sick in Queens right now :(

everything in my neighborhood has been closed the past few days with no power but my apt. is fine. all the streetlights are out but there is power on my street. got lucky I guess.

renard, where in queens are you?

lindsay, I had written that I thought they were working eastward, hooking up the rich(er) whiter LIC/astoria first, but today i ran into an old coworker who lives in astoria and he's still fucked.

my building is mostly fixed except for the elevator, which means electricity is still low, so I'm not gonna turn on the AC. Luckily it's not 105 degrees anymore.

I think I wrote some more about realizing I'm not that far from astoria and asking where the cool places in astoria are.

Anyway, since friday, I've gone to the berkshires, come back, and finally, due to enough complaining, the power outage has made the news.

the crazy thing is everything I wrote friday still stands

my apt. on 35th street is fine, everything else in the neighborhood is still mega fucked ... most stuff below 33rd seems to be out, and one ave. over from me on Ditmars everything is still out up past 36th and beyond

regular neighborhood features: blackened manholes pouring out steam that smells like plastic, Con-Ed trucks on every corner, cops on every major corner with pink flares directing traffic b/c of no stoplights working

I was over in Woodside last night and it was even worse .... my friends in Sunnyside have enough juice to run a few lightbulbs but their fridge still isn't working

tried to go out to dinner tonight (restaurant was closed, no power) and on the way back walked past a bakery with a sign in the window: "Closed, No Power, Con-Ed YOU SUCK"

(i'll try to get to "cool places in Astoria" in another message ... )

i'm worried that they are only patching things up though, and that this is all going to happen again in like a week.

anyways, i'd like to know if there are any cool places in astoria too!! i've found lots of nice & cheap places to eat, but i haven't found any fun bars.

My building has electricity, but still no elevator. Most of this area looks like it's back online and I hear people using AC. Someone was using the washing machines downstairs, which I desparately need to use. But I'm trying to conserve...not out of some "we all must pitch in" bullshit, but I'm seriously afraid that if I plug in the AC, or put in a load in the wash, Queens will black out.

I will be making a claim to coned for spoiled food...it seems like they're loosening up the regulations, they should really just give everyone in Queens a 150 dollar credit.

All I know about Astoria is the museum of the moving image, which I used to come to all the time anyway, the bohemian garden, Kebab Cafe on Steinway, which is fantastic, and I've recently been told about Cup, but haven't been yet.

on the way back walked past a bakery with a sign in the window: "Closed, No Power, Con-Ed YOU SUCK"

photo of this sign is in today's NY Post .... funny.

jj's for sushi, and also the place the just opened on steinway around broadway or 31st ave (ginsu? or something, it's very shiny and new looking) is actually pretty good.

i wonder if the beer garden has power/is open? it's actually tolerable outside this week!

What about Cafe Henri in LIC? The other french bistro there wasn't so hot.

quick version:

Rose & Joe's - Italian bakery with great pizza by the slice under the N on 31st
Sal Kris & Charlie Deli aka Sandwich King - cheap/huge/delicious Italian subs on 23rd Ave
JJ's is okay, I like Watawa better, haven't tried Ginsu yet
Fatty's Cafe - newish place that just added an outdoor patio, 25th & Ditmars, great mojitos, food is hit or miss
Elias Corner - kinda pricey but really good Greek whole fish place near the beer garden
Taverna Kyclades - basically a cheaper/not quite as good version of Elias

I only went to Cup Diner once and it was terrible

yeah, same here, if I go out around here it's pretty much the beer garden, the Sparrow (across from the beer garden) or the Irish Rover .... beer garden used to be so awesome but it's way too crowded now, gotta go on a Sunday afternoon or a Tuesday night. ugh.

Sparrow = sit in near pitch dark drinking $6 beers ... at least the music is usually halfway decent (Nick Cave, Modern Lovers, etc.)
Irish Rover = you can probably guess

pretty slim pickins

i wonder if the beer garden has power/is open?

was open when I walked past on Friday

dan, please recommend some places in woodside! (other than sripraphai, i know & love it already.)

Donovan's Pub near the intersection of Roosevelt and Woodside is Time Out's Best Hamburger in NY joint. To be honest, I thought it was great, totally solid hamburger in a weird irish pub, but don't know if i'd say BEST.

On 61st st just off roosevelt is another thai place, Khao Homm, which is more conventional then Shri Pra Phai, but probably the best Thai place of that style Thai i've ever had.

There's an Irish grocery with takeout food in the back called Tommy Maloneys though they're repainting the sign so maybe it's gonna be called something else, on 58th or 59th between woodside ave and roosevelt, they have stuff like Steak and Mushroom Pies. There's a bigger version of the same down in sunnyside, 41st off Queens Blvd called Butcher Block, a HUGE irish grocer. I haven't eaten enough in Sunnyside, but El Jarro on 48th Ave and 45th st on the south side of sunnyside was great, that's where I got the aforementioned torta.

El Sitio on Roosevelt in the high 60s was some of the best cuban food I've ever had.

Really, we've only been here a little bit and there's just too much food to try between Sunnyside, Woodside and Jackson Heights. I drove down Roosevelt all the way through Forest Hills and it's just restaraunt after restaraunt.

otherwise...caravan chicken on broadway is genius...as is chicken festivale on ditmars. (i like thhot sauce better at festival). el mariachi on broadway has amazing!, seriously amazing, chips...and damned good breakfast. (thats all i've had there but freinds live on that place)... according to local obsessives they guy on 34th and broadway has the best street meat.

on of my favorite places out there is bahlk kabob..the afghan place on 31st...round the corner from the beer garden. (get the pumpkin!) i so miss the garden, but all reports make it sound far from anyplace i could stand to be anymore.

hell, i miss astoria.

ill ask a friend who lives on broadway and is a massive food person to do a quick must go list of astoria/lic/sunnyside ... theres so much, its can be pretty hard.

======

on of my favorite places out there is bahlk kabob..the afghan place

good to hear ... been curious to check it out but sometimes I need to hear someone vouch for a place before I take the plunge ...

La Flor on Roosevelt and 53rd.

love it, I've had both dinner and breakfast there and both were great.

there is a restaurant that opened recently in Woodside called Spicy Nina (sp?) that was billed to me as "the Indian Sripraphai" but I haven't tried it yet

my favorite restaurant in Jax Heights is probably Pio Pio (Northern Blvd in the mid 80s), you don't even look at the menu, just count up how many people you have with you and decide how many El Matador Combos you want. It's a whole roast chicken, salcipappas, plantains, salad, and some other shit for like $24!! definitely feeds three people ... four if you're not all starving.

my co-worker is all about that place...i have tyo go sometime...theres on in the 90's on the east side too

totally vouch for balkh.

also have you seen the video for Stop Bajon? totally retarded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0l70Yr4neU

anyway, back to queens...

I'd heard of Spicy Mina but read all these debates about them changing location and Mina leaving to work at a rest. in manhattan and it suffering. The only indian I've had in Woodside was Masala on 61st which was just ok. Seriously though, the best indian food I've ever had was a total standard joint, Joy on Flatbush avenue in Park Slope/Prospect Heights area, the Chicken Tikka was the MOISTEST most DELICIOUSNESS I've ever experianced.

Haven't been back to Punjabi 5 Star in years and looking for recomendations in jackson heights. We hit an indian-chinese kebab king place that had manchurian/general tso's style crispy fried baby corn and very good kebabs.

I just can't justify most of Brooklyn to anyone. We were looking at Kensington/Ditmas Park area if my girlfriend ended up at Brooklyn College grad school, and in the end I'm glad we're in Queens, that area is as far from the city, and further from williamsburg then where I am now, and the amenities out there are totally lacking compared to here. Meanwhile everyone moves to Bushwick and now Bed-Stuy...if you're going to be so far out in brooklyn and only on the J train, why not move to Queens? I walk around here and everyone is so friendly and it's so quiet at night...

my only big problem in queens is that most of my friends are still in brooklyn, and it's especially hard to see people in south brooklyn; i even had to quit my band b/c getting to park slope 3 times a week for practice was just too much. i was living in red hook before and i miss it there SO MUCH sometimes, especially the bars, and there's just nothing like that in queens. but meanwhile, i keep hearing about people in s. brooklyn getting crazy $400 rent increases, so maybe they'll end up here eventually.

I mean, Red Hook is getting ridiculous, The Good Fork and 360 are great, but notice who's going there? Pretty soon the only people who will be living in Red Hook will be yuppies with cars, the poor artists will be priced out and the middle class hipsters who gentrify the likes of Park Slope/Williamsburg etc still won't move there because it's too inconvenient transportation-wise.

One thing is that I have access to a car. I went to a little part in kensington last night and it was a 30 minute drive, which wasn't so bad. With no traffic we can zoom over to williamsburg in 5 minutes.

but speaking of red hook...pioneer BBQ was awesome!

Anyway, they need to get the G in fucking order and they need it to run far up into Queens ALL THE TIME.

that's a huge thing. and another thing is that you don't stay out late drinking.

I hear ya, but it's coming to Queens eventually, they're building a luxury tower four blocks from the Queensbridge projects! Plus all that waterfront stuff in the LIC ... Jackson Heights prices are going up ...

Jackson Heights however probably deserves it, the stuff we saw there was gorgeous. At the time I'd only really seen Roosevelt Ave and had a limited idea of the commercial areas, only a few weeks ago did I drive back on 37th (or 39th) then a few days later notice that even Northern Blvd in Jackson Heights is nice and filled with cool stuff (unlike here where it's filled with car dealerships and a diner called the Orange Hut, anyone been?)

Prices may be going up, but you can get a HUGE, like almost 1,000 square feet, 2 bedroom apt in an elevator building, all pre-war with details and shit, gardens on the interior etc, for 1400 or whatever, that's hard to beat. I just feel Jackson Heights is a bit further out. Woodside has the express 7 and the LIRR, which is nice, and lately although it's a bit more of a trek, we realize we can walk to the Northern Blvd V/R stop.

it seems Willamsburg/Bushwick people could care less about the Nets stadium monstrosity. i even caught myself snickering when i noticed all the high rises going up around McCarren Park. i should feel guilty about that.

other than that and the power outages and the fact that the R train tunnel gets flooded everytime it rains, it's great.

still no bar, though. shitty sports bars and generic Irish bars.

Tupelo used to fill the hipster-bar role pretty well, but for some reason they closed it and reopened in a different area as the Sparrow, which just ain't as good. (no DJ booth, for one thing)

We see hipsters every now and again in sunnyside, woodside and jackson heights. I've known lots of hipsters who've lived in queens at times, but as I mentioned, they're usually in a sort of "we're hiding out in queens" mode and probably wouldn't go to a hipster bar if it existed...or would they!?!?!?!

I think Lillies is closed now, no?

someone's going to do a good night out there soon enough.

if sunny's closed, a piece of me would die. i need to move back before i get priced out forever.

I now own 2 sets of cartridges. The Ortofon Nightclubs I just keep on my turntables at home and never take them off, so I don't have to fuss with them. The Electros I have as my travelling pair and they usually connect better then the Nightclubs, and they're a bit more robust and louder then the Nightclubs, definately better for travelling. Turntablelab recommended I buy the Electros over the qberts or whatever they're called, which are way more expensive.

Wait, WTF Lindsay...we sent in a claim for 149$ weeks ago and haven't gotten anything. Maybe they're doing Astoria first.

YES

http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com

Is it true you gambled in vegas for the first time this weekend and won 100 bucks at blackjack?

YES

Is it true your latest CD, the collected Ike Yard, came out this week?

YES

http://www.acuterecords.com/

Have you always been this good at self-promotion?

NO

I USED TO BE BETTER

How awesome were Apache Beat and Holy Hail on saturday night?

COMPLETELY

is this ike yard record so good because the very humanity of the musicians is inherent to the sounds the crank technology to sculpt or is it just the fact that the records they made are the construction from human dreams tempered by an inescapable, empirical reality?

also, should i quit talking/thinking about it with the above horsepoop and get down to brass tacks?

First they look like Joy Division, then they look like SPK, going by the photos.

Thanks to all who came by Dazzle Ships last night. It was especially good when Beppe Loda told Jeremy to stop recording, then turned everything up to 11 and played Vangelis so loud the cops came.

Steve Shasta here. Do you happen to have the link to that prank call file directory that had that guy DSP-ing his voice to the record store girl and the electronics store customer service guy?

It goes like "triple double slip with a triple dribble check",

Steve Shasta

dan, i liked the opera track on blast segueing into vangelis. some girl sitting near us said the cops were at the door but i didnt believe her.

I never heard of Longmont Potion Castle but the Music Thing article with "triple flip double check" link has been updated.

They were funny, but no Zip Code Rapists...

http://stuff.justmcg.com/prankcalls

Thanks Dan!,
Steve Shasta (aka Dougan Nashnashnashnashnashnashnashnashnashnashnash)

I need a web designer. I advertised on nyhappenings, myspace and friendster...and got 2 responses...so far.

It's a whole branding/interface/website kind of thing. No programming necessary, as I have a pro-grammer. This could be lucrative and could be cool. Wondering if any of you have friends who are designers. Please send me any suggestions, links etc, and spread the word.

Thanks!

Passing it on

maybe ili?

More details available as needed.

eman-don't want to divulge too much, but I just need some good branding and interface type work for the potential nyhappenings website. No programming skills necessary, but that never hurts. I'm even willing to work with print designers, I'm more into finding someone who can come up with a good aesthethic for it, but sometimes print designers aren't aware of what may not work w/ web, no?

lauren-I didn't know ili is a designer. Where does she work. Did she do pop manifesto?

john-I don't know if I'd recommend it! Take major notice of whether the stuff you want to reissue came out on major labels are not. If they did, forget it, give up now. If you want to talk more, email me off-list.

I'll stop clogging up yer thread now...xpost

aren't u a designer?

I don't know how much work it'd be, maybe just some work at the beginning then never again? Probably nights...email me off list and send me some websites/samples/portfolio etc.

this reminded me to ask Dan, Renard, and any other Queens residents:

what are the good used record spots in this fine borough?

there is a giant thrift store near the Astoria Blvd N stop (under the highway overpass) but it kinda sucks ass. over priced and every interesting looking record turns out to be an empty sleeve.

I haven't really looked that much either though. Whenever I'm in a dollar bin mood I just hit up Ditmars Thrift.

was the egyptian lover a real egyptian??

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=45628181

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=90719522

I had to delete my page out of respect to the man.

i'm sure you've been asked this before, but will you change your middle name to "Alka"? i will foot all the legal bills for name-changing, and will pay you an additional $25 US in Hardee's gift certificates.

will you be purchasing oneof these?

http://www.uberreview.com/2006/09/cool-concept-portable-djing-boombox.htm/

= http://photos.friendster.com/photos/18/23/1133281/12671567038544l.jpg

Way to go on the new site and blog.

KUDOS!!!

and it only took 8 years!

http://acuterecords.com/blog/

for reference

that Fire Engines comp. looks awesome

I've posted this about 8 times in the last half hour:

Hey-

For about 6 years the Acute Records website was just a single white page with a bit of text and the phrase "new site soon" up top. Finally, about a year ago, it had a "design", some sort of Acute house style, but was still just a tease. Then, after much work and with a great deal of help from Rob from Catsup Plate, we got a real website up there. But I didn't officially "announce" it because I was waiting to start the Acute blog. So after a few more months, and with a great deal of help from Max of artificeeternity.com, we finally set up the blog. And I still didn't say anything. I had posted an initial intro post, but wanted to wait until there was a more substantial post. Well now there is, so I'm here to tell you about it.

Consider the Acute Records website officially "launched"! You can see it here:
http://acuterecords.com

And feel free to check out the Acute Records Blog here:
http://acuterecords.com/blog/

Why a blog? Why not. You can read all about it in the first post, but basically the blog will be an outlet for the discussion of music, the stuff we're releasing, the stuff we want to release, the stuff we wished we released. Old music, new music, tours, radio, interviews etc. Like the original Acute geocities website, it'll mostly just be the rants of a fan, nothing too authoritative or academic. Hopefully it will be fun, maybe a bit informative and maybe a bit funny at times.

My goal is to have at least one post a week because I want to make sure you come back and keep checking it...I want to be in your RSS reader, I want to be in your blogroll. Most importantly, I want you to comment and take part. The first real post is up, an extensive and excessive summation of my appearance on the Beats in Space radio show. Don't worry, I'll probably never post anything that long again.

So please come check it out and let me know what you think. We're still working the kinks out but I'm pretty psyched about it. And look for the Fire Engines CD Hungry Beat on October 2nd and for news beyond that...well you'll have to join the mailing list and keep checking the blog!

Thanks,

Dan

Don't worry, I'll probably never post anything that long again.

oh, please do. you don't talk about music on ILX/Noize nearly as much as you should

there's probably a good reason for that.

unless you're being self depreciating, i think i understand what you're talking about. keeping yr precious little secrets to yrself. no?

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TURN OFF THAT LIL PENIS KID VIDEO!?

keeping secrets only because there's stuff I want to release and I don't want someone else to do it first, or worse yet, everyone to go download everything and get all bored and jaded "oh I can't believe you're putting that 20 year old record out, that's soooo last year". That and I haven't always enjoyed discussing music on ILX. Shocking, no?

Everyone has secrets.

those are exactly the secrets i thought you were talking about.

SECRETS AND LIES

You should put r@re tracks up without any identifying info on them.

I'm going to do that with some DJ mixes I think. I know some haters think that the elitist move, but I've always relished the mystery, it's fun. Most of the stuff I want to put on DJ mixes aren't that obscure, but I want to inspire that feeling when someone's like "oh man, what is that!". I still get that all the time. I think it's something that should never die.

Dan Selzer,

Could you email r✧✧✧@gunc✧✧✧.d✧ and put something together when you come to SF? kthxbye

Steve Shasta

hey you weren't upset that i "disappeared" sat? wasn't my intention.

You should put r@re tracks up without any identifying info on them

yeah I'm not too into that

I never go to 12AM Maternal blog anymore now that it's just "Mystery Trak #12," "Mystery Track #13" etc.

it's not that annoying on a mix tho

steve, you lost me on the address...

sanskrit, it's like you said, we were all ready to get frozen hot chocolates and you were like "i'm gonna bum rush this" and give it a shot. We didn't think you'd get in but figured you had. I just regret not getting on a VIP list...and even turning down a txt-ed offer I got at like 5. I really, stupidly thought we'd all just get in!

uh ryan @ gunclub.dj

sorry i was trying to be elitist and you have to guess the rest of the address AH JUST KIDDING SORRY BAD JOKE HAHA ahem.

i've been meaning to start an ILX thread on the idea of elitism, privacy, djs, blogs and "giving away stuff". i'm lazy though

jacque torres is amazing but those hot chocolates will destroy your colon. even half of one.

i've been meaning to start an ILX thread on the idea of elitism, privacy, djs, blogs and "giving away stuff". i'm lazy though

-- jaxon, Friday, July 13, 2007 3:30 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Oh this seems like a really GREAT idea!!

This annoying chick that was a friend of the folks I went with said I "HAD to try that iced hot chocolate OMG it's the best" etc.

Good thing I didn't have 77portapottieflushes.

I couldn't even finish one. That's saying a lot.

elitism, privacy, djs, blogs and "giving away stuff"

what a can of worms you opened there. Didn't I say something about not wanting to talk about music on ILX? I'm just here to talk about places like Upi Jaya, the Indonesian resteraunt I visited tonight.

plus, we've got geir on ilm anyway. he covers all your bases:

My DJ set would have consisted of 80s synthpop/new romantics, 80s Europop and 80s Italo Disco. The only dance music worth listening to. :)

-- Geir Hongro, Friday, July 13, 2007 9:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I almost responded to that, make some kind of narrative from James Brown to Italo Disco, but I figured it wasn't worth it.

http://acuterecords.com/NFREDNTS.jpg

dan can you help me out here?

song id help: late 80's early 90's dubby soul "Who's steppin out" or "who's steppin now"

wed Dazzle ships, Thursday dance party at 205 Club

http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=19

dan,

name me one dollar bin record i shd buy/play next time i dj

thnx

Joe Jackson-Stepping Out from Night and Day.

Ooh Thurs is tempting!

Joe Jackson-Stepping Out from Night and Day

YES!!!

it's true.

please spread the word about thursday. I've never been to 205, I know it's a pretty trendy place these days and people go and dance on weeknights, but I don't get out so often and haven't been to the type of place where people actually dance on weeknights in ages, so it's hard for me to believe!

I would dance on a weeknight...

I will def. go to at least one of these but not sure which one yet

buy one get one free

I don't know what that means

only one allows dancing

only one will feature wall of voodoo

its a tough call.

is there a cover at 205? is there ever? i can't remember.

I have totally danced at Dazzle Ships but I think Dan had left by that point.

I don't think there's a cover at 205. I hear it gets velvet ropey at times. Just say you're there for the bangers party.

3 weirdos dancing in the area near the bathrooms at Heathers is not my ideal dance party, Jon.

you're not single brah!

so uh what do i wear to this 205 shit?

yay weirdos.

NO BAGGY PANTS, NO SNEAKERS, NO BASEBALL CAPS

I dunno, wear whatever you want.

WAHT WILL VIC WHERE?

seriously, i hate dancing in anything NOT sneakers :(

yeah thats like a vic ban :D

wear st3v3 a0ki collection limited edition BAPE hoodie OOP L@@K

no lycra

wear this:
http://www.techdego.com/upload/2007/03/invisibility_cloak.jpg

I was kidding about the no hip-hop look thing, this isn't New Jersey, you know.

http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs488/Contrib/f02/a3/Disco_big2.gif

that's a fine addition to my thread.

IS IT SHINY SHIRT TIME?!

http://www.njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2007/May/May%2019,%202007%20DJais/full/DSC05715.jpeg

The guy on the L is not TOOOOO guido-y -- hair not spiked, Tshirt is sort of cool, looks mainstream but not immed categorizable. The guy on the R, on the other hand...I just keep burstign into giggles every time I look at him. HE IS THE LONG ISLAND ICED TEA-BRINGING GNOME.

GET ONE FOR YOUR LAWN TODAY AND ENJOY ENDLESS COCKTAILS UNTIL YOU GET WASTED AND WAKE UP FACE-DOWN.

keke

diagonal stripeys shirtz tucked into bootcut jean over square toe = best
huge amounts of hair gel already guaranteed if all of the above are in effect

axe spray

Vic if you show on Thurs wearing stripseys shirts tucked in I will do something drastic. I dunno what yet. Maybe slap Jon.

MY BROTHER, JERRY, IS A NJ GUIDO, EVEN THOUGH HE IS ASIAN AND LIVES IN VIRGINIA.

HE IRONS HIS JEANS AND T SHIRTS AND TUCKS THEM IN AND HANGS OUT AT GNC AND DRINKS LOTS OF PROTEIN SHAKES AND HAS MET EVERY GIRLFRIEND HE HAS EVER HAD AT THE MALL OR THE GYM.

AND HE HAS A STUPID TRIBAL TATTOO AROUND HIS ARM AND GELS HIS HAIR. HE GOT 500 ON THE SATS COMBINED BOTH TIMES HE TOOK IT.

HE IS A POLICE OFFICER IN NORFOLK.

Just keep posting, you're making it more and more likely that he'll google himself and find ILX/NB someday. Maybe someday soon!

HE HAS BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN TO USE A COMPUTER.

I HAVE NEVER HEARD HIM EVEN TALK ABOUT THE INTERNET. HE USUALLY JUST WANTS TO KNOW IF I HAVE LOTION BECAUSE HIS HANDS ARE DRY AND TO ASK IF I THINK IT IS HOT IN HERE.

laurel being funny shocker! wau kekekeke

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1323/617201161_2823060fa8.jpg?v=0

^ i am going to wear this

Speaking of fairies...

level 18 art student

kekekekeeke

beyond the wizzard's sleeve

Just got pizzaid so I think I can afford both Heather's AND 205 Club! Dan, you get all my $$.

but they are both free! What you can't have fun without the drinks?

1)Good Martinis at Heather's!!

2)Didn't know 205 was free!!

good 1/2 price drinx at Hs until.. 9?

i've heard 205 is as close as we're going to get to Mudd Club in 2007.

I was at 205 a few weeks ago w/ friends. Prince Language spinning - very dark and loud and raw - everyone dancing - strobelights in a basement - I was spaced so don't recall if I paid or not to get in but was weeell worth it. Should be excellent on Thursday!

WHO IS JAY VEE

he's that dude

http://acuterecords.com/blog/imgs/bangers.jpeg

and who doesn't love the avant-garde font?

people without a's or m's in their name?

WHO IS JAY VEE

we've been over this

deej, just thought of a few more dollar records that are fun.

stevie nicks - "edge of seventeen" or "stand up"
leo sayer - "you make me feel like dancing"
boz scaggs "lowdown" (you already know this)
weather report "river people" (from Mr Gone. sounds like dilla)
bob james - "moonbop" (from 12. on the new prins thomas mix)
al dimeola - "sequencer" (from 1983's Scenario w/jan hammer, phil collins, tony levin & bill bruford. super cosmic. i just got this yesterday for a buck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGCo9XHmKck)

Can we not talk about Leo Sayer on my thread? Thanks.

U MAD!

http://www.myspace.com/thegiorgiomarauders

OKAY WHO GOES DANCIN?

everybody...

went last night when Todd Terje DJ'd 205 Club. Now it's probably all danced out.

im going to 205 tonite if thats what u mean laurel!

Yes yes good! See people there. JW sez 11ish, but I think I ride in so I be on mah OWN schedule.

starts at 11pm.

jaxon u should start a new ilm thread about dollarbin gems or something

"river people" = solid!

hey dan,
convinvce me to keep my car in ny? it made more sense when i was playing music more and had to transport equipment but i'm not doing that as much. going to fairway and sripraphai as well as to my partent's are all nice, but not vital. and parking sucks and keeps costing me, hmmmm. what to do?

great set dan A+++ would dance again

"time has come today" disco version! I knew about "the letter" but I had never heard that one.

I missed dancing? u__u SO TIRED THIS MORNING and so late for work already.

it was empty until like 12:30, then all of a sudden it was crowded

I think I left at quarter to 2

rollerskating jam called saturdays house mix was also :D

yesss

prety girl left :(

anyone know how i got home?

how did i not get rolled (other than by the bartenders)

u took a car with me and megan
when we got out you said
"everytime you send a sexy text god kills a bee"
then you stumbled off southward yelling something :D

TRUTH

"everytime you send a sexy text god kills a bee"

lolllll

quoting random threads on colony collapse disorder C / D

i say C

hahahaha

more like COLON COLLAPSE DISORDER :3

tmi!

Everytime you send a sexy text, God ulcerates a large intestine.

Do we get to choose whose?

sorry i missed, i don't dance

yo yesterday I saw "YOUNG MORBIUS" -- it was awesome. Also FAT SEXYDANCER

dan, i just hit up a 7,000 piece collection down here in BK that was sort of jazz oriented but with some dance 12"s. i even got that macho record. tons of bohannon and cerrone and good stuff i couldn't carry out and left behind.

let me know if you're game for a visit. same goes for dmr and ian (and any anyone else interested). i'd rather you guys get the goods before the dealer vultures do.

Hey people. Thanks for coming out thursday night. The ILX contigent and 3 other people I know were the only people I knew who showed up. And yeah, imagine my suprise, after sitting there from like 10:30 to 1am, when suddenly the place was packed and we had a solid dance party from 1 to 3-ish. Time Has Come to Day is an italo track by Bobby Davenport that was recently repressed by Flexx.be:

http://www.flexx.be/item/flexx006

As far as keeping a car in nyc...maybe look on craigslist for parking if you can afford it? Otherwise, you can always take the 7 to Sripraphai.

Don't know about the records...you mean visit the guys collection or the 12"s you grabbed? I'm broke from my recent trips to California and Pittsburgh. Did you know Pittsburgh is a much more beautiful city than any I saw in California?

dazzle ships this wed and new post on the blog, check it out.

dan (or other people that drive/know nj) - what is the best way to get to I-80 W from south brooklyn? last time i took the holland tunnel which was awesome at 5:30 am but really, reallly bad on sunday evening. would you go through staten island or the bronx instead?

good question

if you can avoid sunday evening travel, do so.

we usually take the lincoln tunnel, but that's not really convenient to south brooklyn. we did the gwb once and really regretted it.

i'll probably come back saturday evening around 11, which should be even worse i'm sure.

It looks like you can go through the bronx but I don't think that will save you any time and it'll take as long to get there.

I'd say look for alternate routes to the Holland and give yourself enough time. When I was living in South Brooklyn, I used to take the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the west side highway to the Holland, therefore not having to go through Canal or Delancey. But even with that you can often hit traffic at the end. Likewise, the last time we did it from the Williamsburg Bridge (from queens we take the BQE to the Williamsburg) instead of going accross Delancey and getting stuck in traffic on Broome, we cut up north, took houston accross and came down 7th ave and had less traffic that way.

the worst part was getting to the holland tunnel from nj going back into the city. i seriously moved about 1 mile over one hour.

There's a secret there but I can never remember it, it involves driving through Jersey City. Luckily I'm often with my sister.

h88888 lincoln tunnel

any word?

Oh, maybe you get off the highway earlier and drive north on Grove St/Manila and make a right just before the tunnel booths.

i came through at like 11:00 am sunday instead of the afternoon and there was very little traffic.

(i actually beat my mapquest time by 20 minutes, i'm proud.)

Trying to nail down a new location right now. It's not easy 5 days before a big party night like the weekend before halloween.

i did bqe to triboro to bruckner to gw bridge to i-80 a couple weeks ago and it took no time at all.

that is awesome lindsay!!!

thanks, jon

did you stop for snacks?

i didn't stop for snacks or bathroom. and i drove 85 mph most of the way.

I'd drive fast if I had to pee that badly too

due to unfortunate and unforseen events, we've had to move the Haunted Disco party to a new spot, luckily we got one of my favorites. The awesome back room at Union Pool. So without further ado...

Come to the Haunted Disco! The ghost of Dan Selzer, Jeremy Campbell's re-animated corpse and Matt Radune's posessed body DJ at the haunted disco, aka the back room of Union Pool. Scary costumes recommended...Velvet Vampire? Xanadu Zombie? Leisure Suit Lycanthrope? Studio 54 Slasher? George Hamilton in Love at First Bite? Pretty Scary!

This is our third annual halloween party/birthday party for my favorite person ever Nicole. You may remember Wild Kingdom at M Shanghai last year, or Disco in Space at Capones 2 years ago. You may not because you were too drunk. Whatever, this will be a lot of fun. A nice space and good music and great DJs and stupid costumes. what more do you want? Please spread the word and tell friends so people know not to go to the previous location and that this is where the fun will be.

Saturday October 27th 10pm
Union Pool Back Room
484 Union Ave and Meeker, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Take the L train to Lorimer or the G to Metropolitan.

flyer:

http://acuterecords.com/hauntedhalloween.jpg

sweet
so is it still free?

yes, absolutely.

just a reminder....Halloween party saturday night, see above.

I'm coming! With a few other girls, apparently.

awesome

I'm a disco ghost. I don't think anyone will get it though. I look like a member of the polyphonic spree.

nobody got the costume. And it was too hot to wear the sheet so I just had on white pants a white shirt open wide and a fake gold libra medallion. One person said I looked like a sleazy israeli cult leader.

Pretty interesting night...not my best djing ever, and there were some troublesome technical issues, but I had a great time, thanks to the few of you who came out.

I saw at least two "owen wilson in the darjeeling limited"s

fun night

I liked your DJing just fine, Dan, in fact every time I came back into the room I was happy if it was you onstage and sad if it was not. I suppose even sleazy cult leaders deserve bar breaks, though.

I saw a Rorschach from the Watchmen outside on his way to a different party. Geeky but my favorite costume of the night.

i wanted to come to this but I had to work and my stupid asthma+cold=evil. BUT MICH4EL CER4 AKA G3ORGE MICH4EL CAME INTO MY WORK AND I WANTED TO TOUCH THE TOGGLES ON HIS COAT.

I wish George Michael came to my work. And I work from home.

Man, is something serious going around? I keep asking my girlfriend why she's been stuffing cotton balls up my nose and down my throat while I sleep every day for the last two weeks. I thought it was allergies untill one night last week when I started sweating and shivering at the same time, then went to bed and had really strange dreams and woke up with the sheets all off the mattress. I've been taking a little claritan, a little sudafed, a little of that stuff they use to replace sudafed, lots of tylenol, orange juice, tea, and I still feel like a truck ran me over.

Another good friend didn't make it last night because of a "head cold".

I HATE DRINKING THE RECOMMENDED DOSAGE OF ROBITUSSIN DM.

Laurel, did you really refer to Chinese medicine as "kooky?" 'Cause that's like what they use in China and people do get sick there. I find it to be a much more holistic way of looking at ailments. Very in depth, too. From my experience, western medicine is often stuck in treating symptoms rather than root causes of things.

-- Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:21 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

what a tard

I was supposed to DJ this friday at 200 Orchard but they lost their liquor license so the party's been moved last minute to Studio B. So what do you get when you put 4 totally overexposed local DJs in one of brooklyn's larger dance music venues? THE BEST TIME EVER! Please come and spread the word. I've got new records. And old ones.

http://www.slapyouinpublic.com/Pictures/NOV.jpg

Free! Hmmm that's a possibility.

so its free? and $4 beers... HMM

yes it's FREE! Free to be you and me!

Ooo nice!

When are you going on, Dan?

I have no idea, but I should get a decent billing. There will probably be some tag-teaming as well, I had a great time djing with Jacques back during the Studio B pre-opening after the Black Dice/Oneida show.

i even danced to that

last night was AWESOME. It was dead for a while and I figured nobody would come because of the rain but we had an almost full dancefloor (which is BIG at Studio B) and we rocked it. Y'all missed out.

HAY DAN:
got a Photoshop/prinitng question far ya. I'm prepping a three color print job for a LP label / cd face. In the black and white layer, can I assume the printer will print the white as clear? Or do I need to cut out the white? If so, is there a quick way to do that? This is a b/w photo set at %50 opacity.

http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&z=11&msid=115488718160982953955.00000111c25e6db5a4fbf&msa=0

I kind of understand what you're asking but not totally sure.

In general, there isn't any such thing as white in photoshop or quark/indesign, white is really absence of image, or "knocked-out", therefore the paper shows through. When preparing artwork for CDs, say you want black type on a white CD, you have to make a plate called "white" and also ask for the CD Flood White, print to center. That will coat the CD with white first before laying down the black type image or any other colors. Actually, you should always flood white first even if you're printing different colors, that way all following colors are printing on ink instead of partially on ink and partially on the CD.

A good way to test this type of stuff out is to print seperations, then you'll get each color layer printed as a solid black image and you can better see what will happen.

And for the above, I'm not sure if the flood white has to count as one of your colors of the 3 color job. That's only for the CD though, it's not a problem with the LP label so long as the label's paper is white.

If you ever need to, there are complicated ways of seperating the black from white in a BW image using various photoshop selection tools, then saving the selections onto different layers of a multichannel document.

thanks, dan. that answers my question. hopefully I won't need to get complicated with a tool tool.
--flood white usually counts. the SD disc came out black on silver because I didn't realize that.

and Print To Center is good, don't think they charge extra for that, but that's when the color goes all the way to the little hole in the middle.

I've generally gone in the direction of making the CD art as simple as possible. If you print a normal 4 color image, because the linescreen is so course, it ends up looking really crappy. A BW image should fair better but you're still getting a relatively courser linescreen.

I've only used four color labels for the AlterN vinyl, but you're right it comes out dark n shitty. I usually use hard-line minimal flat color design. I'm hoping using %50 opacity on this b/w photo will mellow things out. (image is a yellow full moon, btw)

The linescreen for vinyl labels should be fine, it was CDs that suffer. If stuff looks dark n shitty on vinyl labels it's probably because you're printing on uncoated stock instead of coated and there's all kinds of issues there with ink density and whatnot.

it's Bl4ck D1ce that suffer for this kind of shit, y'know.

the guy who does a lot of their production knows what he's doing...a lot of what it comes down to is everything has to be done on the cheap. You know how much money real companies spend on this shit? The cost of one proof printed at any of the places I've worked at is half the entire budget for an independent record label releasing a CD!

It's no slight on r0b, it's just their texture-heavy collage stuff always looks like crap on cd face and LP.

like I said, it's best to keep the CD face simple. On the Prefects CD there's a 4c image but is' kinda abstract. Everything else I've done is pretty flat. It's also nearly impossible to match the color printing on the CD to colors used in the insert, so I often go for something contrasting. Lately I figure just a bright neon magenta CD does the job. Open the case and POW–there it is.

dear mr. selzer,

http://www.slapyouinpublic.com/2007/11/jacques_renault_dan_selzer_liv.html

^ do you happen know the name of the very first track? i know this isnt your half of the mix, but since you are a scholar of considerable learning i thought id ask anyway.

i listened to this mix after dmr reco'med it. really liked it, dug the halloween stuff even more. afterwards i had to google this jacqu3s renau1t character to figure out who he was, i'm so out of touch with what the young people are into these days.

sorry I don't know it.

A lot of what Jacques plays are his own edits.

I met him a few years ago, he used to come to Capones on occasion when we were doing Alldisco. He recorded a mix that was really great and pretty up my alley that was supposed to be the first release on Italians Do It Better. I don't know if they pressed a lot but I think Mike was selling them. He does edits and some new productions as Runaway with Marcos Cabral, who used to work at Sonic Groove I think and was a techno dude in the pre-electroclash days. They've got stuff coming out on Wurst Edits and a few other labels and Jacques and Justin Miller who works for the DFA host tuesday nights at 205 Club.

as a web designer, i always think of all the restrictions we have to deal w/and how many more things we have to learn than print designers, but after reading yr answer to sexyD, it really makes me remember how little i know about print.

i have the jacques renault italians mix. it's good!

jaxon- you have no idea! google "trapping". But that fact is, most designers are not concerned with this stuff, they either pay the printer fix it all or have production artists working for them, though that's not much different from designers working in photoshop and handing things off to coders or whatever.

maybe google "print trapping" otherwise you get lots of articles about beavers.

that slapyouinpublic site led me to rcd lbl which led to this cool find: http://thoughtful.squarespace.com/journal/2007/11/15/factory-and-hacienda-design-lecture-pt-2.html

recorded a mix that was really great and pretty up my alley that was supposed to be the first release on Italians Do It Better. I don't know if they pressed a lot

not sure if they "pressed" any? I got it as a bonus when I ordered the first three Italians 12"s and it came as a CDR. it's real good tho!

also bonus points for making your DJ name a Twin Peaks ref. (unless that is dude's real name, in which case double bonus points)

I said bonus a lot in that post

bonus bonus bonus

I always assumed that's his real name.

The reason I wasn't sure about them "pressing" any is because I know Jacques made a bunch of dupes with silkscreened covers that he was giving away, then Mike announced it was going to be the first in a series of mix CDs on Italians, then I remember Jacques being like "when's it coming out". So I don't know if Mike just took the rest of Jacques, or if he pressed another batch or whatever.

right ... sorry, I meant *I* wasn't sure, I've never seen a "real" copy, just a CDR

that slapyouinpublic site led me to rcd lbl which led to this cool find: http://thoughtful.squarespace.com/journal/2007/11/15/factory-and-hacienda-design-lecture-pt-2.html
-- sanskrit, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 16:22 (2 hours ago) Link

i've been stoked on the architect behind the hacienda lately.
http://www.benkellydesign.com/

can someone w/mod powers PLEASE MAKE THAT LITTLE KID VIDEO STOP PLAYING ON LOAD!!!

then Mike announced it was going to be the first in a series of mix CDs on Italians, then I remember Jacques being like "when's it coming out".

ha.

Jaques is currently doing Tuesdays at 205 in teh basement. I went to the recent one Mike did. Fun, although, not a lot of familiar faces.

yeah i mentioned that above.