right this minute

i must say that right now i'm listening to: DJ Adnan on KZSU. No one has ever denied that the man is an amazing DJ.

special supa-big thank you

to my friend in the east bay who accepted delivery on an overnight from a UK record store. much luv. sorry i forgot to put your apartment number on there and you had that what turned out to be a fruitless trip to the fed ex store.

but thank you thank you thank you.

-xoxooxox

me

NEW CD!!!!

new CD, new CD!!! oh my lord a new CD... sliced, and diced, and hopefully you'll find it very niiiiiice.

today i gave a new CD off to my main CD squeeze for reproduction. it's my favourite approximately 80 minutes from my set @ the big love show on KZSU Stanford w/ Mr. DJ O'Henry.

this time slicing n dicing it was painful. more on that later.

oh me oh my at last at last a new CD.

Big Thank You!!!

I want to say thank you thank you thank you to everyone who showed up last night and made it wonderful! I love you.

I want to say I'm sorry to all of you who stood in line and found that unbearable. I'll see about if they have plans to deal with that...

I want to say thanks to my DJ partners!!!! Lil' Chris and O'Henry. Did you know I'm in Stirty Beats now? They are fellow members of Stirty Beats. Things that make you go hmmmm....

-xoxo

Z.

Tonight, Fri (2/22) @ Temple

What: Funkentanzen @ Temple

Who:

Destiny Lounge: O'Henry (Stirty Beats)
Lil Chris (Stirty Beats)
DJ Zenith (Funkentanzen, Zenomena)

Catacombs: Destro/Tone

Main Room: Dimitris Mykonos/Paul Hemming

Where: Temple
540 Howard Street, SF

22 Feb 2008 @ Temple

Please contact me about guest list: zenomena AT gmail.com

What: Funkentanzen @ Temple

Who:

Destiny Lounge: O'Henry (Stirty Beats)
Lil Chris (Stirty Beats)
DJ Zenith (Funkentanzen, Zenomena)

Catacombs: Destro/Tone

Main Room: Dimitris Mykonos/Paul Hemming

Where: Temple
540 Howard Street, SF

Today!!!! 11 February 2008 on the Big Love Show, 90.1 FM

I'm happily returning to the Big Love Show with O'Henry

What: The Big Love Show @ KZSU Stanford, 90.1 FM (Peninsula, South Bay)

When: 11 Feb 08
3 PM - 6 PM
3 - 4:30 PM set

Listen Live on the Internet, 90.1 FM (Peninsula, South Bay) : http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/audio/kzsu-1-128.m3u

Who: O'Henry (Stirty Beats)
      DJ Zenith (Zenomena, Funkentanzen)

Funkentanzen @ Temple, 22 Feb 08

Fri, 8 February @ 222

Tonight, Friday 8 February I will be playing a special happy hour set along side Moe, Brian and a mystery DJ. 222 Hyde features special $5 happy hour pizzas until 9 PM, $2 PBRs, and many other tasty libations

What: DJ Zenith (Funkentanzen, Zenomena) @ 222

Where: 222 Hyde @ Turk

When: 7ish is Hamma' Time!

Cost: FREE FREE, OH FREE YES FREE OH MY GOSH FREE

holy earth quake batman!

so i am up at 0 dark 30 again (military term for f**#!#$!ing early). why you ask??? well i'm a-working to death again these days! i can't seem to stop doing that...

my work has been super stressful lately and i've had to work some nights. as a result... now i'm up working on the flyer for my freaking party.... anywhosit.

that's when i felt the earthquake. and i was curious about what was on the internet about it. what's awesome is i found a plug-in for google earth that put me right to it. and i found this response map. i think it's spectacular that an hour after a tremor there can be so many responses!

11 February 2008 on the Big Love Show, 90.1 FM

I'm happily returning to the Big Love Show with O'Henry

What: The Big Love Show @ KZSU Stanford, 90.1 FM (Peninsula, South Bay)

When: 11 Feb 08
3 PM - 6 PM
3 - 4:30 PM set

Listen Live on the Internet, 90.1 FM (Peninsula, South Bay) : http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/audio/kzsu-1-128.m3u

Who: O'Henry (Stirty Beats)
      DJ Zenith (Zenomena, Funkentanzen)

save 22 February for me! (and my friends)

Get it while it's hot!

Friday 22 February @ Temple it will be:

O'Henry (Stirty Beats)
Lil' Chris (Stirty Beats)
DJ Zenith (Zenomena, Funkentanzen)

mad, unbelieveable props

ok, so my friend gave me... just gave me a 250GB USB external hard drive and wireless router. i knew he was cool when we walked into Fry's and he turns to me to ask me... what are we looking for first??? your RAM? well you go all the way down this aisle to the end and turn left and ask the guy at the desk... he'll help you!

ok. holy sh*t. guy's got Fry's memorized.

and he's an awesome cook, too. he feeds me every time he sees me. and he's got two awesome dogs, coal and shadow.

did i mention the mechanical massage chair with hella settings and up to 15 minute intervals? the thing sucked me in for over an hour the other night....

ok people, don't be jealous just cuz my friend's awesome and he's not your friend. don't be jealous!

A... you rock it.

what a stooge!

so john kerry has his revenge on Hillary. She had the nerve to comment on a comment that John Kerry made that was inappropriate.... I'm going to go out on a limb here and weigh in on Hillary's side... What did John Kerry say???

Something to the effect of: "If students don't study hard enough then they can go fight in Iraq."

yeah. you big dummy.

I realize John Kerry is supposed to be some intellect but in people smarts... i give him the two thumbs down. But we have the 2004 election as our proof.

i'm not saying who i'm voting for in the primary.

the only thing i'm saying is that i'd like to offer john kerry a nice big cup o' "shut the f*ck up."

that is all....

party 23 February 2008

plans are in the works for me to be throwing an underground at the end of February. i'm still working out the details but stay tuned...

yee-haw

forewarned is forearmed they say :-)

i love the internet

thanks to this site (i have a different model but still...) and my new $7.99 computer tool kit and some new lap top RAM my new lap top has been upgraded from 512 MB of RAM to a speedy 2 GB (ok... not THAT speedy but much better)

i'm so stoked.

next inline is my studio computer which has more RAM then the lap top but definitely could do with some more RAM....

People Wake Up

i know this is a DJ blog versus a political blog... but it's MY DJ blog. and i'm right there with George McGovern when he says he should impeach President Bush.

Set in 1 Hour: Private Party

If you received an e-mail about a party wishing me Happy Birthday... I'll be there in an hour or so with records....

So

Happy Freaking New YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is all.

Come Celebrate My B-day With Me!

Happy New Year's Folks! It's my b-day! To Those of You Who have been asking what my plans are:

NYE I will be between two private parties and a couple of clubs. You'll have to text/call me if you want to know what/when/where/with whom...

New Year's Day we'll all be converging upon a fantastic San Francisco tradition: Sunset Stompy. Sometime after 4 PM. Text me before your heading over just to be sure we're there already...

-xoxoxo

Happy New Year!

vindication

a friend once told me that it's a trick to find the appropriate place to vent and to vent in an appropriate manner. i had such an opportunity today.

as i was walking down the 6 flights of stairs to the basement doing laundry cuz someone had held open the elevator due to moving i was annoyed. i held up the elevator to move, too; and i don't mind people using the elevator in this manner when they are actively moving. what i *do* mind is when they aren't there, haven't been there in some time and the elevator is blocked.

on my way up after switching laundry from washer/dryer i passed an elderly woman on the 4th floor asking me about the elevator being out of order. i informed her of the move situation...

as luck would have it, i was short one quarter and had to traverse the stairs an additional time. that's when the guy who had left both his clothes in the dryer and blocked the elevator comes down. i witnessed him apologizing to said elderly woman saying he's moving and telling her that there's nothing he could do.

then he proceeds to tell me, "i wasn't done yet with the dryer".

and here was my appropriate moment to vent.

my reply, "it's a shared resource. you weren't using it. you were merely blocking it. just like the elevator up stairs."

he said, "it's not your concern. stay out of things that don't concern you."

me. "it doesn't concern me? i've been walking up and down six flights of stairs three times now while you block the elevator. i did laundry around you in the dryer. i'd say it concerns me."

him, "there's nothing i can do."

me, "there IS something you can do. plan better. you got the elevator blocked while you're doing laundry. i moved in here and somehow managed to not hold up the elevator as long as you're doing. you're blocking two shared resources, not just one."

him, "you're an as*hole."

me, "but i'm not selfish. you're selfish. you got an elderly woman schlepping four flights of stairs. there's handicapped people living on the second floor who i hope don't come home. and i'm walking up and down six flights of stairs. you're selfish."

him. speechless.

i was shaking when i got home, just from the angst of a confrontation making me nervous. i hate confrontation, even when i'm in the right... i just hate it. it's not that i was yelling... i wasn't. i have a hard time saying something unpleasant to someone, even politely, even knowing i'm right. i don't like saying things unpleasant.

but i'm glad that for once i had the opportunity to enlighten a selfish person about the impact of their behaviour on other human beings.

martin luther king, jr talked about the opposite of self-centered being other-centered behaviour.

as this world becomes more and more densely packed this concept is vital. other-centeredness.

we should all aspire to conduct our affairs in such a manner that it doesn't impact other people. this applies to (but is not limited to):

walking on the sidewalk making room for people to pass us from both behind and in front of us,

not blocking a street,

not blocking the only entrance/exit to a restaurant.

start to finish. we should always aspire to conduct our affairs to not inconvenience others. this is basic human consideration. it's not ALL about us!

if we could all achieve this, the world would be a much, much, much better place.

Benazir Bhutto assassinated

I don't know what to say about Benazir Bhutto's assassination so I will refrain and post this article on Washington Post.com

what a tragic world we live in... as if we needed more proof.

too stoked for words -- but i'll try...

so 4 years ago (almost exactly) i went to a Debian Christmas party @ DNA lounge. At the time Ipods were new and I was an officer at the local chapter of the American Computer Society and ended up being invited for free.

My friend had told me to enter the contest. Well I was the first name out of the hat and won this 20 GB Ipod! It was pretty awesome but unfortunately it broke early.... It was part of that original batch they had the recall on :-( I somehow didn't end up turning mine in for a new one... I think I didn't get the warranty information in time due to a move.

Well last night I ended up winning an 4 GB Ipod Nano! and therefore i'm too stoked for words!

special thanks to Kara

thanks so much for calling me to tell me you liked my CD!

and also, special thanks to everyone who's been calling and e-mailing.

big things coming in 08!

tigerdirect.com (DON'T)

if you are thinking about ordering from them, don't. they screwed up my order royally and four phone calls have yet to yield a full refund.... and this is going on from 30 November.

i gauge a company on how they handle a screwed up order cuz they happen. tigerdirect.com gets an F.

Hamster in the Wheel (not a dj-post)

i'm reading Doris Lessing's the Golden Notebook right now. Doris recently received the Nobel Prize for literature and this work is considered to be her premier work and largely autobiographical. It was way ahead of it's time... It's still super-pertinent to women of all ages.

Her protagonist is a 23-24 year-old at this point (i'm not done yet) and discusses her fears of being trapped by marriage and children against the backdrop of living years ago as a white communist in Rhodesia in a group trying to breed revolution. It speaks to racism and the inherent racism in colonial africa. I'm not going to discuss the racism in this post....

This book has me thinking about my own life... I bring her fears forward to my times where I'm over 30 and trying to balance an IT career and DJing and dating. This fear of being trapped seems really "real" to me. Once you get married and have a kid; then the kid comes first.

And you end up becoming a hamster in the wheel. You're constantly working to pay your mortgage, to keep yourself and your family fed, the kids off to school, soccer practice, etc.

All of the married w/kids lady engineers I know end up not only having their career, but still do a majority of the housework and most of the taking care of the kids. And this seems like a really unfair scenario to me. Especially considering that I've made at least twice as much money as almost every single guy that I have dated.

Why should I be saddled with both a full-time job and housework for myself and others???

When your partner isn't cleaning the house you live in together you have two choices: a) nag him or b) do it yourself. I can't stand nagging (my mum was a horrible nag) so when this happened to me previously I chose answer b) and it made me angry that I had to do this. Of course I tried asking him to pitch in first but he kept promising to do it and had 5000 excuses as to why he never did. And we broke up and I moved out.

If I were to get married and have a kid, I'd have to forget any DJing, screw my 20-miles/week of running, forget my art projects, my hiking, my writing, and anything else I do for myself that I love... Forget BSing with my buddies, forget all the travel I like to do to other countries... I'd basically have to put myself last... 100% of the time.

I wonder how/why many people submit to this so freely? Why do so many people do this? Do they not have any dreams/joys of their own?? Or do they do it because that's what everyone else does and they didn't realize the implications going in?

I say people because I realize that a lot of men get this "hamster in the wheel" feeling also and I know that all men aren't like my ex-boyfriend.

Why? Why are so many people in such a rush to get hitched?!!!! Am I missing something?

Enquiring minds want to know....

sorry folks!

i recently backed out on my NYE engagement. Why? I no longer want to be a part of engagements which will ultimately end up with crappy music through no fault of my own. When people come out to hear you... they don't know about all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes... all they know is whether or not you sound good and whether or not there are other people are there.

They don't know that that mixer is a piece of poo. They don't know that the DJ before you was in a wrong place in the lineup and ran out everyone that was there. All they know is whether or not there are other folks there and how you sound.

I believe strongly in my own abilities and am willing to hold out for what I deserve. So no NYE... But... I am lining things up for the New Year.

coolness

version 2.0 is mos' def mo' better

so i keep yakking about overhauling my website. i've been doing the whole, "one more thing, one more thing, one more thing" to the computer program i'm using to skin or template these files.

you can see the output of my labours in these two sets of picture pages:

Cimetiere Pere La Chaise

Hiking in Hendy Woods

I've also rolled out some templating throughout photos pages 1-6. I'll put more information here and send out a mass e-mail when other stuff is done.

Part of this effort is adding over 1000 new pages to the mix!

NYE 2007

just in case you who are reading haven't been around me in my birthday month... or have somehow forgot how obnoxiously silly i am about it all... the counting down of remaining shopping days... the not-so-suttle hints... well it's *THAT* time of year again!

why spend sh*t loads of money going to some lameo party when you come here some bad-azz music in a phat pad fo' free. awesome music, great vibe, phat venue. but private. hit me up personally for the 4-1-1.

come here my b-day set. w00t!

Peter Garrett appointed by Kevin Rudd

This is awesome! Who's Peter Garrett you say? Kevin Rudd? Tsk Tsk peeps... Tsk Tsk...

Kevin Rudd appointed Peter Garrett environment, heritage and arts minister. Good move, mate.

a flyer i did for a party coming up

what i'm listening to right now...

jay tripwire posted this on my space. It's a new mix. Check it out....

Hiking in Hendy Woods

I stayed with a whole mess of folks up in Mendocino county. Following Thanksgiving, some of us deciding to go hiking while others were involved in a cut-throat game of arse-hole... (yes, *you* know THAT game... i *know* you do).

Anywhosit... I brought my digital camera along with me and here's the end result (linked off of one of the photos pages on my website):

Hiking in Hendy Woods

Here's a teaser of a picture:



Now here's the disclaimers... I'm super stubborn so instead of using a flash, I went without. Low light pics coupled with the delay of a digital camera can make your pics less than crisp.

happy belated thanksgiving!

happy thanksgiving! i wanted to say thank you to my wonderful friends/coworkers/dj partners in crime and all people I have the privilege of interacting on a regular basis! this thanksgiving goes down in the books as one of the best ever!

love yah! -xoxox

it's one heck of a b-day time of year!!!

So Happy Birthday to Alvin (i can't believe you bought food for your own b-day! you rawk it. seriously), Helen, and Kimmy! -xooxo Put me down for one supa' order of b-day sushi.

Props

I'm listening to Joey Youngman Live @ Hawt! I'm totally feeling it. You should check it out off of Underground House . net

DJ Zenith v2.0

i'm slaving away on my website overhaul. Finally. I have a computer program for photo galleries that is a maintenance nightmare but super-groovy when working.

But. I'm going to be rolling out pages shortly here and will post the links when finished. You'll see it randomly clicking through my site.

Stay tuned....

Happy B-day Henry, Chris, and Gabriel

Tonight I'm playing the Scorpio B-day bash down in Redwood City with my crew! A big happy b-day to Lil' Chris, Henry, Gabriel, Adrian, and Alex!

What: Scorpio B-day Bash

Where: Pioneer Saloon
Redwood City

When: 10 November 2007 (Saturday)
9 PM - all night folkses (after party in full effect)

DJs: O'Henry (Boom Boom Woods, Stirty Beats)
Lil' Chris (Boom Boom Woods, Joint Sessions, Stirty Beats)
Trev (Boom Boom Woods)
Zenith (Boom Boom Woods, Zenomena)
??? (sorry for those I forget already :-( )

[11/30] in San Francisco

I will be DJing with: Simply Jeff, Mephisto Odyssey, Lil' Chris (Boom Boom Woods), O'Henry (Boom Boom Woods), and 10-da (Boom Boom Woods) just to name a few... stay tuned little campers!

I've Been Around the Block

have you??!!!

Seriously boyz & germz. The new LawnChair Generals CD is awesome! The tracks are all theirs whether it's originals or their bad-azz mixes of other folkses music. Who cares! It's all awesome.

It's rare that top-notch producers have the skillz behind the decks.

Mad props to the LawnChair Generals!!!

Stacked and Packed...

WARNING: I have a whole pile o' rekkidzz on their way in from the UK shortly.

I won't be releasing a new CD any time soon; save for my own amusement. It is freaking mind blowing to hear what's coming out of Europe right now... The production quality is dead on... And some of my favourite US DJ Producer combos are releasing some awesome stuffs on European Labels...

Look out. When I get back from camping I'll be ready to throw down...

Nothing like coming back from the dead...

To make you appreciate life... so to speak. Is it a Tale of Two Cities??? Or is it another Dickens novel that starts... "These are the times that try men's souls...." I feel just like that.

And my real friends have come out of the woodwork. I'm going to sound all new agey, spiritual, mumbo jumbo when I write this... So shoot me already! But...

I put it out the universe that I wanted only real friends anymore and it has come back to me... That always happens. Every time I make up my mind that I want something it manifests itself in my life. And this was the right thing to hope for.

And my coworkers have been spectacular to me as well. And as reward I finally resolved something that has been hanging over all of our heads for a month now. And tomorrow I will begin assisting some other coworkers on something equally as painful.

I'm going to be getting ready to head out of town for some "Tree Therapy" as my buddy puts it next week...

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone whose been so great to me in the last couple of weeks.

Luv' ya! Mwah...

CD Release: Our Great Green Earth [10.5.07]

Our Great Green Earth is a CD created for the new DJ Collective Boom Boom Woods. These tremendously talented DJs have had an impact on my music. You can hear it for yourself. It's driving from the first minute right to the end. This file is available as a compressed zip archive to promote downloading all the tracks in one click.

Tracks - 320kbps [approx. 147.7 megs]: Our Great Green Earth
Tracks - 128kbps [approx. 70.6 megs]: Our Great Green Earth
Single Track mp3 320kbps [approx. 179.6 megs]: Our Great Green Earth
Single Track mp3 128kbps [approx. 73.6 megs]: Our Great Green Earth

site move complete

so we are officially off of my old hosting provider... Many thanks to the folks at PKR Internet. it's been a good two years. they warned me they were low bandwidth when i put my site there but their CEO is my ex's best buddy from high school and so it goes. he also happens to be in my top 3 list of computer gods so there you have it. and it's nice to have the mobile on the guy hosting your site... kinda like the bat phone and such.

the new peeps @ Penguin Web Hosting have really been bending themselves into a pretzel to support me. and i must say they are fast like speedy gonzalez! no lie.

no more 24 hour downloads. yippee. enjoy.

so fast, so fast, supa fast.

this is how we roll in my neighborhood b*Tch

warning

i placed an order recently with my ex's (from university) company. i ordered a couple of smart-allecky coffee mugs (WTF and RTFM) and a uber-geeky (yes, i used the word Uber... get over it :-) ) french-cut Pi shirt.

as i was washing one of said coffee mugs i found two sticker on the bottom that read:

1) Made in China (insert loud gasp here)
2) Prop 65
Warning:
The materials used as colored decorations on the exterior of this product contain lead lead compounds, and/or cadmium, which are chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm.

things that make you go hmmm.....

what else?

well today i have plans all day long which is why i'm up so freaking early, still.

i want to run and enjoy the weather.

i'm fixing a home computer networking problem.

i've uploaded my dj files at the new provider but i have yet to test/verify/and switch the DNS over. i'm doing the .org first and the rest will follow after.

the new CD, Our Great Green Earth, will be up there for download as soon as it's done!!! then we can verify the download speeds and switch all my domains over.

later today I'll be jamming it out with some of my DJ partners.

tomorrow I'm going to the sunset party with my amiga. you should meet me there.

stay tuned!

Meth Coffee

so my coworker stars in this highly warped video. seriously. it's his company with his better half that makes this highly potent substance. by my third cup... i usually find my lips be a-tingly....

i'm back

i'm up ungodly early this AM (for a saturday, especially). Why???

i'm finishing up with my CD. The sheer task of retracking the version mastered by my DJ partner has been a challenge. I tried to track it in T-racks. For some reason t-racks is determined to put markers in a set spot. so even if i clicked at 6:06 seconds... the track was always going in at 6:28 seconds and there wasn't a darned thing i could do to change that.

so i reverted back to cubase. it's been nothing but troubles here. the tracking i can do just fine but somehow the process of importing what my dj partner did and then trying to track it back out is causing me trouble. i'm not processing it or anything like that... it just ends up roughly sounding like shite.

so now i'm reverting back to the original version to see if perhaps normalizing that and tracking that will yield better results.

sigh. so i'm still a chugging. and i'm drinking my meth coffee.

my next post is going to be about meth coffee

CD almost ready

we worked on it last night. There's more to do. I'm still moving my website. It's taking an obscenely long period of time because my upload speed from home is 384 kbps and I'm uploading 8 - 9 Gigs of files.

we're creating the background images & logos for Boom Boom Woods. I'm hopefully going to finish with my mock up of the splash page this weekend.

site move v2.0

so i'm moving one of my domains to another new hosting provider..... searching for more bandwidth so i can host my posse's stuff here, too. sigh. only 13+ hours left on the upload. only. only. so after i go to work tomorrow sometime it will be uploaded. mostly. sigh. sigh. sigh!

stay tuned. patiently.

woo-woo-woo woo w00t!

so i recorded my new CD: Our Great Green Earth Friday night. I finished the cover art for said CD. Additionally, I took a few stabs @ the logo for Boom Boom Woods.

I think tomorrow night I will do cover art for you're a star.

I had a great weekend amongst friends and good music. What more could a girl ask for in terms of creative inspiration??!!

Congratulations R. & La La

i just wanted to say congrats to my friends R. & La La who are getting married in less than month now! Yeah R & La la!

done!

i recorded a set for Boom Boom Woods last night that is by far the best I have ever done! It will be a few more days before I post it on the internet. I will be turning up the volume on it a little and having it professionally labelled with cover art. Stay tuned!

Treasure Island Music Festival, 15 September 2007

So, we got there @ around 5. By far, the two best acts were Gotan Project & Thievery Corporation. Thievery Corporation made the whole evening worth it. Gotan Project was also quite good.

Mad props to Thievery Corporation!!!

ausgezeichnet

the word of the day? german. german tech house. german language. german. i'm going german folks.

i am listening to the rest of the catalogue from one of my favourite german labels. two shipments arrived this week from the UK and will be featured in my next project. it's untitled as of yet.

i plan to record this weekend. it's a project for Boom Boom Woods. stay tuned.

PS -- if you don't know what ausgezeichnet means... it means excellent (not distinguished as google language tools will tell you... although it could mean that in certain contexts... not this one)

DNS switched back

well, the new provider technically didn't have the staff and infrastructure in place to support my needs.

so i'm on the lookout for a new place... again. my buddy has referred me to this place out of canada. i'll be checking them out this weekend.....

anyway. we're back at my old place so please scuse the long download times... i'm working on it.

sigh....

9-1-1

where were you on 9-1-1, 2001? i was at Washington Post.com monitoring web servers 9 - 13 against hacker attacks while my coworkers broke off the high-bandwidth portions of our site to a second home page... while we made the main page an information space for family members worried about their loved ones in the pentagon and the world trade center.

let's all think kind thoughts for the survivors and those lost to the attack....

DNS switched!

on djzenith.com... once i see that's good i'll switch the .net and .org also.

addendum: i realized this is a dumb plan. sweetching .net and .org in other browser tab.

An article that hits why I don't claim to be from DC

although i was actually born there... and spent a little over 15 years there in different segments:

Fred on Everything

Village Music

My coworker (tankey kindly J.S.) placed the Pacific Sun on my desk to point out an article about Village Music in Mill Valley (north bay) is going out of business. Sadly. At the end of September they are shutting their doors.

Right now they are having a ridiculous sale. And DJ Shadow is playing there all throughout the month of September (using their catalogue... not his own). Although he took a day off yesterday as he had stuff to do. But mad props DJ Shadow him for playing the rest of September.

Yesterday, I got 30 records for a mere $39.33. I had prepped myself for the sticker shock as I carried the mother load to the register. He said 39.33 and I sputtered with glee, made out the check, and went on my way with a smile.

This AM I am listening to some of the records... Right now we have Sonny Rollins circa 1977 going. Yesterday I listened to some Count Basie. I purchased everything from Patrice Rushkin, Count Basie, and Sonny Rollins to Flock of Seagulls & Guadalcanal Diary. Yes... I did.

Anyway, vinyl lovers... now's your chance. Village Music @ 9 E. Blithedale Avenue in downtown Mill Valley.

it's time for a test cut!

it's not finished. i'm waiting for a couple of shipments of german records from the UK. Get it? roight...

here it is:

Test Cut: Screw Arounds

a classic

the boyz (and goilz) are back from Burning Man

and famous on you tube apparently!!!! check it out yourself....

pack instincts

there's someone i know who comes over to ask me questions and then constantly interrupts my answers. yesterday he interrupted, threw in, "i know, i know, it's ______.... but i'm not doing that."

but once again, he got it wrong.

i informed him that he should stop interrupting me every 5 seconds and that every time he interrupted me to complete my sentences... he got it wrong.... 100% of the time.

after he left... someone within ear shot asked me if it was only men who did that or was it women, too???

i have thought about it long & hard. thursday nights (last night) i drive (drove) 45 minutes down to the peninsula so it gives me some time to think....

and here's my thoughts:

many pack animals have signs of submission & signs of dominance.

baby horses open and close their mouths repeatedly. when you see it... it's the cutest thing. they tend to do it until they are about 3 or 4.... sometimes 5. it's a... "please, please... i'm a baby... don't hurt me. i submit."

with dogs... they lie down. sometimes they completely roll over. if the other dog is in serious alpha mode... it will put said other dog's neck in it's mouth.

alpha dog doesn't bite down on the submitting dog's neck. that's not the point. the point is that the alpha dog *could* bite down. it's complete dominance.

it's my idea that the act of interrupting someone and attempting to complete their sentences like that... it's an alpha-dominance trait. it's also an act of complete arrogance and presumption.

and i can only think of two women who have ever done this to me. one does it when she's loaded. frankly, i really can't stand it when she does that. i take it as a sign she's wasted beyond the point of good company and avoid her.

and as far as the only other woman that does that to me.... i'm not speaking to her anymore. and she's a relative. that's one of her many myriad social issues. she doesn't get on with anyone by the way... and constantly points to every one else as having problems (not her of course).

i don't wish to dominate or to be dominated. i want to just be.

dhis & dhat

the time? farking early! and yet i'm up.....

i hooked my studio puter back to the internet to update some tools to allow me to use this puter to update my DJ website. i'm overhauling the photos pages which are chiefly resident on this puter and require better tools to get the job done more quickly.

german class is going well for me now... but it's quite a bit of work.

and then there's that pesky computer work i do for a living. i have more studies to do with that. i studied some last night after class... but i'm still a tad under the weather so my body just cut out on me...

so the smart thing to do is to get up early and go for a run today before work??? right?

well, i'm doing it.

look for an e-mail to come shortly when the site is updated & moved and also look for a new mix! i'm getting some records this week and have something on the burner.

this CD is part of a larger project that i have in the works....

new project in the works

i'm about ready to make a new mix to record some fantastic new records i have and some that are on the way from the UK. i should have those midweek.

additionally i've been digging through my current collection trying to decide what to keep. i found some great stuff! i'm not very good @ getting rid of records, sadly.

oh well, i can't be good at everything. ho hum.

web site move almost completed

i'm just about ready to change the DNS entries to change one of my domains over to the new provider. i'm going to post here when i've switched it. please let me know if you hit it after i switch and you find broken areas to the site.

i am pretty sure the new site will be fine and i'm going to test it a bit myself but i think the beatles had the right idea when they said... "i get by with a little help from my friends..." (among other things they did with their friends) -- hee hee hee

busy, busy times

i cut out on the sunset party last night a little early-ish. i felt bad doing it but i have so much to do these days!

don't feel too sorry for me having a productive sunday... i really love what i am doing!

what the h*L! am i doing you ask???!!

well, lesseee... i have a ton of german homework today. and i have some computer-studies to do... i'm teaching myself some new technology.

but don't feel too sorry for me just yet... the last couple of days i have studied in a bikini. in two different beaches. i achieved nice glow status yesterday! the weather report says the sun will come out later. wish me luck!

i'm moving my website to a new provider. we will say buh-bye (& don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out) to 1 hour download times for CDs!!! yeah. we're almost done on this one.

record shopping. today i'm giving my favourite UK online record store some serious bizness. Juno... I luv yah! Mwah!

Updating my website. I'm overhauling the computer script that generates the picture pages and adding pictures.

my bad!

i *should* have told you that the EOM Sessions go on Deep Mix FM.com. Doh!

part deux!

last night we had DJ Tsen on the EOM Sessions... He was most excellent! Apparently he has 18 years and boy does it show. That's what I love about the bay area... You go places and hear a jewel such as DJ Tsen.

I hopped on for a half an hour from maybe 10:15 PM or so on....

Mad props to the folks @ the EOM Sessions!

EOM Sessions

i'm now heading down for the EOM Sessions. I'll have my records but I believe we are giving the stage to another DJ so give it up for him (Holla)

It's a really good time... so if you are down on the peninsula and have the occasion to catch this Thursday night phenomenon (zenomenon) then you should jump to it with both feet.

KZSU

thanks to those of you who tuned in! Sorry for the late start... Part of it had to do with a stalled car in the left lane on 101. I'm so sorry for that... I had set up a reminder for folks who requested it that I would be on in 15 minutes. Only problem is that went out @ 8:40 AM... I came on @ 10ish. We had a few technical difficulties and then I was on my way.

It was about 30 minutes or so in before I finally found my groove and away we went...

I promised JC info about one track. If he checks his inbox he'll find the 4-1-1. A lady never kisses & tells on the internet. But the label for the curious is Mothership. That's all I'll say....

Thanks again... Twas fun.

For me these days, playing is the closest I get to heaven on earth.

EOM Sessions part 1 post mortem

I'm listening to my EOM Sessions. The set is riddled with energy so far. Two serious technical difficulties. ARGH. And it's the first recording I have of myself in machine mode...

What is machine mode? Just what I described above: lots of loose (& sometimes misdirected) energy. Energy comes better with relaxation and flow.

Aww, shucks. If my memory serves me correctly, I settle it down and it gets nice which is probably why I walked away with such good memories.

I have a feeling I'll be posting some of this. The interview was pretty funny. That may get posted.

holey b00ts batman!

i spent money on Burning Man-esque things this month. The only problem is uh... that I'm not going to Burning Man.

This very second I am breaking in these lil' beauties:



I got the ones with the black glitter, for the curious. They have 5 1/4" yes 5 1/4" heels. They are platforms. But wow! And yes the star cutout in the heel is for real.

EOM Sessions

i'll be heading down to the EOM Sessions this Thursday night. Not to play, just to hang out. I saw the boyz recently. I felt pretty bad when I saw them... I've been fighting off a head cold but they are awesome company! Thanks to A., P., C. for being adoreable and fun as always!

They have turned it into a cheffing festival as well. They asked me to mail them my food ideas... You bet. I love them. They have a new cat apparently that thinks he's a dog. And there's always Stella the wonder-dog who loves to goose folks in the armmpit when they dig for records. A second favourite pasttime is sitting on feet.

I'm currently reviewing my 14 June set and interview from the show as I type this post. Mad props to the boyz for doing what they do so well.

EOM Sessions, here I come!

climbing

so this is my second time climbing with my boss, his fiancee, coworkers, etc. i feel as if climbing is teaching me everything i need to know...

coworker dynamics... you learn a lot about yourself when your peer has a looottt more experience than you and you have to take the back seat as a novice... after 10+ years in the IT field you learn your technical confidence. it's hard to start over. but humbling and worth it...

patience. climbing isn't like running. you have to trust the rope and the person doing belay. you don't just plod through any old way like running. it's deliberate. you have to allow yourself to rest in a position hanging off of a rock. and you have to perservere... period.

it's a serious mental challenge. not to mention stomach marathon.

i just in-haled a bowl of yake udon. inhaled. burp.

a friend of mine from Paris

i found an english friend of mine that i met in Paris had linked up to my blog... so we return the favour...

now where are your pics mister???!!!

he's in Toronto @ present and as it would seem has a little bit of the wander lust... check out his blog.

morning runs

i wish i could take the feeling i get from my morning runs and bottle it up & share it with everyone. you get to know ppl on your runs.

runners do the good morning. it's akin to the wave you do when someone lets you in in traffic.... seldom talked about but widely known about.

and there's all the people that walk around stow lake in the mornings. there's the aging beagle i say puppyyyyyyyy to that wags his tail in happy response while his owners say good morning.

and there's that floating feeling i get as i drift by beautiful trees on my way down to the beach.

everyone should have joy like this.

custom chopsticks???

so the mystery is on. almost two weeks ago when I was picking up friends for the ben watt show, my girlfriend said she would be moving the bag in my back seat further back to the storage place in my vehicle. i assumed said bag was leftover from our campout over a month ago.

in said bag was 4 really nice bowls and custom designer chopsticks with their own very nice cases. each case has it's own beautifully done fabric case. i can't imagine someone isn't missing these! considering i've only had four people in my car in the last three months it's surprising that i can't identify the owner! i felt guilty unpacking the bag that's been sitting on my floor but... what do i do?

if you are the owner of these bowls... e-mail me and i'll get them back to you....

daft punk

i was told that the Daft Punk show i missed friday night was awesome. one of my DJ buddies was ooooing & ahhhing last night about how cool it would be to have this amount of coordinated laser light show @ your finger tips with your beats. he said there was stuff on Youtube (although the audio isn't quite on). check out the last 4 minutes of this video or so:

happy sunday

here in the inner sunset it's foggy. my beautiful south-facing windows afford a nice view of it whilst i blog. if you know the lay of the land out here you know we have little bump we call turtle hill aka washington heights that provides a stunning view of fireworks, the park, and down to the palace of fine arts and golden gate bridge on a cloud-free day. on any kinda day our little "hill" will give you a workout you won't forget. you can even include a few of SFs brutal "hidden" staircases if you dare.

i can't believe how exhausted i have been this weekend. i have basically slept. it must be fate that kept me away from the campout. i don't see how i would have done anything other then lay around. it's really lame to do that in front of your friends. i think laying down and being antisocial is something you don't need to drive five hours to do.

what's in the works for me right now? so glad you asked...

website upgrade:
i still have my website upgrade in the works. i have taken my photos pages and upgraded the template to make room for the 1200 - 1500 pages that aren't up as well as the DJ photo sections. i have to do some organization around the DJ photos as those come from so many different sources.

now it's down to upgrading the computer program that generates these pages. it's a dirty little game of escaping metacharacters and getting spaces (aka   tags) just right. and not all elements of my overall website template belongs and/or fits in the photos pages templates. i can do this piece in a couple of hours i think but the other organizational pieces take longer.

right now, i am just finishing the website backup which has taken over 24 hours when all is said & done. i suffer from the same download/bandwidth woes as others. there's not enough disk space on my server to zip up all the content so i was forced to download the whole archive uncompressed. not that compression would have bought me that much when one realizes i have a lot of jpg and mp3 files up there...

cover art:
i have to start/finish the cover art for my last three CDs. i will be putting at least a small number of CDs five and six to CDs with cover art on them and a larger number of the latest.

throwing parties:
some friends and i are going to start throwing parties. we won't have a lot of energy for this until after they return from BM. i'm not going. i can't. and they are inundated getting ready. which is just as well... i will be very focussed on my day job during that time frame so it works out for everyone's schedule.

but for now... happy sunday!

today i'm going to get in a light run and see if i can rally some friends to go to the north beach jazz festival. my friend is playing tonight. i think it will be fun. i know... i don't like north beach that much but jazz is the magic word and i look forward to the opportunity of surprising my friend by showing up with some support.

and of course i'm going to play some music today in any case...

so happy sunday!

no i'm not @ the campout

i'm enjoying a much-needed weekend of exercise & relaxation.

one of my best friends is a fine photographer. he just gave me these pics from pride weekend. i had driven @ warp speed back from our campout with my peeps.

on the drive i thought, man... it's pride weekend and i haven't done anything. it felt strange. that's when C.K. called. i was home for maybe 30 minutes before i ran out to meet him & a few people for dinner.

C.K. will take his camera to the grave. he always has it with him. for good reason, too! check out these pics from sunday night on pride weekend....

another camp out on the way

yesterday we had our public launch @ work. and now i am frantically running around trying to get out of town to a camp out. great beats under the stars is the *only* way to fly. camp outs are some of my favourite places to play.

as a bonus, some of us are going up thursday night late to hike half-dome friday! w00t.

i'm going at a blistering pace and am looking forward to sitting on my butt soaking up sun next to a pool and waterfalls on saturday.

wow!

thanks for the overwelming positive feedback re: my latest CD. i apologize for the long download times. My hosting service had to cap my downloads as to keep me from ruining service for his other clients.

but thx! luv 'ya.

CD Release: You're a Star [7/7/07]

Heya Peeps!

I have just finished another CD. Yup. Number 7. Lucky number 7 on 7.7.07.

I'm really excited about this one. I have been playing with some amazing DJs who have inspired me. This CD is the by-product. Enjoy!

I have attached a high-fidelity version and a lo-fi version. The standard disclaimer with my website applies. There's very little bandwidth here. Read a 900 page novel while it's downloading and come back. It should be done by then (PS -- my hosting guy warned me that his setup didn't have a lot of bandwidth, so don't blame him). It's not streamed so you need to save this to your hard drive and wait for it to finish (this could be over an hour).

Hi-Fi: You're a Star - 320 mbps

Lo-Fi: You're a Star - 128 mpbs

a quick hello

i am just inundated right now but i feel pretty content. i'm working extremely hard.

i am actually about ready to head into the office for a solid four hours of work. but i'm not bummed about it. i want to complete the database aspect of this project i'm working on before monday. it's going to be pretty awesome when completed and it will relieve some stress on our team.

on top of that i need to take my new CD and put a fade out in to replace the chop off i had to do to put it on CD. i wanted it on CD quickly so i could hear the new CD on a bunch of other stereos. i like to do that before releasing it to make sure the levels aren't jacked. i'm really excited about this CD.

the plan is to have a bunch of copies ready tomorrow before I go to the word of mouth party followed up by a brunch in the east bay with some pretty awesome peeps. i'd post a link for the party but i can't seem to find it and don't have the time to hunt for it. sorry.

just want to say thanks to everyone for making my life a wonderful place to be.

luv 'ya! mwah.

game face

when i'm trying to hear a track i go into the focus zone. i used to play here all the time. what's the problem you ask?

well, your friends waving their hands in front of your face for five minutes... all the while you not noticing... it's extremely rude when someone shows up to a party to hear you play and you don't even notice they are there. i am a lot better about this now.

but i was at a friend's house here so no harm no foul. (see other post about i love my friends)

i love my friends!

Say it with me kids... awwwww shucks.

How Weird Festival, 6 May 2007

So here's a pic from How Weird Festival 2007:

hot friday night leads to hot saturday day

what's my idea of a hot saturday night? i'm sooooo glad you asked! a bunch o' new records and me, myself, and my turntables.

which is a great segue for saturday. i just recorded a cD with said new records. and i'm rearing to go for our beats & bbq in the park.

it's a little cloudy but the weather man says that will clear up by some in the afternoon.

translation: there will be plenty o' sun by the time i'm playing.

so come on out. i'll see you there.

This Saturday [7/7] in Golden Gate Park!!!!

What: Beats in Golden Gate Park
Speedway Meadows Golden Gate Park
approx. 30th & Fulton

DJs: Trev (Boom Boom Woods)
DJ Zenith(Zenomena,Boom Boom Woods)
Kool Karlo
Mo Po
Big Dolla Bill
Victor Vega

When: Sat. 7 July 2007
Noon - ?
Set time is after 3 PM

From LM: DJ Tenda of our Boom Boom Crew

LM - 2007 take 1

we had a wonderful campout. The spot was a spiritual haven. and it couldn't have been with a better group of people. i only was able to take a few pics and shoot a video before filling up my card. sowwy, folks. the fact that i didn't do more means i had a good time.

Here's one of me Saturday night (thanks to H.R.)





It got pretty cold. Thanks a million to the thoughtful friends who brought the fire pits. There were two.








here's RJ (Lo Rise) doing his thang:






and here's a video that will take forever to download. It's not streamed. again, my apologies. Check out T's tricked sh*rt (when asked where he got it, he said... "sorry man, i got the last one")

T. getting it on!

summer is for bad azzz campouts

this coming weekend i will be going with some of my favourite DJs... some of the best in the bay area IMHO and one bad sound system to a schweet camping site near tahoe! i can't wait to go, i can't wait to play, i can't wait to commune with nature. we'll be @ 6500+ feet near a lake.

i love my friends. they got it going on....

morning daze

i'm sitting here this AM procrastinating my morning run by blogging. but i forgive myself for ultimately being later than i want to because i haven't been blogging at all.

i have been getting up btwn 5:30 - 6:30 AM every morning for the last two weeks. even this AM. i had to move my car... san francisco street cleaners keep me working to avoid parking tickets.

i figured i would give myself 1 month of an extra-intense workout regimen to see what i could do to my again body. i can tell that i'm getting stronger but i am also tired *all* the time.

i haven't had the time to get enough sleep and my body seems to be quite sensitive to that these days.

it seems as if i'm more tired from being good than i ever was from being bad.

stay tuned! and please be sure to compliment me when you see me... even if you don't mean it.

woo-h00!

I had a great time last night with Chris, Paul, Stella & company. I wish every Thursday could be like that! It was so much fun. Special thanks to the boys @ El Otro Mundo, Deep Mix FM.com and to Stella. It's not every day that you get wet doggy gooses in your arm pit to help you pick records!

Links for you:

Check out the EOM Sessions

Deep Mix FM.com Deep Mix FM.com

Paul Leath on my space

El Otro Mundo on my space

Stevian on my space


Here's Stella for the curious:

Thurs. [6/14] DJ Zenith on http://deepmixfm.com

I have the honour Thursday of playing on El Otro Mundo's Radio show (the EOM Sessions) on http://deepmixfm.com! I'm honoured. If you haven't heard Christopher and Paul Leath or DJ Stevian, you are missing out! The show goes from 6-10 PM and I start around 8ish.

What: DJ Zenith on EOM Sessions: http://deepmixfm.com

Time: Show: 6-10 PM (Pacific), 9 PM - 1 AM (Eastern)
3 AM - 7 AM (Paris, Netherlands, London, Rome & Remini, IT)

Set Time: 8-10 PM (Pacific), 11 PM - 1 AM (Eastern)
5 AM - 7 AM (Paris, Netherlands, London, Rome & Remini, IT)

Who: DJ Zenith & El Otro Mundo

-xoxo

DJ Z.

according to Chris Rock

guys don't have girl *friends*. they have girls they have slept with and girls they haven't slept with *yet*. i don't buy that but experience tells me that it's probably true in the majority of the cases.

i have a couple of guy friends that i hang out with that keep the fact that we hang out in my apartment discussing life, philosophy, and the freaking weather or whatever from their girlfriends. i feel kinda sad about that.

if the shoe were on the other foot, i wouldn't want that kinda thing being kept from me. if you're dating someone you have to trust them. a relationship with me isn't the same as being hooked up with the po-po you know.

i think by the time a guy has reached his latter 20s... experience has taught him to keep this kind of thing to himself rather than be open and be hassled by his girlfriend.

IMHO, that's a sad testimony to our society.

i would never be the other woman. it's bad karma. and i wouldn't appreciate someone being the "other woman" in my relationship. i try to operate by the old "do unto others as you would have done unto you" addage.

in fact, when my guy friends stray, i tell them to leave me out of it. i never want to be in the position where their partner asks me a question and i'm supposed to lie. i won't do that and i make it clear. it's true.

Dan, I love ya

Don't know which dan this is... i think i must know him (But i'm not sure which dan of the dan's i know this is). so, big love you to all dans that i know!

Dan's play list