fuckin' shtateside

To update you on the heating crisis, it has reached critical! I'm pretty sure I lost a toe not so long ago.......


but any, the point of this discussion,
I have been talking to my friends of late about doing a J1 this summer, for those of you who are uncultured, a J1 is a working summer visa to the US for college students.

so ya, a friend of mine is actually from Chicago so she mentioned about going over for the summer, as my summer last year was living in a slum (real one not a made up one) and selling a stupid shitty product door to door in the rain most of the time and burning away all my savings on the banks of our own lovely lee in the wetest summer on records (Can's records) so basically I want to head away for the summer, when Chicago was suggested I thought it might be an interesting idea! it's the home of house music (although I have been warned that that seems to have been forgotten in the windy city), weather aint half bad during the summer, its on a big ass lake so I can catch up on my water related activities & maybe precure a job in this field...

the summers preceeding last summer were spend teaching people how to sail, yes I tried to drown a few kids but they had dirty mouths on em! (I didn't actually try and kill children...)
so ya that would be a foot in the door, also the fore mentioned friend has lots of family in Chicago so we would precure accomdation and maybe some employment easily enough, oh ya an added bonus that her cousin owns a DJ business in Chi town! I do know a few DJs living in the area any way so I might be able to tag along on a few gigs when I'm over, get a feel of how they work.

but I'm a little unsure as to what I should do, one thing I have in my mind is I cannot stay in Cork for another summer, I need to get away, be it the semi-planned trip to the states or interailing maybe... who knows... I just hope that in 6 months time I'm not tapping away on my keyboard on this very couch...

OK time for a topic

OK so continuing with the topics I have mentioned about music & gigs the last couple of posts, I want to talk a little bit about music talent from around the globe and how it has grown in the past decade. Like fashion, music moves in trends, but one trend usually sticks - pop music is (for the most part) manufactured drivel... If you look back at the manufactured pop groups/solo "artists" from the noughties you will see some of the shite that has been thrown at us... but with the sour comes the sweet. From the point of electronic music there have been so many improvements in the music scene and also with the advances in technology people are starting to look a little deeper, get more creative, make better music! now I'm not saying that older electronic music is bad by any notion, contrary to that, I think blue monday is one of my favourite electronic tracks of all time! I'm pointing out the fact that as times move forward, new genres emerge and taste evolves. From a personal stand point, if you will humour me on this one, I want to talk a minute about the deep underground music, drum n bass & dubstep.... I was way too young around the days of the emerge of drum n bass but I am fairly proud of the fact that I am in some small part exposing people around Cork to dubstep a little bit, often when I play a bit of a dubstep set people come up and ask me what that crazy sound is, I love it! which (if I was rambling) would lead me onto a topic I think I shall save for another late night blog session!

before I leave you I will give you a bit of a groovey house track I have been digging on a lot lately



later playas,

BDC