Something truly original

Why are pirates called pirates?
They just arrrr...
ha ha. Thats my halloween joke for you..

So I got an email from the King of New York, Alex C. It would seem that Al has been holding out on us, sending us a link to his 'new' blog (http://hairymopsblog.blogspot.com/), whereas the thing goes back a year.. Its a good read, (read the Ghost stories), but it also shows that having children and living in america makes you actually think about whats happening in the world (yup, its true). The nicest thing about it though, is that he chose the exact same Blogspot background theme as me, this smelly brown that could have been your grandma's Louis Vitton bag... It made me feel like my taste was not kak at all.

So on halloween I spent hours and hours preparing for my set at the Red Room. I lent dvd's from James and sampled loads of cool shit, I tried to pick really lurking, eerie tracks, and just generally put effort into it. On the night I was sweating! I know playing cd's isn't 'real' dj-ing or mixing, but like, some of my samples where like 10 seconds long. Try switching disks in that time in a grotto full of goths waiting to do the Punch The Hobbit dance on you.. Yeah. But it went down well and i was stoked.

Wish I had a good ghost story to tell too, but nothing's happened for a long time. I think ghosts look for maximum gain/minimum effort targets. I'm a tough crowd you know.

Its not scary or about ghosts, but it is quite esoteric and gives me a chance to think about it again, so listen up. Four months ago a most auspicious friend had a dream and texted me the moment she woke up. Now I save all my favourite sms'es, so here's the end of hers: ".. festival and she was wearing a yellow dress and a blue jacket and had long dark hair. You looked smitten." She reckoned she'd had a dream about my future, and I remember wishing she was right. Well, fate willing, she was, cos I met the girl in her dream three weeks ago on a flight from the coast. I'd been surfing and thought life couldn't get better,.. well, I was smitten.

Me and Gemma used to talk about fate and coincidence on an almost unhealthy basis. If she was right, and things happen for a reason, then maybe friday night will be special not only cos its my bands first gig. Maybe fate will be wearing a yellow dress. But hey, nevertheless it will be our first gig, we're playing with Sugardrive at the Roxy, 4th November, late. Come watch MixTape get born. I'm gonna try smuggle in my bottle of La Cave 2004 Shiraz. You celebrate big for something thats taken to come full circle.
Cheers!