2002-04-28 - 1:24 a.m.

DJ Bingoguy

Well, I managed to survive tonight.

Tonight I DJ'd one of the various high school Proms going on throughout our city. I spent the beginning of my day making compliation CD's of their requests list so I had all of it quick and easy. Strangely enough, I used little of it. Well, Actually that's normal for me since I have a better idea what they'll actually dance to. A Great song you listen to isn't always the greatest to dance to. But just in case if they give a request list ahead of time I make sure I have it that way I have my bases covered.

I was fairly strong most of the night except for a lull at about 11ish. I tried to venture into the stuff on the request list and it killed my dance floor. LOL. I had to laugh to myself about it because it's almost always a "I knew it" scenerio. One of the keys to being a successful DJ is knowing music, knowing what fits where and when to change genres and tempos. Most successful DJ's, that I know, tend to stick to the music, beats, grooves they know instinctively and ignore most of the rest. It's a constant learning process so you do have to be aware of what requests come your way but you still have to make judgement calls. When dealing with high school students I found the easiest way to deal with them is just get them to write down requests and be a "touch" standoffish but friendly. It worked well tonight they were friendly with me but they never came running up saying "can you play something good?!" or "Can you play something we can dance to?" So, other than the one lull, I'll call it a successful night.

I felt pretty good today and I tried to just relax about doing this gig tonight and I think I was pretty successful at that too. I need to learn to be better at just letting things happen to some degree and letting those things you can't control just lay where they may.

If I repeat myself a bit about all this letting go stuff, you'll have to forgive me but I need to remind myself almost on a daily basis about these things in order to change and move forward. I'm looking forward to starting on medication in hopes that it will be bring me to a general better feeling about things. I would like to start right away but I am still concerned about my initial reaction to the drug so I am waiting still until I have a half a day before I have to go to work.

I think that's best. I just want to do what's best for me overall. It's all about me, baby.

Stay Tuned...

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