What are your predictions for the World Series?
As much as I love the Rockies, I can't say they're going to make a series sweep. My prediction? Colorado takes it 4 games to 2.
Game One: Rox lose - too much time off, they have to dust off and settle down from the excitement of making the World Series... plus it's in Boston
Game Two: Rox win - they come to their senses and get back in their playoff groove
Game Three: Rox win again - first home game, crowd hyped, the rockin' at Coors Field comes into play
Game Four: Rox continue their streak, Boston can't adjust to the altitude
Game Five: Rox lose - too much excitement about being on the verge of winning, over confidence, too much craziness at Coors Field
Game Six: Rox get a handle on things, settle down, and keep it from going to a game seven. Riots in Colorado. Me really hungover at work, if I even make it to work. Oh wait, I'm already taking the day off since our last night at Kazmos is that night... muahahaha!
I'm am SOOOOOOOO mad right now.
I took a half day off of work yesterday so I could sit at home and try to get tickets to Coors Field for the World Series. Tickets were going on sale at 10 a.m. so I figured taking the morning off would give me plenty of time to land some tickets.
Well, the ticket system crashed and they halted ticket sales yesterday... they didn't announce that until 12:30 p.m. Half a day shot. And of course, I was concerned with that the rest of the day so I didn't really get any work done.
Finally, around 9 or 9:30 p.m. last night they announced they would sell tickets again online today starting at noon.
I left work, came home... I figured my internet at home is faster, PLUS if everyone at the office is trying to get tickets it might boot us all out of the system for having similar IP addresses.
Well, I've already had the system timeout 4 times on me today... and now it's not even letting me back in!!!!!!!!!!!
WTF!!!!
Anyone that knows me knows how badly I want to go to the game and how much I've loved the Rockies. Here it is I probably won't be able to get tickets. Some scheister on a message board I'm on got tickets, and I know he doesn't give a fuck about them. WTF
I'm so upset right now :( :(
Instead it's gonna end up only scalpers will have tickets and only people that wipe their asses with $100 bills will be able to afford to go. SO FUCKING MAD!!
Last night at Kazmos, my friend Tabitha showed up. She's actually been coming down just about every week lately. We sat down to chat for a bit, even though perhaps I should've thought otherwise since she was a little toasty.
Tab and I have known each other for about... oh, 6-7 years. She and her (ex) husband used to live pretty close to my mom and would always have after parties... so it was handy to go afterparty at their place and then have a short drive to my mom's. In the last few years though, she's become a bit eccentric, especially when she drinks. In fact, later on in the night last night she caused a lot of drama for us all. Tab is bi, but leans towards women... well she confessed to Cas that she had a thing for her, and everything went down hill from there. (It wasn't because Cas was rude or anything.. it was just a major snowball effect).
Anyway, before all that drama, Tab and I sat down and started chatting. I think it all started with her asking if I had any love interests yet, and of course, my answer was no. She starts going into how she feels, and she doesn't know why or how, that while I've been looking for this perfect match, there's been someone in front of me all along. I figure this would lead to her saying herself, since she has indicated interest in me in the past... but surprisingly she followed up the other comment with "I don't know who it is... but I just have this feeling deep down that whoever you are looking for has been in front of you all this time."
I sat there and thought for a second, and my initial reply was that no one has been in my life this whole time, not even her. I couldn't really think of anyone. Then it dawned on me that I think she's right. It's something I've thought on and of about for a really long time. I admitted that yes, there probably is someone out there, but she doesn't live here... plus I don't know how things would be if we were together. Of course Tab says "who cares about the distance, just make it happen if this person is out there. Don't make the mistake I made and let them go."
It's just really made me think, a lot more than usual, about the person I had in mind. It's probably the damned biggest dilemmas I've ever faced. Yeah, I've thought about it before... but usually tell myself to stop because I think that if I were to bring it up she'd just think that I'm being silly.
I mean, we've been there for each other through a lot, but we've also had our ups and downs, even with our distance... what the hell does that mean? It's shit like that that's kept this fantasy just that - a fantasy, nothing more. There have been times when we've each laid cards on the table. I can't say I've ever really withdrawn mine, but she's withdrawn hers most of the time. Or perhaps her cards never were on the table, and it was just wishful thinking on my part. I'm not real sure. I should just man up and go for it... but damn if my situation just isn't proper for such a move right now. I can't say that her situation is either.
I don't know, sometimes I think the whole situation slightly mirrors the situation in Serendipity (if you've seen it). There have just been points in time that fate has brought us together at odd points, more together than normal. But things get pulled apart again... so wtf?
I'd like to believe there's something there on her part and that the hot/cold that I get from time to time is perhaps her own fears over the whole thing. Or, it could just be she sees what we have as a really good friendship... which without a doubt it is. And I'd hate to fuck that up. Are there cards in her hand, or is it just my imagination?
I got a call from my dad about a half an hour ago checking to see if I knew where my cousin is. He was thinking that tonight was my night at Kazmos (which it's not, I do that on Wednesday nights) and maybe she had stopped by.
My cousin is out here from Iowa doing an internship and wrapping up school, so she's not too familiar with the Denver-area yet. They've tried to call her and haven't been able to reach her yet, which isn't necessarily anything to freak out about because her service sucks out here.
One of the biggest reasons I'm freaking out right now is because I had just woken up from a very weird, vivid nightmare about a minute or two before my dad called. Someone who I assumed to be myself was walking in darkened area, kind of like a cellar. At that point I was watching this person, almost hovering over their right shoulder. There were spiders and such (which if you know me, I hate them) but they were small so I continued walking. Then all the sudden a HUGE spider drops down from above... we're not talking a few inches big spider, more something the size of a small, fat cat. At this point my view switches from third-person to first-person and I'm thinking to myself not to freak out, it's just a big, rare mama spider and it's not going to hurt me. The thing rests on my neck and I try not to panic... or maybe I'm telling the other person not to panic.. it's not real clear. But almost immediately the spider begins to bite my neck and it's squealing... usually I don't really hear things in my dreams, but this one I did and I remember being startled by it. But this spider is squealing and digging into me or the person's neck and blood is gushing out, to the point that while I tell myself it's not bad, I'm gonna be okay... I can hear my blood splattering on the wall next to me and feel it running down my neck. I start trying to pull the spider off me, but it wouldn't come off and I get to the point of almost blacking out from blood loss when I'm snapped awake out of my dream. About a minute or so after I figure out where I am and everything is when my phone begins to ring.
It's the strangest, most vivid dream I've ever had. To the point that here it is, over 20 min later, and I can still remember it as if it were a real memory.
<We interrupt this entry for a cousin update: before I sat down to write this I called my dad back and asked him to let me know status because I wasn't getting back to sleep between a nightmare I had and knowing my cousin is missing... he just called to say she got back to his place and is okay>
At least now I know my dream wasn't relating to her. A lot of time it seems my nightmares are a premonition of real-life doom, sometimes relating to whatever bad happened or just indicative of something bad is going to happen. Yeah, I know, you think I'm full of shit and that's okay.
I'm still freaked out about the dream, not because I am that frightened by it... but more of WHY I had it. It's still so vivid in my mind, and I very rarely remember my dreams once I awaken. I do know that when I woke up, the same side of my throat that the spider was feeding on is now sore, like the gland might be starting to swell a bit. I know I couldn't have laid on it funny because I was laying on the opposite side of my body. Some people in my group of friends have come down with strep, hopefully this isn't the beginning of my own symptoms.
Anyway, I guess it's time to go back and try to sleep some more... so much for getting a good night's rest for once. I even tried going to bed early, ha. Just glad my cousin's okay, and sorry for the gory details of my dream. I'll probably wake up after getting more rest tonight and have forgotten about the dream and this entry.
Dear lord... how many of these posts am I going to make?
I'm a little frustrated right now to say the least. More frustrated than I am bummed out though, so I guess that's a good thing.
The first sign that the Vegas job opportunity was going south was when the recruiter who put me in touch with them forwarded me an email from the interviewer's coworker, stating that they thought I sounded like a good candidate but I gave the interviewer the impression I didn't want to move. I sent the interviewer an email saying that I apologize if I gave her that impression & that I wasn't reluctant to move, if I were, then I wouldn't have wasted her time interviewing.
I guess the thing that pisses me off about the whole process is the fact I didn't once hear back from the interviewer. I sent her sample writing with a thanks, and I also sent her the follow-up/non-reluctant to move note on Monday and didn't hear shit. Didn't acknowledge receiving my samples. Didn't let me know herself I wasn't selected (the recruiter broke the news to me). She didn't do anything after we hung up on Thursday. Very unprofessional if you ask me.
I'm sure that later I'll be depressed over the fact that I've had yet another failed attempt and finding another job. But, at least I'm pissed right now, it's better than beating myself up over the countless strikes I've now amassed while trying to get out of my current situation.
Every day I think about how I should attempt to update my VoxWorld on my new happenings, but every time I sit down to write it out, everything tries rushing out all at once. OR, I get distracted by TV and forget what I was trying to let out. Now that I said that, I decided to mute TV so it's not completely distracting... but my ADD always seems to find a way to prevail so we'll see how this goes.
I started writing a post on Monday or Tuesday about my previous week, including my birthday celebration at the bar/club where I promote. I even stayed up late for the sole purpose of working on it... but I got towards the end of it and realized it was nothing but a bunch of drivel that no one would even care about. I'm half contemplating just going on tangents to get things off my chest (since at times I feel I don't have anyone to express my feelings to... or I've spent so much time bitching to the few people willing to listen that I don't want to burden them with my stupid rants anymore) and just make the posts private, leaving anything that's actually digestible or worthwhile as a public post. Hell, I'm already debating doing that with this post (making it private that is). But, for the sake of people knowing I'm alive, I guess I'll leave it public.
Last night at Kazmos was pretty blah. We were doing another all house music night (which has proven successful in the past) but not too many people showed. Two of the DJs did some pre-drinking at a bar down the street because they have cheap tall-boy PBRs and came in pretty wasted already. They barely showed up in time for when the first guy was supposed to start heh. Anyway, their mixing was pretty poor... usually they're pretty righteous (LOL, I said righteous), but not last night. And, to top it off, they were red-lining the sound levels on my mixer. Not only is it bad for my mixer, it's bad for the house system... the last thing I need is the owner of the place telling us off because some of the DJs we booked blew the system.
I ended up going on last, about 12:30 and played till close - that gave me a little under an hour since we usually try ushering people out the door by 1:30. I had no complaints about this because I had a long list of things I needed to get done early at work tomorrow, plus I had a phone interview and didn't want to be completely and utterly mentally exhausted for it from being out all night (more about the interview later). My mixing during the set wasn't 100% perfect, but I think my track selection/set programming was spot on. I was pretty damn happy with it... too bad there weren't many people there at that point to hear it, including the other DJs that I booked. You'd think they'd stick around long enough to hear what *I* have to offer.
So, first thing this morning I get the things done that I needed to get done before noon... amazingly enough. Then I took some invoices I needed paid and got yelled at by someone in our accounting department. I can't say that it wasn't completely warranted, because it was, but it was just rough going through that after how hard I busted my ass to get all the invoices ready for her. The reason she was bitching was because they were invoices that HAD to be paid, and I should've gotten them taken care of sooner... I just don't seem to have much time to get things like that done early, but then again if I stopped jackin' around on the net at work I probably could. I wrapped up all of that just in time to head off to my car for my phone interview. I parked my car on a street and waited for the interviewer to call, only to discover that the street I was parked on wasn't conducive to talking with all the traffic. I was in the process of moving my car to a better spot when the interviewer started ringing, so I rushed into the spot, parked and answered. (She called me about 15-20 min after I was told she was going to call.. not sure if that was a blessing in disguise or if I should be like wtf?!)
To backtrack a little bit, I was contacted by an independent recruiter last week. He evidently found my profile on a website for a publisher that makes magazines specifically tailored to advertisers (pubs that specialize in advertising news and happenings). After playing a little email/phone tag, we finally caught up on Monday, and on Tuesday night he let me know that an agency in Las Vegas was interested in chatting with me. That's who was calling me today. The interview got off to an okay start, even though Kim (the interviewer) didn't sound real gung-ho about it all. I feel my answers were pretty good... but I wish she'd delved deeper with her questioning. As I was countering with some of my own questions to her and she was replying, my wonderful, marvelous phone decided to drop the call. I immediately call her back and apologize for my phone and we resumed our discussion. She seemed at least a little peeved about it, which kind of surprises me... but oh well. At the end of the conversation she asked me to send her a sample of my writing. So, as soon as I got back to the office, I found a few work-related writing samples, zipped them up, and sent them over to her with a 'thank you for the interview' as well as an additional apology for dropping the call, saying I should've been more mindful of my service when I answered. I guess only time will tell what happens. Vegas isn't exactly a place I've thought about living (I've never even BEEN there), but I figured "why keep myself in a teeny consideration box for new jobs."
Along with the work writing samples, I also sent her a bio I wrote up (that may or may not have been tweaked by our copywriters and then included) for a Request-For-Proposal booklet we were putting together for a new business pitch. I figured I'd share it with anyone that was dumb enough to read this far:
I was born in Council Bluffs, and even though I celebrated my first four birthdays in four different states and lived in Belgium for six years, I will always be a small-town boy at heart. I keep this small community mentality in mind when working with vendors to maintain a benevolent relationship with them on behalf of K\H clients.
After interning with K\H in Account
Service, I was whisked away into the world of media in 2005 to
assist with media planning and buying on the Colorado Lottery, the
Deadwood Chamber of Commerce, the Denver Metro CVB, the Denver
Newspaper Agency, Fiserv ISS and the Globus Family of Brands.
I started assisting with the Pinnacle Bancorp account when we began handling some of their media in the Fall of 2005, and as the account has grown, so have I. After starting with media planning and buying in Nebraska and Colorado, we now handle media for Pinnacle Bancorp in Wyoming, Texas, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico as well. I work on planning and buying in each Pinnacle market, specializing in newspaper and rural market radio and cable.
I relate back to my Midwestern roots when constructing plans to connect with rural market consumers but also have the knowledge to reach large-market targets. An internet junkie at heart, my "King of Google" crown helps me to delve deep into new markets and learn as much as possible about them to ensure plan effectiveness.
I demonstrated my buying capabilities
while implementing Pinnacle Bank's first Greater Nebraska cable buy
to cover their rural market branches. I also handle radio buying for
unmeasured markets in Nebraska and Wyoming. Additionally, my magic in
Excel helps not only to provide back up to my small market insights,
but it also helps track and manage over 90 print publications in 6
states.
I told her I included it so they could see a more fun side to my writing and also see information that isn't easily included in a resume. Keep your fingers crossed for me, I'm not quite sure how I'd handle crashing and burning on another interview. The earliest I will hear something will be next week since Kim and her boss are both out of the office tomorrow (Friday).
So, I don't even know why I'm writing any kind of update right now... probably because I'm trying to kill time at work, occupy the last hour+ that I need to coast through in order to end my week. My thoughts and writings will probably be incoherent.. disconnected at the very least. I am exhausted, again, from going out both Wednesday night and Thursday night (Wednesday I didn't have any say though of course).
Things in my life are pretty much the same as they've been I suppose. Work is definitely the same, I'm still single, don't get enough sleep, etc etc. But... I do have a love interest that I thought I was getting somewhere with. Right now I'm not so sure about that though.
There's a bartender at Kazmos that works during the day, so I have slowly gotten to know her with the hour or whatever of overlap there is between the day shift and night shift for Wednesdays when I do my night there. About a month ago, if not a little over that, I gave her my number and told her to give me a ring sometime. After she didn't call for a couple of weeks, I gave her my myspace. She didn't add me so last Sunday I went down there to say hello and hang out and was giving her a hard time about not adding me... so she gave me her number. I was pretty surprised... but we texted a bit that day while we both were there, flirting with cheesey pickup lines. Didn't really communicate again until Monday night when she texted me to see if I was coming down for her beer pong night. My dad and I had just gotten done with an entire day of fishing so I told her it was highly unlikely, but I'd try to swing by.
When I got home from my dad's it was already after 10:30 and I was tired as hell (evidenced by the fact that I fell asleep on my couch about 15 minutes after I got home). But before I fell asleep I sent her a text letting her know I couldn't make it and hoped the night goes well. I didn't hear anything back. Then Tuesday evening I sent her another text asking how the night went, didn't get a reply. Well, Wednesday I went down there early (normally I don't get there until about 7:45 or so since our night starts at 8) but she was evidently sick... this really bummed me out because she is interested in an internship at my work and I had gotten the info she needed for it and wanted to chat with her about it. So I sent her a text sayin "you're killin me babe. i came down here early to talk to you about the internship but you're not here. i need your email address so i can send you some paperwork. they're in the selection process right now." I never heard back.
So, yesterday afternoon I decided I'd try calling her, but got her voicemail and haven't received a return call. I'm not real sure what to think... maybe she's deathly ill... maybe she regrets giving me her number... or maybe she's pissed because I didn't come down for beer pong, who knows. Silly women and the games they play.
Speaking of silly women, I was a silly man last night and kind of made a little bit of mistake. I wasn't going to go out last night but my friend Ceren (pronounced Jare-inn) asked me to go. I actually turned her down and only decided to go later because my friend Graeme was going to be celebrating his birthday at the same club. I can't say no to a friend on their birthday if I can help it... even if I was completey exhausted from only getting 3 hours of sleep Wednesday night.
So I do some split time between hanging out with Graeme, hanging out with Ceren, and making stops in at a little party in VIP that my DJ buddy was having. I had a little too much to drink (thanks to 3x shots of fooking Crown...) and Ceren and I always flirt a lot... even though she's got a boyfriend. There's always been some sexual tension between the two of us... well, last night it came to a bit of a head. We were gettin kinda flirty and she was like... we need some privacy (we were waiting for her friends to come out of the bathroom)... and dragged me off to the opposite side of the club. We ended up making out... for awhile too. It was pretty good... but the whole time I was kicking myself inside cuz I've always told myself I'd never be "that guy." I still feel guilty about it... not sure what to do about it, and I'm nervous about running into Ceren again soon... although she leaves for SF tonight and I'm not sure when she gets back to town.
Should I feel bad about what happened? I mean, I was flirty and stuff but I always drew the line and usually avoided any escalation if possible. But when she said let's go somewhere more private, I just couldn't say no. Plus it's not like we did the nasty or anything... but I know if I were her BF I'd probably be REALLY upset if I found out she did something like what she did with me. It's definitely a dilemma and I don't feel comfortable being in this situation.
So let me just start off by saying that when I first heard Daft Punk was coming to town, I didn't care that much. Granted, I knew it would be a good show, but I had plans to go to a big show at Red Rocks about a week and a half before that. Plus, while I like Daft Punk, I've never loved them (even if they have had a few tracks that I've really enjoyed). I wasn't planning on going, but my friend's gf sent me a message on myspace saying she and her friend were going, and my friend couldn't go - and they wanted to know if I wanted to go in place of him (I would still have to pay for my ticket though). I thought about it for a bit then made the decision that I would head to the show with them.
Best decision I've ever made!!
The show was probably one of the best, if not THE best show I've ever been to. The flow of their set was fantastic, the lighting was spectacular, and the crowd was in good spirits the whole time. Words cannot even describe how great the show was... definitely one of those "life changing events." The bar has been set pretty high for any show I go to from here on forward, so I have a feeling I'll be facing nothing but disappointment in the future. It was so good that I'm contemplating going and seeing them again in Vegas in October... it's just real expensive and it doesn't even include airfare/hotel... so I'll have to ponder it for awhile.
Here are some pics I took, a long with some video... I will probably update this post later with the rest of the video I haven't had the chance to upload yet. And let me tell you, the pics and video do this show no justice at all, that's how amazing it was!
Here are pics of me and the girls I went with:
Here's a pic of some crazy guy that was dressed up like Wendy:
And here are some pics from the show (if you can make out the pyramid structure, the two guys that make up Daft Punk are in the middle of it - it was broken into two sections, a base and a tip - they were in the open area between the two parts):
Some of them are pics of a screen that is to the right of the stage, they came out looking a little funky but I like em, I usually managed to catch a camera angle transition in the middle so the screenshots look layered.
Here are some shots of their huge LED that was displaying the words to their song "Technologic":
and here are some more from the show:
and one more batch, these are from the end of their set:
but of course, they had to come out for an encore, I only had the mental capacity to take one pic (did get some video though) when they came out, the suits they were wearing lit up red... pretty damn cool!
and here are the videos I took (which I'll update later after I finish uploading the rest of them to youtube, hopefully by the end of the week:
What is (or would be) your DJ name?
I'd hope that's pretty obvious - my DJ name is DSM.
You may be wondering... what exactly does DSM stand for anyway? Well, I've come up with a few "fun" names, in addition to the meaning from which I adopted.
Dyslexic Spinning Monkey
Done Shagged yo Mom
Digital Sex Machine
Dog Says Moo
Damn Sexy Man
Doom Slashing Machete
and a few others I can't remember
What it really stands for though is Diamond Star Motors - the true manufacturer of my former car. Yes, I named myself after my car hahah. I wanted a name that encapsulated who I was at the time. I had tuned my car for street racing and would even take it to Bandimere Speedway and race it. So, adopting the name "DJ DSM" or "deejayDSM" at the time really told a story about who I was, even though most people still to this day don't know what DSM stands for. Some people come up and call me David, assuming that DSM is my initials and my first name is David (we have another local DJ that goes by DMX and his name is David, I'm sure this contributes to the confusion). In the last few years though I haven't really encountered much of the name assumption. Then again, people usually give me the head nod, not go hey what's up (Nick, DSM, David, whatever).
Don't really have too much of an update on my life, but I figured that I might as well provide one anyway. Things are pretty much as they've been for awhile, other than the fact that I am lagging behind at work now. I've spent too much time slacking and it's finally caught up with me. I'm starting to freak out a bit, not only because of the workload, but also because of job security. We've lost three pretty big clients in the last three weeks. Luckily, some of them we will have for a bit longer, so it's not like they're instantly at the door... but either way, our bottom line is hurting and the President announced today that down the road it will have an effect on staffing. Luckily we do have two new clients in the mix now too, but they're not as big as the ones we lost.
I am still waiting to hear back on the interview I had before Memorial Day. They say they should have something by the end of the week - the fact this is dragging out pretty much tells me I won't get the job though... which is unfortunate because I'm really getting sick of what I'm doing at my current job (at least it's a nice change from hating it because of my coworkers, right?)
On another note, my friend Dale came over on Sunday and we spent the day putting together a tag team mix. It's a little short for a tag team and the mixes aren't completely flawless, but overall it's a good enough product to release to the public. I definitely can say that I enjoyed putting together the promotional e-flyer for it though! And here it is: Duel on the Decks: DSM vs Cloudkicker Round One!
I also have another mix featuring just myself in the works, it's just about done, I can't wait! It's a lot darker than the mix Dale and I made - more a long the lines of my current mixes. I also put together a custom intro for the new mix by recording audio samples from my The Crow DVD and spliced different pieces together. If you feel like taking a listen, here is the intro (I'll post the mix later once it's finalized ;))
