crucial

west coast touring

As I completely failed to mention on this blog, I'm on tour out west.

Stateless in San Francisco was good fun.
Sacramento was fun, but nobody was there.

I'm in LA right now, in Echo Park (home of many old cowboy and silent films, frank zappa, the eagles, gilligan's island and [a]ppendics shuffle.

Its both dirtier and nicer than I expected. Nice California homes, beautiful hills and graffitti tagged palm trees. Hoping to get out to different neighborhoods today.

Everything in LA seems to be hidden. There are no centers, just corners here and there and locations that people will drive to. Venues and restaraunts could be anywhere, there's no need for the clustering that New York does.

Its a lot more fun when you are in your car.

It would be way more fun if they imported about 10,000 monkeys and let them loose in the city.

Sounds like there is a problem for the venue for JAM this friday. Other parties and other venues for me to hit are being explored. Stay tuned.

Links and things

I am timeblind on myspace. thanks for the add.

I am crucialfelix on del.icio.us which is where I link to all the interesting shit I come across.

I put my photos up on flickr

NYC events iCal : anything that looks good.

Berlin events (parties, shows, vernissage, films): subscribe to google calendar / iCal

When I listen to music at home it all gets echoed onto here and on my Last.fm page. Most of the time I don't use that cause I don't want you to see me obsessively listening to my own mixes, really bad working titles.

You can read some posts I thought were interesting from various feeds.

I've been doing the Dance Music Business Resource since 1995, back when it was on hyperreal.org. Articles and info for artists and small labels. Recently I've been posting interesting industry news items and adding some new content about downloads etc.