The Paused – Song For Elliot

So… back in September during my last deployment my Grandfather died. Due to the nature of my deployment I wasn’t able to get home for the funeral. So, after moping around for a few days and listening to a insane amount of DJ Shadow I sat down a made this over the course of about 6 hours. Because of a computer issue that I had, I lost the project file that I made this under so I’ve never really had the chance to finish it. So I guess this is as finished as it’s going to be. So here you go.

Tribute to my Grandfather. Song For Elliot. MP3. Free download. Enjoy.

Song For Elliot

Excerpts From My Work Day & Selling Out

Today I think I had the most pointless conversation that I’ve ever had. With that said, a simple question.

If you were a celebrity would you try to borrow stuff from your fans?

Lets phrase it differently.

A knock at the door, you go and answer it and there she is. Camron Diaz. The first thing she says is “Hey, I know this may sound weird but my alarm clock broke and I was wondering if I could borrow yours?”

What do you do! WHAT DO YOU DO?!?

Would you let Justin Timberlake borrow some socks?

What about Jessica Alba borrowing your weedwacker?

If I were a celebrity I’d be borrowing all of your shit.

Now as for selling out. About a month ago I DJed a friend’s retirement. I played nothing but 80s rock, synth pop, and 90s Rap (That girl is poisooooonnnn). The venue I played at offered me a job playing the same type of music for about a hundred a night, which in the scheme of it all isn’t really much but it is a little bit of money to go toward paying for all the crazy about of records that I’ve bought over the years.

This is the first time that I’ve ever compromised the music I enjoy playing though and deep down this kinda bothers me. It’s also the first time I’ve had to put myself out there as a musical jukebox. Just playing the obvious tunes to make people happy. Normally when you play as a electronic music or club music dj you get looked at as a performer. An artist. This steady gig makes me feel like a employee.

The real reason this manages to get to me is because of a certain DJ that I knew in Virginia who had sold his soul to the music devils to basically play top 40. He despised his audience, hated the music he played, hated the bar, and before you knew it he was just a bitter old man who completely lost shit playing crap music for crap people and it’s a road that I don’t even want to head down.

But here I am, tomorrow playing the first sell out gig of my life. Fuck.

First Blog!

So, I’m actually pretty new to this whole bloging thing. It’s one of those things that got so big so quick that I just kind of disregarded how much influence that it can have upon people. I’ve been doing a myspace blog for years but I just think it’s about time to grow up a bit and get one that’s independent of them, after all spam and friend whoring is eventually going to eat that site alive.

So to start. I’m not really a credible source of anything. My opinions don’t really matter but I do spend a little bit of time running around the internet looking at things and writing about them. I’m deeply into electronic music and have been DJing for about 7 years now. Minimal techno and the such. I dj under the name the Googly and have recently been creating Ambient music under the name The Paused. I’m currently in the military and I’ve got a wife and 2 cats.

I’ll be using this site to post about the 20 billion things that I’m interested in including upcoming musical highlights that you should be going to about the Seattle area.

Well that’s about it. Time to get with the posting.