Archives for February 2008
Upcoming Portland shows at which The Incredible Kid will not be performing
29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Saturday, March 1st consider checking out Atlas resident DJ E3, Cheb I Sabbah, David Starfire, Salar Nader, Riffat Sultana and all the other acts at this event. I would definitely recommend taking advantage of any opportunity to see a Sufi singer in Portland.
Monday March 3rd at the Crystal Ballroom our August 2007 Atlas guest [...]
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E3 gets some shine
29 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Sorry I didn’t post this earlier. Unfortunately, Anjali and I often end up with a disproportionate amount of attention, but you gotta give it up for our Atlas partner E3. Atlas wouldn’t even exist without E3’s inspiration, and the name “ATLAS” is fully the responsibility of his wonderful wife Tracy. E3 has [...]
Andaz 2/23/08 / Andaz always brings up the same thoughts
27 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I just could not get that excited about preparing for this month’s Andaz. And that scares me. It scares me to think that my parties or my DJing could ever become routine. I’ve seen it happen to other DJs who realize how easy it is to please people and coast through gigs. I don’t want [...]
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Great Quote
18 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The foreword to Merengue : Dominican Music and Dominican Identity by Paul Austerlitz is written by Robert Farris Thompson and ends with the following quote:
The message of merengue, like rap, mambo, samba and dancehall, ultimately may boil down to this: Subvert the threat of a posthominid future with collective honesties of sweat and motion.
ATLAS 2/09/08
18 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
You were hoping I was going to fuck things up at Atlas and you were going to be able to read a long juicy post, didn’t you?
As I was posting in my blog in the hours before leaving to perform at Holocene I could feel myself bringing on the jinx as I wrote my final [...]
The lack of party reviews
9 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
2/09/08
For a while now I have been very aware of how little I have been writing about our parties. I wrote a very brief “thank you for coming out” post about our Atlas 4 year anniversary, and I wrote a post about the Junk to Funk after-party. That party occurred November 17th, and [...]
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New Year’s Eve 2007
8 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Anjali and I had a very unusual New Year’s Eve party. We had approached a number of clubs early on about throwing our New Year’s event, and the wonderful Seann McKeel of the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel wanted to confirm with us first, while the other clubs were weighing their options, as it were. [...]
Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (The Band’s Visit) and the after-party
8 February 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
2/8/08
Thanks to Anjali’s suggestion, the two of us went to see Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (The Band’s Visit) which opened the Portland International Film Festival’s 31st year last night. The Israeli director Eran Colirin was in attendance and he opened the movie by announcing how many drinks he had already had before getting on stage. [...]
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