DJ Otterpop http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:44:09 -0700 Fuzz.com en http://www.fuzz.com/ http://www.fuzz.com/_/images/logo/blimp.png http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-AM-DJING-MONDAY-Come-and-drink-one-for-me http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-AM-DJING-MONDAY-Come-and-drink-one-for-me#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:28:04 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-AM-DJING-MONDAY-Come-and-drink-one-for-me http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/That-Exercise-Thing http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/That-Exercise-Thing#comments
I need to get one of those "exercise" belts- burn as you sleep. I bet those work.....]]> Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:07:39 -0800 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/That-Exercise-Thing http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/6434-ONE-WHOLE-WEEK-W-O-FUZZ-CAN-I-DO-IT http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/6434-ONE-WHOLE-WEEK-W-O-FUZZ-CAN-I-DO-IT#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:03:56 -0800 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/6434-ONE-WHOLE-WEEK-W-O-FUZZ-CAN-I-DO-IT http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/HELP-ME-GET-TO-THE-UK http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/HELP-ME-GET-TO-THE-UK#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:44:59 -0800 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/HELP-ME-GET-TO-THE-UK http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/SAVE-THE-SANTA-CRUZ-DRIVE-IN http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/SAVE-THE-SANTA-CRUZ-DRIVE-IN#comments
http://www.petitiononline.com/saveflea/petition.html]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:28:48 -0800 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/SAVE-THE-SANTA-CRUZ-DRIVE-IN http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Two-songs-I-just-can-NOT-hear-enough http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Two-songs-I-just-can-NOT-hear-enough#comments
Two songs I CAN NOT EVER GET SICK OF ARE:

1. In A BIG COUNTRY by BIG COUNTRY- seriously, one of the best songs ever written. The words, the tune, the video with hot hot hot mod boys on scooters, the fact that the lead singer committed suicide, and they found his decomposing body two weeks later in a hotel in Hawaii......FABULOUS!!!!

2. It's My Life by Talk Talk- a message that never gets old. One of my friends were trying to decided whether to use this as a cover song for their greatest hits collection or "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS. This song won, and IT IS A GEM.

Whenever I hear either of these delights, it does not matter where I am, what I am doing, or who I am with. I will stop in my tracks, and dance, usually sing at the top of my lungs. DIVINE INTERVENTION occurred when these were written.]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:10:22 -0800 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Two-songs-I-just-can-NOT-hear-enough http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Totally-MISGUIDED http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Totally-MISGUIDED#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:53:48 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Totally-MISGUIDED http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/USSA-ROCKED http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/USSA-ROCKED#comments
Anyway, the show was a pleasure to see these rock legends in such an intimate setting, pure rock and roll, as I watched a rat scurry across the floor. As I drudged back the four long blocks to my car, carrying a box of posters, I ran into three friends (only I would have random friends out on a Wednesday night at 1:30 in the morning!) who were totally bummed that they had missed these to icons together on stage. I hope we can totally sell out the BOTH show next month. I have been on the phone yesterday and today working on a possible in-store, so pass it on...November 28th at Rasputins in Berkeley!]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:57:06 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/USSA-ROCKED http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/20-STRANGE-YEARS http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/20-STRANGE-YEARS#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:24:10 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/20-STRANGE-YEARS http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/One-Record-Wonders http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/One-Record-Wonders#comments
Here are a couple that come to mind, 6 diet cokes in:

1. ADORABLE: Against Perfection: Nothing is NOT Perfection on this shoe-gazer classic. I was on a date recently, and we were at a gig. Between bands, the DJ played a track from this album. I ditched my date, ran up to the booth, and made out with said record spinner. GOD IT IS MAGICAL. Every song- lyrics, layers of guitars, breathy, insane heart wrenching bizarre instrumentation. My ex saw them play one random set ten plus years ago in San Jose, where the lead singer shredded his white jean jacket while performing the album in order. Oh, I love you 1990s!

2. The Stone Roses- Self Titled. From the opening track, which is great for lying on your floor alone, smoking, crying, drinking whiskey, or having insane sex to, "I Wanna Be Adored," or the last "Fool's Gold," this debut tells the story of my beloved Manchester, as well as the whole "baggy scene." I remember hearing it for the first time- it was like a new mystery and life was opening up to me. I still feel that way when I listen to it hard. The same ex once dedicated "She Bangs The Drum" to me. Bless.

3. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless. GOD HELP ME. This album is so weird, so profoundly different than anything else. It just stretches and grows in all these bizarre directions. You just want to lie in bed with head phones and cocoon. I once saw graffiti of Kevin Shields- I was so happy that someone else GOT IT. It was kind of like chocolate and peanut butter- how did anyone come up with this?

Those are really the only three. We were fighting about those these this morning. I listen to those albums almost every week. I think my roommate will scream if he hears them again.]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:44:42 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/One-Record-Wonders http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Cingular-STILL-SUCKS http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Cingular-STILL-SUCKS#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:45:45 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Cingular-STILL-SUCKS http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Just-a-wee-bit-of-beauty http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Just-a-wee-bit-of-beauty#comments
However, I love Mornings on Two. I have been watching it since I went to UCB, and it is my comforting white noise in the morning. I don't really listen, I just like the familiar faces of Ross, Sal and friends.

However, this morning, I have been transfixed by how ghastly the world they report on is. Kidnapping. Murders (one two blocks away from where my friend Gregory and I were planning our newest writing venture together last night). A human bodied splattered across the highway (people thought it was an animal because the body was in pieces all over the road- the literal de-humanizing of a person, someone that somebody at some time loved and cared for - it breaks my heart). Kids killing themselves and others, and it being reported that the "school should have known better." As someone that has worked in schools, and has best pals that work in universities and schools, I would love to have any one of these people writing such scripts to go to my loved friend Daniel's classroom, and try to work with his 40 plus students, of all various levels, that he cycles through every school period, and tell me how he should "know better." School is where you should feel the safest. But should I not feel safe walking down the street in my neighborhood? In my car?

I should be pulling up to 3rd and 20th now, but I am transfixed by the horrifying, ghastly world that Channel Two has painted for me this morning. I want to triple dead bolt my door and never leave the safety of my apartment. Who knows what will "get me" if I dare to experience life "out there."]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:58:52 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Just-a-wee-bit-of-beauty http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-will-never-eat-Chinese-food-again-clouds-make-me-cry http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-will-never-eat-Chinese-food-again-clouds-make-me-cry#comments
Lance's mum recently passed away. This weekend Lance and Ray came to do all of the funeral and wake rituals here in SF, where the family is. My roommate performed the ceremony when the family scattered her ashes. Lance and I had many talks about being THERE when a loved one dies. I was at my grandfather's side when he passed away. It makes you question all of your thoughts and priorities of life, death, time, beliefs, etc.

Lance is a catty as half native american, half mexican gay guy. His sister has 6 kids, and all 6 of those kids have several children already. It was a totally different world. I felt like there was this completely different universe going on where having babies at age 16, then another at 17, etc was totally normal, and my world of PhD, vintage furniture, etc, was totally weird and unknown. I felt like I was back in high school where I was the one that did not belong. I realized how I have totally surrounded myself with other freaks just like myself, and how the "real" world is not like THAT. What is the "real" world, how is that shit even defined? Meanwhile, Lance is telling me how he barely had made up for the 37 years of not talking to his mum, of the death rattle you hear before some one goes, of "moving up" since he now the "top" generation. I can not even explain all my thoughts.

We went to Chinese food that night at Lance's request. My roommate and I spent the last two days home sick from work cursing him, hot and sour soup and general's chicken.

Today I was driving to work, still feeling crap. I was missing my friend Calyx in the UK so badly. I looked up at the sky, and watched the clouds moving, the sun barely shining through. I thought of all the people who had looked at them before me, my idol Ian Curtis, my grandparents, Lance's mum. I felt so small and stupid and inconsequential.]]> Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:10:13 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-will-never-eat-Chinese-food-again-clouds-make-me-cry http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-AM-DJING-THIS-WEEKEND-AT-THE-TRANSFER http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-AM-DJING-THIS-WEEKEND-AT-THE-TRANSFER#comments
Sunday, October 7th.

9pm until 10:30pm

ALL BRIT POP RARITIES

THE TRANSFER AT CHURCH AND MARKET IN THE CASTRO

Holla at your girl]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:09:57 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-AM-DJING-THIS-WEEKEND-AT-THE-TRANSFER http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Just-noticed http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Just-noticed#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:22:53 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/Just-noticed http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/BEST-CONCERT-EVER http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/BEST-CONCERT-EVER#comments
I am only truly obsessed and dedicated to one star- the one star that I adore, love and DO NOT WANT TO MEET EVER (the one chance I had, I fainted)- MORRISSEY.

He writes and sings about what I can not verbalize or find the write words to say- and he does it perfectly.

He is wry, political, brash, outspoken, opinionated, fabulous, diva-esque. I love him as passionately as I do a family member, and it makes ZERO sense.

It has been this way for 17 years.

Tonight I lined up- I have not LINED UP for a concert since I was 18 and as a joke I waited outside to see NELSON- AWESOME! - and had them throwing guitar pics into my cleavage from my barrier vantage point.

I got there at 6:30- one of pals had saved me a spot in line outside the venue where he had been since 4pm!

I got literally the last spot on the barrier once I got inside.

I could not believe it when Mozzer came out.

I was so close to him. I spend hours researching him for my thesis, talking about him, and doing work around fandom, using him as a guide and model. I have posters of him in my room and office. AND THERE HE WAS IN THE FLESH!!!! BREATHING. LIVING. REAL.

After the first hour, after people climbing over me, pushing shoving, Morrissey came down on one knee right in front of me, took me hand, and held it. I felt like I was going to die. I could NOT BELIEVE IT!!!!!

Then, at the close of the show, he threw his t-shirt directly TO ME!!!! This crazy guy started scratching me and calling me all these names, and security had to get involved. It turned into a big brew-ha-ha with his crazy ass wife, and they actually got tossed out of the venue (they followed my roommate and I to the car, and were really scary- all in the name of fandom!). I got interviewed outside for a movie about Morrissey that Morrissey is making- it was so fucking awesome!

The show was insane- Moz played songs that I had not heard in SOOOOO long. I was dying.

It was seriously the best night of my life. I remembered how much music means to me, and how much I want all the bands I work with to mean to someone else.

I LOVE YOU MORRISSEY! Again you have taught me so much. THANK YOU.]]> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:39:53 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/BEST-CONCERT-EVER http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/MORRISSEY-IS-GOD http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/MORRISSEY-IS-GOD#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:19:19 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/MORRISSEY-IS-GOD http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-may-throw-up http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-may-throw-up#comments
Right around this time, one of my best friends had her long awaited visas cleared, and it was decided that she was moving, ironically, to the UK two days after the first Mozzer show.

I decided to forgo the first the Mozzer show to hang with her, and gave my tickets to Jerry, a fellow fan.

It was totally worth it, to spend that extra time with Calyx, dancing around her kitchen, drinking wine and dancing like fools to "Bitch" by the Stones (sorry Ryan Divine).

BUT TONIGHT IT IS ON!!!!

I AM SOOOOOO FUCKING PUMPED!!!!

You would think that I had not seen Morrissey, oh, like 106 times before!!

I am stressed that MAYBE I missed a song last night.

I feel like I am going to throw up and have diarrhea and scream and cry....OH MY GOD I LOVE HIM SOOOOO MUCH!

I literally and emotionally do not lose my stuff over ANYONE BUT MORRISSEY.

I never want to meet him, I never want him to be a real person.

I LOVE HIM SO!!!!

But I did bring a sharpie, JUST IN CASE I meet him, I can get him to sign my wrist and get a Mozzer tat.]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:02:38 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-may-throw-up http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-will-be-DJing-on-Saturday-night-at-my-pals-new-spot http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-will-be-DJing-on-Saturday-night-at-my-pals-new-spot#comments
XOXOXO 7-9pm]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:59:37 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/I-will-be-DJing-on-Saturday-night-at-my-pals-new-spot http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/CINGULAR-WIRELESS-ARE-DEMON-SPAWNS http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/CINGULAR-WIRELESS-ARE-DEMON-SPAWNS#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:50:33 -0700 http://www.fuzz.com/fan/DJOtterpop/blog/entry/CINGULAR-WIRELESS-ARE-DEMON-SPAWNS