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Played Out Party!

played out party! urban's house thursday @ betty's

“Mirror Dance”, “Change For Me”, “Touched The Sky”, “Love And Happiness”… 7 DJs all playing your favorite played out songs! What fun! And like I always tell people, it had to have been good for it to have been played out :) If you’re in Chicago come to our special theme party this Thursday March 19th at Betty’s. Also check out the accompanying Played Out Songs Radio Show now! (On our Facebook event page none other than Little Louie Vega confirmed himself as a guest to our party. Glad to see he saw the humor in it… given that a third of the songs we listed were his!)

Stuff I’m Doing Here

Wunmi and her drummers performing


For all you internet addicts, you all need to go to Korea.

While here in NYC I went to my usual haunts such as the Soulgasm party on Wednesday followed by Cielo to hear Kevin Hedge and Louie Vega. Friday was a party at Brooklyn’s Langston Club with Rich Medina and an awesome live performance by singer/dancer/activist Wunmi. It was a nice surprise to run into Jamie 3:26 there (for some reason we always run into each other in this city), as he had just finished playing at a party in Jersey.

Saturday is of course the Shelter, my favorite House night ever! We stayed there from 5am till 2pm, and even ran into Wayne Williams by the DJ booth. The DJ of the night was the same as usual, annoying, playing with the EQ’s till your ears wanted to explode and trainwrecking like there’s no tomorrow. Since I was with two DJs going there for the first time, they could not believe how terrible he was and they were in awe at all the bad blends. I told them to just sit back and enjoy the experience, because that is what the Shelter is all about.

I’ve taken Vogueing, House and Gymnastics classes, bought tons of clothes and got to see good (and real) dancers at clubs again. None of that step-side-to-side-let’s-just-grind-and-act-sexy dance moves everyone always does. I love it here!

Week’s Roundup

92nd street host Face with Dajae and her sister

I am vegetarian. I am eating a chicken wing. Why?

Monday I watch The Godfather of Disco, a documentary on West End Records’ Mel Cheren. It was very well done, and I couldn’t believe that the only people from the House community that showed up were Lady D (she was in the movie), David Sabat and myself.

The rest of the week is more writing, magazine drop-offs and club-hopping. Friday evening I stop in to WCRX 88.1 for the Masters in the Mix show. It was a special night because they were celebrating 25 years, and show host Mr. Fabulous had a lot of the other old school hosts come in and talk. Then I’m off to more parties and drops, until I settle myself at Angie and Face’s G-Spot party on 92nd Street. I knew the Louie Vega party at Zentra would be a madhouse so I stay safe and SOUTH. After that very fun time, we head on out to the regular afterhours spot on 71st Street and are treated very very well. The ceilings are like 5 feet, so you walk around with a constant hunch. I know I should go home, but then Andre Hatchett calls me up, we go and get his ass and drive over to Ms Linda Redd’s house to drink and scream some more. By the time we get done partying and I am home, it is a gosh-darn 10 in the morning. Great. And I got so much shit to do.

Saturday evening my girl Erika’s company puts on a dance and poetry show, of which I am the lovely mistress of ceremonies. I have 8 sheets of show notes and I’m praying I get all the acts and descriptions right. Luckily the show was sexual in content, so my usual potty mouth was very appropriate for the theme. I fucked up a couple of announcements but hey. I gave them my charming smile. After the show I go home and change, pretend to write an article, then head out to Lego’s monthly party at Darkroom followed by Smart Bar. I get tipsy and do what any drunk girl does: start a fight. Happy weekend!

Jaded

Louie Vega at the White Party in Club Langston, Brooklyn

The last 4 days have been a non-sleeping blur. Friday night I head up to Brooklyn to hear Louie Vega spin at a White party, and it was incredibly festive and white. Saturday (or should I say Sunday morning) at 6am I head to the Shelter, and stay until the lights go on at an early 2pm. By then I was already cranky and tired having lugged my magazines all over the damn city, and I had an hour to go home and get my butt to the airport. I get back to Chicago at 10pm Sunday night, shower and change, then head over to support my boy Sean Smith’s night at Betty’s. I sooo wanted to stay in and crash, but a bunch of my friends were waiting on me.

After this last NY trip, I have to say that the dancers and househeads over there are uber-JADED. As in evil, mean, jealous, harboring mega-hateration. They all have incredibly fragile egos, scary-random tempers, and serious denial issues. I guess living in that city can be tough and create serious personality defects . Everyone is incredibly talented, but they will hold that talent over everyone’s heads and constantly compare compare compare. I think I was better off keeping my distance than now being in the mix.

Roots Party

Wednesday I interview Jon Cutler (the man responsible for the club anthems “It’s Yours” and “You Groove Me”). Later I go to the Roots party at Club Cielo with residents Kevin Hedge of Blaze and Louie Vega. They were celebrating their 3 year anniversary and had singer Donnie and his band do a live performance. He did a sexy and soulful set (he’s the voice behind that House track “Twisted”.)

Everyone and their mama was there: Ultra Nate, DJ Spinna, Armand Van Helden, Todd Terry, Mr. V, Tony Touch, Crazy Legs, The New York City Breakers and MC Serch (from MTV’s “The White Rapper Show”) to name a few. It was a perfect mix of House and hip-hop heads combined, and Louie ended the night with old school b-boy songs such as “The Mexican” (which I loathe but got all the uprockers out on the circle.) What a great night.