Paul Moore wrote:
quoted 14 lines Brock seems to be too quiet these days so here's a tip for you LA
>
> Brock seems to be too quiet these days so here's a tip for you LA
> scenesters. Ed Rush is DJing at Atmosphere next Tuesday (24th) and
> Grooverider the Tuesday following. Atmosfear is at the Viper Room,
> probably 21 and up.
>
> Luckily I got clued in that Jon Carter (Monkey Mafia) was spinning
> this past Tuesday and caught a great 3 hour set - moreso considering
> his records ended up in a different city than LA and he borrowed
> everything he spun. Some overlap with the set from his Heavenly
> Social disc but loads of other surprises tossed in.
>
> LA Celebrity Rating:
> 1/3 Love and Rocket + 1/4 KISSquoted 56 lines After the experience I just had, this message may tend to ramble a bit,
> After the experience I just had, this message may tend to ramble a bit,
> but hang with me as I'm sure you'll get a chuckle or two out of it!
>
> Someone's started up a new tuesday night jungle weekly here in LA called
> 'Atmosphere', located at the infamous Viper Room on the sunset strip.
>
> For the opening night, the only dj's on the flyer were 'dj Carbo' from
> Grand Royal magazine and Mickey Finn.
>
> Even though we already knew what a depressing shit hole the viper room
> is, I wanted to catch Mickey Finn, since we missed him last time he was
> in town.
>
> Upon arriving at the club, which, IMHO, is seriously lacking in
> 'Atmosphere', my girlfriend and I were treated to one of the wackest
> displays of lameness ever: Dj Carbo playing tired jump-up cuts, radio
> style, with the occasional trainwreck when he had the nutts to try to
> mix anywhere except the intro or outro, which was only twice. To
> complement his amazingly lame set, we had the displeasure of one of our
> local MC's running his mouth nonstop, even over tracks with vocals.
>
> After more then an hour of this crap, Mickey Finn got on the decks.
> Trying to keep a positive attitude, I was looking forward to hearing
> some fresh jump-up and some creative mixing. Unfortunately, it didn't
> seam like mickey was very into it (I don't blame him!) and he played an
> ok set of stuff we've all played out (or heard) a million times over the
> last year, with some pretty loose mixing.
>
> Fast forward to halfway through his set:
>
> We were relaxing in a booth by the bar and a girl walks up and whispers
> something in my ear. I look up and it's non other then Fiona Apple. I
> replied 'excuse me?' and she slips into the booth next to me, puts her
> arm on my shoulder and inches away from my face asks me if I'm one of
> the 'dj's'. I responded, 'not tonight', and she then asks if I have
> any pull with the dj who was currently playing. I told her 'that guy up
> there is the talent and he gets paid to play what HE wants to play'.
> She then asks if 'I could pass him a request.'.
>
> Right about this time, Mickey dropped 'Warhead'.
>
> I asked her what kind of request she'd make and she went on to tell me
> how 'a very special friend from New York is with me tonight and he'd
> really like to hear some house music.'
>
> I told her if she would like to go up and ask the finn to play some
> house, but he'd probably throw a record at her head. She then smiled,
> politely thanked me and walked off into the crowd.
>
> Less then 5 seconds after this exchange, into warhead, mickey finn mixed
> some silly track with the vocals from 'love don't live here anymore' by
> madonna. The leather jacket and cowboy boot wearing hollywood types ate
> it up and it promptly got a rewind.
>
> At this point we made a b-line for the door and made it home before
> midnight.