2015 a year in review

Well here it is another year end review
first off
Funerals attended- 0
Wedding attended-0

Nothing really catastrophic really happened this year as far as people I know dying.
My dj gigs went well except for the one mid summer I couldn't get to. I kinda got fired from that one. a first! that stung!
My friend Ed Austin referred me to a gig and that went well.
This summer I did have a mishap with my Sony Cybershop but a week later I got a Nikon Coolpix S9900. a YouTube subscriber gave me instructions on how to set up the Autofocus. it works great.
Our longtime Custodian and my DJ Mentor retired in June.
Construction on the new gym started and should be completed sometime in early 2016!
 My friend Curt is now a civilian after 6 years in the Navy.
I hope he will return to making mixes!
In September I got a new roof for my car.
My education in world music continues.
There will be more music reviews and blogs in 2016 and I also hope to restart my mix exchange group and get a few more gigs in 2016.
A few more subscribers on my youtube channel would be nice too!
to my roadies,Chip,George and Eric thank you so much!
To Ed Austin Thank you for the referral
and to The Lord above thank you for it all!
and yes thank you to my readers too!
May you all have a merry Christmas and a very Happy new year!

a warm weekend in December

Usually at this time of year I'm in my winter coat  and gloves but this weekend it was in the lover 60s and this week it supposed to continue?
I'm riding around on my bike taking videos and photos in a sweatshirt and jeans loving the weather knowing old man winter is waiting in the wings.
 so here's are photos I took this weekend!

Yeah I know I've said it a dozen times before how I love my Nikon nut its true. I used to look at postcards and pictures in magazines sating I wish I could take photos like that and now I can!

White Sands gig!

end of year report coming soon

As the Cards get written and presents are purchases I wrestle with time to squeeze in an end of the year report.
in the meanwhile here's a few shots of the day.

Ah Diversity at the Bay Head reading center representing Christmas and Hanukah! Today was they're holiday tea. It was nice making the rounds and chatting with a few folks even though it is a small room!

HoHo Ho Howe St

So Today was a really nice day for a bikeride.
When I got home from work I got changed and grabbed the basics of the day. Wallet, keys and Camera and crammed them in my hip pack. After I left the house I had a feeling I forgot something.
  That something was my backpack. Hopefully it will be nice again tomorrow so I can get a few things after work.
 My first stop was bay the Pt Pleasant Cannel where there's a small lake where ducks and geese hange out.
I saw these goose just hanging out by a puddle drinking the dirty water( yuck!) and he looked like he was hurt.

He knew I was there. so I didn't dare get any closer. Does it look like he's hurt?

After that I went into Bay Head and got some cool pictures of Christmas Decorations and there were even Christmas decorations at the beach especially Howe St!

Wow now someone Really went to great efforts here! One of the guys on the plat form told me to sign my name on one of the shells with a black sharpie next the shell tree. I did.

 I just hope some punk doesn't come around and destroys this awesomeness! A person with a lot of heart and soul put a lot of effort to do this! I love it!

  With all the craziness going on in the world today this is a breath of fresh air.

Its a reminder that there are decent folks in the world who care and will do great works like this to remind us that that there is still good things happening.

 on the way home I took some photos of a few well decorated houses.

 to top it all off was a beautiful red sky as the sunset!

so you see folks there is beauty in a day. Think Positive. Don't let the mainstream Media's story of gloom and doom keep you down!

by request

So the other day my niece gave me a post it note with 11 songs she wanted on a mix. The next day I got an iTunes card and got gown to business. in downloading the songs I overlooked the fact that one of them had an red E next to it which mean explicit lyrics. so I deleted it.
It would be my luck to have my brother in law or sister hear the song and THIS DJ would catch hell for it! Instead I used artistic freedom and added a few songs I thought they might like
can you guess which ones are my picks?

sorry for the blurriness. I didn't use the flash

an old mixtape from 1994

Last night I was lookin for an Christmas mixtape I made in the 90s. My friend Larry aka uncle Orca write in his latest letter how hard it is each year to come up with a new an exciting Christmas playlist.
   I can relate I've been making Christmas mixes since 04 and its getting harder to find new and exciting Christmas songs without the having a song or two that has not been a previous mixes.
  This year I know there are a few returning songs but they are good enough to be repeated.
OK so but search for a Christmas mixtape failed I did find a mix I made in 1994 full of cool songs that will go in my car tomorrow.

Many times I felt I made the perfect mixtape and then I could not for the life of me produce an equally as cool name for it. This is an example ah but its the music that matter right?!

 I've had folks make me mixes with the perfect arty cover, great title and the quality of the music well... Could have been better.

I'm sure I've put out some crappy mixtape in my time but there was this one mixmaker back in the day who bragged his mixes were the best. I never claimed to be the best and never will. I'll leave that to my listeners!