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DJ.SkagNetti ripples the water
or.. Ignore me until I go away!
I
just don't get some people. It's crazy how we're all different, but
the same.
February was a bad month for me. We had to pay a bunch of fees for
various reasons, and I was really strapped for cash. Then my car got
towed after that big snowstorm at the end of February, and I had to pay 280
bucks more.
Beyond all that, it gets even worse. i was seeing this
girl and her birthday was on valentine's day. i know, right? but
it went well, until this guy broke out this 18% beer that tasted like
whiskey. I got just rediculously wasted and the room was spinning and
it was either pass out or throw up. i passed out in her bed, and
everyone was like who is that guy in your bed, whats going on here?
rofl i felt like such an asshole, but couldn't help it. i definately
couldnt of driven home. anyways that wasnt such a big deal. but
a week later my 500 gig harddrive, a harddrive that contained about 8 years
of my life, died inexplicably for no reason. just stopped working.
i tried to get it fixed, but they couldnt do it, so now i have to take it to
a cleanroom someplace and spend 500-1500 to get the data off it. Most
of it i have online or someplace else, but for all of my music, all my
reason and reason refills were on there, plus like a billion other samples n
things, i have all my save files still, but they point to samples that were
on drive F, which is not there anymore, and thus i'm fuckoed.
now
the girl who's birthday was on valentine's day has disappeared it seems.
doesnt answer calls, doenst return calls, she used to come through my work
all the time, last week she came through, she was distant, awkward,
standoffish. this week she didnt come through at all. came thru
once since and talked for like 10 seconds and left. i like you a
lot, Jess, but i don't know what you want me to do. So i give up.
Well I do have some good news - 'Please Insert Me' is completely finished
and being mastered right now (march 09.) It has 3 songs on which I
sing, 'That's The Sound', 'Sometimes People Don't Get Better', and
'Drowning, Not Waving.' The rest is very Daft Punkish, or a better one
would be Digitalism, if you know them. It's all over the place, some
glitch some ambient some just weird shit, but mostly songs that really grab
your attention and make your brain melt.
it
should be playing right now - listen to it!
DJ.SkagNetti needs more lemon pledge
or.. Hey! it's later!
I
just watched Hancock on my computer. It's alright I guess. What
a twist...
Yesterday was the 4th of July, happy 4th of July. I went to work at 9
am with no plans. Then my friend Esten was in town and he stopped by.
So we made plans to drink. Then my co-worker went home sick. So
I had to stay until 8pm. Then Chris shows up around 6pm and tells me
I've got a show to play that night. Chris is the man who put together
the 10 Second Film Festival. I had told him I wanted to do the show a
couple weeks ago, I was 100% behind it, but I had no idea it was last night.
I thought it was later in July, like in the 20s. So he came and picked
me and my gear up at like 8:30, and we went over to cedar riverside, to the
Soap Factory. I set up and we waited until the fireworks over the
river were finished and I pressed play. My job was 'pit band', when
people won an award for their 10 second film, I played music while they came
up to the stage. It was an awesome show, Ian from Drinking With Ian
was there mcing. Everyone was drinking, laughing at the 10 second
shorts that played, and having a great time. All in all, there was
2500 people there, my biggest show to date. Fucking scary, but 2500
more people now know the name Skagnetti.
But
anyways I got my CDs, 100 of them, April 12th, almost 2 months ago now.
I sold out of CDs right away, almost 3 weeks after I got them, then the
second shipment got screwed up and was missing for 3 weeks almost before I
got them, almost all of May. But I finally got them and have about
half left now, July 5th, 2008. I must say about the CD, the artwork
looks amazing, like a photograph almost. Amazing color quality, not
grainy at all. The CD is just the way I wanted it too, all the right
pauses, all the right levels. I couldn't be more happier with it.
Please buy it at 28th and Lyndale Ave South or Treehouse Records. Or
online to the left. Thanks to everyone who bought it! My next
one is almost finished, and the Agent Empire CD is almost finished as well.
We
got a way better condenser mic and decided to redo a lot of the vocals for
our Agent Empire songs. Everything sounds even more amazing now.
Vosa and I are hard at work getting this bastard released.
I
played that show I mentioned below, the crazy experimental show, in May,
like I said I was going to. It was at the Kitty Cat Klub in Dinkeytown.
I opened for Tart and Snowflakes. It was an awesome show, though I had
a few fuckups. O well
Didn't get on the radio, though, because the station just got shut down.
I was hoping I could do that =(
On
June 18th I played a show at the 400 Bar with Nobot and HumanBoy. Was
really fun, wish more people would of came.
The
alpine thing I placed 36th out of 500 bands, something like that, I need to
update this shit more often cause I forget these things. But it was in
the 35-38 range, and the number of bands was 400-600, so there.
I
just want to say thanks to all the people who have bought my CD. I am
in your debt. Well not really, but I really really appreciate it =)!!
Beyond that working on Please Insert Me and Agent Empire disk 1 and doing
skits and backgrounds for Vosa's funk album, getting a tan and shaving my
head, buying pants. Pants!
Congrats to These Modern Socks on releasing a really awesome album, I wish
the person who stole it from me would give it back.
Congrats to Chris and everyone who was involved in the 10 Second Film
Festival. I know where I'm going every 4th from now on. It was
way fun!
Congrats to Christopher McGuire on his new band. Sorry I missed your
show man!
Congrats to me on having my roommate move out! I hated that bitch.
Cops on offroading Segways are Awesome!
DJ.SkagNetti is on the road to
financial ruin!
or.. plz buy my f'ing cd (when it comes out)
I
uploaded and payed for 100 copies of Feels Like 0 tonight. It freaking
took forever but finally the time has come! 10 days production, 7 days
shipping - i dunno if i can wait that long. I will be selling at
Treehouse Records, Cheapo, and hopefully The Loon Express in Minneapolis.
I will also get an online site going for it. Please buy my 62 minute
EP for 7 dollars. It's the deal of the century!
Other things that are new: I am up for being put on a mixtape produced
by Coast To Coast Mixtapes. Nothing solid yet, but they want to use
'Defloration' which will be on my forthcoming album. Its real fast
punk techno. It will burn you alive.
I
will be on a local internet radio show sometime in May. Further
details when i know further details.
Also in May: I will be a part of a really weird music show. All
really weird experimental music, like me! =) more details when i know
more details.
I'm
currently hovering around 46 in this Alpine Contest, you may of seen my mass
bulletins on MySpace. Something along the lines of:
how to vote for me:
1)wait for flash movie to finish
2)begin your ex-10 experience
3)highlight artists with the remote
4)use remote to shuffle to DJ.SkagNetti
5)use remote to select song
6)underneath tv and info click 'vote for this track'
7)please vote for all my tracks kthx!!
If
you have a chance click the banner above and vote for all my songs. I
would really appreciate it!
MRH88 released an album called 'Dangerous Sex:
Movements Vol. 1' and I helped program some
stuff on one of the tracks - 'MN8.' Check
out his myspace to hear it and then go buy his record!
DJ.SkagNetti to crowd: "Who wants a
Body Massage?"
or.. 'you like me! you really like me!'
I just want
to say thanks for all the new friend requests I've received on myspace.
Thanks. There I've said it. O, and I really like the new
little mini comments you can send with the request. It's pretty
cool.
In other news, In Your Face
Kari! Also, thanks for giving me the flu =P! I haven't been
sick in 3 years, it was the worst 24 hours of my life!
I watched Juno, because Diablo Cody is cute
and I've been following her career ever since she wrote a book about the
strip club we both worked at. She was before my time, I never met her,
but I heard she was pretty funny. Anyways I swear that movie is about
a girl I know named Lolly, who's currently 19. Here's the cold hard
facts: 1) It takes place in Minnesota, 2) Both were pregnant at
the age of 16, 3) The girl in the movie talks EXACTLY like her.
The same kind of sarcastic wry wit, rough and tumble I'm one of the guys now
but at the same time delicate and kinda sad inside kind of ways about them.
They moved the same, talked the same way, about the same things, liked
music, except instead of the Stooges it was the Beatles for Lolly, even at
the end where they were singing, the girl even sang like Lolly.
strange
Anyways the movie was pretty good. I
didn't like the music, the kind of folky softly sing-speak as many words as
I possibly can in a line in a verse kind of music. This kind of music
makes me want to fall asleep, just so I don't have to listen to it anymore.
Also, some critics compared it to Little Miss Sunshine, where the little
girl was way too smart for just being a little girl. I could see the
similarities.
I also
forgot to mention before that I started another band with another
guy who's named Vosa. We called it Agent Empire. I make
kind of strange music, and he sings all soul-like over it.
Things have been working out really good with it. Please check
it out, click the pic on the left.
Yah so I've watched a lot of movies recently,
catching up on a bunch of old ones I missed on dvd or in theaters.
Man that Jackie Chan sure can move!
Loose Change is a great movie.
Apocalypto - crazy weird, but awesome
Blood Diamond - my new most favoritist movie i
do believe
Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny was pretty
good! I love the little fat kid in the beginning who was supposed to
be Jack Black, he did an awesome job.
Silent Hill was pretty crazy
National Treasure Book of Secrets was ok, not
as good as the first. Nicholas Cage's girlfriend in the movie looks
exactly like a Russian stripper I used to work with. Absolutely
gorgeous.
Hey even Spiderman 3 was pretty good!
And I saw an old favorite, the 2004 Dawn of
the Dead, again. I love that movie, perfect beginning, perfect setup,
that movie is probably as close to perfection in a zombie flick as you can
get. Suspense, Thrills, Gotchas!, Sadness, Loss, Despair, Zombie
Babies. That end of the world type shit really gets me. Probably
because the real end of the world is nigh, and we can all feel it.
The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift - meh....
The Italian Job - meh....
The Transporter 2 - meh....
Malibu's Most Wanted - fucking terrible, but
super hot black girl
I did see Cloverfield in the theaters, that
was a pretty facking good movie. I loved Blair Witch, I saw it a year
after it came out and all the controversy blah blah blah it's fake, so I
knew it was fake n all when I saw it in the cheapster theater in St. Cloud
with damon and ethan. It still scared the shit out of me.
Cloverfield - not as scary, but sure was awesome, the whole time you were
like wtf is going on, wtf is going to happen next? Most movies don't
make you feel like that anymore.
I know a guy who works for this place, and he
got me a 2.1 EXO Blue Sky monitor set for like a 3rd of the price. I
fucking love them! Crystal clear, and bad ass looking, the sub shakes
the apartment building. No more fucked up levels. It rules for
watching movies too.
My fan makes a weird noise when I start it up,
like EEEEErrrEEEEerrrrEEEEERrrrrrEEEEEEE then it runs fine for a bit then it
makes that horrible noise again, this lasts for about 4 or 5 minutes until
it gets up the ambition to actually work well. It sounds like I'm
slowly sticking needles into a guinea pig. I started it up at like 4
in the morning last night, I bet all the neighbors were like, 'WTF!?
It sounds like some horrible ghost child who was murdered, wailing in the
night!'
Anyways, later!
DJ.SkagNetti's poem didn't get
accepted!
or.. Quoth the Raven, "You're a whore!!"
I
was playing Second Life for a minute, and to get free money in the 'game'
you can fill out these surveys, and one of them was to enter into this
poetry contest. So I wrote up a quick poem off the top of my head,
just to get it finished. I wish I remember what I wrote, but it was
entitled, "How to Kill Everyone." rofl! Unfortunately it didn't
get accepted - my life will never be the same.....
Here's the rejection letter:
DJ.SkagNetti did stuff!
or.. finally!!
I
have been busy making music n stuff. I played 2 shows.
One at Club Underground Saturday Jan 05, 2008, which I got a ride with
Dustin Duffy (who's awesome.) I played first, the other bands that
played were Rockula, Pyro Plastic Flow, Mac Spillz, Concentr8 and Rek
the Heavyweight. There were also DJ sets in between bands by JSL (JSL
was also the one who hooked me up with the show - thanks!) It was
a great show, that's the flyer to it on the left. JSL was taking
pictures during it, hopefully I can get a copy and post em up here soon.
The
other one was at The Terminal Bar on Jan 12th, 2008, and I played with
Primadonahue, Kontrol Panel, and Brightness Falls. Thanks to Barry for
bringing me all across town, that was really cool of you man! And also
to Primadonahue for getting me the gig and giving me a ride home (man, I'm
pathetic.) The bands were really great, and Elena the Russian sound
girl was fun to talk to, when I could understand her (heh, sorry Elena.)
The drunk 43 year old astrologer was fun to talk to as well. And I
hope the neuroscience guy made it to his convention the next day at the IDS
tower (it was a weird night....)
Besides that I've been meaning to go to the Tea Garden like my friend Damon
(who just got engaged, congratz!!) told me to, and making music for my
friend Vosa to add guitar or whatever else he wants to it, my first
collaborative effort, besides the song I worked on like for 5 minutes with
MRH88, I guess that could be considered collaborative, but I didn't provide
much. I got so much crap I may release another album right after
Traitor of the 9 Moons, I'd like to call it [Please Insert Me], because I
think that's fun to say.
I
read this article on people getting busted by undercover prostitution
stings, not on the streets like you would think, but on Craigslist. I
thought it was such a funny concept that I thought I'd google it and see if
there was stuff like that on the Minneapolis Craigslist. I never got
that far - I found this site where this guy totally goes off on this rant
about it, and all these people totally massacre him in the comments about
it.
I thought i'd take a snapshot and show you the funniest one. Click
this pic to the left to see it - it's 10.2. Fucking hilarious.
here's the
original post of it.
So
far the next show I'm playing is Feb 15th at the Hexagon. I think I'm
playing first. Hopefully I'll get a few other shows before then.
If you want to help get me a gig, please contact me on myspace or by email!
I would really appreciate it!!
thx
everyone! time to go play some more diablo 2 (i just got it, never had
it before, tho i always wanted to play it, and now that i am playing it, i
wished i had got it when it was still big) o well. anything to
keep me away from anarchy online.
DJ.SkagNetti is dreaming of a white
Christmas for you
or.. happpy holidayzzzzzz!
I
have to work both days this Christmas. I guess it's my fault, didn't
put in notice that I wanted a day off in time. Which is worse - not
having anyone to spend the holdiays with, or actually spending the holidays
with family? Should I really be complaining? I love em and all,
but you know those jokes everyone has about 'O gawd i gotta go do my time
with my family in my hometown' and they seem like they are in agony.
They say those jokes cause it's true!! rofl
Ah
well, I still miss em all, and hope they are doing fine.
Well I finished the album in time, now my mastering genius friend Dustin
Duffy is gonna take a look at it.
I
checked my Quicklist page to find something, and it looks like yahoo shut
down webjay.org, so my entire playlist was deleted. Man yahoo really
has it out for me. They deleted my username I had since 1997 last year
without reason, and now this. How much more can they suck?
Well I found a better playlist thingy anyways on Project Playlist, and I
updated the old list. If you have one, please add my tracks! I
will love you till the end of time.
So
I moved to Emmerson, about 12 blocks away from where I used to live.
It's an apartment, it's very nice. I'm glad I live here now, even
though everything is smaller, at least I don't have to pay heat.
I
moved in with an Ethiopian girl who's very nice. She's probably one of
the nicest people I know, fun to talk to, and has great stories.
I
recorded a song called "Chasing the Ghost" on my birthday (Saturday Dec
8th). It's a very fast rock like song, with kind of a "Jesus Built My
Hotrod" feel to it. You can hear it on my
MySpace
profile.
It's funny, I had this song since probably last year or early 2007, just
sitting in a folder. I'd pull it out every couple of months and hum
along with it, like pseudo-words to get a feel for what words will fit and
how I wanted to sing it. Then I'd get fed up and throw it back in the
'get it done someday' folder and forget about it.
Well, I really want to get this damn album done, so I went over Saturday
night to my buddy Dustin Duffy's house and we recorded it in only a couple
of hours. I was pretty nervous, I never sang a song of my own or
recorded, or screamed for that matter, but it came out better than I had
ever thought it would. Thanks Dustin!
I
hope to have all of "Feels Like 0" finished by December 22nd. Then it
will be mastered by Dustin and shipped off. I hope to get about 200
copies made to start off with. I'm pushing for a Feb 1st 2008 release
date. Check out the new album art for it in the update site area.
Thanks for reading!
DJ.SkagNetti in the midst of upheaval
or.. life riots on my peaceful kingdom
I
live in a great house. It's huge. Bet you wish you lived in my
gigantic house. Well, sorry, but that's not going to happen... I
never realized how big this house was until I began my search for a new
place to live. I lived here for almost 4 years. I love my house.
I don't want to fucking move. It's freezing cold in the winter and
boiling hot in the summer, but it's home. Home to enormous gas bills,
ginormous you may even say. I can't afford to live here anymore.
I wasn't ready to admit it though. My brother kind of forced me into
this ordeal.
He
lost his job and had like an epiphany or something. It came to him, a
blast of white light, and a deep booming voice told him: "go to wyoming...
and work at a ski lodge...." Which is fine and dandy, he's been talking
about getting out of the state for a couple years. But he gave me a
month and a half notice (at most), and I've been running around
trying to find a place to live for the last few weeks. It was hell,
places suck, and they have to be close because I still haven't rectified my
license problem. A lot were ghetto as hell, shit falling apart, stuff
rotting, or places with 900+ of supposed square feet where 300 of that is
hallway. wtf? Uptown is supposed to be a nice area.
Well I think I may have found a place now, it's really nice. Waiting
on application to go through. I'm moving in with a girl whom I work
with. She's super cool, I think we will have a lot of fun there.
Got
me some insurance, going to the dentist soon. Gonna get a loan to pay
off bills and stuff holding my license at bay, gonna go back to school for
web design. Gonna make a billion dollars.
Quit Restraining Hollywood. It was fun while it lasted.
A
guy puked in the trashcan next to the toilet in the bathroom, and he said to
me, 'just so you know, I puked in the trashcan in the bathroom. but i
rolled up the bag it was in... i'm sorry.' and I said, 'why didn't you
just puke in the toilet?' and he says, 'well it was one of those
things where you just couldn't make it, look it was in a bag, it wasn't that
big of a deal, I rolled up the bag...' and the motherfucker gets mad at me.
Listen, you don't have the right to puke in some dude's trashcan that's
located 2 fucking feet away from the toilet, and then when he gets a bit
angered by what You just fucking did, you get angry. That's not how it
works. Then on top of that you don't tell me that you fucking rolled
up the bag - that doesn't do shit for me, you could've made a puke balloon
animal out the fucking bag, it doesn't make me an ounce less angry about
this situation. Why didn't you take it out and throw it away and put
in a new bag if it wasn't such a big deal?? Then he said, angrily,
'look I said I was sorry' and walked away. I wish I could end this
story with a fantastic brawl of epic proportions involving switchblades and
ripped t-shirts, but the cocksucker was too fast, gone in a flash, haven't
seen him since. I was left standing there thinking, 'what the fuck is
wrong with people these days?' Everyone thinks he's the most hardcore
ninja ever. They fuck you over and then when you get mad about it,
they get even more mad and ready to fight back with whatever they have.
Where are we learning this bullshit? What is it - rap music? I
don't think it is. TV? maybe - Nobody takes responsibility
for their own actions, it's always somebody else's fault. Anyways,
what a dick.
Woke up an hour and a half late today, tried calling in but my phone was
disconnected. Had to run to work, got yelled at by my boss and then I
had to work up the balls to ask him for the money to get my shit turned back
on. Luckily he agreed and my friend Dustin gave me a ride and I got it
paid off. Quite the hellish day.
It's so cold right now.
Been working on all kinds of music, got Reason 3.0, and a bunch of refills,
and been playing around with it.
I
don't know where I'm at, I want to become more entertaining, I want to quit
smoking.
Life is great though, many opportunities coming up, many new experiences, it
all seems to come piling on at once, never a smooth transition, but it makes
it exciting. I can't wait to see what the future unfolds - heartache?
pain? happiness? relief? It can only go downhill from
here, smooth sailing.
Thanks for reading...
DJ.SkagNetti had a lot of time to think
about things
or.. did I take a wrong turn someplace in life?
Hey, what's up everybody? I made a new site =). Like it?
Didn't think so...
Well, let's see. The post below this one I must of written March or
April 06. We have indeed released "People Talk".
Buy it. For the love of all that is holy. Please
buy it. It's only 10 dollars.... Christopher McGuire
didn't do the music as stated below, but he helped out in other ways.
We had the
release party August 25th, 2006, and more parties after that.
We released the
DVD just in time to not make Christmas. What a hellish 2 years
it's been. Setbacks, people bailing on us, not knowing what we're
doing.... I guess we learned a lot. Still had great music though!
40 songs by
local musicians! That's a lot of songs! It's like a big
music video, ranging from Classical to Hip Hop to Electronica to Indie to
Hardcore, it's all over the place. I'm pretty good with Final Cut now.
A lot better than I was. We made a second trailer too, and both are on
the DVD, with Behind the Scenes, Outtakes, and Commentary from the director
and yours truely.
The trailers are on the RH website too.
Still freakin working on that
Traitor
of the 9 Moons. But the version I have now compared to the
version I had 3 years ago when I started is completely and utterly a bit
better than before... Still gonna be 2 disks. I dunno, it's just
missing something I guess. I don't want to be too much like Aphex
Twin, which I'm nowhere as close to as good as he is, but I don't
want it to be straight techno crap either. I just want it to be
interesting. People I have shown it too like it. I made a
new picture for it. I dunno if I want it to be the cover or if
I want something else. I might release it this year. I might
release it next year. I don't know what I'm doing.
Got
so much music, leftovers and silly things I've made, I decided to release an
EP first. Called "Feels
Like 0", I got the idea for the title from the weather... God,
I'm Innovative! It's got some strange stuff so far... I really
want to make a music video for the whole thing. I got some great
ideas. Maybe I'll make one smaller music video first. Music
videos are fun to make!
Stuck working at a gas station to make ends meet. My car is all but
destroyed, laying in mourning in my back driveway. It's only like 4 or
5 little things wrong with it. I could get it fixed, but I have a
suspended license. So what's the point? I need to make like
$1700, which I know isn't too horribly much, but still I don't really have
it laying around either, and I seem to be born with a inability to save
money. I dunno, I got a second helping of sarcasm and cynicism, and
left the 'good with money' plate alone. But life's not too bad.
Life is good, some would say. I wouldn't, but I'd say it's not too
bad. Man I miss my car. It was an ugly prelude stick, a little
rusty, but it always started and always was fun to drive. I think
there's birds living in it now. At least I help the local
wildlife.....
If
you think making a movie will get you fame and fortune and hundreds of girls
fawning over you, think again. We are Still searching for
distribution, all the money we've made has to be sunk into the next film,
and.. well, I lied... I got hundreds of girls fawning over me, but it's
really hard to pick!
Dustin Duffey of
Apis
Records, whom I work with at the gas station, will be producing my
albums, I hope. He's a great guy and plays well with others.
According to my horoscope I should be getting some good luck coming up here,
but only if I work hard at it. So I redid this site completely.
And my graphic design site. Yes, I have a lot of time on my hands.
Hey, if you want to pay me to do something for you, I'll gladly accept
money!
I
know these things I write make me sound like I'm crazy, but a friendly ghost
of a pig named Lincoln told me not to worry.
So
here I am. What else? What don't you know about me? Live
in Minnesota. Too Cold! Everyone here complains too much (i know
this whole blog has been complaining - haha, the irony....) And
everyone stares at you as you walk down the street. Am I that good
looking? I would like to transplant all of Minneapolis Uptown into
Compton, LA, for 1 day. Or maybe New York. I think people would
be a lot less inclined to stare at you like your head was bleeding some
black ochre out of all of your orifices after that. Can I please teach
the world, dad? Please??
Man, I don't do much. I played Anarchy Online for about 4 years.
I always told myself never to get Everquest, because I'd be playing it 24/7
and I'd ruin my life. So my friend gets me hooked on Anarchy
Online.... Then he quits, I keep going. For 4 years.... My
internet was shut off for 3 months, so I was jonesing at first, but now I
don't even want to play it anymore, even with the net back up. I had
some great times, Great times playing, but I'm sick of it, finally.
I
wrote a country song that hopefully I'll be recording soon. I
personally dislike country, but it's in the same vein as "Every Rose Has
It's Thorn", with a little "November Rain" mixed in. I know "November
Rain" isn't country, but it's got a little bit of it in it.... Kind of
a joke song, hopefully it turns out.
Met
some great people on MySpace. Bath Aide
is from Duluth, he sounds a Lot like Aphex Twin. He sent me his album
for free. That was nice of him.
I
had a Jucy Lucy today. I know that's not how you spell Juicy, but
that's how they spell it. Its a giant hamburger that's injected with
cheese, with grilled onions on top. Man it was good. I may of
lowered my life expectancy by 3 years, but it was well worth it.
Been watching a lot of Adult Swim, even though I've seen all the shows they
play a 1000 times. Love Family Guy! Love it!
MC Chris
is one of my heroes. What a great guy, with great talent. I'm
glad his career took off! All through self promotion and the demand
from rabid fans. I wish I could have half the luck he's had with my
music. Electronica is a hard act to swallow though. If it
doesn't have a guitar or singing in it, people tend to drift off and think
about something else, and not pay attention to the song. It's kind of
a sad paradigm. But I love creating stuff. Always have.
From drawing to music to movies to writing, I will always be a creator.
Hopefully one day it will pay off, but I don't even care, I just hope
somebody, anybody appreciates what I do. Life is difficult
without money, but even more difficult without appreciation....
DJ Skagnetti dun been busy
or.. wtf is hater gear?
I
have been extremely busy, I havent updated this site in ages, but I'm still
around, don't worry =) Not that you were worrying, but whatever.
Well first things first:
Restraining Hollywood. Yup. People Talk is almost completed!
We're hoping for a late June/early July release. Heres a list of stuff
that I've done for this movie:
Came Up with the Idea
Helped Write It
Helped Direct (hardly)
Acted In It (i'm the funny lookin one)
Made Music For the Main Movie, and also Behind the Scenes
Editing
The
movie is a very funny movie and we've had wonderful responses. Its
about a guy and its his birthday, and he's trying to throw a party for
himself. A ton of bad events ensue, and its really funny to watch it
unfold. Crazy characters and Great Music.
Our
release party will be awesome, and we are hopefully having one of the
biggest bands to come out of Minnesota headline. Music is coming along
great, we've got music from Golden, JaRed Chapter, Me, Harp and Finial, Fort
Wilson Riot, The Bullets, Faux Jean, and more music put together by the
legendary Christopher McGuire. We are going to have about 6 showing
parties over the summer of 2006.
I
learned how to edit in Final Cut Pro, which is suprisingly much like Acid
Pro in that the timelines and editing of clips are very similar. Me
and Ben Lewis and Brandon VanVliet edited the first Trailer to it, which can
be seen on the website. We also set up a Myspace Page for Restraining
Hollywood, too.
Which leads me to My Myspace pages. I've got 2 atm:
There i pay much homage to one of my favorite
musicians Ever, APHEX TWIN. the man is just a frickin Genius.
The first time i saw Windowlicker, i almost crapped myself. Thats a
great feeling when you are about to crap yourself and you catch it at the
last second, for the win! but i digress...
I
have been working on f'n Traitor of the 9 Moons for about 50 years now, I
keep finding new stuff to put into it, and take out of it. Its up to
about 140 minutes hahaha, so I actually have to quit adding stuff and start
taking stuff away. I dont think i can even burn it anymore, its too
big, what a monster! Anyways thats pretty much over with now.
Such-A-Sum Records, I dont know whats
going on with them. They must not like my music, so I'm gonna have to
release it myself. I should never have put that they were going to
produce my album before they actually did, it just seemed so perfect, and I
was so happy that they wanted me. But things change, and I love those
guys, and the bands on that label, but I don't think they are gonna make my
album. thats kewl, its hard to swallow stuff, i'll go someplace else.
Love to those guys forever and good luck.
I
havent played any shows in the last year haha. I would love to, but
its hard for electronica acts in the city to find a home. I dont mind,
I'll play if somebody wants me, if not I'm content with hiding for the time
being.
Added a flash player to a couple pages, it has all the songs from all the
albums. Put a picture making thingy and made a neat pic button link
thingy for tot9m.
I
used to work at deja vu minneapolis. Its a strip club. I dont
work there anymore cause i got fired. I hit a mexican in a toyota.
fired on the spot and almost arrested. was a bad day for me.
Finally found a job really close to my house cause i cant drive cause my
license is suspended until i pay off a crapload of fines. had no money
to pay the driving after suspension tickets so there's probably a warrant
out for my arrest. my passenger side window got smashed out cause some
crackhead wanted my bag of videos from the backseat. What the fuck you
gonna do with a bag full of videos, sell them? you'll get like 4
dollars for those 10 movies, motherfucker. Then my clutch line got air
in it and the clutch pedal goes all the way to the floor and doesnt come
back up. Then i tried locking the door and shutting it by lifting up
on the handle and the thing bent in on the frame where it latches the door.
so now the door barely shuts and doesnt stay shut. then my i set my
cell phone down and picked it up 2 hours later and the display had fried.
just doesnt work anymore though the phone still works. wonderful.
and dont get me started on other money problems. and i need to go to
the dentist cause this one back tooth is killing me, and i may get audited
by the irs cause im a retard when it comes to income taxes. well not
usually, but i was in 93 and 94.
I
have had some good things happen to me. but nothing to write home
about.
Anyways I have been making a ton of music. I made a 28 minute song
called Grape Minds Taste Alike. Theres about 30 or 40 songs on Traitor
of the 9 Moons. and above that i've made about 20 more songs.
Google DJ Skagnetti - yes i do this every once in a while. I
wonder if other bands do it too?
I
started a cafe press site with Hater Gear ( ie, stuff that says Hater)
nobodys buying it.
Anyways: Movies, Website and Music Makin, and Debt. Thats the 4
things in my life right now.
DJ Skagnetti On Restraining Hollywood
and In a Band Name Game!
or.. you googled your own name?
I
am now a part of Restraining Hollywood. A great bunch of peeps in
Minneapolis, I will be making music for their movies. I will also act
and co-write and co-direct in their next movie, People Talk, which we will
start filming next week (june 14th-ish). I added a Quicklist with a
list of all my songs for easy access baby. I added songs to the
Traitor of the 9 Moons update site, and added the story that will hopefully
go into the cd sleeve. I also googled my own name cause im like that,
and it turns out somebody used my song NeoTokyo in a band name game.
They take the last letter of a song title and in the next post the song
title has to start with that letter. So if the last post was "ketchup"
by melt banana, i would choose "push the little daisies" by ween. So i
tried to join the forum community so i could thank that guy for this great
honor, but my application was denied! so screw below top secret
conspiracy forums. ive seen better conspiracies inside bazooka joe
bubblegum wrappers.
but
i couldnt resist and recorded it for posterity
|here|
DJ Skagnetti Played His 3rd Show at a
Bar!
or.. where is that music coming from?
Played with Seldom Seen, Fort Wilson Riot, Mark of the Underdogs, and Harp
and Finial at the Such-A-Sum launch and CD Release Party! Mark of the
Underdogs and Harp and Finial released their cds unto the masses, and both
albums are hawt hawt hawt! I played in between band sets, 19 minutes,
21 minutes and 20 minutes. There was a nasty blizzard outside, but we
endured and had a lot of fun! thanks all for showing up! DJ
Primal, sorry i missed your buddies show that following wednesday =(
DJ Skagnetti Played His First Show at a
Bar!
or.. is the guy with the computer on stage looking at porn?
Thursday February 3rd. Uptown Bar. Billed as C.J. Skagnetti
(computer jockey) so as to not confuse the locals into thinking a guy who
actually spins records (thats so 90s...) was getting on stage.
I played with Iced Ink and The Panty Huffers. The sound guy was really
cool and made me sound really good. I started at 9:30 pm and played
for 44 minutes and 44.281 seconds. I was so nervous all day that i
didnt eat a thing. Damon Kalor of the Panty Huffers got me the gig,
because 2 bands cancelled on the owner of the bar (Thanks Damon). It
went flawless, but i didnt hear anything from anyone other than my friends,
who offered much praise (thanks!), about my performance. So i dont
know if they hated me or not. Well they didnt lynch me, and i got paid
(my first show profit!), so i couldnt have been that bad. I am playing
next at the Harp and Finial cd release show in March. come and see me
play it and buy a Harp and Finial cd. It will be a great show!
("Thanks to Panty Huffers and Computer Guy!")
DJ Skagnetti Made a Movie!
or.. whats that around your neck, birthday boy?
i
wrote up a concept for a movie, and have been working very closely with
Brandon VanVleit again with his movie company Restraining Hollywood
and Ben Louis, a friend of mine, to get everything set up. We have the
basic premise done and are starting the script and storyboards soon, and
hope to start filming in february. im very happy with the way its
turning out so far, and i think it will really be a great movie! i
will be making music for it again. this job rocks! thanks all =)
DJ Skagnetti got signed!
(note: this is old news and did not happen)
or.. wtf just happened?
Such-A-Sum records has signed me on. The new album should be done
within the next couple months. Very special thanks to Such-A-Sum
records for having faith in me=)
DJ Skagnetti played his first show!
or.. How one man made 300 go deaf with pure bliss
yes
its true! i played my first show on halloween. it was for the
movie Up North by Brandon VanVleit. they actually ended up using a lot
more of my music then i had previously had thought previously. i made
about 20 songs i guess in all specifically for the movie, some like
background noise and some sad and some spooky and some that just turned out
better than i had ever imagined they would. gawd damn i am a musical
genius! not really, anyways, the show was great, there were some great
bands, then we watched the premiere of the movie, and then more great bands,
and then i played a 42 minute set at 2 am. i cant say it went
terrific, but im just happy i got to play my music for those lucky 7 people.
i guess i may play next at a cd release show. just a guy in the middle
of the stage, with his computer, songs meticulously crafted, who presses
play.
First Show Statistics (by the numbers):
doors opened at: 7pm
located at: Sound Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
setup by: Nick
approx gallons of whop served: 10
hours fermented: 12
number of kegs drained: 8
number of people who showed throughout the night: 200-300
number of people dressed like E.T.: 1
artists that played: Volvox, Coffin Cheaters, DJ Skagnetti
movie shown: Up North by Brandon VanVleit
number of brandons parents that sat through the entire night of having a
smog machine blow on them while wild drunken and stoned twenty somethings
trash a giant room full of half naked women and cigarettes and profanity and
very loud music: 2
time i went home: 3:30 am (i had to work the next day grrr)
number of girls dressed as naughty nurses and naughty french maids combined:
about 20
DJ Skagnetti was propositioned for
music!
Brandon VanVliet throws a dj a bone!
A
DJ at where i work, Brandon VanVleit, decided to make a movie production
company. He needed music and asked me to create some, so i did, about
20 songs all together. i would just like to thank Brandon now for
using my music, and im very happy the way it turned out. Congratz on
the great flick dude!
Ancient Teachings was my first time ever mastering so it might not
be that great, but better than it was, and it doesnt sound bad by any means,
just a little too...punchy, i guess, but anyways, ill probably go back and
tone it down a notch n shit but when i have time... my favorites:
the hot karl song, and
the office space song, and
dangerous is dangerous!
Skag on Skag was easier for me, and while i was at it i cut some of
the songs a bit cause some of them were veeeery repetitive (more than usual,
that is..) it sounds 10 billion kajillion times better than it did
before, and i gotta hand it to myself,
Good Enough is one of my best songs ever. it totally beat matches
at the end now, its so... good... it hurts... and
The Eclipse melts my mind every time i put the headphones on...