DJ.SkagNetti returns from the dead

or..  Welcome back, Skagger

Saturday, March 5th 2011

Hey, hey, everybody!  I'm back!  Well, I never left, but I haven't really done anything with this website until now.  I'm totally redoing the whole thing.  I started doing it last year but then I got sidetracked!

Man, it's been a long time since I updated this news section!  The entry below was about March 2009!  I'm going to start dating these.

Damn...Well, I did finish Please Insert Me, and it's almost done being mastered!  I should probably release it very very soon!  This time I'm serious!

I worked on another album all last year, on and off, it is almost done too, so maybe in 5 years I'll release that one ROFL.

I got hooked on Zazzle!  I'm a creating machine!  Check out my store if you get a chance =)

Agent Empire still on hold, need a song redone.  I don't know if we will ever release it.  Would be cool, though.

Joined a new band called Precious Metals.  It's really cool, we've been working on a lot of music.  I play a Roland keyboard and also do some stuff on a chaos pad.  It's fun learning new gizmos and working outside a computer for a while, learning all kinds of tricks.

Jamming with Dustin Duffy, we've recorded maybe 14 hours worth of music?  We call them the Kodiak Sessions.

So yah, I see it as you don't hear anything about me for 2 years and then all of a sudden you are bombarded with music until your face falls off.  Enjoy it when it hits!

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.

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. 

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.

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.