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you can buy a whistle at Fred Segal Santa Monica this Thursday Oct 22nd from 7-10. All proceeds go directly to the rehabilitation of the people of Congo and efforts to bring peace.

I’m Djing the event. Learn more about the effort. Great blog with classic photography. www.fallingwhistles.com/

Thanks to Kevin from Black Disco for leaving me with his crowd for the night, and to Chris Cruise my lovely and talented DJ partner and to all the bears who still get excited when they hear “First Time Around.” The Party’s every other Sunday Night at Ack bar on Sunset with Djs Chris Bowen and Kevin Nitedog. More Pics

Now You Know where to spend the brutal hours between 6-10, not on the road but with me at  the Hotel Palomar, a new hotel owned by the San Franciscan hotel group Kimpton. Its an eco-hotel in the Beverly Hills area. Its great. They’re doing fun things; have good people working at the hotel.

I like it here. I know one of the bellman from the Tribeca Grand New York days, which makes it feel family, and the whole San Fran connection lends a really relaxed but pro approach to everything. Unlike a few of the hotels I’ve worked for in LA who are really uptight, service is so so, and managers complain about me wearing g-string, 90’s work-out gear to my gigs… excuse me?

I’m not really rocking the g-string at this hotel, but there are many other attractions ; ) to come out for. Its a pet friendly hotel so on Wednesdays between 4-7 is a pooch cocktail hour. You can bring your dog in, get a drink, and some free pet goodies from vendors at the cocktail.

The restaurant is great. Really good food, a VERY well done wine list and GM Michael can point you to some amazing wines not to mention some pretty good small production liquors, and a lot of the cocktails are sprigged with herbs from the hotel’s rooftop garden.

So needless to say, I’m very happy to be playing tunes at such a great place. Come and check it out. I’m sure Michael will hook up a free drink.

Six to 10 Wednesdays
10740 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024-4493
(310) 475-8711

We went out to Palm Springs for the Blackdisco / Canyons / DFA / Generic Surplus Party. I ended-up playing a few tunes.

it was funny to drive out to the desert with your family so you could go to a gay, hotel party. We got out of the car and walking into a steamy bath of Bears and boys like Louis who introduced me to his friend Louis. But it worked and everybody welcomed the wacky family that just rolled in. In the true disco tradition, the freaks recognize the freaks and there is love in the unity.

At the end of his set, the gentleman, I think from San Fran with sandy blonde hair played the Loft Classic, “I’ll Always Love my Momma,” in our honor. Very Sweet.

The air was dry and brilliant stars set in at night. It was the Brat Pack that established Palm Springs we’re told, and its weird… one part of you thinks, how could anyone vacation in this heat and your communal consciousness plagues you… how can the grass be this green in the desert!!! but at the same time you get it and you’re right at the base of this crazy mountain and its beautiful.

The thrifting is pretty great too.

Anywho. It was a great time. Good ol’ family fun time. Thanks to Kevin aka Nite Dog and the Ace Hotel for making it happen.

BLACKDISCO, SHITS&GIGGLES, AKBar Los Angeles

I just met a friend I made two years ago. Its weird. You create a blog as a personal outlet to explore what ever it is you currently need to exercise and then you realize that your exploration has no beginning or end. You are compelled to keep going, you believe that quitting is for quitters and you worry about what they will think if you really say what you feel and mean.

I met Jez Procter via the internet. He read something on my blog about the surf hotel that inspired him. He has since provided me with an arm to rest upon, not one in physical form, but one in the iconic since as in the American Woman of WWII who told us all, “You can do it”

You can work while your man’s at war.

You can dance while your heart lifts out of your body.

You can be just you.

We are following a model that’s been put into place for reasons most of us don’t an·a·lyze and by people who’s concerns are not ours.

I have the luxury of recently becoming a mother. I have been reborn. There will never be a day, and every day is the day.

I would say to those of us who are friends not because of what we can say but because of what we can hear, to not forget yourself in the intricacies of thought and its by-product, pride.

Its in all of us. That’s why you love it.

The moment you compare your self to another is the moment you’ve lost because you can never be that other, so just be you.

or… “If you want to be me, be me. And if you want to be you be you. If you want to be high, be high. And if you want to be low, be low.”

Tony Watson’s Mix for “Beats in Space” Radio.

St, Patty’s 2000 NINE!, originally uploaded by ChristineRenee.net.

Two floors of Madness. P.S. Green Disco does not = Eco Disco, you nerd.

BLACKDISCO, Daniel DeSure, Nitedog, SHITS & GIGGLES, Chris O’Cruise, Victor Rodriguez & Chris Bowen at

the Mountain Bar 475 Gin Ling Way in Chinatown Los Angeles.
Tuesday March 17th For your St. Patty’s fever.

XO

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