PREACH!!!

Tonight will hurt Tomorrow

Yeats

When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Happy Belated Richard Simmons

God I love you

Adventures In Djing Rant no. 1.. Chasing Money and DRAMA

So a bit ago Exactly magazine asked me to post a rant regarding things that piss me off about Djing. Every Dj will eventually (and often) have to chase down money. Chasing down money ALWAYS results in drama. It’s always a pain in the ass, but its ESPECIALLY a pain in the ass when you are dealing with a mega ego who seems to be annoyed that you DARE to ask for money you are owed for work…from a year ago nonetheless. This is one of these “seriously?” situations, which make me extra cunty (hence the article). Recently I’ve been POLITELY chasing down a DJ/promoter for over a YEAR now for a measly hundred bucks and he has been dodging me. Dodging me for money puts me into destroy mode. Girl Dj’s get dodged more because guy Dj’s aren’t afraid of them kicking their asses, unfortunately for this asshole I am the worst of the worst when it comes to this kind of fuckery.
Our hilarious text message conversation (and my thoughts) below!


Me: Hey can I pick up that 100 bucks?
(No response for a YEAR)

Today’s festivities

Me: Hey can I get pick up that 100 bucks? (Via facebook)

Dick: “don’t post business on my facebook page its tacky and trashy, send me an invoice for whatever it is you’re talking about explaining it (I emailed him one week before regarding this btw) of you working for me a year ago (it was a fucking year ago!) act like a business professional (professional? This bitch has owed me money 100 bucks nonetheless, FOR A YEAR)

This dickheaded response pissed me off. But the next message below put me into “it’s fucking ON” mode

Dick: you waited a fucking year to get paid from whenever then expect me to jump when you’re desperate for a measly fee?

Me: first of all talk about professional? I’ve been asking you for this MEASLY 100 bucks for a fucking YEAR. And its no secret that you lag on paying people so don’t act all embarrassed that I put it on facebook. At least I got a response doing it that way. It could be way worse TRUST

Dick: like I said fucking invoice me, do you know how to invoice? Do you know how to do business?

Dick funny thing is I don’t even remember what I owe you 100 for? (Maybe because it was a YEAR ago?) as far as your unprofessional dealings keep that shite to yourself

That dick response put me into “THIS motherfucker” mode, which is a step up from "its ON" mode. I’m a pretty chill chick, chill like “I didn’t act like an asshole after you owed me money for over a year chill” why someone would act in such a manner is beyond me but it only gets worse form here on out.


Me: Unfortch business doesn’t work that way…you ignore a debt and act like an asshole about it for over a year its open shit talking as far as I'm concerned. You can give the money to Lucas.

Dick: I'm not giving anyone your money but you, so either in person or by mail (DUMB, does this dude really want to see me after acting like such a prick?) I’m not giving you shite till you invoice me you wanna be

OHHHHHHOHO LOW BLOW! I think I do pretty well but Wanna be? Wanna be what? I don’t wanna be famous, don’t wanna hang with scenesters and could give a fuck about being some gel'ed up “superstar” having a belt buckle with my fucking initials on it for christ's sake (low blow returned). Mind you this is not even a mid level Dj who is known mostly in NYC for blowing lines of coke and under paying people (if at all) I Dj for… dare I say it… FUN, free booze and travel? What a prick this asshole is about OWING ME MONEY for a year!

Me: Keep the money, I’m putting this whole convo online.

Dick: & all of this for $100, shite girl, you better figure your business out, I just dropped an album & got back off a European tour, & your talking shite for $100!

THIS bitch! Am I supposed to be scared of his “fame”? With the exception of Elton John, Christian Bale and Winehouse if you act like an asshole I’ll dish it back.

Dick: fuck I’ll give you the check right now, meet me in the LOWER EAST SIDE

Me: I’m STARSTRUCK for sure. Don’t act like a dick won’t get treated like a dick superstar!

Dick: Yea just keep buying my records…

Dick: & I’ll keep going on tour

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Me: Who knew you made them? Why are you trying to message me about how radical you are when I already know you are human garbage. Any who keep messaging all of this is going online. PURE GOLD

Dick: so I'm in the LOWER EAST SIDE for the next 2 hours, come get your check so I can be rid of this stress..

Me: AGAIN like I said, give the check to LUCAS I already told him you would

Dick: tuff not happening I’m not giving the check to anyone but you

(Many messages later about how he wants to hand me the check)

Dick: whatever, I’m busy in the studio (HAHAH!) back to work, I’m happy to pay you to get you out of my hair, please let me pay you, shite!!??

Oh now he’s HAPPY to pay me! Figure that! That whole if you wanna be rich you have to be a bitch song is the TRUTH!

Me: Mail it I don’t care just fucking pay me and less of the coke talk wanna be big man messages FUCK!

Dick: you’re funny a real full of shite talker huh..

Dick: come get your money right now please!!!

Dick: your shite talking is making me feel yuckie (what??) to think I offered you gigs & work yikes. Yes I am an idiot to hire you so please if you could come and get your money I'm done with you seriously

THIS BITCH! This promoter has owed almost everyone I know money at some point. He it NOTORIOUS for that shit. This is not the first time I’ve had to chase him down and I know a HANDFULL of people who will not work for him. We are DONE professionally

Dick: no drama (good luck with that now!) just pick it up so I know you get it and I'm done with you and we go our separate ways…

(Barrage of texts telling me to pick up my money)

Me: are you seriously STILL texting me?? Why would I EVER want to work with you again anyway? Just give Lucas the check OR if you are that stupid I can come pick it up!

Dick: I don’t want it to get lost (for real!!!!???) then I have to hear more of your trash talking come get it so I can have it off my mind, I don’t deal with negative vampire trash (hahahahah! I’m sorry I’m a negative vampire because I'm asking for payment for a service provided a year ago??) PLEASE COME GET THE CHECK NOW!

Dick: I need to know so I can plan my busy day

(In between his barrage of messages, I get a text from ANOTHER Dj he ripped off and owed money to! PRICELESS!)

CONVO TO ANOTHER DJ

Me: fighting with **** **** **** he’s owed me money from a YEAR ago

Other Dj: ugh what’s new?I stopped working with him a while ago but now I see how cheap people are in NYC

Back to the Drams:

Dick: I don’t feel comfortable giving the check to any one but you or mailing it to you (yea RIGHT, this is a “check got lost in the mail” waiting to happen) so you tell me what to do, I want to be done with this ASAP (oh really? After a YEAR???)

Me: Its LUCAS!!! Just hand him the check SIMPLE! I don’t want to hear about how rad you are for another 5 fucking hours!!!

Dick: like I said our business is our business I'm not giving your check to anyone but you so I can mail it to your address or hand it to you and that’s the best I can do

Me: Oh my GOD give the check to LUCAS


I’m SURE this shit is far from over. Ill keep ya updated. I realllly do not want to see this dude it wont be positive and check in the mail?? fucking PLEASE.
As far as this prick is concerned…

FUCK YOU PAY ME!

*UPDATE: Ive gotten a barrage of high fives in response to this post. and I STILL havent been paid! This is far from over.

Fuck You Pay Me (ZShare)

White Horse (ZShare)

For the Love of Money - Bone Thugs (ZShare)

'If you do not work for others you will not have been worth the upbringing'
-Dr Richard Marsden Pankhurst (Sylvia Pankhurst's Father)

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.
Sylvia Pankhurst

Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. -Plutarch

Malraux

"The mystery of life appears to each one of us as it appears to almost every woman when she looks into a child's face and to almost every man when he looks into the face of someone dead"

"The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."

"Man is what he hides, a wretched little pile of secrets,"
-Andre Malraux

Rosseau

"The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. ” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they."— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘The noblest work in education is to make a reasoning man, and we expect to train a young child by making him reason! This beginning at the end; this is making an instrument of a result. If children understood how to reason they would not need to be educated.” –Rousseau, Emile.

Rousseau's essay, "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" (1750), argued that the advancement of art and science had not been beneficial to mankind. He proposed that the progress of knowledge had made governments more powerful, and crushed individual liberty. He concluded that material progress had actually undermined the possibility of sincere friendship, replacing it with jealousy, fear and suspicion.

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