8.31.08 Nike+ Human Race

everyone who knows me knows how much i love sneakers and everyone who knows i love sneakers knows how much i love nike so i was stoked when they asked me to DJ the human race event in chicago which ends at soldier field.

the nike+ human race is basically the world's largest organized race, a 10K run taking place in 25 cities worldwide on 8.31.08. to make things even bigger they're getting some crazy musicians to perform at each concert site including kanye, all american rejects, and my dudes in fall out boy. nike is anticipating over a million people either running in one of the organized races or at home through nike+ which could make this the single largest sporting event in history. amazing!

check out the website for more information and sign-up details...see you in the chi ya'll

new music from the faint

can i tell you how excited i am about a new record from the faint? THIS excited (stretching my arms out as far as i can). head over to their website to check out a new song called "the geeks were right"

in other news, i'm having a blast so far in LA. hung out all day on set at FNMTV and met some really great people. i'm going to be DJ'ing in their new backstage green room starting next week and i'm really excited about that. if you're ever able to sneak backstage you'll find me spinning my favorite jams and trying to get people to drink all the free booze. good times!

i had the unique fortune of driving around LA in joe t's smart car. in case you don't know, the smart car is europe's latest export. basically it's a golf cart with a roof and a tiny little engine that gets the thing going up around 60 MPH if you are brave enough to push it that far. me, i mostly got lost in beverly hills and drove around in circles listening to david banner. i got lots of funny looks from a-holes driving hummers so at least there's that...

also in the works is an august DJ residency in the san diego area. more to come on that later for all you people a few hours south of here...

my weekend in our nation's capitol

through a random set of circumstances your very own korean tom cruise was invited to lay down dj skills at a post-white-house-correspondent's-dinner party at the newly opened smithsonian newseum (nee smithsonian news museum as some of my DC friends pointed out). they gave dude a train ticket and a much-too-large-but-i'm-not-complaining corner suite at the intercontinental willard hotel. life is good sometimes.

i don't know a whole lot about the DC social scene but apparently the white house correspondent's dinner is a huge deal and takes place, logically enough, at the white house. people wear tuxes and eat a fancy meal and the president gets up and reminds the crowd that hey, crusty old white politicians can be funny too sometimes.

then everyone leaves with their wine-from-dinner buzz in full effect for the after parties, which is where the fun really happens. i was invited, along with a certain mr. pete wentz to dj the event. easier said then done when the crowd looks like this:

these people are NOT getting down to the new TI track so i had to keep it very white and 80's. big highlights included new kids on the block, madonna, and inxs. also, white people, like the guy below, love the song "she drives me crazy" by fine young cannibals.

i've been known to knock back a few adult beverages to get loose while i'm spinning but saturday night definitely called for a little extra imbibing since it was a little more difficult to get the crowd moving. i do like me some veuve.

pete came up and did his thing. we are bad photographers but the yellow tshirt is genius (honorable mention for the cardigan).

towards the end of the night, a nice drunk man handed us the following request:

can't argue with that one.

other things that went down that are not pictured include:
*pete wentz stage dive
*perez hilton actually looking classy
*met the newly crowned miss usa very briefly. she seemed like a sweet girl.
*rosario dawson and craig ferguson in da house
*lots of white people getting drunk

big props to the fine folks at capitol file magazine for taking care of me and inviting me to dj the shindig. hopefully we'll do it again next year...