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I basically stopped being a dj... oh... six years ago.

basically when I graduated from college. it got too expensive to keep up to date and I got tired of lugging my equipment and vinyl around to parties that I either spun for free (because they were friends) or that I spun for a relatively inexpensive amount...

I loved to make mixes, but it wasn't one of those things that gave me a satisfied return... given the time and effort it takes to make a really good mix, i mean a really good mix, the songs would be outdated or overplayed within a few months and then you'd have to make another... (although a "really good mix" would have a much shelf life longer than the components songs themselves" in any case, it was more about the performance and the real time getting the crowd on the dance floor... my problem was that I wanted to be on the dance floor as much as I wanted to be behind the tables...

eventually, it got more to the point where there was too much effort on one side then the other, so I decided to let the chips fall where they may...

I haven't touched my tables in over a year, and it's been almost 5 years since I've used them more than once in the same year.

not because I stopped loving it, but it was not a priority in my life. I'd like to eventually set them up in my basement, but right now I have bigger time management priorities than getting back into dj'ing... you know, like spending time with my wife or our families... and with both of us traveling, there really hasn't been a week since New year's where we were in the same zip code together for longer than a week...

I seriously think the last record that I bought was in 2000 and it was probably a Hot 97 bootleg...

in any case...

if I ever do decide to dust off the old boots and suit up again, I think I actually might have to change my DJ name...

I googled it and there are a load of people from all over the world who have picked it up... a few older a bunch younger... I picked up the name in late 1994 (so I was still very much in highschool) and up to that point I think I went online maybe three times... once through prodigy and I think twice through aol... and at that point not everyone had a web page or blog yet...

so I'm not sure if I have dibs on the name, because there was no way for me to check back then, it certainly wasn't all that original, and I haven't been using it almost the same amount of time as I have,so I'd say it's fair game...

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if that moment [where I decide to start spinning again for real ever] comes... I'll have change my dj name...