it’s list time again.
the lazy man’s form of compartmentalized thought.
comfort for virgo’s(all that order and none of the mess).
and etc.
ok,

a-joe biden. yup, it makes sense. catholic guy from pennsylvania, good foreign policy experience, straight-talking(sometimes
too much)democrat. makes sense. not exactly jump-up-and-down inspiring, but a logical choice.

b-montauk. montauk is beautiful, although last night’s show(s) was(were)weird. the acoustic show was nice, even though
half of the crowd were drinking and talking, even while laura was singing sweet, pretty songs. acoustic shows don’t work
all that well when people are talking. dj sets and rock shows work with a loud, talkative audience, as you can just turn up and be louder
than the talkers. but it’s hard to crank up the acoustic guitar and drown out people who would rather drink tequila martini’s and
talk about the ftse.
and dj’ing was interesting. i felt more like a wedding dj than an electronic dance music dj, but it was still fun. and the surf lodge
is really nice. very calm and tranquil and pretty.
i especially enjoyed playing ‘common people’, as the median yearly income of the crowd last night was probably in the 7 figures.

c-denver. i’m off to denver tomorrow. ah boy, it should be an interesting few days. a hundred thousand random democrats/actors/musicians/media-people/hookers/delegates/nominees/protesters/etc descending on nice, relatively quiet denver. maybe the elevation will slow
people down a little bit. i’ve never been to a political convention before(not counting the republican convention in 2004, when
the republicans showed up in nyc to bask in the ‘glory’ of 9-11, even if said ‘basking’ involved them huddled in their hotel
rooms, afraid to actually set foot in nyc). i’m dj’ing in denver on wednesday night at the church. hopefully see you there.

d-then after denver i’m off to the uk for the last european show of the tour at wembley stadium with carl craig and pendulum.
i like pendulum, and i hear they put on a great live show. and i’m looking forward to hearing carl craig(who i’ve known since 1990…
ah boy, i’m old). wembley stadium seems like a fitting place at which to end the european touring we’ve been doing all summer.
i’ve never played wembley stadium before. i hear it’s big.

e-other live/dj things coming up: sunday september 7th dj’ing at v fest in toronto. thursday september 18th dj’ing at hiro
for another ‘degenerates’, with some really great guests(i can’t say who at the moment). and saturday september 20th another
fun little death show at mercury lounge.
see, touring is slowly winding down. which is good. i like playing live and dj’ing, but the travel really starts to get tiring.
but no one likes a whiney(aka-whingey, for anyone in the uk)musician.

f-is that the end of the list? i think so. thanks for reading, and hopefully see you soon.

moby

a-i’m glad that you all seemed to like ‘schaumgummi’. i had to explain to a few people that it was supposed to be funny. see, i thought that the lines ‘darth vader marshmallow’, & ‘you are a marshmallow’ were kind of dead give-aways as to it’s comedic intent, but maybe we were just too subtle…(cos nothing says ‘subtle’ like a guy dressed up like a giant marshmallow running around in a field).

b-are the oscars this weekend? again: i know nothing. is the super bowl coming up? is the world series this weekend? who’s our president? the oscars are odd. you expect them to be interesting and fun and then they have 15 minute montages to ‘the history of birds in early cinema’. and who can stand the nail-biting excitement of finding out the winner of ‘best sound design in a documentary’?

c-oh, in case you wonder what i’m doing with myself these days, i’m working on my next record. as always i have about 400 songs that i’m trying to narrow down to the 20 or so that will comprise the next record. i don’t know when the record will come out, september, maybe? but september’s a tricky time to release a record, cos EVERYONE puts out records in september. so suddenly my little record is competing with the heavy hitters. so we’ll see. maybe september’s the right time to release a new record. maybe it’s not. i’ll keep you updated(in my clueless way).

d-in playing scrabble last night i spelled ‘witch’ with the ‘h’ making ‘hex’ out of ‘ex’. do i get extra points for this? no, unfortunately. although making ‘witch’ and ‘hex’ with one turn is pretty good, right?

-moby