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January 23, 2004
Eye Candy at the Continental
DJ Dan Dynotone says a little eye candy never hurts when you're playing a gig, so he invited me down to guest dj at The Continental Room in Fullerton last month. The truth is, that was only my third time as a club dj, and I was very nervous. Then this girl started asking me questions and I knew I was done for. She had a pen. And a pad of paper. Always a bad sign! Now, I go places with a pen and a pad of paper, and usually it's because I'm going to take a lot of notes about a show, then get drunk, lose the notes and whine to Jenifer about why I can't write the article. But this girl seemed sober. Great. I knew the next step was that I would end up in the OC Weekly and they would call me fat, or worse yet, "chubby." Humph.* I could tell I was about to be "Clubbed" by the charming Ellen Griley, so I did what anyone would do:
I tried to be nice, which is hard when you're nervous, and drinking a lemon drop martini and played a version of Bali Hai which has coded into it "Lovely Wanda" under the melody line. Apparently it worked!
Read Charming Ellen Griley's column and if you see a girl with a Bic and a pad of paper, buy her a drink!
*Apparently, certain writers at the OC Weekly think that "hard hitting journalism" means insulting people. No, that's just being mean and snotty. Thankfully, Ellen isn't like that.
Posted by DJ Wanda at January 23, 2004 08:30 PM