From the L.A. Weekly NYE 2009 party page:

DJ AM / Travis Barker @ The Wiltern: $150 / $225 per person

Giant Maximus: $75 / $155 per person

LAX: $100 / $1,500 per person

Social Hollywood: $125 / $10,500 per person

Paramount Pictures Studio Backlot with Katy Perry: $100 / $12,000 per person

Fuck that!

I’m going to stand on my cold street corner, count backwards from 10, and at zero (the stroke of midnight), I will pull the string on some 99 Cent Store party poppers! Then, I will go back into my warm apartment, and tally up all the money I just saved.

Seriously…why the fuck would / should I spend money to go hang out with loads of strangers, when I won’t do that when it is for free?

Watch a DJ spin? I can put a mirror in front of my DJ setup, and do that for free (and better, and without freezing my nuts off in the cold)!

See Katy Perry? Yeah, from a distance, since I don’t have a daddy to cry to in order to get the $12,000 VIP booth seating.

Hang with the cool L.A. people? I don’t have enough Penicillin and AirBorne.

Sure, I could get drunk and “enjoy” myself, except for the issue that I don’t drink, and don’t like being around drunk people.

Fuck New Years! At the end of that countdown, it’s just another day.

Consider this your alternate Rickroll!

Watch the HQ video, or download the mashup!

Work with me on this one, because I am having some serious problems…

D-Fi is a *FREE* plug-in from Digidesign. Free. Gratis. Zippo.

To use the *FREE* plug in, you have to buy an iLok “protected software” USB hardware dongle.

So…the software is *FREE*, but due to copy protection on *FREE* software, I have to pony up $40 bucks. $40 to use the copy protected *FREE* software.

I swear I just felt a few brain cells die in vain…

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Yes, I know the title of this post is not exactly news. Consider it more as an example.

Two minutes (MINUTES!!!!) after tickets went on sale for the second night of the KROQ Acoustic Christmas, tickets sold out, YET SOMEHOW, other “people” were apparently able to not only order tickets, but then put them on sale on the “Ticketsnow” web site (owned by Ticketmaster).

SHADY!!!!

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Myself, at three months old, learning the fine art of fast food dining.
Taco Bell, Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, January 1970.

My mom passed away around 11pm, on March 18th, 2006, due to complications from melanoma, liver cancer, pneumonia and infections (both from an improperly installed port-a-cath, and from the melanoma).

It is now December 10th, 2008. Tomorrow is her birthday, and I am finding it very difficult to deal with.

My mother had a hard life. Abuse, bad health, and overall pretty much rotten luck. Even how I came about was in a bad way. She made sure, however, that I had a better life.

As a child, she was constantly teaching me. She gave up her life, for me.

I miss having her as a sounding board for my work. I miss the encouragement. I miss the love.

The years close to her death were hard ones, not only due to her health, but for emotional reasons. There are words I wish I could take back, and actions I wish I had not taken. Though few, they will always be an open wound for me.

My mom loved holidays. Usually, I spent them just with her. Now, no matter what I do or who I am with, those holidays just don’t have the same meaning.

I miss my mom.

Happy Birthday Mom.

Daniel

Charles Brown - “Please Come Home For Christmas” (original King STEREO version)
UNKLE - “Hold My Hand” (instrumental)

It’s time once again for the BRAT Productions Holiday Mix.

You aren’t ready for this one…

check it out!