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ashley

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joined on 10/12/04
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Ash is Good

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Age
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about me
I try to touch every person I meet and leave them better off than when I met them.
First Name: ashley
Sun Sign: Taurus
Rising Sign: Leo
Life Path Number: 5



Today (no offense to rabbis and priests, who try their best) it is the DJ who fill this role. It is the DJ who presides at our festivals of transcendence. LIke the witchdoctor, we know he's just a normal guy really-I mean look at him-but when he wipes away our everyday lives with holy drums and sanctified baselines, we are quite prepared to think of him as a god, or at the very least a sacred intermediary, the man who can get the great one to return our calls.
In a good club, and even in most bad ones, the dancers are celebrating their youth, their energy, their sexuality. They are worshipping life through dance and music. Some worship with the heightened levels of perception that drugs bring; but most are carried away merely by the music and the people around them. The DJ is the key to all this. By playing records in the right way the average DJ has a tremendous power to affect people's states of mind. A truly great DJ, just for a moment, can make a whole room fall in love.
because you see, DJing is not just about choosing a few tunes. It is about generating shared moods; its about understanding the feelings of a group of people and directing them to a better place. In the hands of a master, records become the tools for rituals of spiritual communion that from many people are the most powerful events in their lives.

-copyright 1999 by Bill Brewster and Frank Brougbton, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life,


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Sun, December 14, 2008 - 5:21 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
Well its been a while since I added to this posting.. so here is a link to my new site strengthinthesound.com. This site is dedicated to the underground movement in LA and its rise to power over the coming months. Plus a new mix to download at djashbarnes.com go to sound then click the speaker that says new mix.

check it out.


ash
Sun, December 14, 2008 - 5:19 PM permalink - 0 comments
 

We are the music makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams.
Wandering by lonely sea breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world, forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up with world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We in the ages lying,
In the buried part of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth
And o'erthrew them with prophesying,
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

~Arthur O'Shaugnessy
Sun, January 22, 2006 - 10:16 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
WEll I really cant say what I'm writing this about.. wait... I'm having a thought... yes ... and its gone! OK well I've decided my passion will be realized and actualized in this momentous month to come. I have no one to blame but myself if it does not, but something tells me things are about to change for the better, and new more powerfull musician will emerge.
Tue, July 26, 2005 - 4:01 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
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