The Blog Log

My Carnival Art Photos on exhibit! Reception Sunday Aug 5, 3-5pm, Walnut Creek, CA!

WendyJ — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:31:20 GMT

Before i was a DJ, I ran away and joined the carnival (whenever I took time off from my day job). Knowing nothing about the gallery/art scene or anyone in it, I have had very little exposure with my stuff. Thanks to a friend I met as a DJ, she got me invited to participate in this super way cool, unusual and fun art show, called CARNY ART. It is a group exhibit, with more than just art on display. i will be attending the opening reception this Sunday, August 5, from 3:00pm-5:00pm. 4 of my pieces are on display amongst the likes of more known heavyweights such as Roger Vail and Linda Kramer. Find out more at: http://www.bedfordgallery.org/main_current.htm The exhibit runs from now until Oct 7. The gallery will also be hosting a few other special events during the run of the show. I will be DJing at a cocktail party event on Oct 4, 5pm-7pm. If you live in the Bay area, I please hope you will come to the opening reception. Don't worry, this is NOT a sale show! The BART takes ya right to the civic center in Walnut Creek, where the Bedford Gallery is located. I would be so happy to see some friends there! Assured to be a very fun afternoon! I hope I can see you this Sunday at the reception!

Blackmail photos of me from Second Nature, anyone?

WendyJ — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:39:54 GMT

Uh, does anyone have any of those "blackmail" photos of me getting lapdanced by that crazy hot surfer dood at the Second Nature this past Friday? I would LOVE to see them, maybe add one to my tribe profile. That was TOO crazy! LOL I guess the guy liked my set. Please send to me at wen_d_j (at) yahoo thanks so much!!!

12 Things You Might Not Know About Me

WendyJ — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:06:23 GMT

(my friend yvette did this, and inspired me to do the same!) 1. Licensed private pilot with basic aerobatics training - last flight was feb 2001. I pretty much quit flying after 9/11 for several reasons I won't get into here. (mostly too expensive and too republican) 2. Expert horsewoman. Been riding horses since I was 6 years old. They were my first love. Owned one for 6 years, in the mid-90s. Western and English. Love jumping....but didn't get to do as much as I wished I did. Got in trouble throughout grade school for daydreaming about horses and writing horse stories and drawing horse pictures. I barely made it through to 8th grade graduation! I hated school as a kid. 4. Went to catholic school - grade 1-8. What a bunch of hateful spiteful children...my classmates. I always felt like an ousider. Super dork, only thought about horses. Got into leathercraft for a few years. Still have all the tools if I need to fix or make something... 5. learned tap and ballet. Loved tap. Still do! Want to learn belly dance & flamenco someday... 6. Played flute in 8th grade, then bassoon & cello in high school. Accelerated rapidly in music, won a few awards and played in a few honor orchestras. Studied electric bass for about a year, a few years after high school....then I met Satan (the man who ruined my passion for music. See item 4) 7. Married once, for only 2 1/2 years, to a very talented but insane singer. Blew every opportunity that came is way. Controlling and abusive. Invalidated any talent I had because I didn't starve for my art. The experience was so intensely awful that I swore off music for 15 years. Electronic dance music brought me back. I never thought my musical soul would be reawakened, but it has! Been single ever since, though. (I took my life back, by leaving him & everything I owned in 1990). 8. Used to draw horses and human portraits, won a few art awards throughout my grade & high school years. Then took up photography in 1980 as my creative outlet, focusing on carnival rides. 9. Was a stage hand in high school, then got into video in college, and made it into a career - specialty: Video Quality Control (I watch movies for a living - looking for technical problems with video, audio & film) 10. Love to water ski and speed boating. Been going to the river since age 2. Natural born river rat 11. Rode dirt bikes in the 70s. Had a Bultaco 125 Libido, and then a Sherpa-T 250. My family was into English Trials 12. Born & raised catholic, then became non-religious but still spiritual through most of my adult years. Converted to Orthodox Judaism in 1995 for spiritual reasons. Lived the Orthodox life for 3 years. Eventually returned to spiritual, not religious, which is what I am now. Non-observant, but Judaism is my belief system. I grew alot as a person through that experience. All good! Now I consider myself a mystic. 13. Had a thyroid disease in the early 90s, all the meds the doctors had me on damaged my liver. That is why I don't drink or smoke and rarely party. I also converted to alternative and holistic healing modalities after Western Medicine took my thyroid from me. Goes to show, sometimes bad experiences turn out to be blessings. If not for this, I would probably be a total addict loser nothing piece of shit, abusing my body with drug and/or alcohol to this day. Instead, I am a healer with an interest in helping and healing addicts, alcoholics and anyone else who is open & ready to be happy and well and live the at ease life they deserve. Wellness is also a priority in my life, and I spare no expense to stay well. Health & happiness is more important than money. But we all need enough money to stay well and live happily. Balance!

Why haven't I been out much

WendyJ — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:57:36 GMT

2006 has been a transitional year, along with last year...but this one is much better. I just moved, from a big, beautiful, very expensive apartment in a crappy 'hood, into a tiny, affordable guest house in a very magical 'hood. Still getting settled. Very happy here! Big lifestyle change. I gave up or sold cheaply almost all my furniture to fit into this house, but the tradeoff is worth it. I managed to keep two pieces I couldn't part with, stored at the homes of friends. So grateful for my friends!!!! It was a year and a half-long goal to downsize into a cheaper place where I could work on music without bothering anyone. After 6 months of looking, I finally accomplished this short term goal (for the long term plan: work on music, do healings, keep healthy and happy, and pay off my debt load). Now, I can focus more on creative passions here...music production being the newest craze, along with my Yuen Method healing practice. Oh, and did I mention studying jazz flute? Also for assisting with the music production. Music is a lonely business. It takes hours and hours and hours. This has been my lifelong, fairly negative belief about music. It is hard, lonely, sad & painstaking work. Using Yuen Method corrections, I have been shifting those old, limiting beliefs into much more positive and desireable ones. Transforming lonely painstanking drugery into loving enthusiastic passion. Write me if you need a correction or two with this yourself! I'm sure I'm NOT alone in my aloneness about music!! :) I'm also in a job transition this year. The company I have been happily employed at has to lay me off because they just don't have enough full time work for me to do. I have seen my work load dry up, and not enough new stuff coming in. I hold our very weak sales team responsible. For some reason, I'm not worried. I am very well-known in the video post production industry. Very easy for me to keep working. Video QC people are in demand, and sadly, most of them working today don't know a thing. I might actually develop a training program for people who want to get into doing video quality control. I've managed to make a modest living at it for the past 16 years. More on this some other blog... Life is good, I have no complaints. Of course, we all would love to have more money, but see, that isn't a complaint. I have enough to get by on. I'm happy about that. If I had more money, I could get a couple of much needed pieces of hardware for the music production studio - and Logic Pro 7. It'll happen, when it's supposed to. Seems like we are never done with our desires to grow & evolve & experience all we can in this life...and that does take a bit of money. And time. And effort. I'm all up into all 3. Not going to Shambhala this year....they didn't book me to to play, nor do I have the funds to go. Been there 4 years in a row. As much as I love it there, it's becoming too routine and losing its magic for me. Taking a break from it will be good. I will miss it. Doubtful that I will make it to Burning Man this year, too. Not in the budget, either. BM is a huge undertaking no matter how minimal one tries to go. That commerce-free community is expensive! Takes alot of money, time, preparation and planning to survive on the playa. I was hoping to go this year. I didn't make it last year, and missed out on many invites to DJ at several camps. Now that I haven't been out playing any Burning Man theme warmup events, I'm out of sight, and out of mind. Now I feel forgotten by the burner community. My own fault. Well, there is always next year. I'll start getting out more, really I will! My home, family, friends, cat, job, and all that other stuff that goes with it all comes first these days. Parties are a thing you do after a well-earned hard weeks' work. I'm still workin, and not ready to party just yet. Parties are not my life's priority - the are an enhancement to it. Of course, all this work I've been doing - moving, taking Yuen Method healing workshops, studying music, learning production, and still working full time amidst all that has a back-end intention - to bring a higher level quality to my performances as a DJ, maybe even as a live performer, and also to give healings at parties as well...I'm the whole package baby. I believe a party can be a wonderfully healing, unforgettable experience for people. Thats' what I'm dong all this "homework" for.

The Seattle scene murders

WendyJ — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:22:09 GMT

I'm sure you all heard about the sensless tragic events that occurred in Seattle a couple weeks ago. This one hit way too close to home. I was just there a little over a month ago, performing and entertaining these people. One of the murder victims provided the 12 channel mixing board for Atmos to use. The shooting occured at the home of the sound man for the stage I played on at Kinetic. I just met these people. And now they're gone. The Seattle scene is lovely - really cool, kind, friendly, chill people. This kind of sensless evil was so unnecessary. I don't know what to say or how to react, or even how to heal myself or others affected by it. Time will heal. I'm afraid it's gonna take a long time for the people in the dance music scene of Seattle more time than most. My prayers, love and healing energies go out to you all. Just makes one think about how everything we do has some element of risk. Be more cautious of welcoming outsiders; rather, people you don't know really well, or that can be vouched for by someone you know and trust. I have been hurt (emotionally, financially or by theft or vandalism in my own home) numerous times for being kind and giving to the wrong people. I keep learning to be more careful and selective. And I never stop sharing lovingkindness. Of course, what happened in Seattle is the most extreme and rare case imaginable. You extend your loving kindness and hospitality to a "lost, lonely soul", with purely good intent - to make them feel welcome, to give them a sense of friendship, that someone cares about thier happiness, to help them feel included. Then you and your friends get mowed down for it. Makes no sense. If there is any "take away" from this tragedy, it is to be more careful about who you invite to your home. Only let people you know and trust know where you live, especially after a party. Drugs and alcohol do change people - sometimes they have no control over thier judgement. Never stop being kind and giving, but practice discernment. Err on the side of caution, and have no guilt about your decision. Setting boundaries for your own safety is imperative. People often lose sense of boundaries when they are high. Some are just plain ol' disrespectful. It's a wonderful gift to offer hospitality and sanctuary to weary partiers until they are okay enough to get home. Don't ever stop that. Just practice being more selective, is all I am trying to say. This could have happened here in L.A. Could have happened anywhere. Keep a watchful eye out for yourself, your stuff and your friends wherever you are. Safety in numbers. Don't be paranoid, but don't let your guard down either. My very deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the families, friends and loved ones of the victims in Seattle. My apologies for the delay in responding. It took a while for me to do my own processing and sorting out what happened, and fomulating my thoughts into words. I wish everyone happiness and wellness in this lifetime.

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WendyJ — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:01:45 GMT

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