Please join us this Monday, August 15th,
for the kick off of our #LEAN Monday’s @ Central
w/ very special guest
THEE MIKE B!

w/ residents
Aristocat
Quix-05
Sleeper

We will be playing our normal dose of everything boom!

Dubstep
Moombahton
Dance

There’s NO COVER all night,
doors open @ 7pm, come early and chill

Aristocat will be bringing some crazy films to show on the side projector

12 beers on tap, Central is my home away from home…
AND they got PBR tall boys baby!

Get a 2-for-1 round of draft beer each time you visit and
check in at CENTRAL Social Aid & Pleasure Club on Foursquare

http://www.centralsapc.com​/
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http://twitter.com/theemik​eb
http://twitter.com/djarist​ocat
http://twitter.com/itsquix
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If you like this, check out these–

1. FeelGoodSound/The Bridge Saturday!
2. New York City!

Two awesome events this weekend I’m really going to be able to get loose at!

Friday, East of LA throws a CRAZY once-a-month rager,
huge thanks to Gopi & Jimmy for having me out again for this.

They’re opening the Grand Lobby of the venue for the first time,
with the usual Rooftop & Lounge, this is a musical extravangaza

• four dance floors
• nine deejays,
• bottle service, drink specials,
• live visuals & views of Downtown Pomona.

The High Point Facebook Event
RSVP with Alex@EastofLA.com

Saturday,
This is gonna be nuttyyyyyy

• party in a 360 degree visual dome
• $40 OPEN BAR
• all proceeds goes to charity
• live painting & graffiti art
• food trucks, games, prizes

Please support both of these,
they will truly be booming, I promise!

Buy Recess Tickets
Recess Facebook Event

If you like this, check out these–

1. FeelGoodSound/The Bridge Saturday!
2. New York City!

in New York to do some shows and hang with my little brother on his birthday! DEH!

If you’re out here please stop through any of these!

Saturday, July 16 @ Village Pourhouse, East Village
Tuesday, July 19 @ Griffin, Meatpacking District
Wednesday, July 20 @ Piano’s, Lower East Side w/ Skinny Friedman & Sammy Bananas!
Thursday, July 21 @ 1OAK, Chelsea

HUGE thanks to Action Jackson, Wreckineyez, 4AM group, & GCahn for hooking up the gigs!

If you like this, check out these–

1. Coachella 2011 & TEDx USC

Watermelons.
Every time I see one, I’m at peace.

Coachella is magic.
It gets better every year.

The artist lineup is really less important than
being with 85,000 music lovers,
in a polo field.  It’s an experience baby.
AND you get awesome music, art and boom.

Red Bull was kind enough to have me come out
and rock for them again at Vestal Village.
Last year, Aristocat and me ran there!

Huge thanks Eric & David for bringing me out!
DJing the after parties there was crazy…
this is the only picture i could find so far, bah =(

TEDx @ USC, wow.
Dana, Erin & Z from USC Stevens approached me
about collaborating my VJing with my cousin
Kenton’s live acapella group

Kenton ended up having to open for Ben Folds
in NY, JEAHA!  Ended up just being me.

The program they created was amazing, following
a theme, Actions Speak Louder,
they turned all the speakers/performers into superheroes

Got to meet & hear some world changing Cavemen:
Skateboard legend and awesome human, Rodney Mullen
Chessboxing master & The Tiziano Project Andrew McGregor
Video game mastermind, Jennifer Pahlka
Changing how we feed the poor, Rick Nahmias

many more beautiful humans,
check out TED when you can,
something there that will capture your boom

Kenton Chen is killing fools!

His music has always been amazing.

We grew up on opposite sides of the continent, but I remember my dad ALWAYS talking about his voice and talent.  
He’s been non-stop singing since he was born.

A few weeks ago he put together a super power acapella group called the “Backbeats”.

Today, they’ve made it to The Sing Off Finals.

PLEASE show next level music some love by voting for them.  It takes half a second.

There are three ways to vote for, text is the easiest:

Text 3 to 97979 (free)

http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/vote/
you can vote by TEXT, WEB, or PHONE, 10X’s each.  every vote is huge, gogogogo!

one of my favorite songs from him:

threw this together tonight, hope you guys dig it!

All I Do Is Win, mixed w/ 5 tracks
Plan B — The Recluse (Nero Instrumental Remix)
Kalyanji Anandji — Somebody to Love
Chemical Brothers — Hoops
Diplo ft Lil Jon — U Don’t Like Me (Inst)
Ryan Leslie — Gibberish

Counting Cavemen dropping soon!!!!!!!!!

SLEEPER — All I Do Is Win Medley by SLEEPER

[official release date, September 12, 2010!]

SLEEPER — Counting Cavemen, Chapter 5: War (preview) by SLEEPER

i think about cave­men everyday.

what they ate,
what they did in sit­u­a­tions like my own
& every time i wipe my ass,
i won­der how they wiped their ass.

i’ve been cap­ti­vated by them since as long as i can remem­ber.
thinking about how we lived our lives hundreds of years ago is always awesome for me

count­ing cave­men is the sequel to count­ing laz­ers,

ive been work­ing on it off & on for more than two years.

the mix is going to be split into 7 chap­ters which all connect together. whole thing is about 100 minutes total
each chap­ter has a theme that cave­men went through.

Chapter 1: Guitar (first instruments, lots of live music, piano, guitar, choir, etc)
Chapter 2: Pimp (first caveman pimp, falls in love with his muse. grinding, uptempo, nasty boom vibe)
Chapter 3: Love (pimp falls in love with his muse, jazz, drum & bass, smooth)
Chapter 4: Dance (first cave is set aside for dance, packed with dance, dance, dance)
Chapter 5: War (first war goes down, evil, dark, dubstep, drum & bass, hard vibe)
Chapter 6: God (first cavemen discovers & feels God, very musical, introspective vibe)
Chapter 7: Heaven (cavemen become extinct, melodic, epic vibe)

this is part of Chap­ter 5: War, one of my favorite chapters!
inspiration is fire, explosions, blood, chicken bones, mass onslaughts, etc

hope you guys dig!

i also put a longer preview of the God chapter up, boom:

SLEEPER — Counting Cavemen, Chapter 6: God (preview) by SLEEPER

YAO!

Finally getting a logo!

The always grinding Dae Bogan told me about Logo Tournament.  Companies & clients create logo contests for their brand and pick the prize amount.  Designer’s pick what they want to knock out.

My contest lasts 7 days! Anyone can submit an entry, I pick the winning design & prize $$$ will be sent immediately to the winning designer’s Paypal account.  $456 for the winner, gogogo!

Please spread the word to anyone who’d be remotely interested, TRULY appreciate it.

Peep my contest HERE!
http://logotournament.com/contests/sleeper

2:00am, just got back home today! recap of the last two days:

Day 3: It was Thursday night, 8pm, the night before Coachella.  The day had started off rocking!  We were doing 4 miles an hour (amazing for us!) and hit 8 miles in less than two hours. [video]

The first two days we knocked out (mostly walked) 46 miles.  37 miles was the plan for the new day.  17 miles later, Johns right ankle had quadrupled in size and my knee was in a whole new world of pain.  We ended up sitting on a boulder waiting for Jerry to pick us up.

JERRY! OUR FRIEND, MEDIC, FOLLOW CAR DRIVER, MASSEUSE, NUTRIONIST, LOVER, HERO, MONSTER

Almost all of the run for day 3 was on Route 74.  It cuts through a huge mountain, there’s no sidewalks/paths & tons of cars.  Between jumping back & forth from street to mountain side avoiding cars, we pushed ourselves too hard and were destroyed. [video]

So it was 8pm, we decided to eat our first real meal of the day at Le Basil, try to rest and hopefully get back out there.  Heads bowed in shame and exhausted, it wasn’t looking good.   Then God came in.

Guido + Michiel Frackers just so happened to plop down at the table next to us.  Two brothers from Amsterdam, they two of the most amazing humans I’ve ever met.

Guido + his bud Andy are two weeks from doing an Ironman Marathon, 2 miles of swimming, 110 mile bike ride, then a marathon run to close it out…  He overheard our run talk with the waitress…

“You ran here from Riverside?!?!!??”

We told him the whole story, 100 miles blah blah, how we were both exhausted and injured, but were hoping to get a second wind.

30 minutes later I got a text from Guido.  We were still outside in the parking lot of the restaurant, groaning in agony.

“My buddy Andy and I will run with you guys tonight!”

ARISTOCAT’S BLISTER

Fast forward an hour. Guido shows up at our hotel with Andy.  He’d been drinking at a nearby bar.  They come armed with Icy Hots, an array of run gear and a cooler full of beer.  Aristocat was instantly rejuvenated.  [video]

11pm, With Michiel + Jerry in a follow car, lighting up the roads, we ran another 10 miles!  Having two more people completely invigorated us.  It was amazing.  Before 1am, we wrapped up 27 miles on the day!

ANDY, ME + GUIDO

GUIDO, ANDY, ME + CAT

Run Breakdown:
Day 1, Galleria at Tyler to Beaumont, 32 miles
Day 2, Beaumont to Morongo Casino, 16 miles
Day 3, Morongo Casino to Marriot Shadow Ridge, 27 miles (drove the rest)
Day 4, Marriot Shadow Ridge to Vestal Village, 5 miles (had to be there @ 2pm to DJ)

We pretty much only had 3 days to shoot for 100 miles because we had to be at Vestal Village at 2pm to setup/DJ.  I’m definitely proud of the 80 miles we were able to knock out!

This week we’re going to figure out where to run our last 20 miles, all suggestions are appreciated!  Rest assured it will be crazy.

I just got a $1,000 check donation in the mail from Christina Harbaugh, an amazing family friend who fed us Coca-Cola secretly behind my parents back.  The best!  We are up to 112 donations, $12,710!

Let’s change the world baby! [video]

GUIDO, ME+ ANDY!

ARISTOCAT, JERRY, GUIDO, ME + ANDY

UNDERWEAR AFTER 80 MILES

THE CREW!

NPR/KPCC interview:

http://scpr.org/news/2010/04/18/ccoachella-djs-run-thru-dessert-charity-water/

Donations:
http://mycharitywater.org/100miledjrun

Scout/Drive Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGr65N6waW4

Twitter:

http://twitter.com/100miledjrun

Official Site:

http://100miledjrun.com

(blog title is a shortened quote from “Born To Run”)

2:00am, late Wednesday night.

Aristocat fell asleep two hours ago, we just got to the Morongo Casino in Cabazon California.  This is the end of the 2nd day, 100 Mile DJ Run for charity: water.  We ran, jogged, + mostly walked 46 miles so far.  I’m beyond exhausted, but I really want to throw you guys an update.

Noteables on journey so far:

30 minutes late for press conference at Shiekh Shoes.  We got there first, Dae ended up getting lost and pretty much missed the whole thing haha! The night before I prayed A LOT that it wouldn’t be empty.

We arrive, there are two reporters and a photographer.  It was all good, they were extremely interested in us and spent more than two hours interviewing + shooting.  So grateful to Jeff @ Voice of America + The Press Enterprise.

Meera from Sweet Craze was there + baked us 100 cupcakes!  I LOVE MEERA! I hate cupcakes, but she has made me a huge fan.  Definitely the best in the world.  Thanks so much to Eric for spreading the word to her.

We take off running, first 7–8 miles were really smooth, after that, pain and anguish slowly creeped up on us.  10 miles of incline shortly followed.

During our scout of the run, we failed to notice how there were huge portions of the route lacking sidewalks + walking areas.  We ended up walking on the shoulder of roads trying to avoid rocks + jagged debris.

I’m running in Vibram FiveFingers, thin gloves for your feet.  I can feel almost every pebble on the ground, sharp objects hurt.  Dae’s been trying to get me to wear shoes but I must finish in these!

For some reason we thought it’d be a good idea not to eat anything except small portions of salads and nuts.  That was dumb.  By the end of the night, we we’re completely drained, and the temperature had dropped below 45…

No sidewalks so we’re walking between the railroad and the streets.  Everytime a car got near, I turned on my flashlight so they knew not to kill us.  Feet were really hurting but it was so cold, they were numb.

During the later portion of the evening the 10 minute routine went something like this.

It was so dark, seemed like we were getting nowhere.  36 miles was our goal for the first day.  Freezing and in anguish, the last mile we finished took 45 minutes, we were basically crawling.  Ended up laying down next to a street lamp and called Jerry to pick us up.

Found a Denny’s to grub.  1st day = 30 miles down!

We did 16 miles today!  Extremely sore, we walked the entire thing.  We’ve talked about so many ridiculous things that right now I can’t remember a single one of them.

I’ll upload more photos tomorrow, I’m falling asleep as I type. 

37 miles tomorrow = insanity.

Tomorrow at 11am PST, Aristocat + I will be interviewed (in Chinese!) by KAZN AM1300, if you’re in Los Angeles, tune in and hear us roar.

Donations:
http://mycharitywater.org/100miledjrun

Scout/Drive Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGr65N6waW4

Twitter:

http://twitter.com/100miledjrun

Official Site:

http://100miledjrun.com

my feet feel like the dude in “Misery” one of the most amazing movies of all time.

you should watch all these clips if you have time, if not fast forward to #1, 6:53