Saturday at Town, DC

Had a great time at TOWN this past weekend. Lots of friends showed up….Jason S, Jason B, Mike, Kurt & Todd, Dave & Jamie, and more! The club was popping, and I always enjoy working with Chad, who had some great lighting!

Some fave tracks:

DJ Paulo “Locomotive” ( Martin Fry Daddy Remix )
Dino “So Strong” ( Hector Fonseca re-edix )
Britney Spears “Womanizer” ( Ranny Remix )
Celeda & Mike Cruz “Good Time” ( orig, Tracy Young & Umana mixes)
Cevin Fisher “You Got Me Burning Up!” ( Nyan Narine’s Mix )
Kobbe “No Tribal No Session”
Danny Tenaglia “The Space Dance” ( mixes )
Georgie Porgie “Can You Feel That Sound” ( JSP & Twisted Dee mixes )
Mr. Klark “Take It” ( Gustavo Scorpio mix )
Edson Pride “Tribal Sweat” ( Jose Spinnin Cortes Iberican Dub )
Armand Pena “Waiting For You”
Mike Mucci vs Al Camara “Fat” ( Midnight Society’s Big-Boned mix )
KC Flight “Voices” ( Pete Heller mix )
Lula “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life”
Estelle & Kanye West “American Boy” ( DJ Tye’s Deep Dark Verse )
Mary Mary “Get Up” ( Jamie J. Sanchez mix)
Charo “Espana Cani” ( Twisted Dee remix )
Hillary Duff “Reach Out” ( Vission remix )
Nikka Costa “Stuck On You” ( Vission remix )
Salme Dahlstrom “C’mon Y’all” ( Brad Smith Electro remix )

My buddy Blake and a great group of guys who are part of the Purple Party Weekend in Dallas have organized an amazing Pride Tea. I am so glad they invited me to come and spin. Hopefully some of the people who had to relocate to Dallas because of Hurricane Ike will come out for dance therapy!

1 Funkerman “One For Me” (Funkerman’s Tribal Instrumental)
2 DJ Dextro “Animal” (Alex Ocampo mix)
3 Robbie Rivera “Move Move ft Rooster & Sammy (Alex Gaudino and Rooney mix)
4 Dudi Sharon Voze Voze
5 Jorge Montia “It’s Like That” (Edu Reyes Mix)
6 Zoomatra “Trinome” (Mixes)
7 Alexander East “Believe En Me” (LCG mix)
8 Mendo “The Birds” (Joubin & Nicola Torriero Hitchcock mix)
9 Friscia & Lamboy “Chunga” (Phunk Investigation mix)
10 Alex Cunha “Muusic” (Allan Natal mix)

On the RFamily cruise, when we anchored at Ptown, my son asked me if he could parasail. I said I didn’t think he was big enough (although being 4ft, 65lbs for a 5-year old is pretty big!). Ryan begged “promise you will check with the people?”. Thinking that our 5 hours in Ptown would him forget about parasailing, I promised I would check. Ryan was relentless all day in Ptown, and he was adamant about my promise as we walked back to the dock. When I checked they said “he has to be 80 lbs to ride alone”. “Oh, I am NOT letting him ride alone”, I insisted. “Well, he can ride tandem with you”, they said. Well, with us on the parasailing trip were 8 other tandem parasailers and 2 people hiding behind expensive cameras. I insisted that Ryan watch all of the 8 people before making a decision, thinking I would be able to see if there was any hint of fear in his eyes. The first two went, and they even dipped them in the water at the end before gently reeling them back onto the boat’s back deck. Ryan exclaimed, “I want them to dip me too, but only my toes”. So I withdrew my request not to dip us, and they guaranteed that they could be as precise as a toe’s dip. We watched the other 6 people parasail and chatted with the two nonriders. They both were marvelling at “what a little man he is!”. They both promised to take a lot of pictures and email them to us after the cruise.

We went up and entered the peace and quiet up above, far from all of the activity of Ptown’s harbour. It was as if Ryan and I were in a little bubble. We talked about a lot of things, especially how small the cruise ship and other things looked from way up there.

But the thing I remember the most is how I got choked up and said “Ryan, just a few years ago, you were my baby!”. It was a quintessential father-son moment for me, and I told him I would never forget it. Ryan said “I’ll never forget it either because it was my first time!” Can we go again……now?” As they reeled us in we held our thumbs up for the camera. Then, as promised, they dipped Ryan to his toes.

Ryan always laughs and tells people how (because he was suspended shorter than me) they dipped me to my bum and my wallet got wet. I always tell people how, when we were done, he immediately said “Can we go again……now?”

July 5th at Town was a big fun Saturday night. X-Faction performed to Rihanna - cool! Lot’s of fun people out. It was also the first time we got to use the smoke machine in the main room without setting off the fire alarms, which provided a more clubby feeling.

July 6th was the Amnesia Tea Dance reunion in Miami Beach. It was totally hot and old-school all the way. I went straight from the airport to Ray and Craig’s place, and got to meet their adorable son Liam. Friends Barbie, Julian, and Andre showed up, and we went to meet up with Hugo and go over to the club. When we got there, Lazaro was playing a great set, and there were lots of people who I hadn’t seen in years. My first song, was Sandy B’s “Make The World Go Round”, and everybody let out a huge cheer at the first note. Other classics got the same response:

Alison Limerick Where Love Lives
River Ocean Love and Happiness
Melanie Williams Not Enough
Your Love is Taking Me Over
Juliet Roberts I Want You
Mariah Dreamlover
Danny Tenaglia Bottom Heavy
and lot’s more

There were some hotties on the box right in front of me. One was a dancer who was dancing for free up there for an hour, and then said “I have to leave now and go to my paid dancing gig tonight” LOL. All the old-school people came out to say hi, which evoked a lot of emotion. When we closed at 10pm, everybody was cheering and clapping for me so much. Years of memories and all that support…..I could have cried! I will never forget this because it reminded me of the legacy I have helped to create.

The latest news is that I will be playing the Amnesia Tea dance from 6pm-midnight on November 30th, my birthday, officially for White Party weekend! WOW! Will keep everyone posted as the information and ads are available.

With Pre-K behind him, Ryan is working on his blue belt in (okinawan shuri-ryu) karate. I should be taking the class, because I am having to learn everything and practice with him. Ryan is also taking swim lessons. He shed his flotation device on the first day and loves jumping off the diving board in the deep end and swimming over to the side. He is going to do well in kindergarten.