Entry Thirty.
Wednesday 2004.09.29 11:19 PM CST.
Fifteen years of runnin' my own show.

I am very tired as I write this tonight, so I must make this brief.

WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?
Exactly fifteen years ago tonight, my friends Kevin and Janet, along with myself, performed at my high school's homecoming dance.  It was my senior year, and although I had worked with "DJ Dave" in Mirage Productions for about a year and a half, this was a tremendously special night.  For the first time in my DJ career, I was headlining.  Here I was, this dorky skinny kid who listened to way too much Depeche Mode, controlling the music for an entire school with a cheap plastic pair of belt-drive Vector Research turntables.  A geek, rocking the house and moving the crowd.  I can't tell you how cool that felt.

15 years ago today, EKG (Electro Kinetic Group) Mobile Music and Light Show was officially introduced to the public.  Awesome.

But...  Here's something that I haven't mentioned much, aside from occasionally in private chats with friends.  I didn't originally plan to do the music work.  I mean, yeah, it sounded like a lot of fun to be "the DJ" up there, but running the light board was my forte', and when Janet and Kevin and I practiced in my garage, I was hoping that Janet would take over music-mixing duties for the most part (with my music collection and programming input) and I would get to run the lights.

Luckily, that plan didn't last.  I did take over the DJ reins, and EKG remained the constant factor in a long, interesting career.  Mobile work, radio work, magazine journalism, remixing, production, and then - strangely enough - DJing at some crazy underground club.  Life can be mighty unpredictable sometimes, but insofar as my music career has been concerned, the changes have often been pretty welcome.

Even though EKG is all but dead (officially, I'm still saying it's "suspended"), it will always be one of the most cherished parts of my life.  Where DJ Dave and Mirage Productions helped pull me out of my self-conscious "shell," EKG helped continue the self-confidence boosting that I needed to really develop as a person.

Long live EKG Mobile Music, and thank God for allowing my life to have such unusual circumstances (and crazy coincidences) to make the whole thing possible.

Badger.