superstar dj keoki: from hero to darsha brady

Posted: November 4, 2006

growing up i was never into sports. in fact i am still not. i hate being that guy who walks into a bar and sits at the bar top and some dude asks me ‘hey do you know who won the game today?’ and i have to cower pathetically and confess that i have no idea what game he is talking about. i usually bite my tongue to not debate how sports are over rated and waaay over funded. only if cancer research had a nike endorsement. well i guess they have lance.

now that i am way off subject… the point is that i never idolized bo jackson – if i did it was only to fit in with my friends. sorry pals. i did however idolize superstar dj keoki who was an amazing dj in his day. he was catapulted into the electronic music scene through the club kids movement in nyc in the mid 80’s. this is a whole other story that can be better explained if you rent the following 2 films:

1. party monster - starring macaulay culkin. this is a great movie with great casting. even marilyn mason has a role!

2. party monster the shockumentary - this is a documentary in which #1 was based. i preferred this one because it showed so much amazing footage.

all of this to say: i met keoki a few times and every time i talked with him he got weirder + weirder. the first time i met him he was wearing tight gold pants and used the turntable as a rotating cocaine auto-feed as he stood above it snorting away. the second time i met him he explained how he never wears watches and that he has no windows in his house because he hated knowing what time it was. it wasn’t long after this that i figured he wasn’t the best role model for me and that i should probably go back to worshiping bill lambier. the flyer i posted above was the last time i had a short chat with keoki at a show in pdx and after that i wrote him off as a total ball of schmuck. i have started to hate famous electronic musicians because they have all had a chance to be a poster child for a scene that the larger half of society knows nothing about – instead they give it all up for white drugs. don’t get me started on paul jokenfold who at the last show i saw him at came out flapping his arms like he was the second coming of christ. just pull the trigger paul… pull the trigger.

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