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So last Wednesday was my pre-birthday party at The ISH w/ Parker Lawson & John Michael!!!  Thanks to everyone for coming out and celebrating with me, I had a lot of fun going crazy and dancing!  My new bosses over at 944 Magazine also got me a $150 gift card for Ghostbar so I managed to drink the night away, thanks guys!  See the rest of the photos from my crazy night HERE!!

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Scardello is one of Dallas’ BEST cheese shops!  I had the honor of being invited to the shop for a running competition they have been having between different regions of the world that have similar cheeses.  Last weeks competitor’s were the WEST COAST vs. SPAIN, with the West Coast demolishing Spain.  With each cheese matching from either region there were specific wines paired with them.  I found that I didn’t know very much on cheese or the wine but as the class/competition progressed my knowledge and conversation on the subject grew.  We were told to use our 4 senses: TOUCH, SMELL, TASTE, & SIGHT, to judge the different cheeses. At first it was hard trying to use different adjectives and likenesses to describe them, but after awhile it came easy.  This is probably the funnest, not to mention most informative, wine/cheese tasting I’ve ever had!  The staff and presentation was perfect, it couldn’t have been presented better!  I recommend SCARDELLO CHEESE SHOP to any and everyone who has a passion for fine cheese and wine, only the best is hand-picked to be in this shop!

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Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate our friends HOYOTOHO’s video release of ‘Virgin Eyes,’ and our good friend Marisol’s Birthday!!  It was an amazing night filled with HOYOTOHO’s awesome new video premiere, Birthday Hi-jinks and plenty of drinking drinking dancing drinking drunk moments, haha!  See the rest of the photos from the amazing night HERE!  See everyone next week when my good friend CJ DeMarx plays for the first time at The ISH!!!

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The ISH this week was a special one, not for the mere reason that it took place on a Tuesday night instead of our regular Wednesday night, but because it was a DJ Battle Royal sponsored Red Bull, an open bar, and none other than DJ CRAZE spinning and judging, arguably the best DJ in the world!  I’ve never seen Ghostbar as packed as it was, not even when Aoki or Mickey Avalon played.  The open bar definitely got everyone loosened up and above was our spinning DJ winner of the night!  Check out the rest of the photos HERE!

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Friday at SXSW we had a Backyard Dance Party at the house we rented in Austin. Our friend Jane that runs SEAOFSHOES.COM stayed with us during the festival and our friend Ronnie from Neon Indian stopped by to hang for awhile also, while we were chilling waiting for the party to start I snapped a few photos in the backyard, The party ended up being amazing, I have three new bands I’m absolutely in Love with: Jessica 6 formerly of Hercules and the Love Affair, The Happen-ins, and Sore Losers, everyone should check them out!!

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The Flaming Lips @ NX35 this year were amazing — I’ve never seen them live but their performance was one of the best I’ve ever seen, and the crowd was intense. On Sunday we went back to Denton for the end of the NX35 weekend. We saw the 8-track museum, a rooftop hip-hop show, and enjoyed some free pizza. We ended the night at Rubber Gloves where we saw Neon Indian, Ishi, French Horn Rebellion and others.

What a weekend, here comes SXSW!!!

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It was so good to see my friend BLAKE WARD play at the The ISH on Wednesday along with BANDIT!  There wasn’t a foot not moving to the beats that were being spun into our faces, such a good night!  Check the rest of the photos HERE and hope to see everyone next week to kick off SXSW proper at The ISH w/ Marshall Barnes!!!

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OCELOT dominated The Ish last week!  Seriously the best time I’ve seen him DJ so far, the set was amazing!  Thanks to everyone for coming out and partying hard, hope you all make it this week when we take a step back in time to 1886 when BLAKE WARD, BANDIT and our very own WISHFM hold down the fort at ‘THE ISH.’ Check out the rest of the photos from last week HERE!

‘THE ISH’ last night definitely had its moments, from the technical difficulties when the sound cut off for a few minutes, to the insane crowd that surged after Grant Shapiro started spinning.  Steven Molina opened the night up by getting everyone in the mood, then around midnight came in LA-based DJ Shapiro to take it to the next level!  The Mavs/Lakers game brought a lot of different people out, and the diversity was awesome and everyone definitely danced the night away!  See the rest of the photos HERE!

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I got the chance to go by the BODIES EXHIBIT in West End in Downtown Dallas today.  This was one of the best scientific exhibits I have ever been too — as well as artistic.  The means by which these bodies were obtained and used for the exhibit is highly controversial, as they were not donated to science but rather Jane/John Doe’s.  How they created some of these controversial presentations is as amazing as it is intricate.  I advise everyone to check this out if you ever get the chance!  Thanks to the Museum for letting us come by and share what we saw with you all.  See the rest of the photos from the exhibit HERE.

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I’ve never seen a hip hop performance by anyone before, but holy hell is it an experience. Recording artist COMMON performed with DJ IRIE at Ghostbar for the 944 Magazine NBA Allstar After-party on Sunday.  I was lucky enough to get a press pass to cover the event, and it was nothing short of amazing.  The rhythm of the room (not to mention obscene amount of basketball players, celebrities, and people) was something I haven’t seen since Mickey Avalon played at Ghostbar late last year.  Common has always been a pick of mine when it comes to hip hop, his musical genius is unique and has the power to make you move and smile, it was definitely the highlight of the night.  Check out the rest of the photos from the night HERE.

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If there was one place I wanted to be when midnight hit Valentines Day Saturday night, it was Fallout Lounge!  CJ and Mattie conquered their third annual ‘Fall In Love At Fallout.’

Steve Aoki was back for his second time to ‘THE ISH’ this past Wednesday and he never fails to deliver something unforgettable every time.  I haven’t seen Ghostbar that packed full of people since the last time he was in town at the end of last year. Adding to all the NBA All-Star Week energy going around, he started the festivities around Dallas off the way you’d expect — hard, fast, and on point.  This was one of the best parties I’ve been to so far this year!  Check out the rest of the photos from the night HERE!

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Last weekend I went out to see my friends in the band’s Neon Indian and Ishi play at Hailey’s, in Denton, TX.  The show looked like it was gonna sell out at 8pm and they didn’t even go on until 11:30pm, it was pretty amazing!  This time last year Neon Indian was but a beginning, now in 2010 they’ve seen and toured the world, been mentioned on the national news, and have a fan following that seems to growing by the minute.  They aren’t the only band making waves though, Ishi is just another example of the growing music scene in Dallas, TX, despite the citiy government’s blatantly obvious hatred for it, and anything creative.  Ishi’s sound is a finely tuned dancing machine, that infects anyone that hears it.  I even found myself dancing in the middle of photographing them!  Look for big things coming from these two bands in the future!

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