djustinh

i havent been in a nightclub in over 2 weeks, and thats a record considering for the past 6 years i have been in a club at least 1 to 5 times a week no matter what. definately will be in attendance, and this will be my first night out in awile:hat: :hat: see u there boss

the one all the way to the left goes to my gym, but i havent seen her there in awile.

@ at least 10k a gig why not?

skribz wouldnt complain about a booth and he's played in jersey hundreds of times

DT would ever consider it with the booth. His manager always makes sure the booth is 1. perfect or at least meets most of danny's requirements and 2. is in a place where people can not disturb him(which wouldnt be the problem) but the equipment really needs to be upgraded. just do it already!

how about all you tough nuts pick a night and ill be the judge who can drink the most considering im out for the count or a little bit. winner gets the Clubplanet ToughNuts award. pick a night/venue and do it already:letsgo:

kirk is the man hands down. and needs to stop with the johnny walker black. that stuff hurts.

me and my girl watched him play yesterday, he finally stepped it up in the last 3 sets to win it, i dunno wtf was wrong iwth him int he second set, he had his ass handed to him, the first set he shoulda won, tiebreakers are a bitch. but i have to hand it to him, he played really hard yesterday as im sure he did today. ** and i have never seen a serve like his, he had over 40 aces yesterday!

No not the same people, I never met Haskins.

Then I guess the real world is gonna eat me alive. But for the meantime, i won't be partying tuesday through sunday, because thats not the "real world." Thats a route in life you chose to take. And if you partied Tues through Sun held 2 jobs and got your degree, merry christmas. all power to you. and no, the world isn't coming down on me. far from. but if that's the way you interpret it, so be it btw, after all this time, you still feel the need to make crude remarks toward me. grow up, you have NINE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED posts on ClubPlanet. Yes, that's the real world.

I guess I have to start this post by clearly stating only my parents and my girlfriend knew about this decision before I made it public to my friends, my promoters, club owners, and you guys. Last night I had the chance to play at Joey's with Anthony Moussa(for the record for those that shit talk, Anthony is a great person with a great attitude, and an extremely friendly person to talk to, so for those that knock his website, leave him alone already. he's nothing short of a class act, and a great guy) I went into Joey's playing with a 100 fever and an upper respiratory infection and my promoter Adam knew that I was sick, but we didnt want to tell anyone becuase I was DIYING to play on a system that wasn't goin to clip out on me, had a real setup and so forth. By 1:30 - 2:00 my fever was scorching and I said to myself holy shit something is wrong, without tellin anyone i took my bags and went home, where on the way home I get a flat tire, and I blacked out. Woke up called my parents, they came and got me. I went to the emergency room with a scorching 104 fever that would not come down. i was just really sick and over exhausted. Well here I am today, and im making the decision to put the cd's and vinyl's away (mostly cd's ) because I can not keep doing this to myself and my health. I love playing music, I love being behind a 32 channel mixing board with sound modules all over and music blaring, attempting to construct elements of sounds together to make a "song." I love watching people dance into the wee hours of the morning(when I used to play in new york nothing will ever come close to how that feels), I love listening to a collaboration of drums and basslines and percussion all meshed to make something spriitual happen on a dance floor, wether it's in Jersey or New York, or anywhere. Let's look at the flipside of being a DJ. As much as it is fun to be behind a mixer and in front of a crowd, the average person does not realize what a DJ must go through in order to be behind that mixer. The average person doesn't realize the stress, the back stabbers, the promotional teams(constantly arguing and competeing), the club owners, the late hours, the drinking or any other stuff he or she decides to do, the running around for music, the building of relationships to get music, the burning of music, the shopping of records, and the list goes on and on and on. And then some of us are full time workers, and going to school fulltime, and then we may have a girlfriend(who has stood by me dearly through everything) that we have to balance out. It's only a matter of time before it catches up to you and your body says enough is enough. I would play on Friday nights until 3 am getting home by 4:30 if I didn't goto Vinyl(which is my own fault) then I would host a show for www.metromixradio.com from 2 to 6pm then shoot down the shore to do lights at Headliners, then Sunday night have to play until 2am at Surf Club, and then be at Watt's Distributors in NYC long island at 9am picking out records. That in itself takes a toll on you week in and week out! That's not including the possible Tuesday or Thursday guest spots here and there. Im just really tired. I'm in the process of balancing out 3 careers, my career/hobby as a DJ, my studies of becoming a therapist(psychology major), and my personal training cert. (AFAA for those that know about training) And it's just really taken a toll on me. Maybe this sounds corny to everyone but it really is hard to balance all of this out. AND IM ONLY 20 YEARS OLD! I have all of this on my plate and im so young and I just need time to re-organize everything. This summer was great for many reasons and bad for particular reasons. It was great because I got to be apart of 2 residencies of 2 major nightclubs that most dj's would love to play at in New Jersey, Sandbar and Surf Club. I also got the privledge to play at some venues in New York that I had never played at before, such as the infamous Centro Fly and Vue for an afterhours party. I miss the city but its taking a beating as we all know. It was bad in particular because I didn't even remotely play to my potential at Sandbar this summer. Why? I could make a 1000 excuses but ill be brutally honest, the booth is extremely extremely obsolete and has equipment that will leave you in tears at the end of the night. The monitors are 8inch speakers, the mixer is over 8 years old, the cd player is a dennon with no loop (the original dennon cd player) and i can cry a river about the booth and why i didnt play so great, but you know what fuck it. I had fun, and for those that knocked me at Sandbar, your right i didnt play so great as I would at something like Metro Lounge or Joeys, or Roxy, or Sound Factory. Thats another stress factor in intself, going to your residency knowing that you cant play your heart out becuae of the equipment, and leaving constantly saying, i coulda fuckin done better. With a place like Metro, you could walk in with your head high and say, i got JBL monitors, 3 turntables, samplers, rotary knob mixers and theres no excuses Justin, if you fuck up, you fuck up! Sandbar is an intimidating place when it comes to the booth. But I still had a blast all summer making best of what we had. Adam and Bill and Sergio and Boodah(Brian1500) and Kareem and my girlfriend(who i love dearly and now witnessed it all with me, i cant thank her enough) have been nothing but kind, caring, and have done everything they could do to look out for me on many different levels and various situations. I'm just really tired, really stressed out, and really going through alot of things that need to be worked out. Once my health starts going down the tubes, thats when I need a couple months off. For my friends on here thank you for all of your support, for the people that will read this and roll their eyes, sorry, to my promoters and boodah and my girlfriend, thank you so much for always being there. im just tired i need a break. p.s. this sunday at Surf Club i will be playing, and i promise to play my heart out to all of you. justinhiggins

your right and add Marcelli into the equation and you have a tribal bomb. god i wish i could play this kinda stuff in jersey!

"Quimera" please do not sleep on this one!!!

He's got a new one coming out on Twisted, called "This Beat Is" it's no joke. check it out if you can swipe it up

yeah it was that ONE button, they either hit it by bumping into it, sitting on it, or when someone was lookin for the mic, either way everyone got nervous cause we couldnt figure out what it was

the best part of the night had to be when the whole entire system except for about 3 speakers shut off in the club, someone bumped into the mixing console and pretty much shut everyone off by accident and for liek 4 minutes everyone was in a frenzy trying to fix it. that's just my luck lately.

it was my first closing party, and 6 years of going clubbing to ALOT of venues all over, and I have never in my life witnessed an energy level like that when EVERY single person is going bananas to EVERY song it's a crazy site, and anyone who knocks tempts and denny and what goes on over there, your nuts because ive never experienced anything liek that.

You seriously just made my day, and you always showed support over there, thank you so much.

You mean your on Tina, you wont shut up, you think your going to come slap me, but in reality your coming over to setup a toe licking, midget rubbing experience. I'll bring Beetlejuice or some really small man to tempts tonight, hunt you down, and make him lick your legs, touch your lips, and snarl all over your back.

Then you do have a thing for midgets?

trust me, she's not what you think. she likes midgets to lick her toes while she is playing with bananas. take my word for it, i know it. i've seen it! MIDGETS, MIDGETS, MIDGETTTTTTS!!!!!! :eek:

Let's say your a DJ for MTV, and extremely commercialized and quote "household" DJ. KBToys offers you a contract of 20k to make a toy with your voice and face on it, and also offers you a percentage of gross of toys sold. You honestly wouldn't take it... coommmmmme onnnnnn now hehe

Selling out? To be brutally honest, Scott is a friend of mine and he quite frankly fits the stereotype of "selling out" because he plays mainstream/commercial/hiphop on various occasions, but on others he plays lots of tech, tribal etc.(which i give him the upmost respect for, he plays what needs to be played to get the job done. reguardless of what genre or type of music played) If you already had a household name in the business, repeat, a household name, not a name like John Digweed who is more of a should i say for lack of a better word/phrase an "underground" dj. My point is Digweed is not nearly as mainstream as Skribblez, so I would understand possibly the idea of "selling out" if it was a man like Digweed. The toy itself is cute and for little kids, and he made a killing off of it, is that so hard? He has to bring food to the table and keep a roof over his head as well as any of us! True?

i got suckered into it, so i hope its a good time i finally gave into my girlfriend and now we have about 30 people going give or take a couple.... hope to see some familiar faces justin:hat: