The Taco Truck Had Music Coming From Out The Stereo Speakers..

What Was The Occasion?
The Beautiful Evening Or
The Motorcycle Gang Of Ramp Agents
Partying & Smoking Blunts
Drinking Beer & Burnin' Rubber.
In The Parking Lot.!

All I Know Is
I'm Waiting For My Tacos
When This Cat
 Who Had This
Real Dumb Look On His face
Walks Up & Stands Next To Me.

 He Asks If I'm In Line.
And I'm thinkin'
I'm Nowhere Near The Ordering Window Boy-O
 But I Just Say Nah.!
He Says OK
     & Skittles On By.
 Thats When I Noticed That This Dude Is..
...Fuuuucked Up.!
He's Swayin' BIG TIME.!
Dude Doesn't  Even Know What The Fuck He's Gonna Order.!
 He's Just Trying Not To Fall Back.!
 Lookin' Around...
..Swayin'.

This Dude Looks Like He's Fifteen
       He's A Security Guard At The Airport
       His Sloppy Uniform & An  L.A.X. Badge Gave That Away
Outta The Woodwork Comes His Lady
To Take The Money He's Got Crumpled In His Hand
To Pay For The Food

He's Combative
He's Got That
               Bitch-I-Know-What-I'm-Doin' Thing Goin' On
And The-Baby-I-Love-You Thing Comes In To Play
Every Time She Catches Him When He Falls Backwards
                                                                     To Guzzle Water
As If It Were A Bottle Of Cheap Booze
And He's The Rock Star
In A 80's Heavy Metal Video.!

And His Lady
Who Was Watchin' Out For Him
Looked Like His Mom
She Had This Look Like
I Hope He's Not To Drunk To Fuck Later.

Now Thats Love I Thought.

Must Be The Music Comin' From The Taco Trucks
Sound System.!

Ghettoblaster * DTLA * Bar 107

This is the flyer for this weeks GHETTOBLASTER,I'm sick with adding the wrinkled paper look on the flyers.Come out and enjoy some of your favorite tunes all on vinyl with a few tall cans for that "Gonna Have A Good Time" feeling.

On Feb.3rd Rick Wren~Orion Escobar @ The Ghettoblaster...

Using Dirty Needles

It's Wednesday evening and I've just finished up recording a set I put together with no particular directive but to spin records...to top it off it was a beautiful day out and chime of an ice cream truck....rollin down the streets....made me wanna play some beats..

..and all the while Using Dirty Needles.

I Just Hate It When The Recordplayers Are Not Hooked Up.!

Just about everyday I go thru these records...and often find something I did not know I had...or that pile of records that I bought at a thrift store...three month ago..and I still have'nt listened to 'em

Just about everyday I...pull a record here...place it over there..and vice versa.It gets nerve rackin'..wishin' there was just an easier way to keep 'em all in order.

It's almost like..being in a little record store..I can sit in here for hours..looking at covers...all the while playing a whole different record...

Just like a record store...but I've already paid for the records..which let's me get lost in grooves and the cover art work..

Some where bought at thrift stores..or garage sales...or just donated to the revolution..the cause...WHICH IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!!

I think every DJ knows how it feels...when they get home...with a vinyl record...new or used...how much..it sucks...that the recordplayers are not hooked up when they get home...ready to listen to those records.

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs,Records And People In DTLA.

When I Spin Records At The Ghettoblaster In Downtown Los Angeles I Like To Walk Outside The Bar 107 & Take In The City Just Outside The Key Hole Shaped Door Way.

Shooting The Shit Over Cigarettes Or Talking Bicycles..I Once Came Out And Some Dude Was Getting His Hair "Sculpted" By A Roving Hair Stylist.

But What Is L.A. Without The Street Vendor Slangin Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs Right Outside Of You Favorite Watering Hole.

ole.

Is Shy Girl Still With Puppet

A Couple Crates of Long Negleted Records were donated the other day.

These records...came in very bad condition...out of their proper sleeves..some dusty and cracked.
I smoked cigarettes while I handled them..and everytime I handle old negleted records like these I just picture all the years these records once entertained someone.

The scribble of a teen girl "La Shy Girl Con El Puppet"

The classic darkening of a tooth..from a singers headshot...maybe even a mustache penciled in.

These records once defined someone's life...made them happy...made them long for love..made them wake up in the morning and get their hustle on...maybe even made someone tie one on..in a bad way.

These records were neglected..now being cleaned up..by me....who wants to bring them back to life..if the grooves permit.

Putting out my cigarette...Lookin'at my dirty,dusty fingertips...I Wonder
..If Shy Girl is still with Puppet?

BOMBILLA (Photos)

BOMBILLA (Photos)2

Funky Little Chill Pill

This is a mix I named...Funky Little Chill Pill. It's a mixture of Jazz,Electronic Beats and Funky Grooves. It came about just thinking of all those cats sitting in front of thier computer at work...wishin' they were somewhere else...Like Spinning Records... Hope you enjoy the trip.!

SET LIST (ALL ON VINYL)

1.Sugar Hill/Jimmy Smiths

2.Stereo Freeze/Jackie Mitoo

3.Slims Return/Ahmad Miller:Vibes~DJ Lord Such:Cuts

4.Sanford and Son Theme/Lou Donaldson

5.Forgot About Dre/Hidden Beach Recordings Vol.1

6.Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey/Ramsey Lewis

7.Girl From Ipanema/Stan Getz

8.Metti Una Sera A Cena/Balanco (JAZZANOVA REMIX)

9.Fast Lane/Gil Scott-Heron

10.Lady Of Spain/Don Catelli and the All Stars

11.Super Bad,Super Slick/James Brown

12.Walk From Regio's/Isaac Hayes (SHAFT Soundtrack)

13.The Joker/Wes Montgomery

14.Echale Salsita/Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban

15.Indra/Theivery Corperation

16.Funky Blue Note/Madlib

17.I Get Around/Hidden Beach Recordings Vol.1

18.California Soul/The 5th Dimension

19.Chain Gang/Sam Cooke

20.Make Your Move/Hieroglyphics w/Goapele

21.Darker Shade of Black/Jackie Mitoo

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT OR SHARE THIS MIX WITH A FRIEND!! OR BOTH IF YOUR MULTI TASKIN' LIKE THAT!!

BOMBILLA (Friday 21st,2011) Orgins Of Bombilla!

BOMBILLA came about one rainy night in DTLA.On our break from spinning records Eazy Uno and I got to talking about records and how as youths we remembered the family sitting around the recordplayer listening to the records our fathers would play and how we were not to touch our fathers records.Years later we would end up with those records in our collection as we started to get deeper into DJing.

Those records (My Fathers Records)are worth more to me than any other in my collection.Some have his name written on the covers which makes 'em even extra special..they take me back to when I was a kid.When I play those records I feel my father is right there with me..telling me to spin this song and then that song.

So with Eazy Uno,Orion Escobar and Slops Rox...BOMBILLA will come to life.!Dope Records and Good Times!!!

BOMBILLA is a an homage to Family,Friends and Those Great Vinyl Records!!.Come Enjoy The Records and Dance and Enjoy Life.!

Spinning Some Dope Rock n Roll Records

I Met A Girl Named Sunday..

..at an Office Depot..She help print out this poster...I noticed her name tag read "Sunday"...I asked if that was her real name..she said Yes...I say..Thats really cool.!

Then I asked...were you born on a sunday?..she said yeah. Aaaaand I said..Thaaats Crrazy.! My name's "Domingo".! That's spanish for...Sunday.!

Sunday says...Really?!
And I say...Nah.!
But that would've been crraaazeee!

Then Sunday sez to me...I've never met someone named Domingo...Then I thought to myself..neither have I.

A Box of Old Dusty Cassette Tapes

I believe everybody has a box of old cassette tapes sittin' around somewhere...they're almost like photos...when you have 'em in your hand...they take you back to better times...or maybe even bad times...none the less they were your bestfriend...especially that "mixtape" someone gave you.I remember splicing the tape back together when they would get tangled up in the mechanism & you had to rip the tape outta the deck...then there were those one tapes that sounded like they were being played underwater.But many for me have their own personality...I'm just wondering how that Bon Jovi tape got in this box.

Punk Rockers,Vinyl Junkies and Taco Trucks

My Evenings Are Usually filled with Punk Rockers....talking to people who'll listen about vinyl records & late night rendezvous with different Taco Trucks around & about in the city of Los Angeles...California...I love you but your bringing me down.