03/11-14/2010 POWDER MOUNTAIN, Utah
SuperFly Open 2010
The 3rd Annual SuperFly Open sponsored by Best Kiteboarding will be held March 11 – 14, 2010 at Powder Mountain Resort. Powder Mountain. Three years ago, it was the first mountain resort in the US to offer identify an exclusive snowkiting area and to offer a snowkite only pass. This past year, Best Kiteboarding established the Best Snowkite Center at Powder Mountain and offers lessons and demos at the resort.
Zu will be providing sound for the on-snow demos as well as comp. DJ Dallas will be layin down the vibe and playin' MC on some hot new ZuSL-1200 Mk3 decks. Afterparty / lounge each night at the Red Moose Lodge, complete with a fully modern Zu music rig done up in a throughback retro-modern '50 style hi-fi living space, so bring your LP's, CDs, music files, goodtimes vibe and dress to impress.
Last year’s event attracted over 50 of the best snowkiters in the world with competitors travelling from as far away as Norway. After the success of the 2008 and 2009 Superfly Open, it is expected that this year’s competition will grow substantially. Competitions during the festival include freestyle, big mountain race, kitecross and big air. For those who want to try their hand at the colorful adventure introductory kite clinics will be offered each day.
If you have any interest at all (your breathing aren't you, and still healthy enough for sexual activitiess...) then check out www.superflyopen.com where you can book your trip! See you on the mountain.
01/16/2010 PRINCETON, New Jersey—Saturday, in conjunction with the NY Audio Rave.
01/09/2010 LYNCHBURG, Virginia—Saturday | Essence hi-fi demo + Soul teaser. Noon to 5PM is open demos, mingle, good food and gear swapping.
Wouldn’t it be nice, to finally arrive, to have everything all worked out, to have life just how you want it: the ageless spicy yet passive and attentive companion, polite and proper kids, your ideal employment, your neat little house, that perfect yard, a government that never impeded... to have a music system that didn’t need a bit of fuss, didn’t need your attention, didn’t need effort. Forget about perfection, and yes, please add emphases on PERFECTION, that’s a separate battle, best faced once we discover journey, clutter, stress, chance, unknown, wonder... the intricacies and beauty of chaos, the opening of mind, the final realization that it’s path, the right now, this very moment and the Has Been that represents our destination. But with that awareness—REVELATION ///////perfection has lost its blinding lure, evaporated nearly from our radar, no longer part of the search, no longer a ’60s seeker.
Neat, matching, unblemished, perfect; these types of playback systems, just like there human analogs, are never the kind of a thing you really want to date, let alone live with. Great sounding playback rigs, just like musical instruments, musics, musicians, friends, lovers... are a hash of experience, gears, rituals, relations, needs, history... none of it matching, none of it arriving without scar, and little of it makes any sense—until you take it all in, looking at it from present, with presence, understanding and with relationship. It’s your life, it’s your music, it’s your choice—and you should enjoy every possible moment.
There is plenty of there there, at least for me, a lot in the white space the black frames. And if you find something here, something that resonants in this borderline prose, cool. And for those that find it empty, or misspelled, please don’t bother me with it, I got sounds to hear, music to dance, gear to swap, trails and spaces to explore, and kids!