Ira Heinichen's Blog, page 209
April 17, 2020
Day 2,361: DJs
The DJ controller came today. Andits awesome.
Its so awesome, in fact, that even Liz spent like an hour and a half playing a set tonight, and shes currently loading up a playlist of her favorite songs to play more. Not tonight, but you know, in the future.
The combination of the controller with Beatports new streaming music service is game changing. For real. We couldnt have picked a better, more exciting time to get back into playing. (Almost) the ENTIRE catalogue of Beatports music is now...
April 16, 2020
Day 2,360: Drip, drip, drip
These nightly writing sessions have been my saving grace lately.
I wouldnt have written today with it. And Im glad that I did. I just wrote something dope.
Im realizing, in my current state of still-establishing-my-routine in these work from home timesthat I write my best in the morning, mid-morning, and at night. Perhaps I can leverage that. Precarious times when I have to work full-time, because I get so tired during those timesbut being just tired enough is a powerful thing. Inhibitions...
April 15, 2020
Day 2,359: Inspiration
Had a great talk with my friendo Josh tonight aboutwell, kinda about giving up. On projects. And how uncomfortable that can be, and how uncertain it is to feel like youre at that crossroads. Even if its temporary, which it always is with the deepest of creative endeavors.
And, somehow, its brought me full circle to the other side of that same coin: inspiration. Inspiration is the opposite of despair, and itswell, fuck. Its goddamn magic, of course. It doesnt feel of this world. Its like a...
April 14, 2020
Day 2,358: Cannot Contain
We got word this morning that ourand I do mean ourdj controller is on its way from Florida. It should be here Thursday by the end of the day. It got me so excited, I literally couldnt work this morning. I had to listen to a bunch of music to prepare.
Ive been out of the dance music scene for almost a decade. Like, OUT of it. I sold my CDJs, professional CD players, and my turntables when we moved into our apartment here. I needed the money, but Id also decided that I was going to give up...
April 13, 2020
Day 2,357: Fast and Loose
Good day today. Im not sure how particularly good my writing was, but Im also not sure if it was particularly bad. And thats good! Because I just sat down and wrote. That was my goal. To let go.
Thats the key for me. Just let the fuck go, Ira. Stop thinking. Stop analyzing. Just do it.
And so I did it.
And it was good.
Time for sleep. Gotta get up on time 
April 12, 2020
Day 2,356: Future Perfect
Theres so much music Ive liked over the past decade or so that Ive never got the chance to mix into a set.
Im listening to one such track right now. Future Perfect by Way Out West. The Henry Saiz remix. I dont even know if Henry is still making music. I dont know if SO MANY of the artists I really loved are still making music. Its a hard business. Look at me: I didnt last. Case and point.
What Im saying isIm really REALLY looking forward to DJing again 
April 10, 2020
Day 2,355: Weekend
It felt like a weekend today. The first one thats felt like that in a long time.
Liz and I hung out all day today and it was lovely. We watched TV together and ate food together and walked the pups, both morning and night, and we watched The Winter Soldier together way too late into the night.
Its almost 1am.
A perfect day.
Liz encouraged me to get the dj controller Ive been obsessing about for the past week or soso I just got it. Its a few hundred dollars. Definitely not the strictly...
April 9, 2020
Day 2,354: A Good Death
Listening to soundtrack music right now, and Im reminded just how impactful a proper death can be in a well-told story. I mean the death of a character that cuts you right to the core, that feels real and makes you think about real life. And, I suppose thats why death is important in stories; they make us think about real life.
The death of Gandalf, for example is about the loss of our parents and/or grandparents. If the Heros Journey is a story form that mirrors our own lives, the loss of...
Day 2,353: Animal Crossing
Liz is out in the living room right now playing Animal Crossing on the switch. She was just voice chatting with her sister, J, and her sisters friend because they were visiting together on Js island. It was very, very cute. Very endearing to hear them talking about all the stuff they wanted to give each other and make for hershe just started playing the game recentlyand how she needed to go to bed because she has work tomorrow, and commenting on each others outfits, etc. Very endearing.
Cant...
April 8, 2020
Day 2,352: Easy Rain
It rained today. It was raining tonight, even, as we took the dogs out. But it was that light rain that you can stand in and not get instantly wet, but you can hear it and feel it. Easy rain.
Thats most often how it rains in LA, easy rain. It rarely rains HARD here. Not like Humboldt rain, which comes with winds and in great big wet drops that are thick enough to make it so you cant see while youre driving. Every so often it rains like that down here, but most of the time, its light; the kind...
