My Exercise In Futility

I think I’m going to attend the Winter Party Festival again this year. Last year was my first trip to the Winter Party, and I had an amazing time. I met a lot of cool people that I still see at some of the other parties I have been to over the past year. And now that I know what to expect from this party, I think I can plan accordingly and have a really good time. 

A quick check of the DJ list and I see a few names that I recognize.  Tracy Young is set to play at the Beach Party this year. That makes me happy. Last year it  Joe Gauthreaux was the DJ for the Beach Party. I wasn’t impressed – not when he played at the Beach Party nor when I saw him again at New York City’s Gay Pride Pier Dance. This year he’s at an event titled 5 Ring Circuit. I think it was a good idea to mix Joe in with the likes of Manny Lehman and Eddie Baez, two other DJ’s playing for that event. Hopefully he won’t be the last DJ of the event. 

One name I fail to see for any event is Peter Rauhofer. Peter made the Winter Party for me last year when he played at the Red Eye party. It was amazing – right up to the point where there was some drama in the DJ booth and Peter stormed off, angry about something. I think it had something to do with one of the venue workers blowing the air horn while Peter was playing and Peter didn’t like it. I agree with Peter – NO AIR HORN!

I only have a week or two to make up my mind and decide whether I can actually attend or not. Attending this party doesn’t exactly coincide with my other goal of becoming debt free by the year’s end. But, it will definitely give me an opportunity to show the time I have been spending at the gym by then. Who knows, maybe I’ll pick me up a hottie this year!

I just found a plug-in that will supposedly let me upload music and play it in my entries. This isn’t supposed to be hard, but I haven’t been able to figure it out with while using WordPress just yet. Let’s see if it worked.You should have the option to play Madonna’s remix of ‘Give It 2 Me.’

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I found the set list for the Madonna Hard Candy Tour. Here it is -

1. Candy Shop (My least favorite song on the album)
2. Beat Goes On (Love this song, can sing along)
3. Human Nature (Love this song, can sing along)
4. Into the Groove (Wow – kickin’ it ole school)
5. Heartbeat (Ok song, I can sing along)
6. Music (I never understood all the hype, but at least I can sing along)
7. She’s Not Me (Love this song, can sing along)
8. The Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You (Supposedly at the piano – eh – need to learn this one)
9. Miles Away (Good song, can sing along)
10. Spanish Lesson (OK song, I can sing along)
11. La Isla Bonita (What else would you follow Spanish Lesson with – can sing along)
12. You Must Love Me (Love this song – need to rehearse)
13. 4 Minutes (Love this song – can sing along, I even practiced at karaoke)
14. Impressive Instant – (Love this song – can sing along)
15. Ray of Light (Love this song, can sing along)
16. Hung Up (Love this song, will definitely sing along)
17. Give It 2 Me (Love this song, will definitely sing along)

I love it. It will totally make it worth the $375. It’s a good thing it’s not a dancing event, although I’m sure I’ll dance around my chair anyway. I was practicing some dance moves to remixed versions of some of these songs. Wow, it was bad! It was even worse than my original dancing video.