HOMEPAGE OF DAN CONWAY




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27 May 04
Yeah, I know - this is rapidly turning into a 'cob-web', but I like to console myself with the fact that least I still got more content up than most other motherfuckers on their sites. Sorry, I'm a bit bitter and twisted right now. A very dear, good, old friend of mine died last weekend. Death sucks. Paul we will all miss you. You bastard. I'm hurting. The 'famous 5' of Paul, Greta, Pete, Luke and I had an awesome joint birthday in January. Some photos here. Paul's the one in the last photo with Greta. Great party... And now there are four...

But this isn't really a reflection of the last 5 months or so since my last entry here. Crazy buzy as usual, but doing some cool as shit stuff. Spent December in Germany visiting family and cruising around doing the German Christmas thing (which is the most amazing thing in the world - all you Christmas haters out there - go to Germany - they get it RIGHT!). Spent a few days on the way there and back in Hong Kong which was 'bad-fun!' and a good antidote to the otherwise wholesome family stuff the rest of the month entailed. Then off the plane and straight into a twisted little warehouse party for N.Y.E.

Thus the scribble pages now includes some new bits: How to cook a goose which is step by step instructions on how to prepare the traditional German Christmas feast, and A Day in Hong Kong which is late night hotel room blogging. A speech I gave recently. Plus the 1st part of an old Ju Ju Travelogue of when we played the 1st ever Paris Techno Parade. And while I think both cities have great things going for them, and don't take the great 'Sydney vs. Melbourne' debate very seriously, here's something highly amusing a friend of mine wrote on the subject a few years ago.

I recently initated, developed and taught a 'radio production training' course at FBi. Lots of work, but something I found extremely rewarding. In accordance with my beliefs in 'information wants to be free' I'm posting the course notes I developed here on the site. Production heads and wanna be production heads go here...

Cocktail Parties. THE LOST ISLAND. Jeezus did we outdo ourselves this time. Pics here.

While in Germany I spent some time working on some images I've been 'shopping' up for Hollie. Check it out here...

Rocket Cars is coming up again, and I've been working on my new car. I gotta defend my title right? This one is gonna be smooooth! See ya in the pit's Racer-Haters...

Work is driving me crazy as always - I'm doing some fantastic work - got an awesome show-reel happening now, but dealing with the office politics and 'cooler than thou' bullshit is just so draining. Frustrating. But there is a light on the horizon job-wise (in fact several) - stay tuned...

Sunday Night At The Movies (the weekly, one hour, sound piece on FBi 94.5) - done two of these now. Most recent was a 46 minute cutup of spoken word - kind of an ode to human utterences I called 'Mouth Off'. From ragga accapellas to recordings of rape trails, dada-ist tone poems, textures of dislocated babble - the works. Went down well I think. I wanna get some audio up here soon. Watch this space...

Had one of the most idylic few days of my life over Easter - went down to the NSW/Victorian border where my old and dear friend Dave Newman got married in the beautiful Malley underneath towering gums on the banks of the Murray river. Four days of camping, kids, building pirate forts, old friends, drinking, listening to Kate play cello under the stars and of course - Dave and Beck getting hitched in the golden light of dusk filtering through the huge river gums. Wow! Oh, and I was 'best man' - gave a stonking speech and looked damn fine in my suit (despite the dust...). Lovely.

Produced a great fun big-assed and way over-ambitions recording session at the Mekarnarchy Warehouse as part of their industrial/fetish fashion extravaganza. Great fun. I thought being the recording engineer of the show shouldn't stop me from getting in on the action and wore my shwanky red PVC straightjacket for the last bits of the show and then partied down with Hollie, crew and fetish models afterwards.

Saw 'De La Guarda' at the Big Top in Luna Park - a Touring Agentinian physical theatre group. "Theatre that falls from the sky'. Which blew my mind - moments of back in the good old days right in the thick of the madness - half rock gig/Techno party interactive flying circus - dozens of performers flying around just over head culminating in a pouring water from the sky latino techno mosh up at the end. Jeezus what a show - if ya get a chance - go!

New Flatmates. The Presbtyery has new denizens. And a fine crew. Less health food nazi's - more wacky arties. Correspondingly the house has become a little more chaotic and messy (annoying) but on the other hand infinitely more inspiring and creative. YAY!

Totally blown away by the new Miss Kitten album - check it!

Held a LAN PArty here at the Presbytery - 12 people or so, a few switches and hubs, lots of Cat-5, a one day network and some AWESOME Mp3 collections. My collection is looking fucking solid now.


2 November 03
Jeesuz, been busy. But check this - I WON!!!! Rocketcars that is, CLICK HERE for some photos of SCREAMING VENGEANCE! Oh and yeah the Presbytery Cocktail Party blew up big time, and this weekend I finally went on my first Cave Clan expo... Way cool - checked out a huge abandoned Waste Recycling plant (the highlight of the night for me) with massive cranes, 6 floor drops, enormous boilers and steel girders etc... and a funky old control room. Neat. Also did a storm water drain down near Maroubra - scary - getting down there climbing steel ladders right next to a 10 story shaft - then down, down the tunnel to find... the Sea, moonlit waves crashing through the bars at the entrance to the tunnel. Amazing. Got wet, and a bit scared, and very very excited.

Check out the What's on pages for a party I'm playing at next week.

yo!

Dan


14 October, 2003
Well, FBi is settling down, and I'm actually starting to do something approaching a 20 hour week, as originally intended - which is good. And Summer is definitely approaching. Sydney is already starting stretch and wake from it's winter slumber, the parties are slotting in, the arts events are already blossoming all over town and the girls in their summer clothes cannot be that far away. Decided to be a little less fussy about these pages, don't have time to be finicky - and (obviously) I'm far more interested in getting content on line than about matters of style, so...

Finally got some of the SCRAPBOOK pages up. Been meaning to do this for months - If you know me - you may just be in here... NEW!!!!

Oh and if you're not on Friendster yet - you should definitely join up - It's a blast (and free and easy to do...)!!! www.friendster.com

Yo!

Dan


      A little bit of background on this site and what my blag is.



My stuff on other sites...

      My new job! I am now Promotions Producer for FBi Radio.

      The official site for my old band.

      The homepage for my Dj'ing alter ego ...



Stuff from my own personal archives etc...

      A page of some of stuff from my own Ju Ju archives

      Not for the faint hearted (or Mum!!!) - the Dirty Slut pages!

      A bit of a blag and some photos from my last job at FAIRLIGHT

      A party crew I've been involved with... Haphazard

      Here are some pictures as well as a gear list for my studio

      Click here for a page with some of my scribblings...

      For those with children - Click here for a whole bunch of tips for raising twisted kids.

      Whassup for the weekend? Get out your diaries...

      And the obligatory page of links - lots of good stuff here

      The Scrapbook! Old Photos from my archives. Are you in here?

AND THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO THESE PAGES...

      Some bits of my (for the most part pretty dodgy) art.

      Past presbytery events; cocktail parties, film festivals and the like...

      This isn't really 'up' yet - but this is where I'm gonna stick some of my music/audio for people to dl.


This week's featured quote:

" Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. "
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)