So far Marc's wedding has made my top five favorite weddings. In fact, I think his wedding took spots 1-4. My friend Rick's sister's wedding gets the number five position. Her wedding was a luminous experience, but lacked the sweaty gut-swishing skankfest that ensued at Marc's knot-tying. Congrat's Marc, you made a lovely bridegroom. I have another friend's wedding in a week. She has a lot to live up to.
I am DJing my first wedding as a freelancer in September. I finally got sick of working for the man. I'll play Brown-Eyed Girl when I DAMN WELL PLEASE from now on. I'll get a bigger cut of the money.
I think that so far at this point, I have been toor performed at 35-50 weddings. It is such a strange paradox in my life. I spend my weeks working in a community that is plagued my issues regarding a lack of family structure. My students, inner-city, project kids, have no concept of marriage. Many of them have no concept of what a Daddy is supposed to do. I've explained my moonlighting position (no David Addison jokes please) to many of my students and they look at me as if I am speaking an alien language.
"I DJ weddings."
"You a DJ? What do you play at weddings? Do you play white people music?"
"Sometimes, but only at white people weddings."
"Who else get married? Mexicans? Do you have to play those big guitars with the big hats?"
"Sometimes Latinos, and no, I am not in a Mariachi band. Sometimes I DJ weddings for black people, for Asian people, for Middle Eastern people."
"Mr. S________, you know black people don't be getting married. We just juice and make babies."
They think I lie when I told them that I have DJed weddings for black people (both mixed and non-mixed couples, too).
Although one of my favorite kids did have this quandry:
"Mr. S________, will you DJ my wedding when I get married?"
"Of course, I'll do it for free, it'll be my present to you for graduating and getting married, what would you want to hear."
"Umm, Jay-Z, Bump-J, Kanye, just no you know, white-people music."
I am DJing my first wedding as a freelancer in September. I finally got sick of working for the man. I'll play Brown-Eyed Girl when I DAMN WELL PLEASE from now on. I'll get a bigger cut of the money.
I think that so far at this point, I have been toor performed at 35-50 weddings. It is such a strange paradox in my life. I spend my weeks working in a community that is plagued my issues regarding a lack of family structure. My students, inner-city, project kids, have no concept of marriage. Many of them have no concept of what a Daddy is supposed to do. I've explained my moonlighting position (no David Addison jokes please) to many of my students and they look at me as if I am speaking an alien language.
"I DJ weddings."
"You a DJ? What do you play at weddings? Do you play white people music?"
"Sometimes, but only at white people weddings."
"Who else get married? Mexicans? Do you have to play those big guitars with the big hats?"
"Sometimes Latinos, and no, I am not in a Mariachi band. Sometimes I DJ weddings for black people, for Asian people, for Middle Eastern people."
"Mr. S________, you know black people don't be getting married. We just juice and make babies."
They think I lie when I told them that I have DJed weddings for black people (both mixed and non-mixed couples, too).
Although one of my favorite kids did have this quandry:
"Mr. S________, will you DJ my wedding when I get married?"
"Of course, I'll do it for free, it'll be my present to you for graduating and getting married, what would you want to hear."
"Umm, Jay-Z, Bump-J, Kanye, just no you know, white-people music."
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