My apolgies to all who were at Welcome to Shake It Town

[Thee-O]

First off I apologize for not attending. Here is the story:


OK. I am at home. I shouldn't be here. I should be in Chicago right now getting ready to spin at a party called "Welcome to Shake-It Town" with Eve Falcon and Mindcontroller. So I wake up. Go get some Dim Sum. Get ready for my 3:06 PM flight on Northwest. My homie Tony picks me up at my house and we leave at about 1:30. It usually takes about 30 min to get to LAX from my house. So off we go. We hit some traffic and I end up getting to LAX at around 2:15. Still about 50 minutes to my flight. No problem. I go to the automated touch screen to check in. It says that since my flight was within 45 min to go se a attendent. I do just that and the attendant tells me to get in line. So I get in line and by the time I get to a agent, he says I missed my flight?? WHAT??? I travel often and I have NEVER missed a flight by being there 50 mins before my flight leaves...well apparently within the 15 mins of me waiting in line I missed my flight and the only option they had was a flight leaving at 11:00 PM and getting in Chicago at 6:00 AM. So I get a voucher for the amount of the flight and call up some other airlines. All the while I am talking to Troy (my booking manager) on a cell phone explaining the situation. I call United because they have straight flights there to O'Hare. They have one leaving at 6:20 and getting into Chicago at around Midnight. Perfect. I book the flight. It is a pretty damn expensive ticket since I am purchasing the ticket the same day I am flying but whatever...to me the show must go on. I HATE missing gigs. So I go over to Terminal 7 and when I look at the monitors the flight has been delayed to 8:24 PM. I find out I will be getting into Chicago at around 2:30 AM. I call Troy. He talks to the promoters and they are cool with that...they would just pick me up really quick and get me to the gig right away. Fine. Go through security...it is about 5:15 at this point...go and grab a few magazines and some food and chill out for a bit. I keep checking the monitors and the flight keeps getting pushed back further...first 8:36, then 8:45...the finally 8:54...fuck...that gets me into Chicago at around 3:00...after picking up my bags and getting out of the airport at around 3:30...then off to a gig that I don't know is how far away from the airport that I know ends at 5:00 AM. I call Troy and let him know if they push back the flight any further I would have to cancel and refund my ticket..

Well guess what happened...

I am home..flight wouldn't have got into Chicago till after 3:00 AM. Just couldn't justify the trip that way. Sucks. I HATE missing out of town gigs. I feel horrible about it..I did call the promoter to apologize first hand. We will reschedule the date. I did what I could to get out there...just couldn't happen.

I have been having some really amazing good luck lately. I guess this is Karma's way of knocking me down a little

Good night all..I am exhausted. And I still have to go back to LAX tomorrow to get my records. BLAH!

[Elekid]

Hey shit happens. I'm sure Bob and them understand (the promoters).